ACCU London

Thursday 19th June 2008, 19:00

Mike Taulty: Overview of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework V3.5 [Blog]

In this session, we'll take a tour around Visual Studio 2008 looking at the new features for Windows developers, Office developers and Web Developers. We'll also look at the new versions of Visual Basic and C# and we'll give over about half of our time to the new language features that come together to form Language Integrated Query (LINQ) and how that enables access to relational, hierarchical and object-based data.

About the Speaker

Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies.

Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies.

Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.