Microsoft BUILD in Anaheim, CA from Sept. 12 to 16

Microsoft is about to reveal a plenty of information about the next version of Windows, codename Windows 8, but also Visual Studio 2012, Expression Blend vNext, and of course the .NET Framework 4.5.

You’ll find more detail about what will be probably announced at BUILD on Mary-Jo Foley’s blog for ZDNet. I said “probably” because Microsoft didn’t say anything about the schedule of the sessions, just some basic information on the Agenda like there are 2 keynotes, one on Tuesday, one on Wednesday… Beside the technical event, it is the occasion for me and all developers from all around the world to do networking, exchange ideas, opinions, and business cards

On my side I’m very interested to see the next version of Visual Studio and Expression Blend. To know what will be the possibilities for the developer to create new applications for Windows 8. And I hope, the answer that every single WPF / Silverlight developer is asking, Are WPF and Silverlight dead? Of course the answer is NO WPF and Silverlight are not dead, but to here that from Microsoft might be a high relied for the .NET developer community.

So if you attend to BUILD, let me know on my twitter @FabienLavocat and we can have meet and have a drink!