VSLive San Francisco Wrap-Up

I am finally getting a handle on the post-VSlive backlog...

This year's VSLive San Francisco was another good event.  There was the usual fun (and education) meeting old friends and colleagues.  There was also meeting new faces to old acquiantences - such as Sam Gentile, whose blog I always read, but had never met face-to-face before.

My two sessions, VB Worst Practices and Data Access Strategies and Tactics, both went very well, with good attendence, good responses, and good questions/discussions afterwards (especially after the Data Access session).

The Microsoft .NET was OK - not much new for me here.  That is probably because I have heard and discussed all of these topics already, some multiple times.  It was interesting, however, to hear Soma live, as I have been tracking his blog for a while.

The big news of the conference was the Indigo Day - this was basically Indigo's "coming out" party.   I will share my thoughts on this in a separate posting.

Finally, there was some genuine interest and excitement around the release of the Enterprise Library.  I did my part to help encourage this, but I also did some formal and informal lobbying to have the source code available and supported for VB as well, so I wouldn't be so disappointed.