For those of you who are interested in a deeper dive on some really great new features of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 - here are links to my extended talk on these topics:
Orcas_For_Architects_Jbarnes - Part_1.zip - 3.6 MB
Orcas_For_Architects_Jbarnes - Part_2.zip - 4.8 MB
Orcas_For_Architects_Jbarnes - Part_3_Links And Resources.zip 188 KB
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