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CSD/Geneva/Oslo/BizTalk Services/.NET Services

• I'm leading off with agreement with my friend Aaron Skonnard's assessment of all things CSD in his post, "If you're a Microsoft Connected Systems developer, and you're at the PDC this week, you're swimming in a sea of new technologies that will surely impact your life in the years ahead." Just when I was feeling a little weary of all  things CSD, they have blown me away again and got me back in the fold
• Speaking of Aaron, I was a Beta Tester for his company's new online service called Pluralsight On-Demand. Think of it as training in the Cloud. Fantastic training on all subjects .NET from the best trainers in the business.
• Clemens: Federated Identity with BizTalk Services
• Clemens BizTalk Services "R11" CTP Comes with a Surprise
• Michele - Code Name "Geneva" (and no more "Zermatt")
• Dominick - Geneva is the New Zernat (and much more)
• Dominick - Geneva is the new WS-Security
• Andres on Oslo and Modeling - "Oslo was the most interesting technology I've seen at the PDC by far, and the Quadrant session was really amazing"

.NET 4.0/CLR 4.0

• PDC 2008 - XAML with .NET 4.0
• PDC Day 3 - What's Coming in CLR 4.0 Part 1
• PDC Day 3 - What's Coming in CLR 4.0 Part 2

Azure

• John Udell on URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform