VSLive! Dallas November 14-17

It's been a pretty busy year for me in regards to speaking engagements.  I just wrapped up a whirlwind tour speaking at back to back user group conferences, DevLink '06 in Nashville and the Tulsa TechFest in... well... Tulsa.  Unfortunately for me I didn't think to check a globe before agreeing to the two conferences and so I had to break the land speed record getting from Nashville on Friday in time to speak in Tulsa on Saturday.  But all went well, and everybody had a great time. 

 Next up for me is VSLive Dallas on November 14th-17th.  I'm giving these two sessions:

What’s New for Developers in Office 2007 Intermediate
Paul Ballard, Rochester Consulting Partnership, Inc.
2 p.m.
Office 2007 is just around the corner and includes major improvements for writing applications based on the Microsoft Office System. In this talk you'll see how to use and extend the new UI features in Office such as the Ribbon UI, custom task panes, and document information panels. We'll also look under the covers at the new XML document formats and how they can be used to power your application development.

Threading in Windows Forms Intermediate
Paul Ballard, Rochester Consulting Partnership, Inc.
4:30 p.m.
Windows Forms programming poses some unique threading hurdles. Many of those have been overcome in .NET 2.0 with the introduction of the BackgroundWorker component. In this session we’ll look at how to use the BGW to keep your user interface responsive as well as other threading tricks to ensure that your applications make the most of today’s powerful processors.

 Rochester Consulting Partnership, Inc. will also have a booth in the exhibitor space so stop by and say hello if you can.