Whidbey Ascend
Got back last night from a week in Sydney teaching the Smart Client track of the Whidbey Ascend training. It's training for the top 50 or so ISV's in the country. It was great to get to spend time with the MS and MVP & RD gang while there. Nick Randolph and I also managed to get to both Adam Cogan's Sydney .NET User Group and Nick Weinholt, Dan Green and Troy Magennis' Sydney Deep .NET User Group. Thanks to Scott (MS USA), Chuck, Fin, Jason, Kathleen and Andrew from MS for making it such a good week and to Lukas (RD) and Grant from Orbiz (NZ) and Peter Stanski (local RD & MVP) for some entertaining evenings...
The ISV community seem pretty upbeat about the coming release of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005). I think they have good reason to be.