Comparing to TechDays, the sessions in DevTeach are more advanced. These sessions cover architecture, agile, silverlight, sharepoint, and general web and Windows development. I took the main conference and pre conference workshop. I don't think the pre one deserves the cost ($400 one day). The Silverlight workshop I took only simply shows a series of sessions which we probably already knew in some previous Techdays sessions. Plus the organizing is not professional.
I like the main conference. The presenters impressing me include Michael Stiefel, Kimberly Tripp, Donald Belcham, etc. Some architecture sessions are very attractive, most of which are related with interface, layer, design pattern, design principle, and ORM. A couple of SQL sessions from Kimberly Tripp are outstanding. I also took some sessions which focus on particular fields, such as jQuery, LINQ, SharePoint, and Web farm.
It's beneficial and important to know what the people in the community are thinking and doing. When you listen to people, you can refresh your memory and probably come out some new ideas. I hope this conference experience can help improve our in-house WPF and Silverlight projects.
