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 ...

Day 1 was amazing. I somehow pulled off a hands-on workshop on ASP.NET 2.0 in front of 125 hungry developers using their own laptops. No one died and no laptop burst into flames, so I'd say it was a success. Actually, I think it went quite well considering the last minute switch from Beta 2 to version 1.0 and the fact that everyone had installed ...