I had a great time at the VSLive conference.
I met a lot of interesting people. Most of the attendees I talked to were local to the Toronto area. Some of the projects they were working on sounded very exciting. The biggest take-away I heard was that they can’t wait to get started using the new .NET 2.0 features.
My talks all went well. I had a few glitches. This morning I couldn’t get my data-binding code to work for my Advanced User Controls talk. It was working yesterday. I made no changes to the project, but the complex binding control just wouldn’t work. I had other code to show though and I knew ahead of time. In other words, it didn’t blow up during the talk.
My friend Josh Holmes didn’t get off so well. In two of his talks the projector quit working the last 10 minutes of each talk. Too bad! He’s a funny guy so I’m sure he had something amusing to say.
Didn’t see one sight in Toronto this time. Our hotel was out at the airport. I was so busy with work and the conference that I never made it more that 3 blocks from my hotel. While the conference was fun, I always hate it when I can’t spend some time site seeing and enjoying the local area. One of the reasons I love to travel is to see what the world has to offer. Maybe next year!