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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...

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...

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...

Thank you everyone who came to my three talks this week at DevConnections Germany! I really enjoyed my time in Karlsruhe. Here are the slides and sample code for the three talks: jQuery Templates In this talk, I discuss how you can take advantage of jQuery templates when building both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. I demonstrate several advanced features of templates such as wrapped templates and remote templates. Download the slides Download the code HTML5 In this talk, I discuss the features of HTML5 which matter most when building database-driven web applications. I demonstrate WebSockets, Web Workers, Web Storage, IndexedDB, and Offline Web Applications. Download the slides Download the code jQuery + OData In this talk,...

This Friday, April 22nd, I’ll be holding my 8th Annual “Day of .NET” event in Arizona.  Organized by my friend Scott Cate, this all-day event is free and contains a ton of great content and presentations on recent technologies in the .NET world.  It is hosted in a great facility and is a lot of fun. This year I’ll be presenting together with Mark Russinovich, and we’ll be covering ASP.NET + Azure + Silverlight + Windows Phone 7.  It will be great! You can learn more about the event, and register to attend for free here . Hope to see you there! Scott Read More...

Thank you everyone who came to my talk yesterday at ASP.NET Connections on jQuery Templates. Click the link at the end of this blog entry to download the slides and code. Some of the more interesting code samples include: RemoteBetter.aspx – Demonstrates how to get Intellisense when creating a template by placing the template in an external user control. TemplateControl.aspx – Demonstrates how to get Intellisense when creating a template by using a custom ASP.NET ClientTemplate control. CRUD.aspx – Demonstrates how to create a Web Forms applications that uses jQuery Templates and WCF services to make a Create, Read, Update, Delete database-driven Movie application. Download the Slides and Code Read More...

Thank you everyone who attended my half-day workshop on jQuery and ASP.NET at ASP.NET Connections in Florida! You can download the slide deck and all of the code from the workshop by clicking the link at the bottom of this blog post. There are about 40 code samples that demonstrate a wide range of jQuery features including selectors, events, animation, Ajax, jQuery UI, the templates plugin, the data-link plugin, the globalization plugin, and the jQuery validate plugin. Here is a description of some of the more interesting code samples: 2_Ajax\2_PageMethod.aspx – Demonstrates how you can call a Web Forms page method using jQuery 2_Ajax\5_OData.aspx – Demonstrates how to call the Netflix.com odata service using jQuery to retrieve movie information...

The excellent DevConnections conference will be held in Florida later this month (March 27th to 30th).  DevConnections features multiple concurrent tracks – including ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Connections, and SharePoint Connections. I’ll be doing a keynote on the first day, and there will be dozens of fantastic talks that week by some of the best presenters in the .NET community.  You can learn more about the conference here . I highly recommend the conference – and hope to meet up with some of you there! Scott P.S. Use the discount code “DevCon1” to save $200 when registering. Read More...

Pluralsight (a great .NET training company) is offering the opportunity to watch their jQuery Fundamentals course for free for the next 36 hours. The course is presented by the most excellent Dan Wahlin and contains 5 hours of great end to end content.  Pluralsight will be offering this jQuery Fundamentals course for free until Thursday evening (9pm PST). Pluralsight has about 100 other great training courses available similar to this one.  They recently launched a new subscription plan that allows you to watch all of their courses online starting from $29 a month.  They also offer a 10 day free trial option that you can use to try it out.  You can learn more about it here . Free jQuery 1.5 Visual Cheat Sheet While on the...

Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event .  This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics.  Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-y Goodness of Delivering Packages (Phil Haack) Industrial Strenght NuGet (Andy Wahrenberger) Intro to MVC 3 (John Petersen) Advanced MVC 3 (Brad Wilson) Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications (Eric Sowell) Web Matrix...