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I haven't been able to post any real follow-up for my VSLive! experience due to a combination of working hard all week trying to push something into QA that I have been working on 2-3 months (it's gonna be big!) and getting my daughter's viral whatever it is she had. So now that all my fellow C# Track speakers are posting, I feel like I am behind-) Besides my daughter being sick, I had a great time in San Francisco. As I said, her doctor's appearance, threw me off a bit before my Advanced COM Interop talk but it still went pretty well and the CLR one was awesome (Wow, here's FTP's coverage of this talk!!)Let me take a moment to thank Richard Hale Shaw (C# VSLive track chair) for selecting my sessions for his Advance C# track too. As Max did, I also spent the majority of my week in the Speaker's Lounge working on my demos and cutting back minutes on my session and my prepared slides. The one hour limit was extremely hard for my two topics and I literally agonized over every slide over and over probably paring and adjusting around two dozen times. I was fortunate to how the Rotor/CLR master Ted Neward sit side by side with me and review my CLR slides before I did that talk. The vibe in the Speaker's Lounge was really incredible with everyone talking and helping each other out. What was really notable for me is not so much seeing all the old friends like Julie, Rocky, Richard, Scott W, Rob Howard , Steve Swartz, Don Box, Yasser but really meeting the “VB” side of INETA/Speaking Circuit that I had never met in person who were all super nice to me: Ken Getz and Paul Sheriff, Brian Randell,Jackie Goldstein, Bill Vaughn among others. It was also great to see Debbie Kurata after about 10 years and we had some great meaningful talks, particularly about the state of my daughter.

In my track, I was most impressed with Walt Ritscher who has pictures here. Not only is Walt a super smart guy and great presenter but he was a super guy to be around all week to talk things through with . The C# Track Team went back to the speaker hotel, the Palomar after the last session, and here's me and Godfrey Nolan, while here is Richard Hale Shaw with my family that came down. I finally got to meet Jimmy Nilson who posts also on VSLive! here. Also I finally got to meet Maxim Karpov, who not only is smart but super full of energy!!

For people that attended the conference, they made my updated code and slides available on the web site and FTP will offering slides and streaming video of my talk and others come March. I am still struggling to find a system with the right registration and passwords that I would be able to continue to post my slides and code to from conferences while protecting my IP and not blasting them to the whole world.