Today was the event. It was really worth attending it. Me as a student, got to learn much interesting items which will definately be useful in future. Well, i decided to sit in the second front row, at least I could can get a "close-up" of Microsoft's Jay Roxe, the Product Manager for Visual Basic and Matthew Gertz,the Development Lead of Visual Basic Compiler Team.

The first session on "Things you didnt know about VB.Net" was really good. Well obviously I didnt know I could do that with VB.Net. Thats the whole purpose of the presentation.

The second session on the "Preview of Visual Basic.Net 2005" was much enlightening, lots of clean up has been done to this never version compared to the 2003 version. Things like buttons snapping to grids, textboxes now appear without "text1" inside them which didnt serve any purpose earlier. The labels can snap to the appropriate textboxes too. No more messy and out of alignment buttons and labels :D. This part really made me say "Thank Goodness!". You guys know the part where when we open up the code view and we see certain "self-generated" code which we are not supposed to touch? It's no more there! Well, it didnt serve a purpose there anyway. Publishing out applications now, wheter its online or offline is such an ease now.

In previous versions of Visual Basic, when we rename, just say a textbox in the form view, we need to rename the textbox name in the code view as well. We dont have to do it anymore is Visual Basic.net 2005! We just rename whatever we want in the form view and the code changes as well. Isn't that just cool?