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I have uploaded the photos I took since I'm in Barcelona to Flickr so if you're interested, take a peek. The coolest one is most likely this one though:

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft featured in TechEd 2007 Keynote

Hi there! I am sitting in CCIB's auditorium, waiting for TechEd 2007 to kick off with Soma's keynote. We got seated in the third row, extremely close to the stage and almost in the middle. Turns out, the Super Early Bird seats are worse, so I don't exactly see the point. We were Super Late Birds and have great seats!

Live coverage:

1:39PM: Two graffiti artists are going at it, a DJ is mixing trance, definitely enjoyable. There's also a VJ somewhere. I am getting dizzy from the smell of sprayed paint.

1:48PM: Graffiti artists finishing up, looks great. DJ mixing Alanis Morissette - Uninvited (City of Angels OST), gotta love it.

1:56PM Graffiti pulled up, nobody's on the stage now except for the DJ.

2:00PM Soma is on stage, LOTS of people in the auditorium. Thanks the developers who have given feedback to make VS2008 a better product.

2:03PM Soma is promoting a restaurant in Barcelona.. (Moo Restaurant) That's some marketing ;) Draws an analogy between his experience and that developers and designers should work great products hand-in-hand.

2:06PM Visual Studio 2005: Over 1 million professional developers, Visual Studio Express: Over 17 million downloads (25% of developers using Visual Studio team System)

2:15PM Soma talks about different the types of developers and how the tools bridge all audiences. .NET as the consistent programming model.

2:18PM Platform advances, .NET Framework Data Support (LINQ, MS Sync Framework), .NET Framework (new WPF controls, WCF: REST, RSS, ATOM, JSON (cool!), Silverlight). Soma just used Anders Hejlsberg's favorite expression: first-class citizen ;)

2:23PM Visual Studio Tools for Office is now part of Visual Studio 2008 Profesional. Built-in support for AJAX, other web development improvements. Soma just said first-class citizen again.

2:30PM Microsoft Sync Framework CTP is announced, helps improve offline experience and to build p2p-based solutions. Software + Service Blueprints also announced. Ready to use building blocks and add-in for Visual Studio.

2 :39PM Visual Studio 2008 new features demoed on-stage. Split view for ASP.NET pages, CSS support. LINQ to SQL, O/R Designer shown and bound to controls.

3:04PM Demo is over, funny video about Visual Studio 2008 development. Soma is back with inspiring words. Although he didn't say first-class citizen for at least half an hour now.

3:06PM VS Ecosystem is now the subject. This might be our time. 200+ partners, 2000+ products. VS Premier Partners now get access to the Visual Studio IDE source code (this would come handy).

3:46PM. Damn. My battery died on me during the keynote so I couldn't blog live that Dan Fernandez walked up to the stage and demoed AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft which we developed. Our bottom line was two laughs and a heartwarming applause at the end of the demo. Felt good ;)

I've taken a good deal of photos during the keynote which I'll be uploading to Flickr soon. I might also share the better ones here.

There is a break now from 3:30pm to 4:00pm and afterwards the first session starts. As you know, I'll be attending a session around Distributed Applications and what the future (and the future of .NET) holds us in that domain. Until then, it's snack and refreshing soft drinks time!