Back from Visual Studio 2005 Training
The whole of last week (October 24th - October 28th) was spent in training on the new features of Visual Studio 2005. This was a training program done by Microsoft for ISVs who are about to embrace the new platform. The training was extremely useful and we got to try out hands on some of the cool new features. Some of things that I especially liked are the new Web Parts feature in ASP.NET 2.0 and some of the data binding enhancements in the smart-client world. Also of great use is the new set of server controls for easing the development of common tasks like Login, Menu creation etc. Its amazing how little code you now need to write!
Overall, a very useful training and am starting to try my hands in a few of those features for a project that we are working on.