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, ...

Note: the original post had several errors in dates. All the errors, I believe, have been corrected. Howerver, the URL of the post still uses the original, incorrect date but I don't want to change that URL. Sorry for the confusion. I am putting out a call for abstracts to present at the Spring 2009 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections ...

I just posted my slides and samples for a new talk I presented at the Fort Wayne, Indiana .NET Users Group. I thought the talk went well and hope you enjoy the slides and samples which you can find along with materials for several other talks at my downloads page. Paul

Dear Fellow Speaker, With the Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando just around the corner, we would like to start planning the Fall 2008 show, and have it finalized by sometime in April. Thus, I am extending you an invitation to submit abstracts for the Fall 2008 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference, to be held in Las Vegas, ...

The next DevConnections show is rolling into Orlando in April. This should be a great show, including a couple of pre-conference workshops that Steve Walther and I will be presenting on ASP.NET AJAX. Don't miss lots of other exciting sessions and the keynotes by Scott Guthrie and other Microsofties as well as the numerous third party ...

I am presenting two sessions at the Seattle Code Camp, Saturday Jan 26 - Sunday Jan 27, Both of my talks are on Sunday. An ASP.NET Ajax talk at 9:15 AM and a Programming Reporting Services talk at 3 PM. Everything can be found on the Code Camp site, including the schedule and a description of the sessions. The conference is at DigiPen in ...

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 just had to do it again: choose 27 sessions (plus a few workshops) from 188 submitted abstracts. Had to go from 38 speakers to 13. I don't think I can emphasize enough how difficult it is to make the cut. No matter what I do, I end up disappointing a lot of people (25 to be exact). Of course, it's nice to have the conference's ...