The .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip

What was this?

Carl and Richard loaded up the DotNetMobile (a 30 foot RV) and drove cross-country to to show off their favorite bits of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0! Richard talked about Web load testing and Carl talked about Silverlight 4.0 and multimedia.

 

Download Carl's RoadTrip SlideShow Here

 

At each stop they interviewed a mystery rock star guest, and recorded a .NET Rocks! show with them, which got published the next day (give or take).

 

They gave away over $220,000 in software from their sponsors:


Preemptive Telerik Red-Gate Windows Phone 7 Visual Studio 2010 Bing GrapeCity Developer Express Quest Software Strangeloop Networks Component One Jet Brains

Where are the shows?

Here are the shows they recorded on the road trip:

 

DateCity
4/19/2010Phil Haack in Mountain View, CA
4/20/2010Dan Fernandez in Los Angeles
4/21/2010Billy Hollis in San Diego
4/22/2010Scott Stanfield in Redlands, CA
4/23/2010Beth Massi, Alan Griver, and Tim Heuer in Phoenix
4/26/2010Dustin Campbell in Houston
4/27/2010Michelle Leroux Bustamante in Dallas
4/28/2010Tim Huckaby in Tulsa
4/29/2010Kate Gregory in St. Louis
5/1/2010Rocky Lhotka and Jay Schmelzer in Chicago
5/3/2010Chris Sells in Boston
5/4/2010Ivar Jacobson in New York City
5/5/2010Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti in Richmond, VA
5/6/2010Brian Harry in Durham, NC
5/7/2010Brandon Watson in Atlanta, GA

 

Thanks to the Bing Team and Onterra Systems for building the Tracker App in Silverlight 4.0!

The Microsoft Bing team put together a killer Silverlight 4 application that tracked the DotNetMobile all over the United States They had a special GPS/Cell network gadget on the dashboard. Fans tracked Carl and Richard in real time. You can view Tweets sent with the #dnr_roadtrip hash, and view Flickr photos and tweets that fall within a one mile radius of any point on the map you double-click on.

 

http://silverlight.onterrasys.com/dnr_roadtrip


Ride Along with Carl and Richard

At every stop except the last one, one lucky geek got to ride along with Carl and Richard in the DotNetMobile to the next stop on the road trip. We put them up for the night and flew them back home in the morning. What fun!

 

Didn't they do a road trip in 2005?

Indeed they did. In October, 2005 Carl and Richard took the DotNetMobile across country starting in Boston and ending in Las Vegas on a very successful and extremely fun road trip.

 

Here's a map of the 2005 route.

 

Enjoy the photos from the 2005 Road Trip with our Low-Tech Photo Browser




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  Carl Franklin amd Richard Campbell are both Microsoft Most Valued Professionals. To learn more about the MVPs click here Carl Franklin amd Richard Campbell are both Microsoft Most Valued Professionals. To learn more about the MVPs click here Check out .NET Rocks! at MSDN Online!

 


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