MSDN Webcast on Silverlight 2 and Aspiring Architect Series 2008

Hi friends, I have found some new and amazing MSDN events of Silverlight and Aspiring Architect series 2008.

Silverlight 2 Series

1. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 6): Overview of Silverlight 2 and the WPF UI Framework (Level 200)
Date: - 16th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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2. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 6): WPF UI Framework Continued (Level 200)
Date: - 18th June 2008
Time: - 11:30 PM to 12:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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3. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 3 of 6): Introducing Deep Zoom (Level 200)
Date: - 20th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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4. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 4 of 6): Web Services Support (Level 200)
Date: - 23rd June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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5. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 5 of 6): Testing Framework (Level 200)
Date: - 25th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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6. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 6 of 6): Adaptive Streaming (Level 200)
Date: - 27th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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Aspiring Architect Series

1. Introduction to the aspiring architect Web Cast series
Date: - 16th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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2. Services Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus – Beyond the hype
Date: - 17th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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3. TOGAF and Zachman, a real-world perspective
Date: - 18th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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4. Realizing dynamic systems
Date: - 23rd June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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5. Web 2.0, beyond the hype
Date: - 24th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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6. Architecting for the user experience
Date: - 25th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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7. Conclusion and next steps
Date: - 26th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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Enterprise Service Bus Overview

ESB stands for Enterprise Service Bus. There are number of definitions given by different groups on ESB.

1. A web - services capable infrastructure that supports intelligently directed communication and mediated relationships among loosely coupled and decoupled biz components
2. A standard based integration backbone, combining messaging, web services, transformation, and intelligent routing

In recent years the ESB has become a new segment in the EAI market that attempts to address the intersection of web services and traditional message oriented middleware.

The Microsoft ESB guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns and practice and set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus on the Microsoft Platform and to allow developers to extend their own messaging and integration solutions.

I have found some good presentations on ESB overview. Click here to download the presentation files and other details on ESB.

SOA Webcast series for Architects

I found a series of webcasts for Architect on SOA on Microsoft website. Following are the details for the same.

1. Real world SOA: Enabling a New Generation of Dynamic Application Through Service-Oriented Architecture.
2. SOA Workshop for Architects: SOA Overview
3. SOA Workshop for Architects: Messaging and Communications
4. SOA Workshop for Architects: Business Process and Workflow
5. SOA Workshop for Architects: Tools and Modeling
6. SOA Workshop for Architects: User Experience
7. SOA Workshop for Architects: Enterprise Service Bus
8. SOA Workshop for Architects: Federated Data
9. SOA Workshop for Architects: Identity and Access
10. SOA Workshop for Architects: Governance and Management
11. SOA Workshop for Architects: Demo Marathon

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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - on demand Rich media program

I found an on demand rich media program on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

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