Because Heroes happen {here}.

March 11 sees the official launch of brand new versions of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. But what the day is really about are the everyday heroes who transform our products into powerful products for solving real IT problems at work. In other words, you.

We are calling it Heroes Happen Here. And we're proud to invite miracle workers like yourself, not only to the launch itself, but also to our TechDays 2008. A series of technical sessions that take place on 12th and 13th March, during which IT professionals and developers alike will get the chance to go into every single aspect of each pack. So if you'd like to boost your powers even further, this is one event you don't want to miss.

I hope I'm able to see you guys/girls over there those days.

Grz, Kris.

Always nice to start the year like this. 2 of my friends I know of became MVP recently:

• Frederik Vandeputte
• Gill Cleeren

Congratulations boys!

Grz, Kris.

If you like DJ Tiësto and the type of music he presents you can grab free podcasts at Radio 538. If you have iTunes installed on your computer you can open it, navigate to Advanced | Subscribe to podcast and then fill in the url and get downloading.

Grz, Kris.

Milan Negovan did it again. After several cheat sheets about ASP.NET AJAX he has now created a cheat sheet about LINQ.

Grz, Kris.

Just received this by email from my collegue Jean-Christophe at my current client BICS. Apparently one of my MVP colleagues set up a wiki for LINQ related technology. If you want to take a look at it you can navigate to Hooked on LINQ.

This is a nice addition to my earlier post: 101 LINQ to SQL samples. I guess we all know what to do during the coming holidays...

Grz, Kris.

I noticed on Gill's blog that there's an interesting contest.

Grz, Kris.

I just found out about these samples:

• C# version: 101 LINQ to SQL samples
• VB.NET version: 101 LINQ to SQL samples

Could come in handy when you're playing around with LINQPad.

Grz, Kris.

I got notified that the latest issue's out. It's nice to see that magazines are also offering their material online for free. Of course it comes with adds but that's their survival of course. Another very nice magazine which puts their content online is MSDN Magazine. Nice to see that Microsoft spreads the .NET word this way.

Grz, Kris.

Not so long ago I blogged about new video material on ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ. Since I didn't have much time lately to keep up with my blogreading I just found out through the blog of my buddy Bilal that there are also videos available on:

• VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Video Training
• LINQ Video Training

Anyone got some time left?

Grz, Kris.