Besides the keynote, only two sessions were held Monday. In the first session Omar Khan talked about some of all the new features in Visual Studio 2008. So nothing new there for me, as I've used it for development in both beta 1 (when it was called Orcas) and now I'm using beta 2. I could see that Omar was using a newer version than beta 2, as the Add method on the tables in LINQ to SQL was not called Add but InsertOnSubmit - which is the name of the method post beta 2. The first session for me today, is part two of that session. So I don't expect to see much new there either - but who knows, maybe there are one or more features I've overseen

The last session was Luca Bolognese talking about LINQ in general. As expected the content was exactly the same as at the JAOO conference. So nothing new here either Actually even the jokes were the same, but I still laughed at his "so now I've got ravioli in my XML"-joke. My second session today is Luca talking about LINQ to SQL - but I think I will skip that one, if I can find something new to hear about instead.

After the sessions we took a quick walk around in the exhibition hall. Approximately 4.000 other people were there too, so it was a bit crowded. So instead of getting run down by all these people, we went to a tapas restaurant with Henrik Westergaard Hansen (our former ADE - Academic Software Evangelist), Martin (our new ADE) and a few others. Afterwards we went to a bar... the rest of the evening is pretty easy to guess