>>>Have some money to go to a conference, would the Jan/Feb VBITS be the place to go? I have been tinkering with VB for 3 years, time to go hardcore.
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>>Another great place to go from october 1 to 4, is to the VB Connections (http://www.devconnections.com) in Arizona. Anybody planned to go there?
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>How would you rate the courses offered vs VBITS.

These international conferences are all at the same level. They have most of the same speakers and speakers redo much of the same presentations from one to the other!

If you see Microsoft speakers at an event, you can say that the event is going to be good!