Whidbey Ascend Training
I've just wrapped up the Team System (VSTS) track of the Dallas Whidbey Ascend Training. It was an extremely hectic, though very fun week. Team System is the "newest' content that was being covered in the training. The training was essentially done in 3 tracks (ASP.NET, Smart Client and Team System). The attendees, all members of the Ascend program, got to pick their track. There were other miscellaneous topics as well such as 64-bit, etc. I was the trainer for VSTS track, and had a great group of students. Being that the VSTS is still very rough and not considered "beta quality", the labs were a bit rocky, as were demos.
In all, I think the attendees got a lot out of it, and even uncovered a lot of things that I hadn't discovered myself yet. Team System has a vast set of features, some of which aren't well documented at all, so being in a room full of people that were all poking at it proved very educational. The students also came up with a ton of questions that I was able to email off to the VSTS product team and get answers back. I'll be posting some of the more interesting questions and responses soon.
I owe a huge debt to Rob Caron for facilitating getting the answers from the various groups and getting them back to me so the class could get answers to their questions next-day. Thanks Rob!