Over the last few days, I've had no less five different people review my slide deck for the PDC. In doing so, the question came up, who's your target attendee? At which point I sent the pre-con descripton (available at [0]) to them. But often times, I have attendees to workshops, at other shows like VSLive! and Tech Ed, complain that the session or workshop wasn't what they expected? For example, at one show I was doing a 'Day of .NET'. The description clearly stated that Visual Basic .NET was the language being used. Yet some attendees were expecting C#. Hence, the title of this post.
Now since my pre-con will cover data tier design, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server code-named “Yukon” plus some Whidbey Windows Forms, I can go many ways with the content. But since anyone who's coming to this shouldn't alredy be using Yukon or Whidbey, there should be plenty to keep everyone entertained and hopefully learning. We shall see. That said, I plan on showing Visual Basic .NET and C# to keep people happy when managed code is involved.
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[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/precon.aspx