To continue my recent tradition of attending Tech.Ed in a different region every year, this year I'll be playing on home soil at Tech.Ed Australia (on the Gold Coast, 7-10 August) and Tech.Ed New Zealand (in Auckland, 13-15 August). I'll be presenting on the following relatively predictable (but hopefully informative and entertaining) topics: ARC307 : Enterprise Library 3.1 The patterns & practices Enterprise Library has been significantly updated this year with a new Validation Application Block,

We're currently putting the final coat of polish onto Enterprise Library 3.0, and we should have the release out the door right at the start of April. But we wanted to get a head start on the launch party with our first EntLib 3.0 webcast, which is on tomorrow, March 27th at 10am PDT / 17:00 UTC . In this presentation, Ed and I will give an overview of all of the cool new features in this release, including the Validation Application Block, Policy Injection Application Block, Application Block Software

We've been in a bit of a webcast drought in p&p for a little while, but we're trying to make some amends over the next couple of months with a number of webcasts about Enterprise Library and Software Factories. Here's the schedule for the first few: Webcast Presenter Date and Time How to Use the Web Client Software Factory Eugenio Pace March 21st 10am PDT / 17:00 UTC What's New in Enterprise Library 3.0 Tom Hollander March 27th 10am PDT / 17:00 UTC Using the Web Service Software Factory Don Smith