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While we can expect a lot of excitement, attention, and noise around the April release of VS 2010 and .NET 4, there are a few other strategic (i.e. longer term) technologies that I think we need to be paying attention to as well:

Have you been subjected to a job interview like this?

While originally an “interesting” technology for the fringe of ASP.NET developers, the Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is clearly destined to become mainstream. Version 2.0 will be included as part of VS 2010 / .NET 4 and has smoothed some of the rough edges of the initial release.

The January  meeting of the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group will be held on Wednesday January  20, 2010.   This meeting will focus on real-real issues and practices in developing unit tests, with a variety of tools.  Our speakers will be Dror Helper and Gil Zilberfeld from the company Typemock.

You can currently get tremendous discounts on Microsoft PRess books as part of a special promotion celebrating their new relationship with O'Reilly.  Select your books from their site  http://microsoftpress.oreilly.com/   anf then use discount code MSINT in the shopping cart to get your savings on every Microsoft Press title.

Here is a short video clip from CNBC, Israel: Leader of Business Innovation, that is an interview with one of the authors of the recently published book “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle”. 

You can also read a Newsweek excerpt from the book at Soldiers of Fortune - How the Israeli Army became the most prolific innovation engine on earth.

The book is the result of the authors’ research into why Israel is the fastest growing innovation economy in the world that was minimally affected by the recent/current economic meltdown.  They try to answer the questions “What are the factors driving the Israeli success?  What can we learn from them?”

While the release of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is getting all of the attention this week, version 2.0 of the Microsoft Sync Framework was also released this week and can be downloaded from here.