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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

I'll be speaking again at the spring ASP.NET Connections show, in Orlando, Florida.  We're driving down from Ohio with the family again, something we haven't done since four years ago, when we returned to find out I was being called up to go to Iraq.  I'm completely out of the Army now (resigned commission - honorable discharge - as of ...

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 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 ...