Posted by Alexandre Moura, Visual Basic Compiler QA<\/p>\n
This was my third day at TechEd – I think that finally I’m developing presentation capabilities – this is my first time at a conference, and I must admit I was a bit unsure about what kind of questions I’d be getting at the booths – Turns out I do know enough to man a booth, which was a nice surprise. The first two days went through at a hectic pace, but people have been enthusiastic about the new features of VB – I haven’t talked or standed up for this long in years though – I’m getting a raspy throat and sore legs.<\/p>\n
Edit and continue has been getting a lot of attention – VB users seem to feel like an old friend is moving back to town, and I think that a few C# users have a certain envious look whenever it comes into conversation. Click once also tends to grab a few “cool“s, as well as generics, which surprisingly not many people seem to have heard of.<\/p>\n
Not to repeat David, but we continue to meet people who are surprised VB isn’t gone yet – VB isn’t going away. VB and C# are diferent languages, with different focuses – VB focus is on productivity and ease of use, and we’ll continue to drive it there.<\/p>\n
The conference itself has a few surprising points – The sails pavilion on the San Diego exhibition center is quite impressive, but add to that what I think are more than 1000 pc’s under a single roof and it’s more than capable of inspiring quite a few “what is going to happen to all these machines once the conference is over“ questions – and some wows also. Overall the logistics of organizing a conference like this are quite impressive – from catering to cleaning up after more than 10 000 people.<\/p>\n
Note to self – next time, bring notebook while on cabana duty.<\/p>\n
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