Back in December, I had a great time chatting with Mark Baker on as they interviewed my for a series on Upgrading to VB.NET that they were doing for their .DevNet .NET podcast series. The interview is posted in approximately 15-minute chunks and the first 2 segments are already posted on CMP Media sites...

On December 12, we had official Israel VS 2005 launch event in Tel Aviv. It was a great, fun event, with over 1300 attendees ! I did 2 different presentations. The first was one of the main sessions for the general assembly, entitles ".NET 2.0 Things you must know about". I thought it would be interesting...

I'll take a short break on my intense preparations for the upcoming VS 2005 Launch event in Israel to quickly recap the annual VBUG conference in the UK. It was a relatively small, but highly successful. A bunch of great speakers and lots a great attendees. In addition to the standard sessions, there...

The recording of my appearance on .NET Rocks! is now available for download . I really had a fun time, talking about the early days of VB, the future of VB, and some other stuff in between. All this, during what was for me 1:30 to 3:00 AM ! We all had a good time, but didn't get to cover even half of...

The June meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group meeting will be held on June 1, 2005: 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly 18:00 - 18:10 Introduction 18:10 - 19:15 “ASP.NET Tips and Tricks - Part 1” Leon Langleyben , SRL Group 19:15 - 19:30 Break 19:30 – 19:45 "Hatzilu !" Open session, with questions and answers...

In an earlier post last month, I threw out a teaser about a special guest appearance, in addition to my scheduled TechEd and VSLive shows. Well, the cat is out of the bag - I'll be the guest of the week on the next edition of Dot Net Rocks ! I am looking forward to doing my part to make it an informative...

I got back this week from VSLive! Toronto , where I did 3 different presentations. They all went very well, although the session on business object data binding in VS 2005 (while a great topic) had some challenges in terms of getting the demos to work with build of VS that I had. Of course, that was...

Actually, my Mom doesn't read my blog, or do anything having to do with computers. But it is true that I have been selected as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) for 2005, in the category of Visual Studio - Visual Basic. It is a honor to be associated with some extremely talented people who are...

If you are still developing and/or maintaining VB6 applications, you need to be aware of the fact that mainstream support for VB6 from Microsoft ends this month. Read about this and the post-mainstream options over here . Please don't accuse me of using scare tactics to push people to VB.NET. I am just...

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics as well.