Microsoft Build 2015 – what a blast!

Well, it’s over, and what a Build it was! I won’t go over what Microsoft had to say – it’s been done to death in news articles, blogs, and tweets – but with regard to DevExpress and its products, possibly the more important things were Visual Studio 2015 RC, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Edge (née Project Spartan), and Windows 10/Universal Apps. We shall be talking about these announcements and products in the coming weeks and months as we explain how and when we will be supporting them.

This time the arrangement of the “Exhibitors Hall” was different. First, there wasn’t a hall per se, instead the the booths were separated on three floors in Moscone West. We were on the Cloud Platform and Developer Tools floor (the third floor, and the same as the main Keynote floor in fact) and, despite it being at the top of the building, we had a steady flow of customers, old friends, and, I hope, customers-to-be.

We had a booth and, as is common with Builds through the years, every vendor’s booth was the same. Here’s Mehul at ours.

Mehul and I fielded every question we could, gave out swag (the shrink-wrapped UI Superhero t-shirts were very popular), and demoed as much as we could. There were, shall we say, many questions about v15.1, our next major release, and, although we couldn’t say too much at the show, we did encourage everyone to stay tuned since we’re about to start blogging about the new features.

It was great to see so many people with such a strong sense of passion and excitement about the future. I’d have to say we were buoyed up by the enthusiasm of the attendees for the news that Microsoft presented and what it meant for their development stories.

And next week? It’s Microsoft Ignite!

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