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I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing three tech talks at each of the events: Overview of Windows Azure A look at ASP.NET MVC 4 ScottGu Unplugged I’m particularly excited about the “A look at ASP.NET MVC 4” talk as it will be the first time I’ve presented on it (and it is shaping up to a really great release – more blog posts on that soon). For more details on how to attend the event visit the Belgium Techdays and Dutch Techdays websites. Hope to see some of you at the conferences! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging, I use Twitter to-do quick posts and share links. My Twitter handle is: @scottgu Read More...
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This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform. In today’s post I’m going to cover how to sign-up and get started with Windows Azure using a no-obligation 3 month free trial offer. This free trial costs nothing and doesn’t obligate you to buy anything at the end of it. It provides an easy way to try out and get started with Windows Azure. Windows Azure Website The http://www.windowsazure.com web-site provides everything you need to get started with Windows Azure – including overview content, developer tutorials and documentation, account management, and more: On the www.windowsazure.com home page, as well as in the top-right hand corner of every page of the site...
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This coming Monday (Jan 16th) I’m doing another online LIDNUG session . The talk will be from 10am to 11:30am (Pacific Time). I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun. Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting. We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics. Any topic is fair game: technical, strategy, community, college basketball, etc. You can learn more and register to attend the online event for free here . I’ll update this post with a download link to a recorded audio version of the talk after the event is over. Hope to get a chance to chat with some of you there! Scott P.S. In addition to blogging...
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A few minutes ago Microsoft released an advance notification security bulletin announcing that we are releasing an out-of-band security update to address an ASP.NET Security Vulnerability . The security update we are releasing resolves a publicly disclosed Denial of Service issue present in all versions of ASP.NET. We’re currently unaware of any attacks on ASP.NET customers using this exploit, but we strongly encourage customers to deploy the update as soon as possible. We are releasing the security update via Windows Update and the Windows Server Update Service. You can also manually download and install it via the Microsoft Download Center. We will release the update on Thursday, December 29th at approximately 10am...
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As some of you might know, I’ve spent much of my time the last 6 months working on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform (I also continue to work on ASP.NET, .NET, VS and a bunch of other products). Next Tuesday, Dec 13th we’ll be holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event either by watching it streamed LIVE online, or by attending in person (on the Microsoft Redmond Campus). Both options are completely free. Learn Window Azure Event During the Learn Windows Azure event attendees will learn how to start building great cloud based applications using Windows Azure. I’ll be kicking...
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A few people have sent me email over the summer about my blog: “hey – does your blog still work?”, “did it move somewhere else?”, “did you die?”. To provide a few quick answers: my blog does still work, it didn’t move anywhere, and I am not dead. :-) I fell behind on blogging mostly because I’ve been working pretty hard the last few months on a few new products that I haven’t previously been involved in. In particular, I’ve been focusing a lot of time on Windows Azure – which is our cloud computing platform – as well as on some additional server products, frameworks and tools. I’ll be blogging a lot more about them in the future. To kick-start my blog again, though, I thought I’d start a new blog series that covers...
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The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here . Content The event goes from 9am to 5pm, and will feature a bunch of great .NET content. The current agenda includes the following talks: Build an app using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First, NuGet and IIS Express (ScottGu) We'll spend 2 hours building an application with some of the latest releases of the Microsoft Web Stack. You get to choose what app to build and then watch Scott code it on stage. See how the Microsoft web stack fits together, how to take advantage of great...
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Next month I’ll be in Europe giving presentations at some great .NET conferences. Below are details on the three conferences I’m presenting at: Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC 2011) I’ll be in Oslo, Norway for the NDC 2011 conference (June 8th to 10th). I’ve heard really great things about NDC – I’m excited to be able to finally attend in person! I’m doing a keynote talk, two breakout talks, and an unplugged Q&A session. Details on NDC can be found here . Microsoft DevConnections Germany I’ll be in Karlsruhe, Germany for the Microsoft DevConnections Germany conference (June 8th to 10th). I’m doing a keynote talk on the 10th (Friday). Details on Microsoft DevConnections Germany can be found here . Microsoft...
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We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site. Created by Pluralsight (a great .NET training company), these video courses are available free of charge and provide a great way to learn (or brush-up your knowledge of) ASP.NET Web Forms 4 and ASP.NET MVC 3. Each course is taught by a single trainer, and provides a nice end-to-end curriculum (from basic concepts to working with the new Entity Framework “code first” model to security, deployment, and testing). Below are some details on the two free training courses we published this weekend (and links for how to watch them): ASP.NET MVC 3 Training This weekend we posted the final videos in a brand new 10...
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Three weeks ago we held our MIX 2011 conference in Las Vegas. MIX is one of my favorite events of the year, and the conference always has a ton of great content and announcements. All of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the event can be watched online for free here . I’ll be doing a few posts in the upcoming weeks that also cover some highlights from it. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update One of the announcements I made in my Day 1 keynote was the release of an ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update . This update is a small, but very tasty, update that includes a bunch of really nice tooling improvements for ASP.NET MVC 3. You can install it from the http://asp.net/mvc site (just click the installer). The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools...
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