So this was the first day of the summit and interesting a day it was. Nevertheless, the sessions did not reveal much that was not already shown at the PDC last year. “The difference is: now the features work” was one of the comments made a speaker who shall remain nameless. Any new stuff is supposedly under NDA, so they cannot be discussed. As far as info that I assume is not under NDA and is mostly picked up by talking to people here and there is that:

• as for now, ObjectSpaces will not be part of the Whidbey release, but made available as a webdownload after the release; rumours were already spreading around about this. 
• same applies for the Whitehorse features
• there will be a Servicepack for the .NET Framework 1.1; in fact, it is already in beta and made available to a select group of customers (of which I am not one). It will be publicly available as soon as the feedback from these tests are addressed.
• there will also be a Servicepack for Visual Studio .NET 2003 around the summertime.
• trying out the RC for Servicepack 2 for Windows XP is greatly encouraged.
• All of the namespace-names for Indigo have changed (what was to be expected)
• And last but not least: Don Box has cut his hair (see the gallery)

  Since we all know that Visual Studio 2005 will be released in, well, 2005, a lot of things can change, so this info may lose its accuracy quickly, so just take it for what it's worth.

Tomorrow may prove even more interesting, since we're not allowed to bring cameras, recording devices or alike to the sessions. Perhaps if I had bluetooth connection to download from my photographic memory... if I had one.

In the gallery I've posted a couple of pictures that I assume are not breaking any NDA. If you see anything that might, please let me know.