Disclaimer: The series of notes that I have posted from the sessions I attended at VSLive! are just that: notes. I have tried where possible to turn them into posts that have some cohesion but having attended nine hours of talks per day for four days, editing time was falling a little sparse. As I fill out these notes and write sample projects in some of the new technologies I have learned, I will update these posts accordingly. For now I wanted to get them posted and out there in a timely fashion to avoid the ideas and thoughts falling into the void. Please enjoy and use at your own risk, these notes mean a lot to me because I can pair them in my mind with the experience of the conference. Your mileage may vary.
I still have the post-conference workshop to look forward to tomorrow and will post my notes from that session as soon as I get the chance. However, I wanted to take the chance to post this disclaimer first.
Mark Miller and Rob Daigneau rock! I'm really impressed with .NET 3.0 and what the WinFX guys managed to create. I only wish that the evangelism and information sharing about those platforms had got through to me more clearly and a lot earlier. In particular, the platforms required for .NET 3.0/3.5 as well as the virtual lack of backward compatibility concerns with the 2.0 .NET framework were things that I had massive amounts of misinformation about. Sure, part of that is me not keeping up with everything as keenly as I should, but at the end of the day I found that a lot of other developers at the conference had the same misinformation. Great technology, vastly underinformed about how easily it could be applied.
Have fun and hope you've had a great week!