I'm on my way back from TechEdDevelopers 2006  as my travel plans meant I had to leave early. I only caught one session this morning on SmartClients and the Composite UI Block.

There were so many good topics and speakers that I experienced this week, so its difficult to pick out any one particular technology trend or specific highlight. There isn't any one particular topic that dominated the event but a lot of the pieces of .Net 3.0 were strongly represented (such as LINQ, C# 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, AJAX) in many sessions. A lot of these software elements are still at the CTP level but they are solid enough. There is more than enough in most of the CTPs to keep people busy for a good while yet....

So all in all a great event for getting a grasp of what technologies are coming up and a way to get some perspective on .Net 3.0. TechEd can't and shouldn't make you think you're an expert overnight but at least you'll know what's possible.

As ever the conference organisation was slick and unobtrusive given the over 4000 delegates attending. The new CCIB conference venue  was better than last time and Barcelona itself is a great location (not that I got to see too much of it whilst I was here).  Even the sun stayed shining....

I'll be following up on lots of things in my blogs in the near future as I work my way through the "investigate" list.