Summer's here, and that usually means a bit of a slow-down in the office as folk take off on vacation. It's also a great time for some new skills development and training, and as there's a smorgasbord of WPF and Silverlight-related courses taking place over the next few months, I thought I'd take the opportunity to highlight a round-up of the choices available to you, presented in the form of an events calendar:

Date Location Course
June 28th-29th Los Angeles, CA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
July 2nd-August 10th Bay Area / Online Windows Presentation Foundation (Foothill College)
July 16th-18th Atlanta, GA Silverlight Workshop (Dunn Training)
July 16th-20th Boston, MA Essential WPF (Developmentor)
July 18th-20th Brussels, Belgium Programming with WPF (U2U)
July 24th-25th London, UK Windows Presentation Foundation (JBI Training)
July 30th-August 1st Sydney, Aus. Silverlight (Readify)
August 2nd-3rd Atlanta, GA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 6th-7th Ann Arbor, MI Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 6th-8th Minneapolis, MN Complete WPF (Intertech)
August 6th-10th Chicago, IL Essential WPF (Developmentor)
August 9th-10th Phoenix, AZ Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 13th-15th Atlanta, GA Silverlight Workshop (Dunn Training)
August 13th-14th St Louis, MO Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 14th-16th Redmond, WA Devscovery Redmond (Wintellect)
August 14th-17th Waltham, MA Applied .NET Framework 3.0 (Pluralsight)
August 16th-17th Dallas, TX Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 20th-21st San Jose, CA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 20th-22nd Melbourne, Aus. Silverlight (Readify)
August 23rd-24th San Francisco, CA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
August 27th-31st Boston, MA Essential WPF (Developmentor)
August 29th-30th Brisbane, Aus. Silverlight (Readify)
September 5th-7th Brussels, Belgium Programming with WPF (U2U)
September 6th-7th Philadelphia, PA Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
September 10th-14th London, UK Essential WPF (Developmentor)
September 12th-14th Reading, UK Applied Silverlight (Pluralsight)
September 13th-14th Denver, CO Designing Windows Experiences with Expression Blend
September 17th-19th Atlanta, GA Silverlight Workshop (Dunn Training)
September 24th-28th Reading, UK Essential WPF (Developmentor)
September 24th-28th Los Angeles, CA Essential WPF (Developmentor)

Whew - a lot of courses going on - hopefully you can find one near you. If you know of another course on WPF and Silverlight that's taking place between July and September, feel free to add a comment to the blog to let others know.