This morning we could eat breakfast at the Hotel in this huge ballroom.
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Walking out of the hotel to the bus, which will take us to the 15km distant Microsoft's Campus.
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The weather is pretty much the same as on Monday or Sunday. Driving up north here until we reach the bridge over to Kirkland and Redmond.
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After about a 40 minute drive we arrived at the Microsoft Conference Center (Building 33). Traffic is not going very fast over here ^^
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This is how it looks inside the Microsoft Conference Center (short MSCC) at 9:00 in the morning when a conference is going on.
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Instead of attending the first XNA session I decided to take a look at the Silverlight 2.0 talk by the master himself: Scott Guthrie
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Until someone decided to throw down this wall, which causes quite a bit of noise and amusement.
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And this was me uploading the post for Monday yesterday while listening to the sessions.
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After eating some lunch and then some cake (see picture) I watched some StarCraft vods from GOM TV with the good old Nick 'Tasteless' commenting in English. This was the game with Tossgirl, which was very exciting to watch.
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Shortly after that another session about ASP.NET MVC started with Scott Hanselman.
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The MVC talk was very enjoyable to watch because of the many remarks Scott made.
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As you can see, the MVC framework is still very much a work in progress.
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Okay, let me take a look at that. Hmm, that should test the MVC routing engine. While Scott was talking about that I tried to write some MVC tests with Xunit, which worked just great (as advertised).
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Setup-Code for some routes, looks complicated, but I'm not sure how to make them much easier.
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I went to Building 85 now for more XNA sessions over there. It was raining quite a bit.
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One of the buses traveling from building to building at the Microsoft Campus.
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A few native DirectX MVPs, which probably make fun of us managed DirectX/XNA MVPs. But it is all in good fun, we all like DirectX somehow :)
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Heading back to Seattle through all the traffic.
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Instead of heading back to the Hotels all XNA/DirectX MVPs had a nice little dinner at Jillian's, which obviously did not have enough power to light up both parts of their logo.
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Andy Dunn (The ZMan), Sean ?, Michael Klucher (from the XNA Team) and George Clingerman (Mr. www.XnaDevelopment.com) standing around and discussing the physics of billiard :)
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Michael Klucher, Nick Gravelyn and Niko Sumi? sitting down and discussing more XNA.
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And finally heading back to the Hotel after we were thrown out from Jillian's ^^
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