Another DevConnections is here. This time we are back for the 3rd straight year in Las Vegas at the luxurious Mandalay Bay Casino and Resort on the Las Vegas strip. This is the hotel that was featured in Oceans 7. 5-star all the way. And this is by far the biggest DevConnections ever with eight co-located events and just under 5,000 attendees! ...

The first DevConnections Europe is set to begin tomorrow, Monday, April 24 with several excellent preconference workshops by Dave Sussman and Alex Homer, Juval Lowy, and Benard Wong. On Tuesday, the Microsoft Day sessions begin followed by third-party sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. The complete schedule can be found at conference schedule. ...

Dear Fellow Speaker, It is my pleasure to announce that DevConnections, the greatest third-party conference for .NET developers, is expanding with the addition of a brand new event this fall: Mobility Connections! Mobility Connections will be held on November 6-10th at the beautiful Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. The show will ...

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 ...

Onsite registration opened today at the Mandalay Bay North Convention Center at about 7 AM and developers, admins, and managers streamed in to pick up their badges, bags, and materials. A reliable source tells me we have 2.800 people registered for the conference which means that this is the most sucessful DevConnections ever! I write this as I ...