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Enjoying cup of Starbucks and Deep Purple Live in Stockholm 1970 (via Zune marketplace).

WCF/WF

• My good friend Marjan has worked hard with us Influencers (I wish I wasn’t so busy) to come up with a stellar bunch of Webcasts! Must see!
• One of the key things we are “influencing” is Oslo. We have not been able to say really anything up to this point, but as my Neudesic colleague Brian notes, the first public announcement was made at TechEd of a CTP of *some* of the Oslo stuff pre-PDC
• My good friend Pablo continues to rock in the WCF/WF area with a post on Streaming large content with WCF and deferred execution
• Unit testing custom workflow activities
• Unit testing asynchronous workflow activities

SQL Server 2K8

•  SQL Server 2008 RC0 has been released to the general public

ASP.NET/OR/M

• Multiple control selection in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM
• ASP.NET MVC Northwind Demo using EntitySpaces
• EntitySpaces 2008 Release Candidate Available

CLR/.NET

• Scott has a pair of posts on Velocity, first Velocity – Microsoft Distributed Cache and then Setting up Velocity