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MSDN Webcast: It's All About Tools (Part 3 of 3) (Level 200)Do you ever feel inundated with developer tools? Do you feel you're missing something that could make your life easier as a developer by being a power user? There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with them. Tool familiarity continues to be one of the top developer challenges. In this series of webcasts, Microsoft developer evangelists Russ Fustino and Joe Healy and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Stan Schultes discuss and demonstrate their favorite developer tools. There is something here for everyone, from beginners to experts. In this third webcast of the series, we discuss and demonstrate Microsoft Expression Encoder, Microsoft Silverlight Live, Microsoft Virtual PC, Windows Live Quick Applications, XMLNotepad, Reflector and add-ins, PowerToys for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, CodeKeep, SyncToy, and FolderShare. We include scripts for the demos, so you can recreate our demos at home. Presenter Russ Fustino, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation , and Stan Schultes, Systems Architect and Developer, Microsoft Corporation , and Joe Healy , Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Russ Fustino has more than 25 years of software development experience, and he is the creator of the Russ' Tool Shed developer seminars series (www.russtoolshed.net). Russ has presented developer topics to more than 50,000 developers at 1,300 events. Before joining Microsoft in 1998, Russ worked as a Microsoft Visual Basic instructor, headed up a development department, and created several client/server applications and system software products. His specialties include development with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, XML Web services, Microsoft ASP.NET, and debugging. But Russ is not all brains. His big heart led him to establish Take a Swing at Cancer, Inc., a nonprofit organization that holds softball and golf fundraisers to battle cancer. <<link www.russtoolshed.net to http://www.russtoolshed.net/>> Stan Schultes runs the VBNetExpert portal site, and he is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), author, speaker, and corporate developer. He currently lives and works in Sarasota, Florida, where he is a very active in the Microsoft developer community. He speaks regularly at regional developer events like Microsoft product launches, Microsoft DevDays, Code Camps, and at numerous developer group meetings throughout Florida. Stan writes regularly about Microsoft .NET development topics, has been published recently in MSDN Online, and is a former contributing editor and columnist at Visual Studio Magazine. <<Link VBNetExpert to www.vbnetexpert.com>> As the developer evangelist for Microsoft Gulf States accounts, Joe Healy provides developer care to the Gulf States District for the East region developer team. Joe lectures on various development and architectural topics focused around the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and associated servers. He has also worked in the custom application development arena, focusing on systems for Microsoft Consulting Services. In his spare time, Joe can be found coaxing fish out of the nooks and crannies of Tampa Bay with his wife and two daughters.
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