Two free events are being hosted by Microsoft next week on Tuesday, Oct. 7th: MSDN Unleashed (previously known as DevCares) and ArcReady. These events are FREE training for you and your colleagues. If you aren't signed up you should be asking yourself why.
MSDN Unleashed Event (Formerly known as DevCares) will be meeting from 1:00 PM-4:00PM at the Microsoft Office in Mason on October 7th. They will be covering an intro to WPF, and what's new in VS2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5. Register at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032386201&Culture=en-US
The ArcReady Series is coming back for the fall quarter and will also be held on October 7th at the Microsoft Office in the morning from 9:00AM-11:30AM. This quarter's topic is architecting for the modern distributed applications. Register at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032385969&EventCategory=1&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Good stuff.