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I have finally managed to post some Oz tech Ed photos. Better late than never. Thanks goes to Nick Wienholt for a lot of the photos, and you may see some of these duplicated on his blog.

A bit late in the telling, but the Australian TechEd conference is well and truly over. It was a great conference, and I picked learnt a great deal. Of particular value to me was the Hands on Labs. I was actually assisting in the running of the labs, but I did get a chance to have a play, and did some of the SQL Server 2005 ("Yukon") labs which I normally dont get a chance to play with. The labs were very good and apart from some minor problems, went very smoothly.It was also great to be on the "other side" of the event, in that I was part of the organisation and was able to help out, instead of just attending. I found it very cool and enjoyed helping people in the labsm as well as helping attendees while at the MVP stand.

The 2nd official day of TechEd here in Oz (1st real content day) went very well and the Team System/Team Foundation presentations were very well received. The room was packed beyond capacity so it goes to show the amount of interest this particular line of products has generated.

Well, TechEd 2004 has finally begun here in Australia. I have been a proctor in the hands on labs for the entire first day and its been very interesting to say the least. The Developer labs were very popular and I was overwhelmed with requests for help and some really in-depth questions. Its really good to be on the “other” side of the fence when it comes to these events and see what goes into the organisation and preparations, as well as being able to play my part.

TechEd is only 1 week away here in Australia and we will finally get to experience what the US and Europe have already experienced. If you are coming to TechEd here in Oz, I'll be at the MVP stand or in the Hands on Labs and would be great to chat with others in the community.

About 2 weeks ago I asked what your favourite .Net 2.0 feature is. The post is here. Well there has been a huge number of responses compared to my usual posts (ie. this means there has been more than 3 comments ;-) ). In actual fact there is about 8 responses so I would hardly say its a conclusive examination of industry opinion, but its at least conclusive evidence that people have opinions ... :-)

I grabbed this from the newsgroups :-

I attended the Sydney Deep .Net User group meeting last wednessday night and Chuck Sterling of Microsoft (see “Ask Chuck“ column on ZDNet) asked me what my favourite feature in .Net 2.o was. It got me to thinking about what others thought on the subject. So here is an informal poll. Let me know what your absolute favourite feature is in .Net 2.0, and I'll post the results in about a weeks time. You dont have to explain why, (ofcourse you can and that will help me qualify the results) but at least let me know what the most important/favourite feature in .Net 2.0 is for you.