Just a quick post today, since I’m on holiday.  

Yesterday I attended a couple of product-related events in Bradford.  The first was an MSDN event around the changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Including the Entity Framework, Data Services and a host of other good stuff).  I’ll post more on that once I get my head around what to write.

The second part of the day was a presentation by Oliver Sturm of DevExpress on the CodeRush and Refactor! Pro products.  I had not previously been aware of these products, but the presentation won me over.  There’s a lot of power and cusomisability in these products, and they should really help cut down on developer effort required to create and maintain applications in Visual Studio.  Luckily for me, I managed to win a licence for the products (thanks Oliver!) , and I’m really looking forward to installing and playing with the technologies.  I seriously recommend you look up the tools, and strongly consider getting a licence for you and your team.