You can call it a Developer Launch for Vista and Office when it's not it ;) we found out that when we say launch people think about marketing, SO we came up with new content with an average level of 350 about anything you can think of in developing application on our platform. after extensive feedback from 900 people about the content we came up with this - about 30 different sessions by the top notch speakers.

If you are in Israel, you are welcome to register here: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/msdn/academy/default.mspx

אירוע המפתחים השנתי עומד להתקיים ב-31 לינואר 2007 . האירוע השנה מקבל פנים חדשות עם יותר תכנים, יותר מסלולים, יותר מרצים והרבה הרבה טכנולוגיה עכשווית.

 זו ההזדמנות שלכם להשפיע על תוכן הכנס!

ספרו לנו מה מעניין אתכם, מה מטריד אתכם, על מה הייתם רוצים ללמוד ואיזה מרצים תרצו לשמוע.
בלינק הבא תמצאו סקר עם הנושאים עליהם חשבנו. אנא דרגו את 5 ההרצאות המעניינות אתכם ביותר.
אתם גם מוזמנים לכתוב לנו בתחתית הסקר על כל רעיון, נושא ומחשבה שלכם כיצד נוכל להפוך את האירוע לתורם ומעניין יותר עבורכם.

You've probably heard about the VB6 to VB.NET bridge announced lately. Well Israeli MVP Leon Langleyben has extended this to support C#. He also talks about the process.

I've just posted an offer for you at my other blog (Hebrew Content).

I just posted (hebrew) a bit about our plans for January's event. it's going to be big as always, more than 2000 attendees and we'de like to make sure you have a say on it. so please visit (hebrew) and comment.

Unfortunatlly we had to cancel the event for next week due to lack of bandwidth.

We have TechEd coming in 2 months and we simply didn't have enough bandwidth to deal as we intially thought.

It is starting to take more shape, this is a partial list for sessions that may be interested for devs.

2 Highlight sessions of the day:

Clemens Vasters is going to talk about Newtellivision.

Dennis Minium will talk about how we dogfood Team Foundation Server.

The almost full list:

Here is another draft - still trying to figure out about what 3 session we'll do on .net 2.0, we have an excellent session on Data Binding which everyone must attend (you wouldn't believe how much code you can save if you exploit the framework like you should).

WINFX Overview
Windows Presentation Framework Part 1 - Getting to know the key concepts of the next generation UI Technology
Windows Presentation Framework Part 2 - Interoperability with Windows Forms
Windows Communication Foundation Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation Part 2 - Moving to WCF from Current Technologies
Windows Workflow Foundation Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Workflow Foundation Part 2 - Integrating WWF into your current projects
Creating a Multi-Tier Application Using VSTO 2005
Programmability Improvements in Office 2007
Team System - Managing your daily and automated build
Team System - An In-Depth Look at Team Foundation Version Control
Team System - How to effectively test your application
Team System - End To End Application Life Cycle Management
Shaping Team Foundation for your Environment; Customization and Extensibility
From SQL Express to SQL Server Data Center Edition - The developer Perspective
SQL Server Development Technologies
The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview
Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with Relational Data
Advanced Windows Form Data Bindings - How to exploit .net 2.0 advanced binding features and write less code
Advanced Windows Form Topics - Part 2 (not finalized)
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1 (not finalized)
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 2 (not finalized)
Clemens TV
Leveraging extensions in VS as a platform for your developers
Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What
Threat Modeling
Secure Application Development
Dogfooding Team System:  How Microsoft  uses Team Foundation to build Team Foundation

There are more sessions for developer on other tracks like Mobility and Architecture that I'll post later on.

Any comments will be appreciated.

I have just recieved this by email, the registration is twice as fast as the previous israeli teched. So if you do want to be THERE you better hurry.

You can watch at: http://host.msn.co.il/microsoft/ready_to_launch/main.html

This was the keynotes track and it's in hebrew. It is the first time that we recorded the sessions in that way and I'd be happy to get feedback if it's good/bad/need more work.

Here is a draft of things I was thinking about(Performed by stars from the dev team), what do you think?

Intoduction to Windows Presentation Framework - Getting to know the key concepts of the nex ration UI Technology
Interoperability between Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms
Windows Communication Foundation - Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation - Part 2 - Moving to WCF from Current Technologies
Windows Workflow Foundation - Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation - Part 1 - IIntegrating WWF into your current projects
A Recap on Office 2003 Development
Preparing for Office 12 Development
Managing your daily build with Team System
Team System - The Source Control Prespective
Team System - How to effectivly test your application
Team System End To End - Application Life Cycle Managment
Team System - How to effectivly read reports
Team System - Expressing your development process thru Team System
Things you didn't know about Mobile Devices Development
From SQL Express to SQL Server Data Center Edition - The developer Prespective
SQL Server Development Tecnologies
The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview
Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with Relational Data
Advanced Windows Form Topics - Part 1
Advanced Windows Form Topics - Part 2
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 2
Levaraing extenstions in VS as a platform for developers
Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What
Writing Secured Code

If you're looking for a fun job that involves deep technical content and seeing the the big pictures you might want to drop me a line.

you can read about it at: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/careers/jobs/120.mspx [Hebrew]

TechEd is coming upon us soon (9-11 may), I'm running the Dev Track, we're going to have about 40 sessions.

I was wondering about the things you would like to hear about taking into account that WINFX is not so far away, how much of it would you like to learn about?

Next week I'll post some sessions we we're thinking of + names of some stars from Redmond that we will host.

On the 2nd day of the tour, we're going to do something that was very successful with the c++ team. We're going to do an "upgrade your code" day with the dev team.

Basically customers will come with their computers and source code (So nothing will be on MS machines) and with the dev team from Microsoft they will upgrade to VS2003/2005 as they like.

It was very successful with the c++ team and gave us an opportunity to build a local set of key consultants that had actual experience with upgrading.

So if you think you have a very complex project on ASP or ASP.NET 1.x and would like to check the possibility of joining us, drop me an email thru this blog.

this is a sequel to my last entry.

One of the feedback we got is: " We want to see and hear the product group ". So next month (13th march) we'll host the ASP.NET team in Tel Aviv.

Current plan is Opening and Closing Keynotes + 2 tracks:

Track 1 (each 60 min.)

1. A Lap Around the New Enhancements for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2005

2. Best Practices and Techniques for Migrating ASP Classic Applications to ASP.NET 2.0

3. ASP.NET 2.0 - Master pages, themes, and site navigation

4. The ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls

Track 2 More Advanced (each 60 min.)

1. A Look Inside Membership, Role Management, and Profiles in ASP.NET 2.0

2. Creating Dynamic Web Sites with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts

3. Tips and Tricks for ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005

4. Testing and Performance Tuning Web Applications with Visual Studio Team System

Last year we had the ASP.NET 2.0 tour this time we're getting the product group to come. You said it we do it.

Whos coming?

Andres Sanabria, Bradley Millington, Stefan Schackow and Matt Gibbs.

I'll post the link to the invitation by the end of this week.

Last evening we had a developer focus group, we wanted to know what should we do better for developers in Israel.

So we asked for a 3rd party company to interview a randomally chosen group of developers about various topics. It was kind of a dynamic group of people, we agreed with the interviewer about certain topics that we wanted to learn about and he basically took it from there.

At one point someone said that "Yosi Taguri might have been a technical person BUT now he is MARKETING"  at some other point someone else said "Becuase he is MARKETING he no longer blogs".

so this post is just to say 1 main thing: I AM NOT MARKETING and I will never be.

I just needed to say that and get it off my chest ;)

C#: Future Directions in Language Innovation from Anders Hejlsberg

Speaker(s): Anders Hejlsberg

Join Anders Hejlsberg, Distinguished Engineer and chief architect of the C# language, for an in-depth walkthrough of the new language features in C# 3.0. Understand how features like extension methods, lambda expressions, type inference, and anonymous types make it possible to create powerful APIs for expressing queries and interacting with objects, XML, and databases in a strongly typed, natural way. It is suggested that you attend "The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview" before attending this session.

Session Type(s): Breakout

Session Level(s): 300

Track(s): Tools & Languages