Are developers eager to know more about the Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, CardSpaces and the Windows Presentation Foundation? It must be so. With the exception of a few mentions (like in the MSDN Belux Flash and on the MSDN Belux website), we didn't make lot of promotion for our next MSDN Event on .NET Framework 3.0 (on September 25, 2006 in Kinepolis Brussels). Therefore I'm a bit surprised that just a few minutes ago already the 430th person registered for this event.
In the 4 years that I work on/for the Belgian developer audience, I've never seen registrations come in that fast with so little effort. I'd better ask a bigger theater for this event, shouldn't I...
Now, I wouldn't mind hearing from you why you think this event is so popular...
- Is it because of the speakers: Peter and Ingo? (They are great, aren't they?)
- Maybe you'd like to ask David in person if he can get you a free ticket for TechEd: Developers? (Good luck, but don't count that you'll succeed: he's responsible for the web development track at TechEd: Developers, not for the registration.)
- Has it been too long ago that you've seen a good looking registration desk hostess? (With that many people we'll need a lot of registration desk hostesses again.)
- Do you hope that we'll distribute a voucher for 10 free Windows Vista Ultimate boxes? (I can already tell you: we won't.)
Feel free to drop me an e-mail or a comment on this post with what you think is the reason. There are at least 5 MSPress books on the MSDN shelves waiting for a new owner. The "best" answers will get a copy.
Update 26 August: 460 people registered...
Tags: Microsoft, WinFX, .NET, development, Windows Vista