{"id":7543,"date":"2004-05-24T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2004\/05\/24\/and-theyre-off\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T22:04:10","slug":"and-theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/and-theyre-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And they&#039;re off&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Posted by Steven Lees, Visual Basic program manager)<\/p>\n<p>Steve Ballmer kicked off TechEd this morning with his keynote. The transcript should be up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/community\/events\/teched04.mspx\">here<\/a> later today.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m in DEV340, Brian Randell&#8217;s on VB Tips and Tricks. It&#8217;s a pretty big room and it&#8217;s packed&#8211;there are a bunch of folks standing&nbsp;up in the back and sides of the room. Brian&#8217;s covering a lot of good information that&#8217;s great if you are still learning VB .NET: performance, conversion operators, strings, etc. Still a good refresher even if you&#8217;ve been using .NET for a while.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Posted by Steven Lees, Visual Basic program manager) Steve Ballmer kicked off TechEd this morning with his keynote. The transcript should be up here later today. Right now I&#8217;m in DEV340, Brian Randell&#8217;s on VB Tips and Tricks. It&#8217;s a pretty big room and it&#8217;s packed&#8211;there are a bunch of folks standing&nbsp;up in the back [&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":[21,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-im-a-vb","category-visual-basic"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>(Posted by Steven Lees, Visual Basic program manager) Steve Ballmer kicked off TechEd this morning with his keynote. The transcript should be up here later today. Right now I&#8217;m in DEV340, Brian Randell&#8217;s on VB Tips and Tricks. It&#8217;s a pretty big room and it&#8217;s packed&#8211;there are a bunch of folks standing&nbsp;up in the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","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=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/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=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}