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Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:22 PM

Top 5 Reasons why DevConnections was a Raving Success

Satisfied attendee Adnan Masood blogs on his " Top 5 Reasons why DevConnections was a Raving Success ". What more can I say. Thank you Adnan for such a nice post. Adnan also blogs on Juval Lowy's post-conference workshop (which I mentioned as well in
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Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:13 PM

Charles Petzold's Windows 1.0 Keynote

Paul Mooney blogs on Charles Petzold's fabulous Windows 1.0 keynote (his post includes a link to the video that Paul made of the keynote). If you missed the keynote at DevConnections Las Vegas, you can read Charles talk, complete with screen shots . Share
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Monday, November 14, 2005 3:58 PM

Scott Guthrie's Behind the Scenes Video at DevConnections Vegas

During his keynote talk on Monday, November 7, Scott Guthrie ran a great video that was a "behind the scenes" look at the planning, program managment, development, and testing happened to make ASP.NET 2.0. Scott shot the video himself on the Friday before
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Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:51 PM

More Photos from Vegas

Paul Mooney posted a bunch of photos from last week's show in Vegas . Thanks, Paul. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
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Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:22 AM

Day 5 (PostCon Day): DevConnections Las Vegas, Midnight

Okay, it's definitely over now and wow was it a fabulous show. Thank you attendees, speakers, vendors, and staff for making it all happen. In case you haven't heard: the next show is in April in Orlando. Hope to see you there. Continue to check www.devconnections.com
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Friday, November 11, 2005 10:39 AM

Day 5 (PostCon Day): DevConnections Las Vegas, 10:30 AM

Well the main conference is over and most attendees, speakers, and vendors have gone home. It was a fabulous show. I didn't have any talks myself on Day 4 so I sat in on lots of sessions. All fantastic. And at the closing session we answered questions
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:22 AM

Day 4 (Thursday): DevConnections Las Vegas, 9:45 AM

Day 3 was another whopper of a day. Thirteen simultaneous tracks of cutting edge content from some of the best developer/admin/speakers in the world. Besides the two sessions I presented on Data Controls and SQL Server Reporting Services, I sat in on
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:11 PM

Day 3 (Wednesday): DevConnections Las Vegas, Noon

Day 3 is going great. A few more blog posts of note: Julie Lerman wishes she was an attendee . Gosh, Julie, first you were an attendee and wished you were a speaker and then when we make you a speaker, now you want to be an attendee. There's no pleasing
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:27 AM

Day 3 (Wednesday): DevConnections Las Vegas, 8:30 AM

Tuesday was "Microsoft Day" at DevConnections. This means that for 3 of the shows (Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, and SQL Server Magazine Connections), all of the talks were by Microsoft speakers . (The exception here was C++
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:09 PM

Day 2: DevConnections Las Vegas, 3:00 PM

Here I am sitting in Stefan Schackow's excellent talk on Web Parts. Prior to this session, Jeff King gave a great talk on Master Pages, Themes, and Navigation. Some interesting new posts by fellow DevConnections Vegas bloggers: Adnan Masood has a nice
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:31 AM

Day 2, DevConnections Las Vegas, 9:00 AM

Day 1 was amazing. I somehow pulled off a hands-on workshop on ASP.NET 2.0 in front of 125 hungry developers using their own laptops. No one died and no laptop burst into flames, so I'd say it was a success. Actually, I think it went quite well considering
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Monday, November 07, 2005 8:24 AM

Day 1: DevConnections Las Vegas, 8:30 AM

Onsite registration opened today at the Mandalay Bay North Convention Center at about 7 AM and developers, admins, and managers streamed in to pick up their badges, bags, and materials. A reliable source tells me we have 2.800 people registered for the
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:35 PM

More on Preparing for My ASP.NET 2.0 Workshop

I recently blogged about getting ready for my ASP.NET 2.0 workshop on my personal blog. (Previously, I began the discussion at this blog but decided to move the follow-up post to my own blog.) In addition to my whining and rambling, I mention in the post
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:32 PM

Team System Web Load Testers Unite!

Microsoft's Josh Christie is interested in meeting up with all VSTS web load testers who will be at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections . He wants to meet up with those testers who wish "share feedback, learn more about web tests, swap tips and tricks, etc".
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 10:13 PM

Vegas Bloggers -- 19 and Counting!

These speakers and attendees are/will be blogging about DevConnections in Vegas: Josh Christie Markus Egger Dino Esposito Don Kiely Kate Gregory Michele Leroux Bustamante Nevin Liber Paul Litwin Hilton Locke Adnan Masood Julie Lerman Tim Mitchell Paul
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