Yesterday started with a hangover...for me.  On Sunday there was a SharePint event at the Eye Candy bar in the middle of Mandalay Bay and I was one of the  unfortunate souls whohappened to have drank too much :|   The Keynotes were pretty cool...nothing overly stand out there was a lot of talk about the new product and moving forward and a couple of demos that probably were a little too long.  Truth be told my butt hurt from sitting through almost 3 hours of Keynotes so I was happy when it was done.

In the afternoon the actual session began.  for me it was the Whats New For Developer Overview, Visual Studio 2010 Tools Overview and Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010.  We covered a lot of ground in the first two and and they were very much an overview of all the features available.  Things like running SP on the desktop client (x64 win7 or vista), visual studio 2010 build, debug, deploy, the developer dashboard, Linq to SharePoint (YES), the ribbon and sandboxed solutions.

The final session (the web content management one) was a bit of a disappointment.  It was a level 300 session and seemed like they dumbed it down for beginners, i mean they were teaching us how to make web pages via the UI.   There was some interesting stuff in the presentation but at no point did they really dive in and demo things like the variation model improvements or content deployment fixes they have made.  It was just alluded to.

Either way it was a pretty good day...met some great people from all over the world so far and I hope that continues.

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