What are you doing Oct. 7th?

If the answer is “working” then perhaps you missed the announcement that Microsoft is hosting both of its FREE quarterly events on that day: MSDN Unleashed and ArcReady.  Both events will be held at the Microsoft office in Mason.

ArcReady will start the day off with Brian Prince talking about how to architect the modern distributed application (think cloud computing and services).  This is from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM.

MSDN Unleashed (previously known as DevCares) will be given by Bill Steele and will include topics on Introductory WPF, what’s new in VS 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5.  MSDN Unleashed is from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Here’s a link to register:

• The ArcReady at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032385969&EventCategory=1&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
• MSDN Unleashed at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032386201&Culture=en-US

Remember that these events are FREE and are hosted at the Microsoft office.  If you need to “sell” this to your boss to let you go then make sure they understand that the events are free and given by Microsoft representatives/employees.  This is technical knowledge from the source.