Chicago area September Microsoft events
There are a couple of free Microsoft developer events coming up in the month of September in Chicago that are worth a look.
- In downtown Chicago on Sept. 12th is the ArcREADY session. ArcREADY is an event that is touring the Midwest through the month of September. This is a 3 hour morning presentation and discussion covering the technology aspects related to the industry buzz word “Web 2.0”. The topics cover best practices and architecture options for planning and implementing applications using Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX in ASP.NET, Sharepoint Server 2007 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in Visual Studio 2008. To read more about the session or to register go to http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032345647&Culture=en-US
- In downtown Chicago on Sept. 18th and then in the Microsoft office in Downers Grove on Sept. 27th, is the monthly DevCares event. The topic is Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). DevCares is an afternoon event consisting of multiple presentation sessions focusing each month on a different technology topic. WCF is available in the .NET 3.0 framework and is a significant architecture feature which becomes fully integrated and available in Visual Studio 2008 (there is limited availability of it in Visual Studio 2005 through add ins). This event consists of three presentation sessions on the details of WCF management features, diagnostics, channels and scalability. I will be presenting several of the sessions so I can guarantee it will dig into technical implementation details. For more information, or to register, go to http://www.devcares.com