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A few months ago I did a free online chat hosted by LIDNUG (Linked .NET Users Group) that was a lot of fun (and which people seemed to really like). This Tuesday (August 25th) I’m doing it again from 9am-10:30am (PST – Pacific US time).  The agenda format is open and anyone can join in.  Basically you type your questions and then you can listen to me online answer as many of them as I can.  Any question is fair game! :-) Click here to register to join the talk for free. Hope to chat with some of you soon! Scott Read More...

I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town.  The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event .  I’ll be presenting Silverlight 3.  Unfortunately the event is already over-registered – so if you haven’t registered yet you’ll need to catch it the next time I’m in town. The second talk is tomorrow (Friday) from 1-4pm at the Microsoft facility in Reading and is on ASP.NET MVC .  When we first announced it last week it also over-registered quickly.  Thankfully my hosts were able to get a larger room this week, though, so another 120 spots became available.  You can register to attend the talk for free until...

Thank you to everyone who came to my talks at Tech-ed India! It was great meeting so many developers in India (I finally got to meet many people who I have been reading their blogs for years). I’ve had several people request the slides and sample files from the talk so I am posting them here. ASP.NET 4 Talk – The slides and sample files. MVC Talk – The slides. The Contact Manager sample application is located at http://www.ASP.net/mvc/learn . AJAX 4.0 Talk – The slides and sample files. Read More...

LIDNUG (Linked .NET Users Group) is hosting an online chat with me today (Wednesday) from 11:30am to 1pm PST (Pacific Standard Time).  Anyone is free to join and the agenda topic will be open – so bring your questions! Click here to learn more about how to register and attend it. Hope to chat with you more then, Scott Read More...

I’ll be in India all next week giving 3 talks at Microsoft Tech-ed in Hyderabad. This is my first trip to India. I have no idea what to expect. I’ll be giving the following three talks: Welcome to ASP.NET 4.0 – Developing Next Gen Web Applications Developing MVC Based Web Apps using ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 I get to talk about all of the new innovations coming with the next version of ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET AJAX (some exciting new stuff to talk about there). And, I get to do my almost pure code walkthrough of building an ASP.NET MVC application. Wow, look at my giant face on on the India Tech-ed site. You can still register for the event at http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2009/ . Read More...

Two weeks ago we held our MIX conference in Las Vegas.  MIX is my favorite conference of the year – since it nicely integrates development and design topics together in a single event, and is usually accompanied by some pretty cool product announcements. I gave a first day MIX keynote again this year, and in it I talked about and announced a bunch of new Microsoft web development products.  These included: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (we shipped the final V1 release during MIX) Expression Web 3.0 Microsoft Web Platform Installer and Windows Web App Gallery Silverlight 3   Expression Blend 3 IIS Media Services .NET RIA Services My keynote also included a ton of demos and highlighted a bunch of great customers including: StackOverflow, NetFlix...

Thank you everyone who came to my one day ASP.NET MVC workshop at ASP.NET Connections. We managed to build an entire Movie Database application with unit tests and a reasonably good design -- Congratulations! I've attached the Movie Database application and the demo code from the workshop below. Workshop Code Read More...

Thanks everyone for the incredible amount of feedback that I got after my two talks at MIX last week -- I'm still receiving emails. I've added links to the video recordings of the talks below: ASP.NET 4.0: What's Next? ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level Here are the links to the slides and code samples: ASP.NET 4.0: What's Next? ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level Realize that the code from the ASP. NET 4.0 Talk requires Visual Studio 2010 -- so you won't be able to do much with it without Visual Studio 2010 other than take a look at the code in Notepad. Read More...

I will be in Orlando, Florida next week speaking at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando, Florida. I'm giving 5 separate talks. I'm presenting two talks on Microsoft day: ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft’s newest framework for building web applications. In this session, you learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET MVC to build loosely coupled and highly testable applications. Over the course of this session, we build a simple database-driven Web application from start to finish. You learn how to use several features of the ASP.NET MVC framework including Model Binders, Partials, and AJAX helpers. ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level Hear how ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 makes building pure...

Hey, I'm giving two talks at MIX this year. This is my first MIX! Come hear about all of the new changes coming with ASP.NET 4.0 and ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 at the MIX conference next week. I'm giving two talks: Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0: What's Next? and Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level . My first talk is an overview talk on all of the new features and improvements coming with ASP.NET Web Forms 4.0 I've spent the last 6 months concentrating on ASP.NET MVC (because that is my day job) and I haven't really been paying attention to all of the changes coming with ASP.NET Web Forms. I was surprised about the number of changes coming with ASP.NET 4.0. Here is a (very) partial list of these changes: (1) Control over client...