X has complied a list of the Top-10 .NET sites. This was set up in July, has well over 2,500 subscribers, including among its ranks some of the most knowledgeable and authoritative members of the .NET community. The first presentation of Essential .NET in London in mid-November was oversubscribed well before the event and more have been scheduled for December and January. This four-day course is intended to reveal the concepts behind the .NET framework in order to enable developers to build effective .NET applications. From there it proceeds to discuss attributes and how to use them to create powerful applications.
Conferences are another excellent way to keep abreast of the latest developments.
The conference takes place at the Rai Congress Centre and will take the format of one tutorial day followed by three days of subject and issue-specific briefings by Wrox authors and by the Microsoft team, including Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie who will give the keynote address.