There are a couple of events that are coming up that are worth noting...

Visual Studio 2008 Installfest - you can find out more information on Tim Heuer's blog.

The end of the year brings about a time of celebration.  It is a time to embrace friends, family and the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and Fx 3.5.  Please join us at our holiday installfest to celebrate on December 12, 2007 at 6:00 PM.  The fest will be hosted at the beautiful  Marriott Denver Tech Center.We will have food drinks, demos and some great giveaways. Best of all, every attendee will receive a fully licensed release version of VS 2008 (to be mailed at a later date).

MSDN Masters Series in Denver on Software Factories - you can register here.

Have you ever created a software framework or tools to take care of the repetitive tasks on your projects?  If you have, you created a form of a software factory.  Microsoft’s patterns and practices team has focused on developing a set of software factories for many common types of development: Smart Clients, Web Clients, Mobile Clients, and Web Services.  These factories are excellent to use as is, but can also be extended with your own customizations to suit your specific situation. 

This session will take a deeper look at what constitutes a software factory and the tools used to create and modify a software factory.  Additionally, we will take a cursory look at each of the software factories created by Microsoft and take a deep dive into the Smart Client Software Factory with examples of how to get started and use a foundation that is well documented and thoroughly tested.
This month's presenter is Daren May of EMC. EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions.

Hope to see you at one of the events.