The opening keynotes at DevConnections/WinConnections had a seemingly endless wall of people in attendance. The topic was Vista, Exchange, Office, and Atlas. This is by far the biggest Connections crowd ever. A few Microsoft announcements were made at the keynotes, including: Office 12 has shipped to manufacturing. .NET 3.0 Framework for ...

I'm here in Orlando at one of my favorite hotels in the world, the Hyatt Grand Cypress. Here for the DevConnections shows, which include this week: Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, and for the first time, SharePoint Connections. This should be a phenomenal show at a great location. What ...

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 an earlier post).

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.

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 for details. BTW, I just heard from a reliable source that we were the only ...

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 from the audience and gave away two DVD players, 3 IPod Nanos, 3 conference passes, two XBox ...

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 several other talks, including Dan Wahlin's excellent talk on moving from Web Services to SOA and ...

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 Julie. :-) I whine about going late during my SQL Server Reporting Services session. Oh ...

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++ Connections which is targeted at all C++ programmers, not those just using Microsoft C++. They ...

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 post (with photos!) from Day 1 of the conference. Don Kiely with a special note for ...