| Volume 12, Number 21: October 6, 2008 | | Top News | | See how the next generation of developer tools will help democratize ALM with a unique solution that brings all the members of a development organization into the application development life cycle, and removes many of the existing barriers to integration. See Visual Studio 2010 in Action on Channel 9. | | | Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 is now available to developers for testing purposes and to help prepare your Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications for the release of Silverlight 2. This release should not be used for launching Silverlight 2 applications for the general public. | |
| | From the Editor The upcoming Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles is turning into a don't-miss event. At PDC2008, October 27 - 30, you'll not only see the coolest new technology, you'll be able to get your hands on the latest pre-beta bits (including Windows 7). Attendees also will receive a 160 GB drive of all PDC bits. Developers will get a look at what's in store for the future of ASP.NET, and go in-depth with IronRuby. Other topics include: Windows 7, Live Mesh, Office Communications Server, SQL Server 2008, FAST, Silverlight, Oslo, Visual Studio Team System, Virtualization, SharePoint, Dynamics and more. You can also have some fun at PDC with XNA and game development. In addition to Windows 7 pre-beta, more than 20 sessions about Windows 7 are on tap, discussing new shell enhancements, best practices for Windows 7 development, and how to take advantage of new Windows 7 technology including touch computing, new APIs for building context-aware applications, Web services in native code, and more. Here's a complete list of sessions, symposia and keynote speakers. You can register for PDC2008 here. Tell Us How We're Doing We're working hard to continually improve your MSDN Flash experience with better customization options and we're looking to roll out more changes in the coming months. In the meantime, let us know what how we're doing and tell us how we can make the Flash newsletter more useful for you with this very short survey. The SUPER PROmotionThere's never been a better time to buy Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 or Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007. Get up to 15% back on the estimated retail price with Microsoft Partner subsidy funds. Thanks for reading,
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