C# Future and First Morning at TechEd

I made it to TechEd on an early flight this morning.  I saw a couple of other bloggers after registering: DataGridGirl, Eli Robillard, and Stephen Swienton.  Stephen made me feel good since he said he presented some of my template techniques at a user group.  I just finished listening to Dan Fernandez talk about the future of C#.  Nothing new was said that isn't already available in white papers on the net, but he did demo some real generics using Gyro, that is available for Rotor now, that I hadn't personally seen.  That one always seems to get the most attention, although ASP.NET developers should also be interested in Partial Types. :)  I'm off now to see Rob Howard give a Tips and Tricks talk that I'm supposed to formally review as part of my deal for being here.  It looks like Rob is going to go the route that I really prefer, that being lots of code and less slides, so maybe he'll get a good review out of me yet!

By the way, I've been using my Handspring Treo 300 on Sprint to check and even reply to some email here.  I got it a few weeks ago for $150 by taking the deals you could get from Amazon and getting a local Sprint store to match them.  Great phone, PDA, and web browser, even if its not Microsoft, and unlimited data minutes to go with it!  Its only crashed twice, once requiring a paperclip in the back, so it even works better than some Microsoft products.

Update: I think I'm confused already.  I'm going to Review Nikhil's Server Controls talk next.  I'll get to Rob on Wednesday.