• MSDN Unleashed - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 PM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
  Session 1 - What’s New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers
  Session 2 – Build next generation applications with Silverlight 2.0
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032391568&flag=1
  
  
• Microsoft Executive Briefing-Nashville, TN - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:30 AM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  In an effort to provide visibility into our software roadmap as well as deeper integration with the local Microsoft team, we will be hosting a monthly invitation only executive briefing series for our enterprise and select agreement customers.
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032395341&flag=1
  
  
• Microsoft ArcReady: Professional Patterns On The Job - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:00 AM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:45 AM Central Time (US & Canada)
  Session 1: Mastering the Soft Skills
  Session 2: Organizational Dynamics
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032391707&flag=1
  
  
• Join Microsoft and Compuware for a Developer Tools and Platform Roadmap Presentation - Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:00 PM - Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:30 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
  Welcome Time: 5:30 PM
  Topics for this presentation include: · What is coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 ·  .NET 4.0 and C# futures · Azure and Software + Services
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032396380&flag=1
  
  
• Connect + Share Summit - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:30 AM - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  The Microsoft Connect + Share Summit is an executive-level event designed for business and technical decision makers, that will demonstrate how leveraging Microsoft solutions can help overcome costs, optimize the organization, and respond to changing needs. This innovative executive session is designed to showcase the benefits of the full integrated Microsoft platform.
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032393582&flag=1
  
  

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Another excellent year at TechEd!  After all these years, I still enjoy the lengthy, opinionated and inebriated conversations over technologies, implementations, products, etc.

I did make it to a few interesting sessions and spoke to a few 'official' types about various things ASP.Net MVC, Velocity, Unity, Oslo, etc...  The presentation I actually enjoyed the most was Andrew Connell's 'Don't be a Tool...' SharePoint dev talk...really good stuff from an outstanding presenter.  I was just happy to hear someone actually tell developers to be developers again and quit whining...this could turn in to a <rant/>...I'll stop now.

As usual, the most interesting stuff happens after hours ;-P  Every year I say I'm going to capture more evidence, but I always forget to take pictures...here's the few I ended up with this year.  It was great to see all my old friends and meet quite a few new ones.  I love all of you nerds.  Big props to the Fl crew for organizing the ]inbetween[ event.  And oh, btw, before I forget....SHAREPOINT NATION!!!

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@alanstevens has organized a Meetup of tweeps, twitters and the like...see you there...

Info/links on Allan's Blog

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May 1st

Register --> MS Launch Event - Heroes Happen

The Nashville Visual Studio .NET User Group Leadership will be staffing the INETA booth, so stop by for a visit.  I'll be there...and you should all buy me drinks afterwards! ;-)

ArcReady Event: Architecting for Scalable and Usable Web Applications

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:00 AM - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:45 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:45 AM

Microsoft Corporation

2555 Meridian Blvd, Suite 300
Franklin Tennessee 37067
United States

Register Online

I've had a few people ask me over the last month about this...so here's the link.  I guess more people are moving to VS 2008 now.

Here's how to 'fix' VSS2005 and VS 2008 :

Visual Source Safe 2005 Update

<sarcasm>This should be a blast </sarcasm>

Microsoft Technet Link For Download & Info

*warning 445Mb download

I forgot to post this earlier, but Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is a free download now.  I've found this to be a nice way to test.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en

so long HD-DVD!

Report: Sony, Microsoft discussing 360 Blu-ray drive - Xbox 360 News at GameSpot