Microsoft are offering up quite a lot of decent resource for.net developers/or cross over developers. The Visual Studio Learning home page has a lot of links to virtual labs each aimed at different parts of VS. There are even a few books that can be downloaded for free! (sroll the learning home page or, just the VB ones) I think I’ll print out a chapter at a time! Credit where it’s due well done MS
February 2006
That’s some expensive visual basic!
wow, VB 2005 express is free, but for a mere 25’000 dollars you can get your hands on this bad boy! Amazingly, no takers as yet..
Excel User Conference
This year the Excel users conference is coming to the uk (london). It should have course been held in Northampton – it beeing the centre of England and all that ;-).
Anyway it’s a 2 day event, the second day being more advanced that the first.
The list of speakers is quite impressive (unconfirmed):
- Patrick O’Beirne
- Bob Phillips
- Nick Hodge
- Andy Pope
- Ken Wright
- Simon Murphy
- Martin Green
Dates and sites are a bit up in the air at the mo, and there is no mention of cost as yet.
Sites currently being considered
- Ramada Ealing
- Ambassadors in Bloomsbury, Upper Woburn Place
- Holiday Inn Kensington, Cromwell Road
- London Marriott Marble Arch
- Thistle Marble Arch Bryanston Street
- Hilton London Paddington
And i think it’s likely to go ahead in June or July.
I’ll keep my eye on this one for ya.