Just in case you were curious,... DevConnections Fall 2006 featured over 4,700+ attendees, over 325 sessions, 190+ speakers (including about 100 from Microsoft), hands-on labs chalk talks, and over 20 pre-conference and post-conference workshops. The main exhibition hall sold out with over 100 exhibitors. One lucky attendee won a 2006 ...

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. ...

WorkshopsSunday began with a moan as I woke up to realize that I had to present a 7 hour workshop. But despite the crushing time difference and the daily savings time kicker it managed to be a successful ASP.NET hands-on workshop. Attendees (laptops in hand) learned how to sling some data controls, master pages, and login controls and lived to ...

On Tuesday, April 4th at DevConnections, there will be Women's Luncheon at DevConnections in Orlando. According to Julie Lerman, ''At Tuesday's lunch, there will be a bunch of tables reserved for women so that we can all get together and meet - attendees and the women speakers. That will be fun.'' So if you have two X chromosomes and you are ...

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 ...

This blog has been quiet but that doesn't mean that nothing has been happening. We recently finalized the program for our next set of shows. And boy, is it a busy April for the Connections crew: April 2-5, 2006: Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, and SharePoint Connections, Orlando, ...

Paul Mooney posted a bunch of photos from last week's show in Vegas. Thanks, Paul.

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 ...