Developers will soon descend upon Chateau Champlain in Montreal to learn about the latest technologies, hone their programming skills, and potentially win a Dell Mini laptop from Syncfusion.

DevTeach 2008 runs from December 1 to December 5. The event will feature over 136 sessions designed to build various developer skills in areas such as software architecture, .NET development, and newer technologies on the horizon. Syncfusion is excited and proud to be a sponsor of this year’s DevTeach.

Attendees will find in their bags—issued at the door and full of freebies—a card with an entry code that can be used to register for a chance to win a Dell Mini, which Syncfusion will be giving away. But this isn’t the only item that can be won; each day of the event a license of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise will also be given away, adding even more to the attendee bags.

Syncfusion sponsored three license giveaways at the Los Angeles Code Camp held on the weekend of October 25. The camp, organized by the Southern California .NET Developers Group, came at an opportune time—as the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference was taking place in LA that following Monday—allowing the camp to lasso in speakers it might not otherwise have snagged.

“They were here from all over the world for the Microsoft [PDC]”, says Maureen Thomas, Member Benefits Chairman for the SoCalDotNet developers group. “We had some actual software authors, and a lot of the Microsoft ‘evangelists’ present.”

Popular topics included Visual Studio 2008, SharePoint, and a lot of interest was garnered by Silverlight 2—especially with speakers such as Li Chen, a Silverlight developer, and Michael Washington, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, on hand.

The weekend closed with a Geek dinner, a tradition of the code camp, and a “home-made” concert fueled by Xbox and an edition of the video game “Rock Band”.

The Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals held its fall Code Camp on October 25, 2008. Over twenty-nine sessions with twenty-one speakers were scheduled, and one lucky attendee went home with a license of Essential Studio 2008. With topics ranging from learning .NET basics to building Facebook applications with Silverlight 2, attendees were given an excellent opportunity to hone their .NET skills.

Licenses for Essential Studio 2008 were given away to three lucky winners at the Capital City .NET User Group Code Camp in Tallahassee, FL. On October 11, 2008, about 177 were in attendance for the Code Camp, held on the campus of Florida State University. At no cost, attendees participated in seminars covering topics ranging from getting starting in .NET development to advanced .NET topics.

Syncfusion is exhibiting at the Microsoft Tech-Ed Developers Conference 2008 event in Orlando, FL, from June 3 to June 6. This event provides more than 615 learning opportunities and a chance to hear Bill Gates give the keynote speech.

Members of Syncfusion's sales and technical teams will attend Tech-Ed Developers, which will take place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. We invite you to stop by booth 1446 to have a chat about your upcoming projects and learn how Syncfusion's ASP.NET, Windows Forms, and WPF components can help you achieve your development goals. While you're there, participate in our always-popular marble-guessing contest for your chance to win cool prizes.

Information about the conference, location, registration, tech tracks, and travel is available online.