I will be at the Canadian Launch Tour for Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 (at the Congress Centre in Toronto) on November 8th, and will post notes and photos about it (hopefully as it happens). I'm looking forward to it, and maybe I'll see some of you there.
If there was one thing that Microsoft keeps doing that I wish they'd stop is the whole "most important/biggest/impressive release ev4r!". I'm reading some of the Microsoft bloggers make this claim, and it just rings so false - I am very excited about both of these products, and my experience with them thus far (and through the beta and CTP cycle) has been very positive, but it's very cry-wolfish of Microsoft to declare every release the most important ever to try to gain extra attention. A part of the reason Microsoft Live was accepted so cynically was all of the "great new turn-on-a-dime strategy!" B.S. coming out of Redmond.
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Dennis Forbes is a Toronto-based software architect. While focused primarily on the .NET and SQL Server worlds, Dennis frequently ventures outside of this comfort zone into game development and image processing. He has been published in several industry magazines, has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and has been interviewed by NPR.He is a vice president and lead software architect at an innovative New York City hedge fund back-office services firm.
Dennis has been working on solutions for the financial, telecommunications, and power generation markets for over 15 years.