(Posted by Steven Lees, Visual Basic program manager)

Steve Ballmer kicked off TechEd this morning with his keynote. The transcript should be up here later today.

Right now I’m in DEV340, Brian Randell’s on VB Tips and Tricks. It’s a pretty big room and it’s packed–there are a bunch of folks standing up in the back and sides of the room. Brian’s covering a lot of good information that’s great if you are still learning VB .NET: performance, conversion operators, strings, etc. Still a good refresher even if you’ve been using .NET for a while.