"About time too" are the words that first pop into my head. I've been working with .NET 2.0 for around 2 years and have excited about it for that long. For some of the time I wasn't allowed to talk about it at all, then it became public, and now it's finally here. What a relief.
As part of the release I've been involved in the launch tour, and popped down to London on Monday for the official press launch and to watch the live stream from San Francisco. I was a bit disappointed that Steve Ballmer was so serious, as we are so used to his whacky stuff now. We then hopped onto the Fun Bus (a few pictures here) for the 3 hour trip up to Birmingham ICC where the first event was to ben held. My duties were to man the Ask The Experts area, along with a number of other people, and then hold a Chalk and Talk with Richard.So on my feet answeing questions almost non-stop from 9am until 7pm. Some excellent questions, many around upgrades and a fair number on VSTS. All in all a good, but tiring, day. All to be repeated in London on Tuesday, where Ben & I will be doing the C&T.
I can't make the Monday on Londong because I'll be attending the evening event - the Midlands VBUG launch party, which will be a real blast. Speakers have selected their favourite ASP.NET 2.0 feature, either made a video or will present it there, and the audience have to vote for the feature they think is best. Sadly I think they are actually going to vote for the best video, in which case it's "nil point" for me.