With TechEd 2008 Developer happening next week in Orlando it might be too late for you to set up your travel and arrange your work schedule to go but never fear, Microsoft has a different conference you might be interested in. The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is comming to Los Angeles in October 27-30th. You can register at http://www.microsoftpdc.com. I have been involved with some of the planning for the event (a small part to be sure) and I am really excitied about some of the things that will be talked about. PDC is where Microsoft talks about products that will be coming out in the next few years to help us understand their roadmap and what to expect.

I am sure that some of the sessions will cover the hot topics in the industry including:

• The Live developer platform
• "Cloud" computing
• "Oslo" and what it means to developers
• The next generation of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework

I also wouldn't be surprised to see things like Windows "7" and other future products/technologies talked about.

I plan on attending and hope to see you there as well.

Read the complete post at http://www.grokdev.com/Blogs/scott/2008/05/30/PDCRegistrationOpen.aspx