Today marked the second of ten stops on the Canadian launch of VS 2005, in Ottawa. You can check out launch pics @ flickr. Looks like the pics are limited to Toronto at this point, but I expect that to change over the next few days.

The Ottawa launch was another success. It was definitely more cozy than Toronto, being in a hotel, rather than a convention center. This different actually had its benefits. Faces started looking familiar more quickly and people didn't get lost ;)

The ask the experts area was staffed by a bunch of the same experts as Toronto. By the second go, we definitely had our act together. For example, we did a better job of getting the best person to answer questions. I don't know a lot about databases or of our System.Data classes. Fortunately, Bruce Johnson did, another .Net expert from ObjectSharp.

I managed to break away from the experts area for a while to go see one of the talks. Gotta say that Jerome and Barry did a great job. John also did a great job during the keynotes. I didn't get to see him in action during the talks.