Upcoming Webcast Series on VB9

The Visual Basic team has put together a "Live from Redmond" webcast series covering many of the new features in the next version of Visual Basic and Visual Studio ("Orcas").  Here's the schedule:

• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Orcas Overview April 18th, Presented by John Stallo
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - LINQ Overview April 25th, Presented by Kit George
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - LINQ to SQL & O/R Designer Deep Dive May 2nd, Presented by Young Joo
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Building N-Tier Applications May 9th, Presented by Young Joo
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Offline Data Caching May 16th, Presented by Milind Lele
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Deep Dive into LINQ May 23rd, Presented by Amanda Silver
• Live From Redmond: VB9 - Building Service-Oriented Applications May 30th, Presented by John Stallo
• Live From Redmond: Using the Interop Toolkit to Migrate your VB6 Applications to .NET June 6th, Presented by Jonathan Aneja
• Live From Redmond: VB9 – LINQ Best Practices June 13th, Presented by Lisa Feigenbaum

I can tell you I have had discussions and/or demos on these topics with many of these speakers and this is really a series by the PMs who know the features inside and out - well worth your time to catch these sessions.