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Where: Microsoft Phoenix Office, 60 E Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 1200, Tempe, AZ  85281

When: Monday, November 14, 2011 - 1:30 - 4:30 PM
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The industry is in a state of flux. What does that mean for your software projects today and tomorrow? Will your skills be outdated? Will your current investment become obsolete? What should you focus on right now? And what will become important a year or two down the road? Will there be .NET in the future? And what other technologies do you need to learn?

This free event attempts to answer these questions and more, by taking an unbiased look at current and future development with .NET and other relevant Microsoft technologies. This includes Visual Studio 2010 technologies as well as an in-depth look at what is coming in the next version of Visual Studio (“VS11”) and Windows 8.

Join Markus Egger, Microsoft RD and one of the longest running MVPs, for an afternoon of free information. CODE Magazine and EPS Software are in a unique position to share information based on real world experience in projects that are either our own or one of the many projects we get to see in our role as mentors, trainers and consultants, as well as feedback we receive from CODE Magazine readers. This is NOT marketing hype! We will tell you which information you should invest time and money in, and which ones to avoid.

Topics Include:

• Windows 8
  • "Metro" Development
  • The impact of Windows 8 on today’s development effort
  • The future of C# and VB
  • The future of HTML and JavaScript
  • The future of C++
• WPF, Silverlight, and other XAML technologies today and tomorrow
• Architecture to serve the needs of modern applications
• The need for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) today and tomorrow
• HTML 5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• ASP.NET MVC, Razor and jQuery
• "Visual Studio Async"
• Windows Phone 7 and other mobile devices
• and more!

Attendees of this free event will come away with a clear understanding of which technologies to use for various technical challenges. Questions? Please e-mail info@eps-software.com or call 832-717-4445 x32. For additional information, please visit www.codemag.com/training.

As mobility and platform agnostic clients continue to build momentum, the need for reliable, discreet messaging between clients and services has never been greater. Azure Service Bus Relay Messaging democratized service orientation by enabling you to expose applications and services using SOAP and REST from behind the firewall, anywhere in the world.

Last month, Microsoft enhanced Azure Service Bus by releasing support for Queues and Topics which extend the current capabilities of Azure Service Bus. Queues are an important addition to Azure AppFabric Service Bus capabilities because they provide a solid foundation on which to build loosely coupled distributed messaging solutions that support temporal decoupling, load distribution and load leveling. Topics extend queues to provide a logical and physical relationship between publishers and subscribers providing a great way to logically associate actions to events, enabling the implementation of the publish-subscribe pattern with a minimal degree of friction.

Rick is an active speaker, writer and passionate community advocate in the national .NET community. Rick is the President and Co-Founder of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group, celebrating 3 years in operation. Recent presentations include talks at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, WA, Microsoft TechEd in New Orleans, LA, Desert Code Camp, and numerous Microsoft roadshow events throughout the Southwest. He is a frequent contributor to CODE Magazine and DevX and maintains a personal blog focused on Microsoft distributed technologies at http://rickgaribay.net