Neil Bostrom: Tech Ed 2008 Excitement!

Here we are again, Tech Ed 2008 is just around the corner. Tickets are booked, transfer is arranged, hotel map has been printed. We are all set!

So what am I excited about seeing this year? Well with Silverlight on everyone's lips and V2 fresh into RTW and toolkits being published quicker than I can download them, how could that not be at the top of the list!?

Next out of excitement box is C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Interested to find some of the less well known features coming out with it. Heard a bunch about dynamics and I'm only mindly excited about it (for our use anyway).

Another big topic I want to start working on while at Tech Ed is LINQ, more specifically the sad sad news that Microsoft is basically killing LINQ to SQL meaning we will need to make a move to LINQ to Entites at some point. I'm looking to take the opportunity at Tech Ed to geek up on LINQ to Entities before we have to make the move.