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Tuesday
Apr132010

Fun with Visual Studio 2010 Tech Days in London

Tech Days 2010 London Pick your Door
Which door would you choose?

Went down to London today to give a session as part of tech-days Visual Studio Developer Days. It was great fun, even though just about everything broke at some point during the talk. Richard from Black Marble was on before me and did a very impressive talk about the new testing features in Team Foundation Server.

Tech Days 2010 London Richard Fennell
Doesn’t Richard look like Bill Gates?

When my turn came my laptop had gone to sleep and forgotten to produce any video output. Then I had all kinds of finger trouble typing in programs and my microphone broke and fell off twice. But it was all good…

Tech Days 2010 London Blurry Rob Miles
A blurry version of me, which is how I felt at the time…

Tech Days 2010 London Audience
Some of the audience, all of whom were absolutely great.

The whole thing took place in a cinema, so I had the biggest screen I’ve ever used in my life.  You can find the presentation here and the demo code here.

As part of the day I was interviewed for Underbelly, a new Microsoft website for developers. you can find my interview here. If you really want to…

Reader Comments (2)

Hi Rob,
I was only able to attend on Monday. It was a shame I missed the session from a fellow Hull attendee..

Reading the tweets, your session was very well received, looking forward to the video on the MS web site!
April 14, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterSimon
Hi Rob,

Thoroughly enjoyed your talk on Tuesday.

Your irreverent style was highly amusing and refreshing at the end of a long day of sessions!

I've even managed to find internet fame by being one of the lucky souls in your audience photo! :)
April 15, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterCraigTP

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