Yesterday from 6 pm to 9 pm the second run started. In the whole exhibition area you were able to find all kind of excellent food and drinks. Really a lot of people were interested in the Coding4Fun projects. Actually I lost my void because I had to talk so much. Before the exhibition opened I was able to wander around a little bit. So there is a lot of interesting stuff from Microsoft and  its partners coming. Unfortunately you do not have as much time as staff to have a chat with everybody providing a booth there, even if it would be really interesting. As far as we realized, there is no explicit break for lunch. So people are coming to the lounge from the morning until the afternoon to the lounge on their way to their lunch. It is nice, because there are not so many attendees their at once and you can take a few minutes for each person interested in the stuff.

 
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So, the first run is over. From 11:30 am to 3 pm a lot of attendees were interested in the fichertechnik robots shown at the Coding4Fun Lounge. A lot of people asked for the library we show here: the library will be available with the final version of the Visual Studio. You can find the bits then at the Coding4fun website. It's really nice if people realize that they have played with fischertechnik when they were little. When they see the stuff now, with the interface and all the computing stuff, they say: "I have to get this for my son...". Why do I not believe that it is for their children?

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The Coding4Foun Lounge is located in next in the Big Hall, next to the Partners Scenarios. So, have a break at take a look at the demos over here.

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We had to set up the demos already yesterday, and finally we got the sign you can see on the picture. Opening times of the Exhibiton Hall are

Tuesday, 9/13: 11:30 – 3pm; 6pm – 9pm
Wednesday, 9/14: 10:30am – 3:30pm
Thursday 9/15, 9:30am – 2:30pm

Rolf already got his chance to play with the robots over here yesterday. And he already asked when the stuff will be available for download. We are working on a library, based on the Visual Studio 2005 beta 2. So a finall version will be available of course with the final version of the .NET Framework 2.0.

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