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From Seattle to Phoenix to Albuquerque...  Tomorrow I am training a group of 16 people on how to use VB.NET.

So what can I say?  Everything was under NDA.

So I did walk away from this experience with at least one public comment/question... Has anyone else observed that most Microsoft employees begin sentences with the word “so”?  Must have rubbed off on me (thus the start of this blog).  So if this persists (with me) I am putting the primary blame on Rob Howard.  His likely response?  So what!

Yesterday was DevDays in Phoenix, Arizona.  Russ Ruggia (MSDN SW DE) and I tackled the opening keynote together.  Lots of fun.  For the most part, the speakers had a great time, and most of the demos actually worked :)

We enjoyed having Richard Hundhausen (MS Regional Director - Idaho) speak at our user group this evening.  He co-authored a book on the subject of ADO.NET in version v.1.0/v.1.1 of the framework.  Tonight he highlighted features in v.2.0.  We had a full house of developers jazzed about the enhancements.

I am about to submit a final outline for a multi-media ASP.NET series (training on DVDs).  I was hoping that the developer community might influence me as to topics you would hope to expect in such a course.  Any feedback?  What do all the other courses seem to miss?