What better way to spend the last week of March than in sunny Orlando, Florida at the ASP.NET Connections conference!  I'm excited to be speaking at the conference on several different topics ranging from extending the DataGrid to new XML features in .NET version 2.  If you'll be attending stop by and say "hi". Here's an overview of the talks I'll be giving:

ADX251: New XML Features in .NET Version 2 
The initial release of the .NET framework contained several classes geared toward parsing, validating, and transforming XML data. Version 2 builds upon .NET’s existing support for XML by adding several new and enhanced classes that support working with XML. This session will focus on several of the key classes found in version 2, discuss new VS.NET 2005 XML features, and provide examples of integrating XML into ASP.NET applications.

AMP301: Master Pages in ASP.NET 1.1?
Although ASP.NET version 1.1 doesn’t support the Master Pages technology found in version 2, you can emulate this functionality without forcing developers to learn a lot of new server controls and techniques.  In this session, Dan Wahlin will demonstrate how to easily give ASP.NET websites a consistent look and feel using XML templates combined with customized classes that inherit from System.Web.UI.Page.

AWF302: Extending the DataGrid – Creating a Time Allocation Grid
The DataGrid control provides an enormous of functionality that can be used to display and collect data in a Web application. This session takes an advanced look at how the DataGrid control can be extended to create a Time Allocation grid to associate employee hours with work codes for reporting and scheduling purposes.  The enhanced time allocation grid supports client-side interaction, multiple headers and leverages XML schemas to help with state management.