Justification Letter
<Today’s Date>
Dear <manager-name- >:
I would like to attend Visual Studio Live! Orlando, November 14-17, 2010, at the Hilton Walt Disney World Resort. The conference is produced by Visual Studio Magazine and supported by Microsoft.
I am confident that the 4 days of sessions and workshops at Visual Studio Live! will improve my technical skills and make me a more valuable asset to the company. Visual Studio Live! is a smaller, more focused conference that gives me exclusive access to instructors, ensuring that my time out of the office will be well spent; no impersonal lectures or wandering a trade show floor. Visual Studio Live! is technical training that will provide real results in taking my code to the next level. The tips I’ll learn will make me more efficient and productive by shaving time and endless cycles off my development projects. Saving even 10 minutes an hour, would give me over 345 hours per year to spend on other critical projects. Plus, I’ll share these valuable take-aways with the rest of our team.
If I register by September 10th, the company will save $300 off the registration fee, making the 4 day conference price $1,395. Compared to the time and money we spend every year on development, this is a small investment that will improve our productivity and help manage our resources more effectively.
Visual Studio Live! Orlando provides real-world training on:
- Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4
Visual Studio features, TFS, new language features, parallel programming extensions
- Silverlight/WPF
Silverlight, WPF, XAML, VS10 Xaml designer, Blend, WCF RIA Services
- SharePoint
SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Visual Studio Tools for Office
- Web
Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX and jQuery
- Cloud Computing
Includes cloud, server and messaging technologies
Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, AppFabric (for Windows Server and Windows Azure), REST services programming, Project “Dallas”, WCF, Windows Workflow
- Data Management
SQL Server, Microsoft BI, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, OData, Sync Services
If you have any questions about Visual Studio Live!, please let me know, and I will share the conference literature with you. You can also view the conference website at VSLive.com/orlando.
I hope you’ll agree that my attendance at Visual Studio Live! will make a significant impact on our organization.
Thank you for considering my request.
Sincerely,
<insert-your-name-here>
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