More and more focus from corporate is being put on helping Microsoft ISV’s, which definitely makes my job more enjoyable!  One of the new initiatives is ISV Community Days, a quarterly event focused on delivering technical and business content to ISV’s.  This is a broad-reaching event, and a great value.

ISV’s can check out the agenda and sign up for the events as they come up.  The first event, which comes to Philadelphia on September 17th, is geared towards our Connected Systems initiative, and the description from the event web site is:

Join us for this one day demo-driven technical Roadshow and find out how easy it is to develop Connected Systems today with Microsoft .NET. We start the day with an "uberdemo" to show what your future looks like with Service Oriented Architecture. Followed with more demos on WSE v2, Moving Beyond HTTP Request/Response, and Securing Web Services. We'll end the day with an "end to end" walk through of how you can use Microsoft BizTalk Server to connect your code to other systems.

Plus, when you attend, you'll receive the following:

·         Microsoft Visual C# .NET Standard Edition (Not For Resale version)

·         Microsoft Connected Systems Technical Resource Kit DVD including tools, training, and testimonials

·         Windows Marketplace Resource Kit

·         A cool Microsoft .NET t-shirt

If you sign up with the RSVP code “ISVDE9”, you’ll get a discounted price of $99.