Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

Articles Authored

• .NET Rocks!: The Youngest MCP
• Finish Your Week with .NET Rocks!
• Heard on .NET Rocks!
• Heard on .NET Rocks!
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Andy Leonard on Unit Testing Your Database
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Dead Head Bill Wagner
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Don Demsak on LINQ to XML
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Future of Web Development Panel
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Jim Webber on Guerilla SOA!
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Moving VB6 Applications to .NET
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Oslo Is Love with Chris Sells
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Pablo Castro on Astoria
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Ted Faison on Event-driven Design
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Axum!
• Heard on .NET Rocks! Is Software Development Too Complex?
• Heard on .NET Rocks! James Kovacs Inverts Our Control
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: A Torrent of Cool
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server 2005 SP1 and More
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Managing Geographical Data with World Wind
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Microsoft Pundits
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Talking .NET with Tim Huckaby
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: A Stroll Down RAM Lane with David Treadwell
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Cogan Rules
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Frank Savage on Programming the Xbox 360
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Indy Racing League
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Joel Pobar and Brad Abrams on the CLR
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Paul Randal on SQL Server 2005 Performance and Recovery
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Spring.NET
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: SQL Reporting Services
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Virtual PC and Virtual Server
• Heard on .NET Rocks: Jay Roxe
• LINQ to Entities with Erik Maijer

Contact Information:

• Phone: 860-447-9610