MSDN Online Media Blog : Webcast Series

This is mock-up of the t-shirt. Okay, here's the deal. If you come by the webcasts and virutal labs booth at TechEd and show us that you've done one of the following, we'll give you a free T-shirt. To get your limited edition, classic webcasts t-shirt at TechEd 2005, show us one of the following:

Add your blog to http://msdneventsbloggers.net or http://techneteventsbloggers.net. You can also add it right there at the webcasts booth as well.
Post a comment to this blog post using your TechEd name and we'll give you a T-shirt. You'll need your TechEd badge to get the shirt. You can also add a comment right there at the booth. Basically we're looking for ideas on how we can improve our webcasts prorgram.(yes, we're working on sound and the registration issues now).
Blog about our webcasts and events on your own blog and have your blog post show up on our blogger sites (http://msdneventsbloggers.net or http://techneteventsbloggers.net) and we'll give you a free T-shirt in addition to the free t-shirt you get above for add your blog above.

We'll have two or three desktops at the booth for you to quickly add your blog or post your feedback or comments here. Hope to see you folks at TechEd 2005.

Regards,

George, MSDN Webcasts

P.S. Kevin Marshall from Portland Oregon will get a free t-shirt just for showing up at our booth, since he won the free pass to TechEd 2005. Kevin, We hope to see you next week!

Video Game Development - Learn to write C# the fun way

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:02:00 GMT

Institute of Technology introduces participants to the concepts of video game production in this webcast series. Presenters will demonstrate the key stages in the process of developing the core game engine through the creation of a "top-down shooter"...(read more)

Science and Engineering at Microsoft - Turning Ideas into Reality

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:44:00 GMT

When folks think of Microsoft, they think of the cash cow products such as Office, Windows, and think okay, that's old stuff, but what have they done lately to reallly drive technology innovation? Well, hang on and I'll show you. During the month of May 2005, we have a special series of webast to highlight the academic minds that delve into the hard sciences and engineering research that takes place at Microsoft Research. These are the folks at Microsoft that leave their mark on how we use technology today and how we'll use them tomorrow. Some of you may say, "Hey, I knew that guy when he was teaching at this university, or when we published this whitepaper." Microsoft is very lucky to have these folks here at Microsoft Research, and I'm sure I'll look back and say with pride, I used to work there when he or she was at Microsoft Research.

Regards,

George, MSDN Webcasts

From our Science and Engineering webcast series landing page:

Why did Microsoft make the design decisions it did when designing .NET and the Common Language Runtime? Why did it commit the substantial resources necessary to add support for functional programming languages and other "academic" languages? What kind of thought really goes into creating a security framework, and where do the experiences and knowledge of academia fit in? When Microsoft looks at improving its technologies, who are the kinds of people that play leading roles? (Hint: They are often former academics). Who are the people who are driving this change?

To answer these questions, MSDN Webcasts presents a series that examines the science, research, and engineering behind Microsoft technologies, with lectures presented by scientists and engineers at Microsoft and Microsoft Research who are responsible for these advances. Microsoft technologies are the result some of the most complex engineering projects ever attempted, and Microsoft has incorporated many advanced concepts from computer science into its products. This webcast series highlights Microsoft scientists and engineers who are influencing the current and next generations of Microsoft technologies. Some of them are specialists, known only within their chosen field; others are well known internationally. Subject matter for these webcast lectures incorporates cutting-edge research for future products, as well as the science in existing products.

Bonus: Attend any live webcast in this series to qualify to win a Portable Media Center (official rules) pre-loaded with our best webcasts.

TechEd 2005 is sold out!!!

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:32:00 GMT

TechEd 2005 sold out last Friday, so if you're going, you're going. If not, well.. it's too late... unless you win a free pass to TechED 2005 in Orlando, FL this June 6, 1-, 2005.

So how do you win a free pass like Kevin Marshall from Portland Oregon? Well registered and attended a live MSDN Webcast that is part of the TechEd 2005 webcast series. These webcasts are designed to udpate you on what you can learn at TechEd.2005. It will help you get up to speed on what's coming from Micrsoft in the next year, so you can plan now for all the cool things you can do with tools and technolgies coming from Microsoft and its partners.

Angela Brobst asked me to remind everyone that there are 3(repeat THREE )passes left...since Kevin has one a pass already. :-)

Kevin - Please be sure and stop by the Microsft Webcasts booth when you get to TechED in Orlando, FL, ask for George (I'll be the funny lookng short, fat, indian guy with three cameras, a hand full of t-shirts for customers, and a big smile for all). Welcome to Microsoft TechEd 2005!

Regards,

George, MSDN Webcasts

Bonus: Attend any live webcast in this series through April and you could win a free pass to Tech·Ed 2005 in Orlando, Florida, (official rules) or a Portable Media Center (official rules).

Overall Champion Webcast Presenter for the Microsoft ASP.NET Webcast Series - Fritz Onion

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:10:00 GMT

Last October we had a webcast series on ASP.NET. It was a huge success. We have over 240,000 registrations. We had a whopping 40 webcasts structured across Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced webcasts. If you’ve ever tried to explain a technology to someone who has never used it before, you know how challenging it can be. Fritz delivered 8 webcasts focused on showing novice web developers what all you can do with ASP.NET 2.0. We had a friendly little competition going on to see who the best presenter was for this series. It was based on Most attendees, customer satisfaction scores and how many folks clicked on their online links to show interest in their webcasts. Well, we had some mighty, mighty champions, but the overall winner in all three categories was none other than Fritz Onion.

So here’s Jon Byrum, from the US Developer Team virtually presenting the award to the winner Fritz Onion.

Here’s Fritz Onion after he got the belt. By the Fritz Onion and Plural Sight is going to be at TechEd, so be sure to stop by their PluralSight booth, and say hi. We’ve talked Fritz into bringing the belt with him to TechEd, and hopefully we can get him to do a couple of webcasts from TechEd if possible(wearing the belt of course) J

In the meantime be sure to check out some of Fritz’s webcasts here on MSDN Webcasts

Essential ASP.NET – Explore Configurations to Winforms by Fritz Onion

Microsoft ASP.NET Webcast Series – All the Intro webcasts are by Fritz Onion

How to download MSDN Webcasts in Live Meeting 2005

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:52:00 GMT

Our new live meeting conference center lets you download the webcasts for offline viewing. So if your company doesn't allow streaming media, you can download them and view the offline. If you're on an airplane or waiting someplace, you can whip our your trusty Portable Media Center, or laptop and watch a webcast, build your developer skills and get a better job where they do want to train you and let you watch webcasts.

With the new release of Live Meeting 2005, you can now download webcasts for offline viewing. I know this took us some time, but it's we finally got this working in the product. When you go to view the ondemand webcast in Live Meeting 2005, you’ll see the option to download the webcast recording for offline viewing.

You’ll also see instructions on installing the Live Meeting wrapper. I recommend you install it so you can see the upcoming slides and move around the webcast recording as needed. You’ll need to download, install, and yes, reboot. Sorry about the reboot.

Let's face it, some webcasts are just plain boring while others are nothing but fluff

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:14:00 GMT

Ron Jacobs has this site up and running for Patterns & Practices Live Webcasts. It's called pnplive.com. Check it out.

"Let's face it, some webcasts are just plain boring while others are nothing but fluff. There's one thing you can say for sure about our webcasts - they're both live and lively. We record them at Microsoft Studios and have a great time doing it. Join in the fun and register for a webcast today!"

-Ron Jacobs

April MSDN Webcasts calendars are ready

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:06:00 GMT

Angela Brobst just reminded yesterday that the webcasts calendars are ready for the month of April. As you know during the month of April 2005, we’ve got 100+ webcasts we’re running on Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. You can thank Jon Byrum, Shawn Nandi, Matt Nunn, Kelly Lockhart, Andrew Conway, Kim and David Anthony (husband and wife team) for pulling this together for us. We brought in some of the best and brightest speakers here again. You’ll find the MSDN Events Team here, the Developer Tools dev team here, as well as the actual SQL Server 2005 developer team here to help explain and demonstrate what Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 can do together.

Anyway, to help you better plan which webcasts you want to attend and on which days, Angela has put together these easy to follow webcast calendars for all our webcasts programs. Here’s the links for these calendars below.

MSDN Webcasts

MSDN Architecture Webcasts

TechNet Webcast Calendar

Security Webcast Calendar

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast Calendar

Microsoft Business Solutions Webcast Calendar

Microsoft Office System Webcast Calendar

Small Business Webcast Calendar

Regards,

George, MSDN Webcasts

MSN RSS feeds for search results

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:17:00 GMT

I didn't know this was available as of today, as it thought it was for a future release. You can now do searches on MSN.com and get the results sent to you via a rss feed once you subscibe to the rss feed. Try it out at www.msn.com. Do a search on "MSDN Webcast" or MSDN Architecture Webcast" and subscribe the rss feed option at the bottom of the page. It's pretty cool.

Regards,

George, MSDN Webcasts

Webcast Series for Developers

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:25:00 GMT

Someone asked me where can they find all the webcast series for Developers we've done so far. here's all the ones we've got listed in the Program guide for developers webcast gallery at http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/default.mspx.

Also, you can thank Jennfier Walts for getting these all setup with landing pages, correcting our poor grammar and generally making sure we don't have egg on our faces as we get these series setup for everyone. So Thank you Jennifer!

SQL Server 2005: Discover the Next Paradigm for Database Development

Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Power in Simplicity

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2: Explore Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0

Visual Basic 2005: Accelerate Developer Productivity

Visual Studio 2005: Develop Smart Client Applications

Ask the Security Experts: Understand the Latest in Digital Security

Authors Speak Out: Get Technical Advice from the Experts

Digital Blackbelt Series: Defend Your Code from Attacks

Essential ASP.NET: Explore Configuration to Webforms

Gearing Up for 64-Bit Computing on Windows Server: Develop Applications That Pack a Punch

Microsoft ASP.NET

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2: Fortify Your Security Measures

Modern Software Development

Modern Software Development Using C#: Develop in .NET

MSDN Events Online: Learn What You Need to Succeed in .NET

.NET Unwrapped: Develop Dynamic Solutions for the Financial Services Industry

Office Developer Live!: Master Office Application Development

Soup to Nuts: Build Windows Forms Applications with .NET

SQL Server 2005 Developer Preview

Tech·Ed 2005 Webcast Series: Learn, Solve, Grow

Web Development: Increase the Security of Your Applications

Windows Mobility Marvels: Solutions for Modern Day Productivity

Visual Studo 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 webcasts in April 2005

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:10:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 will be coming soon. Do you know how to use it? Well we’re hosting 100 webcasts during the month of April that will show you how to use it, what's new, and how to get the most out of new solutions that will be highlighted here. Also we’re going to be showcasing SQL Server 2005 here as well. We’ll discuss the .NET Framework integration with SQL Server 2005 and other very cool new capabilities.

SQL Server 2005: Discover the Next Paradigm for Database Development

Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Power in Simplicity

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2: Explore Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0

Visual Basic 2005: Accelerate Developer Productivity

Visual Studio 2005: Develop Smart Client Applications

Oh yeah and the first 2,000 attendees that attend at least 3 SQL Server webcasts and will out a survey will get a free T-shirts from the SQL Server product team mailed to them. This is while supplies last and only until July 31, 2005.

Also here, the disclaimer on the SQL Server 2005 landing page so no one gets pissed off for not getting a T-shirt after supplies run out:

*Software offer good for webcast series attendees who attend and fill out an evaluation. T-shirt offer good for webcast series attendees who attend at least 3 webcasts and submit evaluations for each. T-shirt offer good for the first 2,000 attendees that meet attendance requirements. A webcast evaluation must be submitted to gain attendance credit. This offer is non-transferable. Offer good until July 31, 2005, for attendees who attend the TechNet SQL Server 2005 webcast series. Limit one of each gift per person while supplies last. Microsoft is not responsible for non-delivery of gift due to incorrect postal information provided by respondent. Please allow 6 – 8 weeks after qualifying for shipment.

TechEd 2005 - Stay competitive as you know you need a new job soon

Georgeo Pulikkathara — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:36:00 GMT

TechEd is the place to be when you want to learn about what's coming out of Microsoft and it's partners for the next year or so. If you have to support and deploy tools and technologies from Microsoft and its partners, TechEd will help keep you updated on technolgy strategies coming from Microsoft.

Even if you're doing desktop migrations to Linux like most of the financial services industry, you need to keep on top of what's coming from Microsoft from a competitive standpoint. TechEd offers you that opportunity for about $1,700 dollars if you register early before April 15, 2005. Otherwise it will be about $2,000 after April 15th.

If there is anything you want to ask from your boss(forget about asking for more money; new hardware, a promotion, new title etc. as if they haven't already given this to you, I doubt they're going to give it to you now anyway, and it sucks having to beg for something you know you've already earned) ask to be at TechEd each year. Use the time at TechEd to network with your peers and find a new job with more pay or that promotion you've always wanted. Or use the time to sharpen your technical skills and get better at your current job.

Also what you learn at TechEd will be much more valuable in today's competitive IT industry where your job can be outsourced in a blink of any eye. Be sure to attend our Pre Tech Ed webcasts before you go to Teched as these webcasts will get the introducory background info out of the way, and you can begin to focus on the questions you really want to ask the experts when you are in a TechEd techncial update session.

Pre Teched Webcast Series Info