Beth Massi

Beth Massi

Beth Massi is the Product Marketing Manager for .NET at Microsoft and on the Board of Directors for the .NET Foundation. You can reach her on Twitter @BethMassi.

Detailed Bio

Beth is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and a community champion for business application developers. She manages content and community activities for the engineering team as well as customer relations and events.



Before Microsoft, she spent many years building business apps for small businesses as well as large enterprises. She is a frequent speaker at various software development events and you can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN.com, Channel 9, her blog and Twitter .

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Articles Authored

  • Add Some Spark to Your OData: Creating and Consuming Data Services with Visual Studio and Excel 2010

    Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2010 - September/October

    The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP. Visit the OData site at www.odata.org.

  • Build Business Applications Quickly with Visual Studio LightSwitch

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - January/February

    LightSwitch is a new development tool and extensible application framework for building data-centric business applications. LightSwitch simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. With LightSwitch, an application can be designed, built, tested, and in your user’s hands quickly. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast.

  • Building Office 365 Cloud Business Apps

    Last updated: Monday, December 27, 2021

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - May/June

    You already know that using Visual Studio 2013 streamlines building business apps. Beth shows you how to use its Cloud Business App project template to improve collaboration between Office 365, SharePoint, and all your mobile devices.

  • Dynamic Queries in Distributed Internet Applications

    Last updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2021

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2000 - Fall

    Integrating a web site with a structured database poses a particular challenge. How can a developer provide a flexible, easy to use, yet robust search interface for users to query the information stored in the database? In this article Beth provides a complete solution for this problem using Visual FoxPro, ADO and XML, by providing a dynamic searching mechanism in the middle tier that users can control from the front end.

  • From Zero to Business Application in 15 Minutes

    Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April

    Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.

  • Sharpening Your Axis with Visual Basic 9

    Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - July/August

    Visual Basic 9 in Visual Studio 2008 has a new set of language features that allows developers to work with XML in a much more productive way using a new API called LINQ to XML. LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query and it allows you to write queries for things like objects, databases, and XML in a standard way. Visual Basic provides deep support for LINQ to XML through what’s called XML literals and XML axis properties. These features allow you to use a familiar, convenient syntax for working with XML in your Visual Basic code. LINQ to XML is a new, in-memory XML programming API specifically designed to leverage the LINQ framework. Even though you can call the LINQ APIs directly, only Visual Basic allows you to declare XML literals and directly access XML axis properties. This article will help you master these new features for working with XML in Visual Basic.

  • The Journey to One .NET

    Last updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2021

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2020 - Vol. 17 - Issue 1 - .NET 5.0

    Product Marketing Manager for .NET Beth Massi talks about her journey from FoxPro to .NET 5 and highlights the great topics covered in this CODE Focus issue.