The Microsoft Development Platform is reaching a huge milestone. With Windows 8 waiting in the wings, critical praise and Nokia's support for Windows Phone, the industry-wide HTML5 push, Big Data and continual emphasis on Cloud Computing, just about everything is changing and growing.

We think there's a great way to digest these changes and seize their collective opportunity. And that's to hear about them directly from the finest expert speakers in the business.

We're Andrew Brust and Rocky Lhotka, and as Conference Co-Chairs for Visual Studio Live! New York, we'd like to personally invite you to join us this May in New York, where we'll have some of the best content and speakers that you'll find at a technical conference.

We've put together a blockbuster lineup of sessions on: Windows 8 / WinRT, HTML5, Windows Phone Development, Silverlight / WPF, Data Management and Cloud Computing.

We've also got coverage on new tools like Visual Studio LightSwitch, WebMatrix and Razor, the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, and workshop content on Visual Studio ALM, SQL Server 2012, and creating great user experiences with XAML. These sessions burrow deep into the new subjects you need to master and the fundamentals that are always important.

Hardcore content from independent experts isn't a luxury. At this point in the industry, it's a necessity. Find a way to get to Visual Studio Live! New York. Your career will thank you.

Andrew Brust Visual Studio Live! Co-Chair		Rockford Lhotka Visual Studio Live! Co-Chair