Back From MVP Summit

The long journey from the West coast to the East coast is over, and it’s good to be at 127.0.0.1 again. I truly enjoyed the MVP Summit at Microsoft and the opportunity to meet many folks I only knew virtually by URL as well as Product Group members I’ve been giving grief over DOCTYPE pickers and such. :) Communicating with product groups in person is so much more effective and accurate.

I enjoyed Michael Bundschuh’s presentation on best practices for migrating ASP.NET 1.x Apps to ASP.NET 2.0. This is something I have been unwilling to undertake in my company, and I’m glad Michael went over potential trouble points. It seems so much more plausible now.

I feel re-energized and excited about some of the things in the pipeline. Since most presentations were under NDA, all I can say at this point is a lot of cool stuff is coming (and I don’t mean “cool” as “flashy”), so watch this space.

Some folks complained about bus transportation logistics, but I don’t know how you can “optimize” driving those long sausages through narrow streets of downtown Seattle in heavy traffic. Check this out, though: the Microsoft online store has Windows XP Pro on back-order. How about that?

Once again, many thanks to those who made this summit happen! I think it was superbly organized, and the social aspect of it was definitely of tremendous value.