Category: DevConnections

 Did DevConnections conference provide value for time and money companies or individuals paid? The answer is yes and here is why. Marvellous Learning Experience: Right from the source it was. The conference had a fine selection of speakers; Microsoft speakers, other independent Microsoft technology gurus, authors and professional developers. These speakers delivered well in the short session times, provided…

Juval Lowy's post conference workshop on C# 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 was excellent!. He covered IDE tips and tricks, language features and very cool practical features of utilizing VS.NET 2005 effectively. It was a full day session (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM) but due to the sheer amount of contents discussed during the talk left…

Q&A  Session was pretty cool...as Paul summarized it “at the closing session we answered questions from the audience and gave away two DVD players, 3 IPod Nanos, 3 conference passes, two XBox 360s, and a few other things I can't recall.“Following are the topics covered in Q&A. I'll post the answers soon. Is Visual Studio Team System…

After .NET rocks live show from devConnections, I met Carl Franklin yesterday; His official title is “NET Wonk, MVP for Visual Basic, MSDN Regional Director, Hunter/Gatherer, Host of .NET Rocks“. A very friendly person!

Thanks to Michael Bundschuh, following are the slides of his excellent presentations. Visual Studio Team System Session Slides Migration from ASP 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 Session slides These should also be avaialble from devConnections website soon.

Paul Litwin’s session on SQL Server reporting services was an informative, developer oriented , no-fluff introduction to reporting services programming. It taught the audience, slowly but surely, what this powerful technology can do for us.  I know this because I was involved in the migration of an existing reporting system to SQL Server reporting services for my company…

  Learning at devConnections, or any high-paced-hi-tech-content-packed technical conferences for that matter, is different from conventional educational process. The contents covered in the sessions are of broader nature and requires deep understanding and discussion before fully “digested” by mind. Due to time crunch, it’s obviously not possible to have one day workshop on any or…

[This blog post is a stub. I’ll be expanding it soon with details from sessions] Tuesday was the first and quite a busy day here at devConnections 2005 . After Mat Nunn’s introduction to SQL server 2005, I attended Jonathan Hawkin, lead program manager Microsoft Corp’s presentation on “Developing ASP.NET server control with design time…

Having Tablet PC hands on lab workshop running in parallel with trade show was  a great idea.  Microsoft is taking a bold initiative in ink based development. The hand writing recognition is way more refined than I've used before and controls are sophisticated. It has made much easier for developers to use the power of ink; hwnd mapping…

With Charles Petzold, the living legend of win32 API programming. With Scott Guthrie; a Microsoft product unit manager on web platform and tools who got ASP.NET started and hence considered Father of ASP.NET