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Here are some suggestions on what to do or see while at TechEd in New Orleans

We are putting out a call for abstracts to present at the Fall 2010 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov 1-4, 2010. The due date for submissions is April 26, 2010.

For submitting sessions, please use this URL:
http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts

Please keep the abstracts under 200 words each and in one paragraph. No bulleted items and line breaks, and please use a spell-checker. Do not email abstracts, you need to use the web-based tool to submit them.

Please submit at least 3 abstracts, but it would help your chances of being selected if you submitted 5 or more abstracts. Also, you are encouraged to suggest all-day pre or post conference workshops as well.

We need to finalize the conference content and the tracks layout in just a few short weeks, so we need your abstracts by April 26th. No exceptions will be granted on late submissions!

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* ASP.NET Webforms
* ASP.NET AJAX
* ASP.NET MVC
* Dynamic Data
* Anything else related to ASP.NET

I’m pretty much a Web Forms kinda guy but a few months ago I decided to write a talk for the Fall 2009 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference (part of DevConnections conferences) that was an introduction to ASP.NET MVC for a Web Forms person (yes, this is not really equivalent to a Dummy so to speak, but the Dummies title sounded “funner”).

I recently presented two talks at the Victoria .NET Developer’s Association. The first talk was an introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services 2008. The second talk was on the major improvements to Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008 and how to use the new features.

Recently, I blogged about the Four Pillars of ASP.NET:

Okay, I just signed up to participate in a bike ride to help conquer cancer. I am riding about 160 miles over two days (June 20-21) from Vancouver, BC to Seattle, WA (back to where I live) to raise money for cancer research and treatment. All funds raised by myself and other US riders will go (after expenses) to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the world-renowned research center where I have had the privilege to work over the past 5+ years.

Not that long ago, there was just ASP.NET. But ASP.NET has expanded to include different approaches to development. Recently, I was chatting with Microsoft’s Scott Hunter and Steve Walther over drinks at DevConnections Orlando and Steve mentioned “the four pillars of ASP.NET.” The four pillars are the four ways you can build web sites with ASP.NET, both today and in the future. The four pillars are: