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  DevDays 2008 (and GeekNight 2008) is now behind us now. It turned out to be an excellent developer event, a -mini TechEd- as I heard someone say. The two days were covered with great sessions and great names. Steve Riley for one, with his famous talks on security (it needed an update for the -new- languages, but the basic ...

  I think this year TechEd Developers - EMEA (Barcelona) excelled by having great sessions, great content, and lots of information. It is most likely that this happened because it also was the TechEd where Visual Studio 2008 was announced by Microsoft to be released before the end of November (and in fact when you read ...

Soma Somasegar, Vice President of Microsofts Developer Devision just announced at the Europe TechEd, Barcelona, that Visual Studio 2008 is planned to be released in November from this year! Previously I announced that the launch date for Visual Studio 2008 is in november together with SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 so that is a lot ...

I got the word yesterday that I was selected as a Technical Expert in the Business Intelligence track at this year's TechEd (http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspx).  It's a nice honor.  If you're coming to Orlando in June, stop by and say hello.  I'll be there (in the BI area) talking up my new favorite product, ...