Microsoft has released information on the new certifications around their developer products:

"If posting the hands-on labs wasn't enough, we've just hit the big red button on the session breakout content itself. Head over to the PDC05 post-show website to view all the sessions from the event. For each session, you can see both the presenter video and the slide / demo screens, and you can even right-click on the talking head video to increase the speed - viewing the sessions at a 1.6x speed is an intense, Matrix-style learning experience! (Site is looking a bit slow right now, but keep it bookmarked - it's already starting to get swamped.) We'll be mailing out this same content to attendees on DVD, so you can watch it at your leisure, and you can buy it on DVD to share around your office even if you didn't attend by visiting this site.

Some great, highly-rated Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Vista sessions that are worth a repeat viewing:

PRS305: A Lap around Windows Presentation Foundation (Rob Relyea)
PRS313: Integrating WPF with your Win32 / MFC Application (Nick Kramer)
PRS317: Beautiful Code, Beautiful Design (Robby Ingebretsen)
PRS319: Building Applications that Look Great in Windows Vista (Tjeerd Hoek and Jeff Pettiross)
PRS324: Using Data in Your WPF Applications (Namita Gupta)
These are just my personal picks, not an exhaustive list. The team did an incredible job of preparing and polishing their content - most people have no idea how many sleepless nights and soul-searching dry run sessions were needed to make this happen."

via Tim Sneath

Description:

"Enterprise Library for Microsoft .NET 1.x has been a smashing success with two releases and over 150K downloads. The June 2005 release is compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, but many of you are eagerly awaiting this next release of Enterprise Library which is specifically designed for .NET 2.0. In this webcast, we discuss how Enterprise Library has evolved to a true .NET 2.0 library."

Presenter: Ron Jacobs, PRODUCT MANAGER, Microsoft Corporation

Description:

The patterns & practices team shipped a preview of the Microsoft WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0 Sample Application built on Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 with Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 in May 2005. During this webcast we will discuss the changes necessary to move the application to Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and WSE 3.0. We look in-depth at the ways in which this new basic security profile application illustrates the best practices for a new platform. 

Presenter: Ron Jacobs, Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Watch WSI Migration to WSE 3.0 and .NET 2.0 on-demand.

The PDC announcements fireworks continuous:

• Microsoft Codename Max: With just a few clicks, you can create lists of your favorite photos, arrange them in the layout of your choice, and express them in beautiful views. Preview your photo lists as you build them until your presentation is perfect. You can even use our super hot 3D Mantle View™ to really show off your work!
  
  
  
  
• C# 3.0 Language Enhancements introduces several language extensions that build on C# 2.0 to support the creation and use of higher-order, functional-style class libraries. The extensions enable construction of compositional APIs that have equal expressive power of query languages in domains such as relational databases and XML. Get more information, and try hands-on labs here.
  
  
• The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.

Jeff Prosise has done some presentations on ASP.NET 2.0 which you can view as video streams or download them to your hard disk.

Hot off the press: on 8th of September, Chris will be doing a rerun of hisTechTalk "Tools zu erfolgreichen Softwareentwicklung mit .NET" (~ Tools for successful software projects in .NET) in Graz at the monthly .NET User Group Styria meeting (sign up here). So if you didn't have a chance to attend his TechTalk in Germany, this is your ticket in Austria.

A few minutes ago Chris has just finished his WebCast "The build system of Visual Studio Team System" and he has already uploaded his Demos and Links.

Christoph Wille has uploaded the Slides and Demos (both in english language) for the past NCC 2005A Security.

• Threat Modeling (Secure Architecture)
• Security Enhancements in the .NET 2.0 Framework
• SQL Server 2005 Security
• Windows Vista Security Overview