No I haven’t been online much…. been busy with Professional Visual Basic 2010 (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047050224X.html).  I finally finished my last chapter (someday I’ll post the list of chapters which I did.)  and we’re now just in edits.  This week was the MVP Summit so I’ve been tweeting more than blogging, but learning and giving feedback on Visual Basic.

Many thanks to two groups in particular.  First to Nestor Portillo, Emilie Freet, Susanna Moran, PJ Forgione and everyone else in Microsoft’s MVP organization.  As usual they spent a great deal of time setting up an awesome event.  They helped facilitate a great deal of face time for us with the product teams, made sure we saw compelling content and coordinated a host of logistics.  This remains one of the top 2 or three features of being an MVP. – Special thanks to Emilie and the Developer Evangelist field org for the new MVP jackets a great surprise on Tuesday (and for getting me one even though I hadn’t scheduled anything because that’s when my flight arrived)

I’d also like to thank the whole Visual Studio languages team, and in particular:

- We had a surprise on Tuesday when Anthony Green let us know that he was now a “blue badge” (ie. Microsoft employee) so congratulations on your new role as a PM for the Visual Basic compiler.  His passion for the language should help him have great success.

- Charlie Calvert and Lisa Feigenbaum (who’s name I’ve probably misspelled) these two people took the lead on coordinating the interactions for the language MVPs at the Summit, including in the case of Charlie working to support the ever popular MVP to MVP sessions, and for Lisa for the great swag. (photos to follow)

- To the entire languages org, the Help and Community contacts, the CLR team and everyone else who met with us.  Thanks for taking the time to give us an idea of where you are headed and letting us give you some feedback on where we hope you are headed.  You openness and willingness to consider and respond to our thoughts is great.  btw, Lucian has a portion of this discussion available on his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/lucian/default.aspx

Overall this year’s MVP Summit has been a great event and as always I come away motivated to do more.