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Call for Abstracts for VS Connections Fall 2009 Conference in Las Vegas

We would like to extend you an invitation to present at the Fall 2009 DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, November 9-13th 2009. All abstracts are due on April 5. 2009. For submitting session,...

Call for Abstracts for Visual Studio Connections April 2008

Dear Fellow Speaker,This is an invitation to submit abstracts for the Spring 2008 VS-Connections conference, to be held in Orlando, April 20-24th.  The conference will take place shortly aft...

Call for Abstracts for April 2008 DevConnections Shows

The call for abstacts are out for Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, and Visual Studio Connections. You can find the abstact calls at the following links:Microsoft ASP.NET...

Call for Abstracts for Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, and Mobile Connections

We are now accepting abstracts for the Fall DevConnections shows being held in Las Vegas in November 5-8, 2007. Abstracts will be accepted through the end of February.If you are interested in submitti...

Getting on the List to Hear About the Next Call for Abstracts

As one of my jobs as Conference Chair, twice a year, I put out a "call for abstracts" for people looking to apply to be a speaker at a Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. In the past, people just...

Abstracts Being Accepted for Microsoft ASP.NET Connections

This is to let everyone know that we are currently accepting abstracts to speak at the next Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. The event will be held in Orlando, FL, USA from March 25-29.Here's the de...

Keynote Announcements

The opening keynotes at DevConnections/WinConnections had a seemingly endless wall of people in attendance. The topic was Vista, Exchange, Office, and Atlas. This is by far the biggest Connections cro...

DevConnections Europe Set to Begin

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 M...

Orlando 06, Day 1: Workshops and Keynotes

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 success...

Geek Women Unite

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 wome...

Orlando 06, Day 0: Let The Games Begin!

I'm here in Orlando at one of my favorite hotels in the world, the Hyatt Grand Cypress. Here for the DevConnections shows, which include this week: Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connect...

Call for Speakers -- Mobility Connections Las Vegas

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...

April 2006 -- Orlando, Orlando, and Nice!

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: ...

Call for Speakers -- Microsoft ASP.NET Connections Las Vegas in November 2006

It's time again for our semi-annual call for speakers for the Fall 2006 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas. If you want to speak at the Vegas event, consider this your call for action! Here is...

Top 5 Reasons why DevConnections was a Raving Success

Satisfied attendee Adnan Masood blogs on his "Top 5 Reasons why DevConnections was a Raving Success".  What more can I say. Thank you Adnan for such a nice post. Adnan also blogs on Juval ...

Scott Guthrie's Behind the Scenes Video at DevConnections Vegas

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/11/06/429694.aspxDuring his keynote talk on Monday, November 7, Scott Guthrie ran a great video that was a "behind the scenes" look at the planning, progr...

Day 5 (PostCon Day): DevConnections Las Vegas, Midnight

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 Orlan...

Day 5 (PostCon Day): DevConnections Las Vegas, 10:30 AM

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 fantasti...

Day 4 (Thursday): DevConnections Las Vegas, 9:45 AM

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 Contr...

Day 3 (Wednesday): DevConnections Las Vegas, Noon

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...

Day 3 (Wednesday): DevConnections Las Vegas, 8:30 AM

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 we...

Day 2: DevConnections Las Vegas, 3:00 PM

Here I ma 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 Dev...

Day 2, DevConnections Las Vegas, 9:00 AM

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 s...

Day 1: DevConnections Las Vegas, 8:30 AM

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 sou...

More on Preparing for My ASP.NET 2.0 Workshop

I recently blogged about getting ready for my ASP.NET 2.0 workshop on my personal blog. (Previously, I began the discussion at this blog but decided to move the follow-up post to my own blog.) In addi...

Team System Web Load Testers Unite!

Microsoft's Josh Christie is interested in meeting up with all VSTS web load testers who will be at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. He wants to meet up with those testers who wish "share fee...

Calling All DevConnections Bloggers!

Okay, with the conference about a week away, it's time to let everyone know that I will be happy to link to any speaker, attendee, or exhibitor blog that has something to say about DevConnections Las ...

Finally Booked My Flight to Vegas

Can you believe it Here I am conference chair and the show is starting in about 9 days and I just booked my flight to the event. I guess I've just been soooo busy. As I write this, I am supposed to be...

ASP.NET 2.0 Hands-On Workshop

In addition to being conference chair and speaker, I am running a full-day pre-conference workshop on ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 on November 7. Here is the description of the workshop: APR201:...

Paul Mooney Blogs About C++ Connections

Paul Mooney blogged recently about Charles Petzold and the fact that he is keynoting at DevConnections in Vegas. As you probably know, Charles Petzold is pretty much a god in the Microsoft developer c...

Not Quite Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe

So here I sit dreading having to "reject" a bunch of great speakers for the Spring 2006 show in Orlando. That's right, currently I am poring through submitted abstracts trying to come up with the fi...

Speakers Blog About the Las Vegas Show in November

Several DevConnections speakers have recently blogged about the show, their sessions, etc. These include Dan Wahlin, our Microsoft ASP.NET Connections XML/SOA expert. Another popular speaker, Don Kiel...

More Speakers Blog

Forgot to note Julie Lerman's blogging on DevConnections. Julie talks about her C# for VB developers session in this post.  She also made some good obervations on women speakers, and the lack the...

Putting on DevConnections, Part 1

So what is involved in putting on a conference In a word (okay two words), a lot! The process goes something like this (I'm leaving out a number of steps, but we have to start somewhere): About 9-12 ...

Why attend DevConnections Las Vegas

Just a few reasons to attend this show: Register for one show (Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections, or C++ Connections) and attend sessions in an...

Speakers, smeekers

What makes a DevConnections conference tick It's the speakers. And our lineup stacks up pretty darn good compared to any other show out there. Speakers like... Scott Guthrie (the father of ASP.NET) ...

Bleeding Edge and Best Practices

The DevConnections family of conferences have a knack for mixing together exciting sessions on new bleeding edge technologies with best practice talks on established, mature technologies. Examples of ...

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