My talk at VSLive Orlando - it was rough...
I just did a talk in the ASP.NET track @ VSLive Orlando. It didn't go well. It wasn't a complete disaster, but it was very rocky. The talk was on Unit Testing, Static Code Analysis, Team Build, and the Profiling tool (basically VSTE for Devs with relation to ASP.NET). I was happy with all of my demos prior to my talk and decided not to shut down my laptop for the walk to the presentation room. I did shut down my VPC and disconnected my external disk. I got to the room 30 minutes early to test everything out - and then the trouble began.... I had VPC go nuts on me. My VPC wouldn't repaint at all while I was typing/mousing. For example, when entering my password to login, it wouldn't show the little ****, it looked frozen. It wasn't frozen, and if I resized the windows a few times, it would repaint. Then I would have to type/mouse more and resize, etc. I restarted the VPC and it was doing the same thing. I finally restarted my laptop and that fixed the problem, but I ended up starting 5 minutes late for my talk. There were a couple of things that I had originally planned to "warm up" when I got there early and they weren't warm, so I was a bit flustered and was very random in my delivery. In all, I wasn't very pleased - I rarely get bitten by the "demo demons", but I got smacked around on this one. Pretty much all of my demos worked, but not exactly how I intended, so it through me off.