Reston DevLab post mortem

Not sure why I'm calling it a "post mortem," since I feel pretty solidly in the midst of mortem itself at the moment.  Ayman and I had to get up at 5:00 AM eastern to catch the flight back to Seattle, and it's now about 4:00 PM pacific, so feeling pretty lagged.  Anyway, I just wanted to report that the Reston, VA dev lab turned out quite successful.  As I mentioned yesterday, we were able to resolve the build problems for folks' VC 2005 migrations on day one.  During day 2, we worked on resolving runtime problems, getting rid of some warnings, and delving deeper into .NET.  We even helped one attendee port his application out of managed C++ to C++/CLI.

By the way, there's a good general tip there for everyone: if possible, as a part of your VS 2005 migration, you'll want to port your managed C++ code to C++/CLI.  While we continue to support the managed extensions, C++/CLI is more capable, easier to write and maintain, and future .NET innovation for C++ will happen in C++/CLI.

Okay, it took me like 10 minutes to type this and 15 minutes to fix all the typos, so it's clearly time to call it a day.