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Based upon feedback from a number of Scottish ISV's wanting more events to be run in Scotland, the Microsoft Developer and Platform team are pleased to announce two exclusive technical briefings for partners. These will cover some of the new emerging products that will be launched over the next 6 months, such as Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, Web 2.0 and Silverlight, as well  as existing key products and platforms such as Office 2007 and SharePoint.  Information will also be provided about the new ISV Metro program.

Full details of the sessions, along with registration details, are included in the URLs below:

29/10/2007- Developer Technology Roadmap for ISVs - Edinburgh

Microsoft has a host of new technologies due for release over the next 12 months which are relevant to ISVs and their developers. This event will provide you an overview of these technologies, which include .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, Web 2.0 and Silverlight, and how they may be relevant to your application development.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032350352&Culture=en-GB

23/11/2007- Office Business Applications (OBA) Technical Briefing - Edinburgh

This one day technical briefing explores an emerging category of applications, known as Office Business Applications (OBA). It explores the technologies that underpin them (Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint, Open XML, Visual Studio 2008, Office Communications Server, and more) and outlines how to built them and how they can integrate with your applications and systems.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032348062&Culture=en-GB