There’sall sorts of nifty stuff that will be blogged about incessantly by otherpeople. Some non-standard things that stuck out in my mind:

• The number of .NET languages is increasing. Explicitly mentioned in slideware are things like Ruby.NET and P# -- which is a .NET implementation of Prolog. Hopefully S# (Smalltalk.NET) will be out soon. Eric also mentioned that there are only 20 letters left in the English alphabet that have yet to be “sharpified”…and all the good ones are going fast
• Longhorn will have an inherent concept of physical location – and a rich set of API’s for manipulating location data. While this is obviously most interesting to the mobile control developers, it’s fun to start imagining what can be done on the server…now that the mobile devices know where they are, it’s time for servers to start figuring out all the “interesting” things that are near that location. And of course, the most interesting part of that problem is defining what “interesting” is…
• ASP.NET 2.0 is starting to look a lot like Sharepoint Portal, at least from the user’s view. Themed sites, web parts that contain little chunks of functionality, and rampant personalization. Very cool!
• Finally, the VB Smart Client demo UI had a distinctly Mac-like look and feel J

I’mgoing to skip the Yukon keynote in favor of the hands-on labs. I’m goingto go try to write some Indigo code.