Having done all my Silverlight coding in Visual Studio (and keen to get into Blend) this looks right up my street.

Here is the blurb:

A Silverlight Design Day is opportunity to learn about Silverlight and Expression Blend from a design and interface developer perspective.
The first half of the day will start out with a short poll, asking these three questions:

1. How many of you write code?
2. What technologies do you use today?
3. Is there anything specific you want to cover?
   

The tools and the platform will then be introduced by accomplishing designer tasks based on the earlier poll as much as possible.
The second half of the day will be your opportunity to get your hands on Blend and Silverlight. PCs will be available already configured to run through tutorials, made especially with designer and UI tasks in mind.

Here is the info page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=276325046954

Overview

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is based on Windows 7 RTM and it is designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7 by utilizing key Windows 7 features such as:

• Taskbar
• Libraries
• Multi Touch
• Sensors and Location
• Ribbon
• Trigger Start Services
• Instrumentation and ETW
• Application Compatability

• Version Checking
• UAC Data Redirection
• Session 0 Isolation
• Installer Detection
• User Interface Privilege Isolation
• High DPI

Download Here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1c333f06-fadb-4d93-9c80-402621c600e7&displaylang=en

Silverlight 4 beta !  This was the big day 2 news!.

Tim Heur has a good overview of the new features here:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

If you want to get stuck in you can download the bits here:

And there are some great training videos already published on Channel 9:

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/

and on Silverlight.Net:

http://silverlight.net/learn/

Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4 Conversion.

After installing the bits via the link above I proceeded to open my own Silverlight application (http://FromTheMalverns.com)

Woah! – No obvious issues – very cool & it ran first time under the Silverlight 4 beta.! OK so next step is to add some of the new features which I will do in the coming days (Maybe after I get some post PDC09 sleep!).

NB In the meantime I will be continuing to develop http://FromTheMalverns in Silverlight3 until such time that there is a real Silverlight4 release!

First we got an overview of the key kernel changes in Windows 7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7)  wonder if there will be any VHDs geared towards the Native VHD functionality in tomorrows PDC conference bags?.  Then we got a cool? demo of a ‘hello world’ message running on a 96 processor system!

Arun Kishan then went into more detail about some of the kernel changes (Processor mgt, Thread Scheduling, Core Scalability Improvements, Energy Efficiency, Logical Processor enhancements etc.) I’m not going to go into the details!