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Topic Areas:

• Architecture - because deciding what to build is harder than building it
• Channel9Topics - bugs, feature requests, and video transcripts
• CommunityPetitions - make your voice heard, or get a beta invite
• CommunityProjects - a bunch of project ideas from the Channel 9 community
• Essay Writing - enhance your literacy skills
• FreeEBooks - a list of e-books freely available online
• MicrosoftTechnologies - discussions of current and upcoming Microsoft technologies
• OtherWikis - other wikis that are related to this one
• PeopleAndPlaces - keeping track of who we are and where we go
• PatternsAndPractices - serious knowledge for architects and enterprise developers
• ProductFeedback - bug reports, suggestions, rants and raves about Microsoft products
• TheMicroISVShow - Show notes, transcripts and upcoming guests.
• Microsoft Biztalk Servers - discussions of current and upcoming Messaging Integration Solution
• Channel09 - What do you want to see from Channel 9 in 2009?
• AzureServicesPlatform - all you need to know about Windows Azure, .NET Services and SQL Services
• VS2010Net4 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Resources
• Windows 7 Tips and Tricks - Hidden timesavers in Windows 7

Topic Areas:

Several Microsoft teams run their own wikis on this site - these use a different "namespace" to the Channel 9 wiki, so you won't see their updates in the main feed. Check them out!

• Accelerator - Data Parallel arrays for .Net
• Blueprints - Software + Services Blueprints
• Cider - The Visual Studio WPF Designer for Developers
• Engineering Practices Team - patterns & practices of software engineering
• Guidance Engineering - Templates and instructions for creating prescriptive guidance.
• IronPython - Python implementation built on top of .NET
• Office Deployment - learn all about deploying Office 2007
• Performance team - patterns & practices for software performance
• Practices Checker - verify your code against prescriptive guidance.
• Presentation and Virtualization - remote presentation and virtualization
• Real Time Media - it's all about audio and video communication
• Security team - patterns & practices for software security
• Spec - C# extension with design-by-contract features from Microsoft Research
• Silverlight - sharing useful resources, tutorials and events for Silverlight
• Visual Studio 2005 Value - Why use Visual Studio? Share your thoughts (updates )
• Windows CE Developer - A Wiki for Windows Embedded CE OS and applications developers (updates )
• Windows XP Embedded - A Wiki for Windows XP Embedded Developers
• Windows Mobile Developer - Everything about developing for Pocket PC and Smartphone (updates )
• Windows PowerShell - all about the new administratice scripting command shell
• Windows Presentation Foundation - sharing best practices, useful resources, bugs and workarounds for WPF