I spent close to three weeks on the road giving talks at Tech-Ed Europe (Berlin), PDC (Los Angeles), and the Los Angeles Code Camp (Los Angeles). I got to talk about two topics that I am very passionate about: ASP.NET MVC and Ajax. Thanks everyone for coming to all my talks! At PDC, I announced all of the new features of our ASP.NET Ajax Library. In particular, I made five big announcements: ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta Released – You can download the beta from Ajax.CodePlex.com ASP.NET Ajax Library includes the AJAX Control Toolkit –...

Thank you to everyone who came to my talks at Tech-ed India! It was great meeting so many developers in India (I finally got to meet many people who I have been reading their blogs for years). I’ve had several people request the slides and sample files from the talk so I am posting them here. ASP.NET 4 Talk – The slides and sample files. MVC Talk – The slides. The Contact Manager sample application is located at http://www.ASP.net/mvc/learn. AJAX 4.0 Talk – The slides and sample files.  

I’ll be in India all next week giving 3 talks at Microsoft Tech-ed in Hyderabad. This is my first trip to India. I have no idea what to expect. I’ll be giving the following three talks: Welcome to ASP.NET 4.0 – Developing Next Gen Web Applications Developing MVC Based Web Apps using ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 I get to talk about all of the new innovations coming with the next version of ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET AJAX (some exciting new stuff to talk about there). And, I get to do...

Thank you everyone who came to my one day ASP.NET MVC workshop at ASP.NET Connections. We managed to build an entire Movie Database application with unit tests and a reasonably good design -- Congratulations! I've attached the Movie Database application and the demo code from the workshop below. Workshop Code

Thanks everyone for the incredible amount of feedback that I got after my two talks at MIX last week -- I'm still receiving emails. I've added links to the video recordings of the talks below: ASP.NET 4.0: What's Next? ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level Here are the links to the slides and code samples: ASP.NET 4.0: What's Next? ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level Realize that the code from the ASP. NET 4.0 Talk requires Visual Studio 2010 -- so you won't be able to do much with it without Visual Studio 2010 other than take a look at the code in Notepad.

I will be in Orlando, Florida next week speaking at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando, Florida. I'm giving 5 separate talks.  I'm presenting two talks on Microsoft day: ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft’s newest framework for building web applications. In this session, you learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET MVC to build loosely coupled and highly testable applications. Over the course of this session, we build a simple database-driven Web application from start to finish. You learn how to use several features of the ASP.NET MVC framework including Model Binders, Partials, and...

Hey, I'm giving two talks at MIX this year. This is my first MIX! Come hear about all of the new changes coming with ASP.NET 4.0 and ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 at the MIX conference next week. I'm giving two talks: Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0: What's Next? and Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level. My first talk is an overview talk on all of the new features and improvements coming with ASP.NET Web Forms 4.0 I've spent the last 6 months concentrating on ASP.NET MVC (because that is my day job) and I haven't really been paying attention to all of...

Want to learn more about ASP.NET MVC? I'm giving a talk at VSLive next week in San Francisco. The title of the talk is ASP.NET MVC: So What?. In the talk, I will demonstrate my ASP.NET MVC Contact Manager Sample Application. The sample application will give me a chance to talk about model binders, software design patterns, test-driven development, and all sorts of other neat stuff. It is not too late register for the conference. To learn more, visit: http://vslive.com/2009/sf/default.aspx

I'm presenting the keynote for the Microsoft Developers Conference in Washington, D.C. on January 16 (this Friday). The Microsoft Developers Conference is a one day version of the Microsoft PDC. You get one day of sessions that introduce all of the important new Microsoft technologies. The emphasis is on Windows Azure, Live Mesh, and Windows 7 (everyone who comes gets the Windows 7 Beta DVD). I'm presenting an hour and a half keynote that is packed with demonstrations of Windows Azure, the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF), Windows 7, Live Mesh, Silverlight, and other really, really, cool stuff. The keynote is followed...

I just flew back from Barcelona where I gave three talks last week at Tech-Ed EMEA. Lots of excitement, and great feedback, on all of the new Ajax features being added to the ASP.NET framework. I've included the Power Points and demo code from my presentations below. In my first Ajax talk, I focused on several newly released features of ASP.NET AJAX including Browser History, Script Combining, jQuery integration, and the ASP.NET MVC AJAX Helpers. Download the Power Point Download the  Demo Code Download the Demo Code (MVC App) In my second Ajax talk, I discussed the new features of ASP.NET AJAX coming with ASP.NET...