This morning I got all checked in.  Hotel was nice and close.  First time at VS Live.  First impression is that this show is much smaller than shows like Tech Ed and PDC (my favorite).  It looks to be similar in size to a Connections conference, but probably a bit larger.  I will have a better feel later.

Found out Bliz will not make it.  Bummer.  He is moving to Florida and will be sorely missed!

This time around I am not only an attendee, but also a speaker.  I am excited about the opportunity to be presenting at the show.  In the future I hope to do that more, but probably on some very specific topics I have not seen others cover.  I will not give anything away yet.  So if you want to catch my talk on security, its on Tuesday at 2 PM in the ASP.NET track.

Off to get filled on building distributed apps with Rocky Lhotka.  He just said datasets/datatables have a home.  Backyard in the doghouse.  Go get 'em Rocky!