>>Holy Giveaways Batman!
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>>How much better can this conference get?
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>I just had Microsoft send 10 boxes to Bob for more free giveaways for SWFox attendees:
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>swag for the Southwest Fox 2005 conference. 10 boxes total, itemized...
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>150 VFP 9.0 jelly cell pads
>175 DVDs of Visual Studio 2005 beta 2
>115 VFP 9.0 11"x14" posters
>30 VFP 6.0 gold key chains
>~40 copies of various recent FoxTalk issues
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>I plan to bring one full copy of VFP 9.0 to raffle off. This is also on top of Microsoft sponsoring 400 free books from Hentzenwerke (at a discount rate thanks to Whil Hentzen), 200 of What's New in VFP 9.0 and 200 copies of .NET for VFP Developers. There will be 5 other guest speakers along with me in the keynote session, some surprises.

To add to this, the VS 2005 beta 2 disc will allow a preview of the new LINQ (.NET data-centric SQL and XML programming features) to be installed (like on Virtual PC or a test machine) and experiemented with for free, with the VS 2005 beta 2 add-on at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/: Visual Basic 9.0 LINQ Technology Preview. Calvin Hsia will be doing a short overview and demo in the keynote session and a deep dive with more examples in a general session.