A bit late, but I’m back in Belgium Haven’t found the time to post so I’ll summarize the last events:

• Tech·Ed 2008 ROCKED!
• The last session on Visual Studio 2010 made code writing much more useful in terms of ‘I want this to implement like that here’, and then to write the actual implementation.
• Then we took the bus to the airport (at 1730), and the plane to Brussels (at 2100).
• I had a cold in the evening, and the result was that when the plane landed I was deaf as a post because of the pressure difference.
• My dad & my sister picked me up at the airport (Thanks!)
• Today I went to my girlfriend Very nice to see her again (yes, I actually missed her )

That’s it (not to mention the knowlegde I’ve gained

The session on WPF and Winforms databinding was very interesting, I’ll have a look on the powerpoints soon

The food was a lot of lettuce. What are we? Rabbits?

Now I’m attending a session on do’s and don’ts on Silverlight! Very useful.

This is Bart de Smet, writer of the B# blog, and is now working in Redmond for Microsoft!

Damn, it’s almost over…

Going to a session on WPF and Winforms databinding in a moment, and at about 1200 we’ll discuss the last part of the day with the ‘colleagues’ (the other MSPs).

Attending a session on Speech Recognition!

It’s a bit hard for the speaker to speak because there is a lot of echo here

Next session I have to choose, and it’s VERY hard.

My possibilities:

Still don’t know

Well there were some problems with the presentation in front, which made it not very interesing.

That’s why I left the session. Doing some random stuff now, emailing, but I still feel a bit sick.

In a few moments there is something for MSPs, but I’ll omit that because I don’t want to miss the last 2 sessions.

As stated on my previous post: I was sick because the Tapas I ate yesterday were not good.

I woke up at ~0700, ready to go to the CCIB (the location where the congress is hosted).

I ate a bit, but I had to go back to bed, took some medicine because my stomach was really acting up.

At about 1130 I was awake, at 1145 I took the metro, ate lunch at Tech·Ed, and then I wanted to go to a session about .NET debugging and performance issues. But it was full.

So now I am attending about Designer <> Developer workflow.

First things first: the mobile session SUCKED! It was only for Standard Windows Mobile 6.1 (about 1% market). So I left.

After that I called with my girlfriend with Windows Live Messenger. Went very good!

In the evening there was a country party, I ate good over there, met the editor from the B# blog (I’ll post the pictures tomorrow!), talked a bit with Katrien!

When it was finished Jan (Jan = the Academic Program manager @ Microsoft) proposed to go and eat something in a Tapas Bar… I still have acid burn. But more on that on the next post.

Agile Development session was very interesting, it’s a very direct way of developing, not looking to much ahead, though keeping the architecture in mind (make sure you can implement everything!!!). Also: you show your customer every 2 weeks/every month what you want.

Coming up: creating a home screen for Windows Mobile 6.1, I don’t know what to expect, but it looks interesting

I’ll keep you posted!

I am now (live!) attending a session on Agile development: answering some questions that differ from normal development.

Lot of information to learn now, so I’m going back paying attention!

Photos will be added ASAP!