I was in front of 40+ developers and designers and none of them had heard of the MSDN Flash the flash is our primary communication method we have for the developer audience. You can customize it for your location and then you will get all the local events from Microsoft, User groups & third party's in your location.

My only heads up is get ready to help to hash through a lot of content to find the few gems you want. Microsoft has consolidated all of it's developer communication in the Flash so there is a lot of information in it.