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• My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days. Brian, was instrumental by writing the early versions. He has a lot of good things to say on what the value add to community is. Major congrats Marty Wasznicky whose baby this is. I met Marty at the SOA conference finally and he is a very passionate, hard working advocate for BizTalk and the greater community

• Neudesic's SQL Server and BI Practices have spent a large amount of time with SQL Server 2008. I have not but that is going to be changing. Euan's Getting to know SQL Server 2008: Training, WebCasts and Virtual Labs is very timely

• Mike Walker talks about the release of the Software+Services Blueprints which are going to be super useful for people like me tryinng to roll out these kind of solutions in the real world. As a starting point for building real solutions by architects and developers, each Software+Services Blueprint includes code and/or utilities, guidance, structured step-by-step workflow and tools delivered within Visual Studio. 

 WCF

• Christian continues his awesome series with Beyond the Obvious: New Features and Fixes for WCF in .NET 3.5 - JSON support

Software Development Tools

• Eric Sink - SourceGear News 
• Microsoft Downloads - ASP.NET Futures