Ok, so I've been to quite a few VS Live's and I've seen the good and the bad, but here's my first impressions from VSLive 2007:
1st Keynote by Prashant Sridharan was good. Demo (by Sam G. (I think)) was clear and informative...
Nima Dilmaghani has some really interesting things to say, but his presentation quality--Well I've already blogged about that....
Lunch - Ok, they've gone away from the cold box lunch of past years; good. But they need a major lesson in crowd control. The lines were way, way too long.
Partners - Hello, anyone there? There's fewer booths than I've ever seen at a VSLive. They need way more, quadruple would be a start.... I've never been to a conference with this few partner booths.
The "Hands-On Center".... Uh. ok. It's a bunch of machines with XP and IE6.0.... No dev tools, no Vista, not even IE 7.0.... Ok, so I can check my email, but at a developers conference you'd think a "Hands-On Center" would allow you to play with the tools you're hearing about in the conference. Seriously sucky.
The VIP Lounge, ok nice yeah, a couple of widescreens running XBox-360's, and movies. The snack area is out of drinks, and the "private computer lab" seems to be two of the "Hands-On Center" pc's stuck in a corner.... Hmmmm.
Gotta go, my feet hurt. Yeah, no chairs in the "Hands-On Center" either.
-Andy