Last Thursday (July 17^th) I received an invite from Alexandre Ricardo Nardi (Manager of New Technologies and Platforms – Microsoft Brazil) to participate on the Localization process for the Brazilian Language Pack for Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions and Brazilian MSDN Wiki for Visual Studio 2008 Online MSDN Library. I'm so proud that I'll be able to help on this process and the Brazilian community by creating this resource.

I believe that the creation of a Portuguese Language Pack will increase the adoption of Visual Studio at High School/Technical and Universities, including enthusiasts, because students/users that don't speak english will be less intimidated with the development environment.

This shows the consideration that Microsoft Corp. is having with Brazil and its developers.

Microsoft has just announced the launch date for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 at the Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference in Denver.

The chosen date is February 27^th. And at this big event we will rock around the world!

Our MSP team (Microsoft Student Partners) is already preparing to bring more knowledge to the community.