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...

Simon Muzio recently posted a link to free upcoming webcast talks for .NET . These are free webcast presentations that anyone can join over the web. You can find archived versions of past webcast events on the http://www.asp.net/learn site here . Here is a quick summary of upcoming webcasts over the...

Many thanks to everyone in New Zealand who attended my "ASP.NET: End-to-End - Building a Complete Web Application Using ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and IIS7 (Parts 1 and 2)" talk this afternoon. You can download the slides from my talk here . You can then download the application I built here (note...

Several people have sent me email lately asking for a suggested short-list of my best/favorite past blog posts to read (I’ve done 200 posts over the last 12 months and apparently it takes too long to read them all <g>). I’ve put together a summary page of ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes...

Earlier this spring we published a really popular series of short, focused, online ASP.NET videos that we called the “How Do I?” series. The series walked through how to use Visual Web Developer to take advantage of the cool new ASP.NET 2.0 features like Master Pages, Membership, Role Management...

A bunch of cool Atlas content has recently been posted to the web. Below are a few nice links to check out: New Articles Introduction to AJAX and Atlas with ASP.NET 2.0 (just added) How to Add Atlas to an Existing Site How to Add Atlas Controls to the VS toolbox Using the Atlas Control Toolkit Test Harness...

Many thanks to the 1200+ people who showed up to my TechEd breakout talk today. I had a blast and hope you did too. As promised, you can now download the slides from my talk here . And you can download my demos here . There is a "Readme.txt" file in the root of the demos .zip file that walks through...

One of the demos that got people (especially ones not currently using Microsoft technology) excited at the MIX conference a few weeks ago was a demo that Shanku did showing the Atlas Client-Script Libraries working within a PHP web app. The Atlas architecture easily allows this, and Atlas can be integrated...

June 21st Update : Here is a pointer to even more content . http://atlas.asp.net is the best place to visit to learn more and download the latest Atlas CTP Release (which now supports Go-Live deployments). If you haven't had a chance to dive into Atlas yet, you might want to set aside 18 minutes to watch...