I just uploaded the slides and samples from my 3 talks at the March 2009 DevConnections conference. The Talks: ADX201: Coming Up to Speed with LINQ LINQ (Language INntegrated Query) is one of the new features provided with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 that lets you write strongly-typed queries right in your C# or VB ...

I am putting out a call for abstracts to present at the Fall 2009 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov 9-13 2009. The due date for submissions is April 5, 2009.   For submitting sessions, please use this URL: http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts Please keep the abstracts under 200 words each ...

Just posted my session materials from Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, part of DevConnections Las Vegas, Nov 10-13, 2008. The updated materials, which can be found here, include both slides and samples for the following talks from the show: Data Control Tips and Tricks We’ve all seen the basic drag-and-drop demos of the Data Controls, ...

Last week I gave three presentations at the DevConnections spring show in Orlando.  I received a lot of great feedback from attendees which I definitely appreciate, especially since I was feeling a little bit bad about having run out of time in my first two talks (and overcompensating a bit on my last one, which ended a few minutes ...

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 ...

I got back from DevConnections yesterday at 7am (took the redeye flight), after being gone since Saturday.  I'm glad to be home, and I know it will be a few days before I'm even close to caught up on everything that fell behind while I was in Vegas.  The show was great, though, and this is sort of my summary of the last week. I flew in ...

In my session this week on Membership and Personalization in ASP.NET, I mentioned a commercial control for this but couldn't recall the name or URL.  Well, here it is, the ASP.NET Membership Management control from Quality Data.  I have not personally used the control, but it looks like it has all the features one would need.  It's ...

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 invite you to submit abstracts for the Spring 2008 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference, to be held in Orlando, April 20-24th. Abstracs are due by Oct 26th, 2008. The conference will take place shortly after the VS 2008 release, and will focus on the tools and techniques for using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (which should be released ...