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Alex Turner
Program Manager
Microsoft
Alex Turner is the Program Manager for the C# Compiler at Microsoft, where he makes sure that C#’s new language features and compiler services become a reality. Alex graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and interned twice at Microsoft before joining the C# team full-time.
Come learn about language enhancements in Visual Basic 10.0 and some golden nuggets in .NET 4 and how you can leverage the two together in the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE to solve problems better, express complex concepts easier, and write killer apps faster than ever. Presentation includes 2-3 demo applications using cutting-edge technologies like WPF/Silverlight, Speech Synthesis, and the Task Parallel Library (New in .NET 4) as well as at least 20 minutes of Q/A; a rare opportunity to talk face-to-face with a member of the Visual Basic product team.