ASP.NET Connections Slides + Demos

Earlier this week I presented at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas.  This is a great conference that is held twice a year (the fall show is in Las Vegas, the spring show is in Orlando).  This past week we had over 1,500 attendees for the ASP.NET conference alone, and more than 4,700 total for all of the DevConnections conferences held in parallel (VS, SQL, SharePoint, Mobile and Office Connections are all held in the same place - with attendees allowed to attend any session).

I presented an overview keynote to everyone at the conference on the opening night, and then three ASP.NET specific talks:   

ASP.NET AJAX Keynote

This talk kicked off the first full day of the conference, and provided an overview of our ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 plans and some "from scratch" demos of it in action.  You can download the slides+demo here. 

The highlight of the talk for me was having Ben Noonan from Burton join me on stage and show off some of the cool ASP.NET AJAX usage they are currently doing at Burton on their live sites.  Ben did a great job walking people through some of the ways they've used it, as well as highlighting some of the great business results they are seeing -- both in terms of increases in the average length of time spent by a user on the site, and the increase in sales and revenue they are realizing.

One of the fun things we did for the conference was to commission a custom Burton ASP.NET AJAX snowboard to be built (see picture on the right for what it looks like).  Bill Gates and Jake Burton both agreed to autograph it, and we raffled it off to a lucky conference attendee yesterday. 

ASP.NET Tips and Tricks

This talk covered ASP.NET UI, Caching and Deployment Tips and Tricks, and Visual Studio 2005 tips/tricks.  You can download the slides+demos 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 by browsing my past blog posts marked with the "Tips and Tricks" tag.

ASP.NET and LINQ

This talk provided an overview of the new LINQ technology that is shipping next year, and demonstrated some of the dramatic productivity improvements it will bring for ASP.NET with data access.  Click here to download the slides+demos for this talk.

You can learn more about LINQ and how to use it with ASP.NET by reviewing some of my past LINQ posts.  Here are a few in particular worth reviewing:

As I've said in the past, I think LINQ is one of the coolest new .NET technologies.  It is definitely worth reviewing and trying out.

My Upcoming Speaking Schedule

I'm actually done speaking at conferences for the year - which is something of a relief since I've already done events in Amsterdam, Helsinki, Nice, Dublin, Auckland, Sydney, Boston, Orlando, Dallas, and Las Vegas (twice) this year.  I am looking forward to being able to stay in sunny Seattle for the next 2 months and actually do my day job. :-)

I am still finalizing my speaking schedule for next year.  I will be speaking at the CodeMash conference in Ohio in mid-January, at the Spring ASP.NET Connections Conference in Orlando in March, potentially the SDWest conference in San Francisco in March (I'm still finalizing my plans here), and definitely the Microsoft MIX07 conference April 30th-May 2nd. 

Beyond May I'm not sure of my exact plans yet -- although I'll probably present again at TechEd US, potentially squeeze in a trip to Europe, and most likely be making my first trips to India and Japan next year.

Hope to see you soon,

Scott

P.S. People sometimes ask me whether they can re-use some of my slides + demos for their own talks.  The answer is absolutely yes!  Please re-use any and all content you find on my blog or in presentations -- no need to ask permission or give credit.  I post this content to have as many people as possible learn from it, so having you deliver it to others is exactly what I'd like to have happen more.

17 Comments

  • I'm looking forward to see you in one of your talk sessions.
    Is there any of your vidio of your talks available to download?

  • Lot's of cool material! And that ASP.NET AJAX snowboard by Burton is way cool too!

  • Scott,

    After reading that you raffled off that snowboard, I will never miss one of your conferences ever again. I would do anything for an ASP.NET Burton snowboard. If there's any way you know of for me to get one of those, please let me know.

    Oh ya, you guys rock pretty hard. Keep up the great work and I'll keep smacking peeps down with the awesomeness of AJAX Beta 2.

    I've got something in the queue that I think you'll dig and I'd love to throw it at you once it's ready for outside eyes. It's not lame, I promise.

  • Looking forward to seeing you at CodeMash!

  • Thanks for posting the slides and demos; I really enjoyed your talks @ DevConnections and blogged about them. It's really amazing to see how, even though being a product mgr, you still keep up with hands on technology. Learned a lot from your devConnections sessions and will be looking forward to future speaking events.

  • Gracias por las demos y las slides.
    Estan geniales!!

    Saludos a Todos

  • Hi Scott,

    Thanks for posting the Slides & Demos, gr8 stuff.

    Looking forward to see you in India(Bangalore).

  • Ok, now that you are done speaking, how about cranking out another one of your articles?
    I mean, like the ones that you've done previously in which you built something from start to finish. I know the other Scott has done a lot of Data stuff (great stuff !).
    Say this time you use Atlas.
    I look forward to another one of yours.
    Keep up the good work.
    Logic

  • Scott,
    You need to post the way for people to purchase one of those snowboard. I must have one!
    Sorry I miss you in the conference, see you in Vegas on April

  • I agree with ナオキにASP.NET（仮） !

  • Great presentation and conference. Thanks for the info and post. Thanks for answering questions at the conference. Well done.

  • WOW GREAT TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE COMING TO INDIA NEXT YEAR, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR BLOG FOR ABOUT AND YEAR AND WANTED TO MEET YOU. HOPE FULLY WILL HAVE A CHANCE WHEN YOU COME TO INDIA

  • If that board ever comes on ebay, its mine...

    Though i would be frightened to use it, it looks so cool.

  • Scott,

    First off, THANKS! I got to sit in on several of you sessions in L.V. and the information you provided was beyond helpful. You

    I’ve been trying muddle my way through ASP.NET AJAX world and I’m having trouble finding a good resource regarding data binding on the client side. Allowing users to use a GridView and FormView in ASP.NET to manage content is simple enough, and throwing an update panel into the mix is straight forward, however, accomplishing the same thing with a list view control is giving me a headache. The only examples I have seen posted on other sites are rather complex. Would it be possible for you post a simple example such as demonstrating CRUD on the Northwind customer table or point me in the direction of a resource that demonstrates something similar (business objects instead of a dataset would be ideal)?



  • Hi Michael,

    Scott Mitchell has been writing some great data access tutorials here that you might want to check out: http://www.asp.net/learn/dataaccess/default.aspx?tabid=63

    I believe some of his later tutorials are now using DataList and Repeaters and will hopefully help.

    Thanks,

    Scott

  • Scott - Sorry if I was not clear on my my last post, what I was referring to demos using an Atlas ListView.

  • Hi Scott

    When you're on the European trip, please make a stop in Belgium... This year, you came to the Netherlands, but that was too difficult for me to attend, sadly enough :(

    Hope to see you in our small country this year!

    gill

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