What's happening now
So what have I been doing now? Outside my regular work activities which takes around 80% of my work day away, I just got my hands on the VS 2008 Beta 2 VPC and got it functioning. I got some errors while launching the application which I fixed finally. It was also my first Vista experience and frankly, I'm not yet floored :-)
I'm waiting for the new Katmai release which is due soon and wanted to try out some new features in that too.
I'm keen on following-up on LINQ and ADO.NET Entity Framework and just finished installing all of these and got my first sample running. Planning the spend the rest of this week and next on playing around LINQ.
How did I suddenly get time now? Well, right now am in the US and in-between strategic meetings, there is a lot of time and thus, I can play around technology without having to worry about my regular work (someone back home is taking care of it for me now ;-)). I'm off to Seattle next week for the 2007 Platform Strategy Meeting and am hoping to learn a lot there on Data Access technologies, OBA etc. Am returning back to India around the 21st of this month and hopefully will continue my learning's into LINQ etc.
We recently started a Microsoft Forum at our office back in India and I wanted to present some of this material back in that forum. So I should be back in action!