Spent the day yesterday at the MSDN Roadshow in Glasgow. It was a very good day that provided me a deeper insight into the ADO.NET Entity Framework, Data Services and Silverlight 2 (Which I like even though I did not like Silverlight 1… no JavaScript
).
The last session on Team Suit was a little marred by Neil Kidd being rather ill…get well soon Neil…but I followed it anyway, but I do think that other attendees became lost fairly quickly…we all have bad days…
If you have not been lucky enough, or bothered to attend then you can get all the resources from http://www.msdnroadshow.co.uk/ .
Oh, and I managed to blag myself a new keyboard which is pretty nifty, I would never have forked out for on my own, and a F5 MSDN T-shirt, which is a might tight…
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