Loren Goodman, CTO of my company, presented an excellent topic on Microsoft TechEd conference Getting to the Handshake: Leveraging Business Rule Technology through Architecture, Design and Practice which can  viewed and downloaded at http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/ARC301. It highlights the growing interest in this area in the community since people are into rules more and more as they redesigning existing solutions and engineering new ones and the understanding of the flexibility in the first place is a requirement which is one of the core one. You can find more on the current state of the Rule Engines on my company's site at http://www.inrule.com

IT Architect Regional Conference in Minneapolis on November 6-7, 2010 is the one not that far from Chicago, IL to attend. Should be interesting for an Architect to get a sense of the heartbeat of the latest innovations in distributed architectures.

The Ultimate Event is your exclusive opportunity to hear about Visual Studio 2010 from experts before the product is launched this year. Microsoft has made significant investments to and improvements of Modeling and Testing/QA tools in Visual Studio 2010. At this event you’ll get a comprehensive overview of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, which is the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) core of Visual Studio. We’ll present enhancements in version control, reporting, project management and build management. 
Spend the day with us to learn how to take software development to the next level with Visual Studio 2010!

1) Oak Brook, IL - 04/29/2010 - REGISTER >>

http://www.msdnevents.com/default.aspx

LIDNUG: Project “Dublin” Overview for Application Developers

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 10:00AM

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 11:30AM

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=G2K4BH&role=attend&pw=PN6.%3CQ%5Drb

Project Code Named “Dublin” extends the hosting capabilities of the .NET 4 runtime for WCF and WF services and delivers rich monitoring, configuration and control for WAS activated services.

This session will focus on what developers need to know about “Dublin” to build easy to deploy, configure, monitor and troubleshoot middle-tier services and to unlock the rich extensibility capabilities “Dublin” provides.

Scott Guthrie Talks Shop

Monday November 23, 2009, 12:00PM
Monday November 23, 2009, 01:30PM

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=G2K4BH&role=attend&pw=PN6.%3CQ%5Drb

This event comes straight off the back of PDC2009, so be sure that there'll be a ton of new stuff announced - and who better to ask than the Gu himself?

Don't miss out.

Note: this event is PST (Pacific Time)

Phil Haack in the hot chair - Q&A on ASP.Net MVC

Monday December 14, 2009, 10:30AM
Monday December 14, 2009, 11:30AM

Ever wondered what ASP.Net MVC is all about? Well, you now have the chance to ask all the questions of Phil Haack when he takes a seat in the hot chair for a full Q&A on ASP.Net MVC.

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=G2K4BH&role=attend&pw=PN6.%3CQ%5Drb

Phil Haack's blog: http://www.haacked.com

ASP.Net MVC Home: http://www.asp.net/mvc

MSDN Events Unleashed - Windows Mobile and Visual Studio 2008 Debugging

• March 23, 1:00 P.M., Chicago, IL

• March 31, 1:00 P.M. Waukesha, WI

ArcReady - Architecting Applications for the Cloud

• March 23, 9:00 A.M., Chicago, IL

• March 31, 9:00 A.M., Waukesha, WI

Register Now for Microsoft Hosting Days

April 16, Chicago, IL
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On January 13, 2009 the Microsoft Developer Conference will be held in Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, which is a scaled-down version of the Professional Developer Conference which took place a bit earlier. They will show off the Cloud Computing innovations with Azure platform, the next generation of web development tools and the advances in computer languages on Microsoft .Net platform. Sounds very interesting and I could not resist to attend this event in person to be able to put my fingers on the latest bits of upcoming Microsoft Windows 7 and speak in person with leading Microsoft evangelists. Will see you at Hyatt on Tuesday and if you expressed a desire to learn more, check out the web site of the conference at

http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/Chicago.aspx

Register for a getVIRTUALnow event in your area and find out how Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center - including Virtual Machine Manager 2008 - and Microsoft Desktop and Application Virtualization can help you virtualize from the data center to the desktop.

The agenda looks pretty cool, which includes Hyper-V introduction, application assesment and planning toolkit, and you supposed to get home a software package. The only drawback, even though it is a roadshow, you'd have to throw $149 to get into it.

Highly-acclaimed software-development conference held in Boston, MA is coming to the Russian Federation: SD Best Practices 2006 Moscow, http://www.sdexpo.ru. It might be very interesting for architects, Program Managers and every developer responsible for the API design and any stage of Enterprise Level development.