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Date & Time: Wednesday, 2009/06/10, 6:00 PM [Welcome Time: 5:45 PM]
 
Location: Season Room, Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West Georgia Street, Vancover, BC V6C 2T4

Registration: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=138737



This is a free event open to anyone (both DevTeach attendees and non-attendees) who is a developer and wishes to install and/or discover Visual Studio 2010

Topic: NET Rocks Hosts the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 InstallFest at DevTeach!

Join Carl and Richard as they participate with the attendees at DevTeach installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Members of the Visual Studio team will be talking to Carl and Richard through the process of installation and exploring the new features of Visual Studio 2010. Bring your laptops and your questions and participate in the InstallFest – you'll be part of a .NET Rocks and dnrTV episode!

Installation DVDs will be provided at the InstallFest.

System Requirements:
  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
  • Computer that has a 1.6GHz or faster processor
  • Visual Studio 2010 can be installed on the following operating systems:
    • Windows Vista (x86 or x64), all editions except Starter Edition
    • Windows XP (x86 or x64), Service Pack 2 or later, all editions except Starter Edition
    • Windows Server 2003 (x86 or x64), Service Pack 1 or later, all editions
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 or later (x86 or x64), all editions
    • Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) or later (all editions)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 RC (x64) Enterprise Edition
    • Windows 7 RC (x86 and x64) Ultimate Edition
  • 1024MB RAM
  • 3GB of available hard disk space
  • 5400 RPM hard disk drive
  • DirectX 9-capable video card that runs at 1280 x 1024 or higher display resolution

Show hosts:

Carl Franklin, Franklin's Net

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary's VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

Richard Campbell, Strangeloop Networks

Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company's unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" podcast, host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals" podcast, has been co-authoring of the "Advisor Answers" column on SQL Server for more than ten years and author of the courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series.
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