Did you know that Microsoft in partnership with Black Marble are hosting developer events in Leeds and Bradford, West Yorkshire.

I've been to the last 3 events hosted by Black Marble in association with Microsoft, which were on the subjects of (latest first):

• SQL 2008 (afternoon) - in the evening was a compressed re-run of Mix UK.
• What's news in VS 2008, WPF, WCF, WF & CardSpace
• Ajax and ASP.net 3.0

Well, I wanted to say a big thank you to all the staff at Black Marble for hosting these events, and to the Microsoft evangelists for presenting at these events.

The best appreciation I can show is by linking to each of these companies, people (via their blogs) or forthcoming events:

Microsoft UK staff:

• Daniel Moth
• Mike Taulty
• Martin Parry
• Mike Ormond

Black Marble who host the MSDN events, also have there own very knowledgeable speakers who provide feedback at:

• Black Marble Bloggers

If you are interested in attending the next events visit MSDN event in the North (Bradford / Leeds - Tong)