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Interoperability Seminar - Different perspectives. One vision.

Microsoft has jointly organised an event with SiTF, bringing to you, some sessions about interoperability in the world of open-source solutions. Find out more about the event at http://mssg.earth9.com/singapore/edm/2008/04/17/interoparability.html OR register for this half day event (May 17, 2008) at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032376033&Culture=en-SG

If you're interested about Virtualisation, running PHP on Win servers, and learning about OpenXML, you shouldn't miss this event!

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

If you're a web developer and have been following the out of band releases from ASP.NET, this is a good chance to have a consolidaed 'training materials', aka hands on lab, presentations, and demoes, which comprises of the following technologies:

1)      ADO.NET Data Services
2)      ADO.NET Entity Framework
3)      ASP.NET AJAX History
4)      ASP.NET Dynamic Data
5)      ASP.NET MVC
6)      ASP.NET Silverlight controls

Find out more at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8719735

I know that's lot of evolution around ASP.NET that's out of band, and it makes pretty hard to catch up. But I must applaud the product group for doing a great job of listening that people are getting confused with the 'outflux' of minor releases.

MSA - Vulnerability in Windows Could Allow Elevation of Privilege

Quoted from the security advisory -

"Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem, affecting Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 and all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Customers who allow user-provided code to run in an authenticated context, such as within Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server, should review this advisory. Hosting providers may be at increased risk from this elevation of privilege vulnerability."

Heroes Community Launch 2008 - from the community

SGDN, SWUG and SGSQLUG is joining forces again, following the sucess of our last 2 events, LOVE 2007 and CTU 2007. We'll be having deep dive sessions on Visual Studio 2008, Sql Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, brought to you by local experts and MVPs. The event is held on 17th May 2008, Saturday, and it will be a whole day event.

 Here's the details of the event:

Date: 17th May 2008
TIme: 0830 hrs - 1600 hrs
Venue: Microsoft Singapore, One Marina Boulevard

To find out more about the event, sign up here