{"id":7503,"date":"2004-05-27T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2004\/05\/27\/cabanas-filled-with-excellent-vb-folks\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T22:03:56","slug":"cabanas-filled-with-excellent-vb-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/cabanas-filled-with-excellent-vb-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabanas filled with excellent VB folks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>(Posted by Duncan Mackenzie, VB Content Strategist for MSDN)<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been spending the last few days at the Cabanas, pretty much all day every day this week actually, and I&#8217;ve been amazed by the folks we have hanging around there. People have come up to ask a relatively straightforward question like &#8220;How do I do a constructor in Visual Basic .NET?&#8221; and they end getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panopticoncentral.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Vick<\/a> walking them through it on a whiteboard. In addition to the various Microsoft folks though, the Cabanas are also being staffed with MVPs and RDs, bringing the total level of VB expertise in the Cabanas to a hard-to-believe level. I happened to have my camera so I snapped a shot of two of those helpful folks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbnetexpert.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stan Schultes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardandsoftware.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dick Grier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duncanmackenzie.net\/images\/Stan_and_Dick.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are at TechEd, come on down and ask your questions!<\/p>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Posted by Duncan Mackenzie, VB Content Strategist for MSDN) I&#8217;ve been spending the last few days at the Cabanas, pretty much all day every day this week actually, and I&#8217;ve been amazed by the folks we have hanging around there. People have come up to ask a relatively straightforward question like &#8220;How do I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-visual-basic"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>(Posted by Duncan Mackenzie, VB Content Strategist for MSDN) I&#8217;ve been spending the last few days at the Cabanas, pretty much all day every day this week actually, and I&#8217;ve been amazed by the folks we have hanging around there. People have come up to ask a relatively straightforward question like &#8220;How do I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}