I was recently at an all-day event with Scott Guthrie from Microsoft – read about the event here. Here I collect what he had to say about what’s new in Visual Studio 2010, which is launching very soon. It’s going to be a quick run-down of some new features, and hopefully I will be able to dive into deeper demos in other posts.

Yes I realise there have already been 2 posts about #ddd8, but there are a few more things that need to be finished off.

Last night was absolutely epic – a fitting end to a brilliant day.

Thanks have to go out to @zimakki for somehow getting nearly 40 starved nerds served at Pizza Express and then everyone in to Revolutions afterwards.

Also huge congratulations, once again, to the speakers and organisers, for doing a brilliant job of getting the entire day to run smoothly. See you at the next event!

So one final update on the rest of today, then off to town for pub / meal / pub / pub / club / pub / sleep (I think in that order too).

Two more brilliant this sessions this afternoon, from @garyshort and @blowdart.

Gary’s session on functional languages (i.e. Clojure) was extremely interesting, and introduced me to a whole new world on top of what I thought I already knew about functional languages.

Barry’s demo was the last one at a Developer Day as he is shipping out to America soon, and all the MVPs took the opportunity to take over the projector and give us some extremely funny clips making jokes for him.

As you may have picked up from some of my tweets, today I’ve been out and about at #ddd8, a developer meet-up at Microsoft in Reading.

Organised “by the community, for the community” (and mostly by @plip see note below), it features a series of talks and presentations by members of the community on loads of subjects ranging from @RobAshton’s multi-tenant ASP.net MVC overview, to @JonSkeet’s C# 4.