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This week I'm visiting Scottsdale Arizona and will be presenting at a free user group event during the day. I'm presenting two sessions myself: 1) Developing Applications using Silverlight 2: This will be a drill-down into the new Silverlight 2 Beta1 release, and how you can build applications with it using VS 2008 and Expression Blend. You'll leave this session with a good understanding of the basics of Silverlight programming and how to start building applications with it. 2) Developing Applications using ASP.NET MVC: This session will be a drill-down into the new ASP.NET Model-View-Controller framework option (which last week was updated . You'll leave this session with a good understanding of what it is, how it works, and how to start building ASP.NET web applications with it. In addition to my sessions above, there will also be great sessions at the event from Microsoft employees on "Consuming Web Services with Microsoft Silverlight", "Encoding Video for Microsoft Silverlight", and "Serving Applications with Microsoft Silverlight Streaming". You can sign up and attend the sessions for free. Click here for more details on the events, and click here to register online to attend. Hope to see some of you there, Scott 
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This Friday I'm leaving for a 10 day trip to Asia. Traveling on business doesn't usually get me excited (I was on a plane ~70 times last year), but I am really looking forward to this trip as it will be my first trip to Asia. I'll be visiting China (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen), South Korea (Seoul), and Japan (Tokyo), and I will be presenting at events, meeting with customers, and visiting one of the development teams in my group that is based in China. I'm also hoping to get a chance to see immerse myself a little in the countries. Below are some details on the presentations I'll be doing during the trip if you are interested in attending or learning more: - China (Beijing, January 13th)
- South Korea (Coex Conference Center 310 on January 17th)
- Japan (Izumi Garden Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo on January 21st)
I've been extremely fortunate the last year to have had some great people volunteer to translate my blog posts into other languages (including Chinese and Japanese). Below are links to a few of the feeds if English isn't your first language: I'm hoping to meet Hongchao Wang (who has been translating my posts to Chinese) and Chica (who has been translating my posts into Japanese) on the trip and have the chance to thank them personally. :-) Thanks, Scott 
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The last two days I've been speaking at the the MIX:UK conference that was held this week in London. We had a sold out crowd of 500 people come to learn more about some of the new Microsoft web technologies. I gave 5 talks at the conference, including the Keynote and 4 breakout talks: Building Silverlight Applications with .NET (Part 1 and 2), and Building ASP.NET 3.5 Applications with VS 2008 (Part 1 and 2). I also had the chance to participate on 2 panels (including a really fun one where we sat around and drank tea, ate biscuits, and discussed technology trends). Below are the slides + demos from my talks if you are interested in downloading them. Building Silverlight Applications with .NET (Part 1 and 2) This two part session drilled into how to build Silverlight 1.1 applications using .NET. I really like the slide + sample approach of this talk (I first gave it at MIX:Hungary in June), and think it provides a really good way to learn the programming concepts of Silverlight 1.1 using .NET. Note: All samples are built using the current Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and VS 2008 Beta2 with the Silverlight Tools Alpha Installed. Building ASP.NET Applications using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 (Part 1 and 2) This two part session was primarily a demo driven talk that shows off many of the new improvements for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 and VS 2008. - Click here to download the slides from the talk.
- Click here to download the samples from the talk (these require VS 2008 Beta2).
To learn more about VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2 for web development, please also check out these recent blog articles of mine that cover some of its features in more detail: General: VS 2008: ASP.NET in .NET 3.5: LINQ to SQL: New Language Features: One last note... I usually get at least 4-5 emails a week from people asking whether they can re-use some of my slides/samples for their own presentations (or books). My answer to this is always "absolutely!" Please do not worry about asking for permission on this - you can always re-use any of the content from my talks and blog postings (and feel free to re-use slides and decks wholesale). I write this content to help people learn how to use .NET - so you helping spread the information is pure goodness from my perspective (my blog is technically not part of my official job, rather just a side hobby I enjoy and find useful). Hope this helps, Scott 
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Several people have sent me mail asking what conferences I'll be speaking at over the next few months. Below are a few events where I'll be covering ASP.NET, LINQ, VS 2008 and Silverlight content: MIX:UK 07 Conference in London on September 11th and 12th I'll be doing the keynote for this Microsoft event, as well as (at least) 4 technical breakout talks covering ASP.NET "Orcas", VS 2008, LINQ and Silverlight. You can learn more and register for the event here. Please note that the early-bird registration discount ends this Friday - so sign up soon. Heartland Developers Conference in Omaha, NE on October 18th and 19th I'll be doing a keynote for this event, as well as 4 technical breakout talks covering ASP.NET "Orcas", VS 2008, LINQ and Silverlight. You can learn more and signup for this event here. Microsoft ASP.NET Connections Conference in Las Vegas from November 5th-8th I'll be doing a keynote and several technical breakout talks on ASP.NET, LINQ, AJAX and VS 2008. If you haven't attended ASP.NET Connections before, I definitely recommend it. They put on a really high quality show with great speakers. It is co-hosted with VS Connections, SharePoint Connections, and SQL Connections, which means you can also attend great sessions on other related .NET technologies. You can learn more and register for the event here. Hope to see some of you in person soon! Scott 
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I'm in Orlando the next few days presenting at the spring ASP.NET Connections / DevConnections conference. There are about ~1500 people attending this week's conference, which is a great turnout for the spring show (the fall show is in Las Vegas each year in November, and had almost 5,000 people last year). On Tuesday, I'll also be presenting on ASP.NET and Visual Studio "Orcas" at the Space Coast .NET User Group. The presentation starts at 6:30pm and is free for everyone who wants to attend. You can register online to attend the talk here (you can also find the address of the event and driving instructions). Hope to see some of you there! Scott 
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Ryan Olshan and StrongCoders have helped put together a great ASP.NET live web chat for later tonight. It includes an all-star cast of MVP experts to field questions (I'll be there too to help answer questions). You can join us from 8-9pm EST (5-6 PM US West Coast Time) tonight to participate. Details can be found on Ryan's post here, and on the MSDN Chat Center. Hope to see you there, Scott P.S. Apologies for the 150+ unanswered comments on my blog this week. I was taken out by the flu the last few days and haven't been online. I will post the comments and respond this weekend. 
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I've finished my whirlwind speaking tour of Europe (Belgium, UK and Netherlands in less than one week), and was fortunate to have had the chance to present to several hundred people along the way. Many thanks to everyone who came out to attend my talks! Here are the first two slide decks + samples from the talks I gave: ASP.NET Tips and Tricks: This talk covered ASP.NET UI, AJAX, Caching and Deployment Tips and Tricks, and Visual Studio 2005 tips/tricks. The samples include updated versions of ASP.NET AJAX that all work with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. You can download the slides+samples here. You can learn more about the Visual Studio build performance optimization suggestions by reading this past post of mine on improving build performance. You can also find several dozen more ASP.NET and Visual Studio Tips/Tricks of mine on my Tips and Tricks summary page. Building an End-to-end Web Application from scratch using ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX, IIS7 and Visual Studio: This talk walked through building a rich data-driven application from scratch using ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, IIS7 and Visual Studio (all of which are now officially shipping products). You can download the deck + completed sample here. This talk demonstrates the following features: IIS7 distributed configuration, Master Pages, Building a DAL using DataSets, Building Data Driven Edit Pages, Building Catalogue Browsing Pages, Site Navigation, Url Rewriting, Site Navigation, CSS Control Adapters, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, Membership/Roles, IIS7 Admin UI, SQL Cache Invalidation, and WebPart portal support. Hope this helps, Scott P.S. I'll be posting more slides+samples from my other talks in the days ahead (including my Orcas and WPF/E talks). 
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I just wanted to give a quick update on a few presentations I'm giving in the weeks ahead: Brussels, Belgium: I'll be presenting two talks ("First Look at Visual Studio and ASP.NET 'Orcas' and "ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET AJAX Tips and Tricks") in Belgium on February 1st (next Thursday). You can attend the event for free. More details can be found here. Reading, England: I'll be presenting four talks ("First Look at Visual Studio and ASP.NET 'Orcas', Building an end-to-end application using IIS7, ASP.NET 2.0, ASP.NET AJAX and VS 2005 Part 1 and 2, and "First Look at WPF/E") at the WebDD event at the Microsoft campus in Reading on Saturday February 3rd. Orlando, Florida: I'll be presenting the keynote and several breakout sessions at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando from March 25th->28. If you haven't attended ASP.NET Connections yet, I highly recommend it. It will have 40+ great talks done by excellent speakers in a great location. You can learn more about it here. 
Hope to see some of you at the upcoming events! Scott 
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 Yesterday Channel9 posted a video interview of me with Rory Blyth that was filmed earlier this week.
During the interview I talk about WPF/E, VS Orcas, IIS 7 and the upcoming Microsoft MIX conference on April 30th - where Ray Ozzie and I are the keynote speakers. I also talk about having my car towed by Microsoft campus security. Click here to watch it. - Scott 
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