In my continuing quest to bore people to death with demo-free slideshow presentations, I brought in a Microsoft slide deck about Visual Studio Team Services and the Team Foundation platform.  I talked about the new Software Configuration Management (SCM) aspects of the Visual Studio experience.  Things like integrated source code control, reporting, policy enforcement, etc.  I had this same slideshow presented to me in a two hour presentation.  I managed to squeeze half an hour off of this when I presented it (I ran a BIT long).  But I had some interest, people who hadn't fallen asleep asked pertinent questions.

I'm looking into whether or not I am allowed to post the slideshow on the website.  I'll post here (and mail the slide deck to Jim W.) if I get permission.

After I finished stealing an hour an a half from everyone's life, Jim got up to give us a presentation on debugging methods in .Net.  He showed us that there can be more to debugging than breakpoints and MsgBox().  A great PowerPoint-free demonstration which included Test Driven's NUnit integration into the Visual Studio IDE.

Jim was waiting to trick me - he'd written a project with a user control where the user control couldn't be dragged onto the form.  He expected me to bring my slideshow on a USB key and use his laptop.  When I snuck in my Tablet PC, he was disappointed that I couldn't be forced to try to debug his issue.  But that was offset by how cool I was, with my laptop with a screen you can WRITE on!

-- Matt Ranlett