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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 just about to hop on the flight back to Seattle after finishing up a 10 day business trip to Europe where I spoke at conferences and user group events in Budapest, Amsterdam and Zurich. Although trips like these are a little exhausting, I find them really valuable as a way to connect with developers from around the world, as well as provide me the opportunity to create and deliver new presentations and samples. One of the talks I delivered on this trip was a new "Building Silverlight Applications using .NET" talk that people seemed to really like. Building Silverlight Applications using .NET Talk I tried to keep the format and samples in this talk simple, and used a model where I used a few slides to explain each programming model concept in Silverlight, and then showed a very simple sample for each concept that helped demonstrate concretely how it worked. In the talk I covered: - XAML
- Using Shapes and Text
- Using Controls
- Layout (Canvas and Layout Managers)
- Brushes
- Transforms
- Handling Events and Writing Code
- Building Custom UI Controls
- Reaching out and Programming the HTML of a page from a Silverlight control
- Handling HTML Events in Managed Code (e.g. html button click handled in C#/VB on the client)
- Exposing managed APIs to HTML JavaScript in the browser
- Using the File Open Dialog support
- Using the HTTP Network APIs
- Using the Web Service APIs
- Isolated Storage for local data caching
The slide deck comes to 83 slides - but I think does a good job of explaining everything step by step (it is also an easy deck to read - so even if you don't want to run the samples locally I'd recommend taking a look through the deck since I think you'll find it useful). You can download the slides + demos of this talk below: Included in the .zip download are readme instructions on how to run all of the samples on your own machine. Quick Answer to a Common Question about .NET with Silverlight One of the most common questions I received when giving the talk was - "do I need to have the .NET Framework installed in order to use Silverlight?". The answer to this is no - a cross platform version of the .NET Framework is included in the 4MB Silverlight 1.1 download, which means you do not need to have anything extra installed on the client in order to program Silverlight with a .NET programming model in the browser. The Silverlight version of the .NET framework includes the same CLR engine (same GC, type-system, JIT engine) that ships with the full .NET Framework, and a subset of the .NET Framework namespace libraries. You can see the full list of all classes/namespaces that are included by opening up the Object Browser when you create a new Silverlight application using Visual Studio (click here for a sample screen-shot of this). People are usually pretty stunned/confused to hear that it is possible to get this much stuff in so small and quick an install package. Let me just say it wasn't easy. <g> Other Silverlight Talks and Blog Posts For a broader overview talk of Silverlight, as well as some cool (more complete) samples you can download, please check out my previous "Lap Around Silverlight" talk and blog post here. You can learn even more about Silverlight from my summary post here. And you can watch me build a Silverlight application using .NET from scratch in this video here. The talk above borrowed a number of slides from a few other Silverlight and WPF/E talks that others and I have given (although almost all of the code samples I showed in my talk are new). In particular, my WPF/E talk from earlier in the year, Jamie Cool and Nick Kramer's Two Talks at MIX, and Stefan Schackow's Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight talk at MIX. You can watch Jamie, Nick and Stefan's talks online (along with all of the other MIX talks) for free here. Hope this helps, Scott 
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I'm now half-way through my speaking tour for the month. In my last post on this I didn't have all of the time/location details on the final events. Here are some updated details below: Zurich, Switzerland on June 18th: In addition to doing the keynote and some Silverlight breakout talks at the Zurich ReMIX conference, I'm also speaking at the local DotMugs.ch .NET user group in the evening of June 18th on ASP.NET and Visual Studio "Orcas". You can learn more and attend the 90 minute user group event for free here. Mountain View, California on June 22nd: I'll be doing the keynote at the Mountain View ReMIX conference next Friday. You can learn more about the event and register (for free) here. Phoenix, Arizona on June 27th: I'll be speaking at a special day-long event in Phoenix being held by the Arizona .NET User Group on June 27th. I'll be covering both ASP.NET and Visual Studio "Orcas", as well as do a talk introducing Silverlight. Stefan Schackow, who is one of the senior technical leads on the ASP.NET team and who also wrote the excellent ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership and Role Management book that I've recommended on my blog several times in the past, will also be speaking at the event. You can learn more about the Phoenix event and register to attend it for free here. Hope this helps, Scott 
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June is going to be a really busy travel month for me. I'll be presenting at the following events if you are interested in attending and stopping by to say hi: TechEd 2007 in Orlando on June 4th and 5th: I'll be doing a Silverlight talk and two ASP.NET and VS "Orcas" talks. Click here for more details about the conference. ReMIX 07 in Budapest, Hungary on June 11tht: I'll be doing the keynote at the ReMIX conference as well as presenting Silverlight breakout talks. Click here for more details about the conference. ReMIX 07 and DevDays 07 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 13th and 14th: I'll be doing the keynote at the ReMIX and DevDays conferences as well as presenting ASP.NET "Orcas" and Silverlight breakout talks. Click here and here for more details about the conferences. ReMIX 07 in Zurich, Switzerland on June 18th: I'll be doing the keynote at the ReMIX conference, as well as presenting Silverlight breakout talks. I'm also going to see if I might be able to speak at a local user group event in the evening. Click here for more details about the conference. Presentation in Mountain View, California on June 22nd I'll be doing a keynote presentation at an event on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View California the morning of June 22nd. I'll then be attending Tim O'Reilly's "Foo" Camp event that weekend in Sebastopol. Presentation in Phoenix, Arizona on June 27th Scott Cate is helping organize an event in Phoenix on Wednesday June 27th. More details coming soon. 17 talks, 6 cities, 4 countries and 17,000 people - all within 23 days start to finish. Hope to meet some of you at the events! :-) - 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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