MSDN Regional Tour - Ecuador - Done!
But now we want more! It's been two weeks visiting ten cities and covering over 2.000 km of Ecuadorian roads. We had full-standing rooms in several places and people were enthusiastic about what we showed: Pablo Narváez, our local C# MVP, thrilled the audiences with WeRock247. In particular, the things you can do now with VSTO and Office 2003 (especially the Research Panel) got a lot of oh's and noddings. So I had to do my best to impress the crowds with Visual Web Developer 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, funnily one of my high points was when I said that I was going to use SQL Server 2005 as my backend database (I guess, the expectation of seeing a Beta 1 *failing* to work with a Beta 2 was high, alas, it never failed). The other one was when I showed master pages. But in general, ASP.NET 2.0 was extremely well received. All in on all it's been a great experience: we talked to 2.400+ developers, we ate a lot of tasty and different local foods and I went to places I've never went before, so I'm looking forward to the next MSDN Regional Tour.