New events coming! Microsoft is now fully in swing with our new fiscal year and have set up our Q1 event schedule, including the launch of a new event format called MSDN Unleashed — unleashing MSDN throughout the central region of the US.
Check out the events page and join us!
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 ARCast v2.0, posted Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 4:27 PMNew blog post alert: I pontificate briefly about Denny Boynton and ARCast v2.0. Check it out.
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Now that I am blogging, I am forgetting to update the announcement feed on my main site. So here's a belated announcement on PDC2008.
Professional Developers Conference 2008 is Microsoft's premier national event for the professional developer, and it will be held October 27-30 in Los Angeles, CA. Registration is now live, so check out the PDC site and sign up.
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On April 26, 2008, my colleague Zain Naboulsi will be hosting a Heroes Happen Here launch event in Second Life. He's got the full launch agenda, covering Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008. If you're active in Second Life — or even if you're not — join Zain and his team as they make history by running a launch event in Second Life.
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So I finally got past my lazy self and added dozens of events to my events database. I've listed all the Launch Events in the Central US region, as well as our local DevCares and ArcReady events. Check them out and sign up to attend one or more of those events.
I've also listed in Tech•Ed Developers and IT Professionals as well as PDC08.
Technorati Tags: DevCares, ArcReady, TechEd, PDC
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I haven't been out to check the new Visual Studio 2008 sites since Launch and thought that was poor form on my part.
So I hopped out there earlier today and was pleasantly surprised with some of the improvements. Even more impressive was the Silverlight-based UI I discovered for the Visual Studio Express site: nifty UI elements and navigation by area of interest, all with a spiffy Silverlight-based sheen. It's a really sharp site and you should check it out.
While you're there, if you haven't already downloaded one of the VS2008 Express editions, you should. There are loads of new capabilities in VS2008.
Technorati Tags: Silverlight, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express
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There's not much I can add to the announcement, so I'll simply share with you that the ISO/IEC has approved Open XML as a standard. The press release has all the details, though IMO this is good for everyone.
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If you were one of the few thousand folks in the US to have had the opportunity to join us at one of the many Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest or DevCares events in December, read on for some important news.
First and foremost, if you installed VS2008 at the events, you are probably running close to the limit on the 90-day trial copies we handed out at the events. The good news is that the full fledged versions of VS2008 Professional Editions started shipping a week or so ago, so if you registered your code shortly after getting your trial disc, you should have your free copy of VS2008 in your hands right now.
Rest assured — you don't need to reinstall the product. In fact, all you need to do is go to the Visual Studio 2008 entry in Add/Remove Programs (Windows XP) or Programs and Features (Windows Vista) and select Modify/Change. You'll have an opportunity to enter a license key from the media we shipped.
Here's the important news: if you haven't registered for your free copy yet, you have until March 1, 2008. After that time, we won't be taking any more registrations. And if you didn't have a chance to join us for one of our exclusive Install Fest events, no worries: Launch Events are (literally) right around the corner! February 27th is the BIG launch, with numerous local launch events following that through about May 2008. Find a launch near you and have a chance at another free copy of Visual Studio 2008, plus a chance at several other prizes.
See you at Launch!
Technorati Tags: visualstudio, installfest, heroeshappenhere
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The MSDN Site has introduced some improvements based on your feedback.
So, what are these changes? First, the MSDN Events page is now a single, easy to remember URL that list all events for developers and architects in your geography. It also links to a resource that lists your local evangelist — all the folks on my team in the north central US area — that are (usually) the people delivering the events listed on the MSDN Events site.
In addition to live events, this single portal lists upcoming webcasts as well as recorded webcasts. It's a single place you can visit to find resources helpful to you.
Technorati Tags: MSDN Events
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So a coworker tipped me off today to a cool new webcomic. And what's really interesting... The webcomic is about real IT stories. Every day, the folks that run the site are adapting stories about you and your team into a comic. I really love this!
If you have an IT Hero — a server administrator, a developer, an architect, a designer or anyone you really appreciate in IT at your company — refer them and get their story turned into a comic. And if you are the hero, tell your story. You could be turned into a comic, too!
Technorati Tags: ITdevcomics.com, Launch 2008
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