Wow.  The General Manager of the Microsoft Developer Division in Melbourne, FL.  It was quite an enjoyable presentation.  Scott typed away at the demo like he still was slugging code with the rest of us in the trenches.  Everybody really appreciated Scott taking the time out of his schedule to come over from DevConnections in Orlando.  Scott arrived just in time because somebody told him would only take 45 minuets to drive the Melbourne-Orlando gauntlet in rush hour.  I wasn't paying attention, but I think he implicated one of the local evangelists.

The presentation covered all things Orcas.  Scott covered lots of topics in a marathon 2 hour presentation.  He enthusiastically  made LINQ dance to the oohs and ahhs of the assembled crowd.  Another big pleaser was a simple demo of the IIS configuration items that moved into the web.config file.  The presentation had a couple of the prerequisite CTP crashes for which Scott took a little good natured ribbing.  When an ASP.Net error page popped up in his browser mid demo, he was jeered - "Hey, I have that page in my program too!"  When demonstrating the ability of IIS7 to track long running/hanging pages, Scott said this might be useful if we knew anybody who wrote software with bugs in it (wink wink). 

It was a record crowd for the user group with strong attendance from ONetUG members.  Looking forward to a good year of speakers.