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If you want to learn more about Visual Studio 2008, consider attending one of the following conferences this fall in Las Vegas:

• VSLive! Las Vegas 2007 - October 15-18
  "VSLive! Las Vegas returns to the city that never sleeps with four days of the very best in Visual Studio and .NET. With over 75 intense hours of keynotes, breakout sessions and full-day workshops by thought-leaders in the industry, you can’t lose. For the best value, sign up for the all-inclusive Gold Passport by the Early Bird deadline of September 12."
• DevConnections - November 5 – 8
  "DevConnections celebrates the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008 in Las Vegas. Be among the first to receive a copy of Visual Studio 2008 and hear the latest announcements from Microsoft executives. Train, network, and party with over 150 Microsoft architects and top industry experts presenting 250 in-depth sessions! There is no other event that has more industry experts in one place at one time. The partner expo promises to be exciting with giveaways including a Harley Davidson. Focus on Visual Studio, ASP.Net, SQL Server, Mobility, SharePoint and much more. All this produced in the coolest 4-star resort and casino on the strip. Last year this event sold out, register today."

Or, if you're closer to Spain than you are to Vegas, consider attending TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain:

• Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007
  "TechEd Developers is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference, designed to provide developers with deep dive technical training, information and community resources focusing on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for current and soon to release products and technologies."

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At TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Richard Campbell & Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks! hosted a panel discussion with Mike Azocar, Steven Borg, Joel Semeniuk, and Doug Seven on Visual Studio Team System, which is now available online for download.

.NET Rocks! #250 - Team System Panel from TechEd 2007

It was a great discussion on Team System and team-based software development in general.

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There's time to kill before boarding (redeye JetBlue flight to JFK, and then on to MCO) with decent wireless in one of the newer terminals at SeaTac, so I thought I'd post something.

This is TechEd #7 for me. The early days of this blog started with posts leading up to TechEd 2004 in San Diego (Time for Me to Fly), which was #4 for me. I think this is the third time I'm going to Orlando for TechEd. Since joining Microsoft, I only missed TechEd 2002 in New Orleans. I thought I'd get there this year, but as you all know, we had to move the conference to Orlando due to concerns about flight capacity.

Orlando used to have some sentimental value for me from when I lived there back in the mid-80s, but too many Disney and TechEd trips has erased a lot of that. On one trip a few years ago, I drove by Naval Training Center Orlando to see how it had changed. I knew it was closed during the Clinton administration, but it was really weird to see it completely razed. One thing that is constant - hot & humid.

If you'd like to stop by and visit, this year I'll be working the reception desk of the Developer TLC area and helping Sam with Defy All Challenges While Making Your Mark.

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Unless my redeye flight on Saturday night saps my energy, I plan to attend the TechEd 2007 edition of Party with Palermo on Sunday, June 3rd at the Glo Lounge.

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The timing of PDC07 isn't quite right for why we usually have a PDC, so we're going to reschedule it when the next wave of platform technologies comes. Think of it like surfing and you missed getting up on your board in time to catch the wave, so you're going to sit on it and wait for the next juicy party wave.

We are currently in the process of rescheduling this fall’s Professional Developer Conference. As the PDC is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform, we try to align it to be in front of major platform milestones. By this fall, however, upcoming platform technologies including Windows Server 2008, SQL Server code name “Katmai,” Visual Studio code name “Orcas” and Silverlight will already be in developers’ hands and approaching launch, which is where we’ll focus our developer engagement in the near term. We will update this site when we have a new date for the PDC that is better timed with the next wave of platform technologies.

Microsoft will have a presence at several developer events this fall to provide deep technical training on the latest wave of software technologies, including at:

• VSLive! in New York – September 16-19, 2007
• VSLive! in Las Vegas – October 16-19, 2007
• DevConnections in Las Vegas – November 5-8, 2007
• TechEd Developer in Barcelona, Spain – November 5-9, 2007

Source: MSDN Events and Webcasts: PDC07

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