You can call it a Developer Launch for Vista and Office when it's not it ;) we found out that when we say launch people think about marketing, SO we came up with new content with an average level of 350 about anything you can think of in developing application on our platform. after extensive feedback from 900 people about the content we came up with this - about 30 different sessions by the top notch speakers.
If you are in Israel, you are welcome to register here: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/msdn/academy/default.mspx

אירוע המפתחים השנתי עומד להתקיים ב-31 לינואר 2007
. האירוע השנה מקבל פנים חדשות עם יותר תכנים, יותר מסלולים, יותר מרצים והרבה הרבה טכנולוגיה עכשווית.
זו ההזדמנות שלכם להשפיע על תוכן הכנס!
ספרו לנו מה מעניין אתכם, מה מטריד אתכם, על מה הייתם רוצים ללמוד ואיזה מרצים תרצו לשמוע.
בלינק הבא תמצאו סקר עם הנושאים עליהם חשבנו. אנא דרגו את 5 ההרצאות המעניינות אתכם ביותר.
אתם גם מוזמנים לכתוב לנו בתחתית הסקר על כל רעיון, נושא ומחשבה שלכם כיצד נוכל להפוך את האירוע לתורם ומעניין יותר עבורכם.
You've probably heard about the VB6 to VB.NET bridge announced lately. Well Israeli MVP Leon Langleyben has extended this to support C#. He also talks about the process.
I've just posted an offer for you at my other blog (Hebrew Content).
I just posted (hebrew) a bit about our plans for January's event. it's going to be big as always, more than 2000 attendees and we'de like to make sure you have a say on it. so please visit (hebrew) and comment.
Unfortunatlly we had to cancel the event for next week due to lack of bandwidth.
We have TechEd coming in 2 months and we simply didn't have enough bandwidth to deal as we intially thought.
It is starting to take more shape, this is a partial list for sessions that may be interested for devs.
2 Highlight sessions of the day:
Clemens Vasters is going to talk about Newtellivision.
Dennis Minium will talk about how we dogfood Team Foundation Server.
The almost full list:
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| WINFX Overview |
Payam Shodjai |
| Windows Presentation Framework Part 1 - Getting to know the key concepts of the next generation UI Technology |
Arik Cohen |
| Windows Presentation Framework Part 2 - Interoperability with Windows Forms |
Arik Cohen |
| Windows Communication Foundation Part 1 - Introduction |
Clemens Vasters |
| Windows Communication Foundation Part 2 - Writing Reliable and Transacted Distributed Applications |
Shy Cohen + Payam Shodjai |
| Newtellivision - Clemens Vasters new Pet Project |
Clemens Vasters |
| Windows Workflow Foundation Part 1 - Introduction |
Israel Hilerio |
| Windows Workflow Foundation Part 2 - Integrating WWF into your current projects |
Israel Hilerio |
| Creating a Multi-Tier Application Using VSTO 2005 |
John Durant |
| Team System - Managing your daily and automated build |
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| An In-Depth Look at Team Foundation Version Control |
Dennis Minium |
| Team System - End To End Application Life Cycle Management |
Hila Lahav |
| Shaping Team Foundation for your Environment; Customization and Extensibility |
Dennis Minium |
| Dogfooding Team System: How Microsoft uses Team Foundation to build Team Foundation |
Dennis Minium |
| From SQL Express to SQL Server Data Center Edition - The Developer Perspective |
Jackie Goldstein |
| The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview |
Luca Bolognese |
| Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with Relational Data |
Luca Bolognese |
| Advanced Windows Form Data Bindings - How to exploit .net 2.0 advanced binding features and write less code |
Eyal Vardi |
| Getting Specific on Generics |
Noam King & Alon Fliess |
| Deep Reflection – What's new, hot and important in .NET 2.0 |
Roy Osherove |
| ASP.NET 2.0 Behind the Covers - Exploiting and Unleashing Hidden Features |
Leon Langleyben |
| Deploying Managed Applications in Dev, Test and Production Environment |
Shachar Nechmad |
| Secure Application Development |
Akshay Aggarwal |
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| Office Track: |
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| Programmability Improvements in Office 2007 |
John Durant |
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| Security Track: |
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| Threat Modeling |
Akshay Aggarwal |
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| Connected Systems Track: |
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| Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What |
Chad Hower |
Here is another draft - still trying to figure out about what 3 session we'll do on .net 2.0, we have an excellent session on Data Binding which everyone must attend (you wouldn't believe how much code you can save if you exploit the framework like you should).
WINFX Overview
Windows Presentation Framework Part 1 - Getting to know the key concepts of the next generation UI Technology
Windows Presentation Framework Part 2 - Interoperability with Windows Forms
Windows Communication Foundation Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation Part 2 - Moving to WCF from Current Technologies
Windows Workflow Foundation Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Workflow Foundation Part 2 - Integrating WWF into your current projects
Creating a Multi-Tier Application Using VSTO 2005
Programmability Improvements in Office 2007
Team System - Managing your daily and automated build
Team System - An In-Depth Look at Team Foundation Version Control
Team System - How to effectively test your application
Team System - End To End Application Life Cycle Management
Shaping Team Foundation for your Environment; Customization and Extensibility
From SQL Express to SQL Server Data Center Edition - The developer Perspective
SQL Server Development Technologies
The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview
Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with Relational Data
Advanced Windows Form Data Bindings - How to exploit .net 2.0 advanced binding features and write less code
Advanced Windows Form Topics - Part 2 (not finalized)
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1 (not finalized)
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 2 (not finalized)
Clemens TV
Leveraging extensions in VS as a platform for your developers
Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What
Threat Modeling
Secure Application Development
Dogfooding Team System: How Microsoft uses Team Foundation to build Team Foundation
There are more sessions for developer on other tracks like Mobility and Architecture that I'll post later on.
Any comments will be appreciated.
I have just recieved this by email, the registration is twice as fast as the previous israeli teched. So if you do want to be THERE you better hurry.

You can watch at: http://host.msn.co.il/microsoft/ready_to_launch/main.html
This was the keynotes track and it's in hebrew. It is the first time that we recorded the sessions in that way and I'd be happy to get feedback if it's good/bad/need more work.
Here is a draft of things I was thinking about(Performed by stars from the dev team), what do you think?
Intoduction to Windows Presentation Framework - Getting to know the key concepts of the nex ration UI Technology
Interoperability between Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms
Windows Communication Foundation - Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation - Part 2 - Moving to WCF from Current Technologies
Windows Workflow Foundation - Part 1 - Introduction
Windows Communication Foundation - Part 1 - IIntegrating WWF into your current projects
A Recap on Office 2003 Development
Preparing for Office 12 Development
Managing your daily build with Team System
Team System - The Source Control Prespective
Team System - How to effectivly test your application
Team System End To End - Application Life Cycle Managment
Team System - How to effectivly read reports
Team System - Expressing your development process thru Team System
Things you didn't know about Mobile Devices Development
From SQL Express to SQL Server Data Center Edition - The developer Prespective
SQL Server Development Tecnologies
The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview
Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with Relational Data
Advanced Windows Form Topics - Part 1
Advanced Windows Form Topics - Part 2
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1
Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 2
Levaraing extenstions in VS as a platform for developers
Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What
Writing Secured Code
If you're looking for a fun job that involves deep technical content and seeing the the big pictures you might want to drop me a line.
you can read about it at: http://www.microsoft.com/israel/careers/jobs/120.mspx [Hebrew]
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