Oooooh, new events

Featuring "that Visual Studio stock photo guy"[1], Microsoft drops me an email informing me of REGIONAL EVENTS!

This is the first time I've heard of this since the "Ready To Launch!" event in November 2005 with the VS2005/SQL2005/BizTalk hat-trick launch.

Let's have a gander at the events:

• Developing on the Windows Live Platform
  • Nah, I'll leave those twerps alone
• An Introduction to the Microsoft Web Platform
  • Microsoft Web Platform? Can anyone say the return of the 1998-style two-tiered web experience in IE's favour?
• What's new in Smart Client development?
  • Surprisingly little, methinks. WPF has been out for over a year and WinForms doesn't change much with .NET3.5
• SQL Server 2008
  • Hello... what's this? A launch event? Don't these go hand-in-hand with Visual Studio launches now?
    

when we find out the stock photo guy isnt a developer but a professional model, there'll be a scandal.

reg'd for the one in Birmingham, 28th

Ion Todirel wrote:



brian.shapiro wrote: when we find out the stock photo guy isnt a developer but a professional model, there'll be a scandal.

nah, looks like a developer

• Luna enabled
• Tiles folder view
• Folder tasks enabled

W3bbo wrote:



Ion Todirel wrote:  brian.shapiro wrote: when we find out the stock photo guy isnt a developer but a professional model, there'll be a scandal. nah, looks like a developer

Nah, can't be; look at his computer monitor:

• Luna enabled
• Tiles folder view
• Folder tasks enabled

Definately a model, or he might be an MS developer, but he must be one of those "Not Invented Here" types because who else would believe that Tile view is the best way to view a folder's contents?

W3bbo wrote:

Nah, can't be; look at his computer monitor:

• Luna enabled
• Tiles folder view
• Folder tasks enabled

Sven Groot wrote:



W3bbo wrote: Nah, can't be; look at his computer monitor: Luna enabled Tiles folder view Folder tasks enabled

I score 2 out of 3 on that when I'm using XP (I use Luna and have folder tasks enabled), so I'm not a developer?

hey at least this time they used a Windows PC for the computer and not a Mac.

W3bbo wrote:

Featuring "that Visual Studio stock photo guy"[1], Microsoft drops me an email informing me of REGIONAL EVENTS!

This is the first time I've heard of this since the "Ready To Launch!" event in November 2005 with the VS2005/SQL2005/BizTalk hat-trick launch.

Let's have a gander at the events:

• Developing on the Windows Live Platform
  • Nah, I'll leave those twerps alone
• An Introduction to the Microsoft Web Platform
  • Microsoft Web Platform? Can anyone say the return of the 1998-style two-tiered web experience in IE's favour?
• What's new in Smart Client development?
  • Surprisingly little, methinks. WPF has been out for over a year and WinForms doesn't change much with .NET3.5
• SQL Server 2008
  • Hello... what's this? A launch event? Don't these go hand-in-hand with Visual Studio launches now?
    

It's scheduled for the 4th December 2007, which sounds about right for the VS08 launch date. Anyone got more info?


[1]Seen on the VS website, various places in MSDN, the Visual Studio 2005 installer, and this email. Does anyone know who he is? I heard somewhere he might be one of VS's PMs.

apwcodemonkey wrote:


These are regional MSDN events delivered by the DPE guys from MS UK.  The official launch is not till next year, Feb 27th I believe.

Chadk wrote:



apwcodemonkey wrote:  These are regional MSDN events delivered by the DPE guys from MS UK.  The official launch is not till next year, Feb 27th I believe.

What? Havent the release date always been late november/early december?

nvm: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/visual-studio-launch

I wanted to go to the opne in PA but none of the nerds here want to come with