Microsoft Tech ed 2010 was a great success.
Infact  Most of such conferences always provide a great place to meet other  technology enthusiasts and ofcourse,whats in the pipeline for future products of a company or field..

And yet again,MS Tech ed India is coming on 23-25 march  in Banglore,India.Well,the place is  ofcourse right suited for any IT/Computing conference.After all,Its Silicon Valley of India..

From Last year.I remember  a session by Harish about  “Building pure client side apps with  Jquery and Microsoft Ajax .”

Here’s the video:

http://live.viasilverlight.com/TechEdOnDemand/Breakouts/TheWebSimplified1/Session4/AjaxClientSideApps.wmv

At that time only,I got to know that jquery is so easy to use for  ajax or client side templating.Though I prefer jquery over  Microsoft Ajax many folds.UpdatePanel  is Dead for sure in my view.
I believe,Web forms will be dead sooner or later with ASP.Net  MVC  gaining share many folds.(TODO:Learn MVC).

The new standard is surely:JQUERY .

Between,Last years videos and ppt’s  are available to browse and download:
http://microsoftteched.in/2010/downloads.aspx

After going through Tech Ad 2011 session agendas : http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2011/agenda.aspx

Few of my personal choices to watch would be:

Day 1: a) Identity And Access Control in the Cloud
       b)Windows 7 at  Home:Digitizing your Home.(Sounds cool.)
       c) And ofcourse,Jquery and MS ajax(Lets see if MS can do something that’s not already happening with their version Of Ajax)..

Day 2:  a) Lap Around Silverlight 5 and Html 5 as I have heard some hot talks that html5 will kill Silverlight,(I don’t see it in near future though).

       b) Html 5 more than “Html 5”…Google will be seeing this one.

Day3: a) Cross Browser applications in Azure
      b)VS 2010 sessions of automated testing azure apps etc.

Windows Phone 7 sessions will surely be of more interest now after MS-Nokia Deal.

Though,Personally,I would want atleast some worth of  sessions on MS  future in Robotics,AI.Perhaps  I am looking at wrong place..(When is PDC?)

And Since,Bill Gates  consider Robotics as the next big thing,

Refer  this one : http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/A_Robot_in_Every_Home.pdf 

I am sure,they wont loose this new hot spot to competitors,  like how google rules in Online  Search now.Robotics and AI will surely provide a big battlefield  for future.See,What IBM is doing with IBM Watson.

OR see this, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110218083711.htm

this is cool only if you can control your mind.Atleast,I’ll prefer regular driving (I would devote my mind seeing  people,places which we see on road).thats what jouney makes “cool”.:P.