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&lt;P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;There has been a lot of recent coverage on the participation of data technologies at Mix 07 and the announcements that we, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft, made regarding two new incubation projects that we are working on.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;So, if you didn't get a chance to attend Mix, or just didn't get a chance to attend our sessions, here's a quick breakdown of Data at Mix 07.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;·&lt;SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;Pablo Castro presented 2 sessions (one repeat) on &lt;A href="http://int1.fp.sandpiper.net/soma/applications/silverlight/v1/Default.html?title=XD006%20-%20Accessing%20Data%20Services%20in%20the%20Cloud&amp;amp;speakers=Pablo%20Castro&amp;amp;source=videos/XD006.wmv"&gt;Accessing Data Services in the Cloud&lt;/A&gt; (Project Codename 'Astoria')&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;·&lt;SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;Tim Scudder &amp;amp; Aaron Dunnington presented a &lt;A href="http://int1.fp.sandpiper.net/soma/applications/silverlight/v1/Default.html?title=DEV16%20-%20Deep%20Dive%20on%20Data%20Driven%20Experiences&amp;amp;speakers=Aaron%20Dunnington,%20Tim%20Scudder&amp;amp;source=videos/DEV16.wmv"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Deep Dive session on Data Driven Experiences&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; (LINQ to XML and Silverlight)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;·&lt;SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;Sam Druker &amp;amp; Shyam Pather presented a session &lt;A href="http://int1.fp.sandpiper.net/soma/applications/silverlight/v1/Default.html?title=DEV18%20-%20Rapidly%20Building%20Data%20Driven%20Web%20Pages%20with%20Dynamic%20ADO.NET&amp;amp;speakers=Samuel%20Druker,%20Shyam%20Pather&amp;amp;source=videos/DEV18.wmv"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.NET&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; (Project Codename ‘Jasper’)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;To learn more about these technologies, all sessions are available to view at the above links. You can also checkout more information on Project Astoria and Project Jasper on the &lt;A class="" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb419139.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/bb419139.aspx"&gt;MSDN Data and Storage Developers Center&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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