Thanks to all the MVPs who made it to Redmond last week. It was great interacting with you. There were so many activities I couldn't blog about all of them in a timely fashion. So I'll do it now.

  • Monday Night's dinner was a fun informal Microsoft/MVP mixer time. A good number of C# Team showed up, but unfortunately not too many well-known names. :0) Some people said it was a bit like a Junior High dance - MVPs talking with MVPs and Microsofties talking with Microsofties. I know that at least I wasn't just hanging with my own kind...
  • Tuesday's Lunch: I hosted a table. It seemed like C# MVPs didn't feel the need to sit exclusively at the C# tables, but that's really a good thing. :0)  The table I hosted got into a huge discussion on how Microsoft should deal with security, specifically how they thought we should force Security down developers' throats as much as possible. One MVP said that we should even use scare tactics to galvanize developers into action...
  • Tuesday's Party: I'm not one to do the karaoke thing unless with good friends and the help of some liquid courage. I did get a chance to talk to several MVPs about Microsoft's attitude towards the developer community, though. It's really great to hear positive feedback on this topic, it motivates us to engage even more. I also listened to Ed Dudenhoefer talk about C++ in VS2005 - some very exciting very advanced stuff is coming from the C++ team for the next version of VS. I didn't even know about some of this stuff before listening to him.
  • Wednesday - C# Day: This was an extremely full day, which I had the responsibility of planning. In all, very informative sessions for both the C# Team and the MVPs.

Wednesday night I slept very well. :0) On the horizon: a How-To on creating Debugger Visualizers with the Community Tech Preview.