I've been speaking at the DevConnections conferences since Fall of 2001 and have really enjoyed the experience.  The speakers are a great group of people to hang out with, Shirley and Erik and Paul and the rest of the team put together a very well-organized event, and this last show was very impressive in terms of its attendance and breadth ...

I have posted the updated samples from my three sessions at last week's extremely successful Microsoft ASP.NET Connections show in Las Vegas (part of DevConnections which had more than 5100 attendees!) The sessions:Pre-conference workshop (co-presented with Stephen Walther) on ASP.NET AJAX.Data Controls Tips and TricksProgramming SQL Server ...

The Fall 2007 DevConnections conference is next week in Las Vegas.  This is definitely going to be the biggest conference in the United States for developers for the second half of 2007 (TechEd being the only larger one this year, I think), and I'm sure the show will be bolstered significantly due to a lack of a PDC event this year.  ...

I just uploaded my slides and samples for my Programming SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services talk at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections last week in sunny Orlando. This talk focused on programming SSRS using:URL access.SSRS Web Service.SSRS Report Viewer controls.Custom Assemblies You can find the slides and samples at ...

This a revision to prior postings of my ASP.NET Data Controls Tips & Tricks talk. This time for my talk at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections March, 2007 in sunny Orlando. Includes a few new samples:Cascading drop-downs inside of a Form View (harder than you think). Server side example.Object Data Source control example with data source ...

Over 130 atendees survived a day with me delivering my ASP.NET 2.0 JumpStart Workshop at DevConnections. Thankfully, I had three esteemed proctors who helped a lot: Stephen Walther, Alex Homer, and Dave Sussman. Thank you everyone who attended. I will be posting a couple of updated samples shortly to the downloads area on my site at ...

Sunday, April 23, 12:55 PM. Nice, France. Just arrived in Nice. We flew out at 8:30 AM on Saturday from Seattle through NY and Zurich and arrived a couple of hours ago. Of course, our luggage did not arrive with us (suprise, suprise). Last minute packing and getting things together Friday night got me about 3 hours of sleep Friday and a few ...

I have justed uploaded my slides and samples for my session ''SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for Developers'' at the Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando. I gave the talk on Tuesday, April 4, 2006. The talk is essentially a whirlwind tour of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for the uninitiated developer. It takes a developer ...

I have justed uploaded my slides and samples for my session ''Accessing Data Just Got a Lot Easier with the ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls'' at the Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando. I gave the talk on Tuesday, April 4, 2006. The talk began with an introduction to the new ASP.NET Data controls and the Data Source controls. Probably ...

It's beautiful outside but my pale body wouldn't know because I am stuck in my hotel room working on my sessions that I will be delivering tomorrow at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. Yesterday, I presented a very successful hands-on workshop on ASP.NET 2.0 to about 80 developers. .NET guru and prolific author Dino Esposito was kind enough to help ...