Speaking at Memphis Day of .Net 2007

I’m excited to be speaking at Memphis Day of .Net 2007 next weekend.  I’m a former student at Memphis State… er, I mean University of Memphis, where the event is taking place.  This will be a bit of a homecoming.

I’ll be talking about VSX, and getting into more detail than I have previously.  I’ve been digging deep into the Visual Studio 2008 SDK as work ramps up on VFP Studio.  Now that I have a better understanding, I’ll be able to show how to create and access services in the shell.  Here’s the session description:

VSX: Xtreme Xtensibility with the Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the Managed Package Framework

During this session we will look at ways to extend Visual Studio 2008 using the VS 2008 SDK. We will build extensions using the Managed Package Framework that access the same APIs that the Visual Studio team uses. We will explore the opportunities for distributing tools as packages to users without Visual Studio installed. Finally, we will examine the new possibilities for developing commercial software on top of the Visual Studio platform leveraging the Visual Studio 2008 Shell Isolated Mode.

Check out the rest of the sessions here.  It looks like a great lineup.  I hope to see you there!

++Alan