Rachel,

Congratulation for your accomplishment!

Thanks Costas!

Haven't seen you around in a while, will you be at the next DNV meeting?

I always try to make it to the meetings and it seems lately something always comes up with my kids activities. I'll definitely try to make it to the next meeting.

Congrats! That is very cool and well deserved.

Rachael,

Just came from the HHH event in Philly earlier today. Just wanted to say that your presentation with Lindsay really rocked!! I attended the SQL server track in the morning and Developer track in the afternoon. Your presentation (you and Lindsay) was the ONLY one that I saw all day that went smoothly from beginning to end. All of the others that I saw had some problem or another. (Things like ... debugger hangs, compilation errors that the presenter couldnt fix, web service fails to respond, Visual Studio hangs). You and Lindsay must have really put a lot of time into practicing the presentation b/c it went smoothly and you guys had great energy throughout. The crowd was pretty subdued but it was a long day ... for me at least ... starting for me at 6:30 and going to 4:30. Again great presentation. I also enjoyed Dani Diaz's talk too.

One question... I'm a Java programmer but I want to start learning C#. Can you suggest a couple of good books?

kf

Keith,

Thanks for the great review!

I'll recommend Pro C# and the .NET Platform (4th Ed) by A Troelsen. Coming from a Java background, you'll get a nice review in the beginning of some familiar constructs and then you can move into C# specific features and how the compiler behaves, then some nice .NET 3.5 features of C# and later on data access, a bit of WPF/xaml and 2 chapters or so on ASP.NET. So you'll get a nice complete view of C# and its primary platforms - web and desktop, and data access too.

Don't forget about TECHbash if you can go. I'll be presenting and if possible Lindsay too (we're still working out the who's and when's).

-Rach

Thanks!