I'll probably be there. I'll be at the event, so if I can con my girlfriend into letting me geek out, I'll show. :)

Jacob,
I attended the MSDN Event today. Let me confess that it was really the best – full of fun!
You could successfully keep everyone’s enthusiasm up by personally interacting with the Chicago-land developers.
Frankly, except for lack of familiarity with weird VB.NET classes syntax, for which I had been distracting you during the WinForms session, I found your style of presenting the .NET features exceptionally well.
Let me now remind you (and Anand Iyer aniyer@microsoft.com), I am really curious about the TSQL debugging from within C# data adapter calls which Anand thought he saw someone doing. Please don’t forget to give any pointer on that.

Fakher Halim
Software Architect
TPG

Hey Fakher,

I jsut did a quick search for "tsql debugging" and found this article. It appears to be a very easy-to-use technique.

Regards,
Jacob

TSQL Debugging

One of the lesser-known features of Visual Studio is its ability to debug stored procedures, functions, and triggers in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000. This is a feature of the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio .NET.

There are two ways to debug TSQL routines:

Through Server Explorer
Connect to the database through Server Explorer. Open the stored procedure you want, right–click, and select the Step Into command. Voila! You should step into the stored procedure and be able to see it execute as it goes.

By hitting breakpoints in stored procedures called from an application
Another technique is to debug your stored procedure as it is called through a client application. To do this, you need to enable SQL debugging in your client project that calls the stored procedures. This is an option you set in your project properties under the Debugging node in Configuration Properties. Once the application has started, open the TSQL routine code in Server Explorer, and set a breakpoint in it. Press F5 on your application to hit the breakpoint in Server Explorer. This method of debugging also works for Web applications that call SQL Server stored procedures.
[Excerpted from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vstchDebuggingInVisualStudioNET.asp]

Jacob,

That was an informative and entertaining afternoon. And the the Pub Club was fun. There was some talk about Microsoft announcing the next PDC. Well the link to the actual page is right there on the bottom of the http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/ page!
It is not very informative, only showing dates and location, but it looks official.

Allan