18th October 2011

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Editor's Comments

If you're trying to keep up with the latest stuff coming with VS11, WinRT, and BUILD, check out the latest training kits available here:

VS11 Developer Preview Training Kit

There's also a brief writeup of them here:

http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/10/visual-studio-11-developer-preview.html

I'm in Bulgaria this week speaking at DevReach. There were some great sessions - go to DevReach.com or search for DevReach on YouTube and you can probably check out some of them (I know at least one of the keynotes is on YouTube already).

Steve's Blog

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