Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck and links to the code here: Normally, I make my actual demo code available for download.  However, this time around, my demo code was based on the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.  I blogged about it ...

Looking for free introductory training on the .NET 3.5 SP1 & ASP.NET MVC?  Head over to Jonathan Carter's blog to get all the details on the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit RTM.  What will you find?  Information and links to download a kit that has presentations, demos, and labs covering what's new in ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ & VSTO sessions yet, but will update this post when I get them.  However, I did promise to have a post up this morning. How Visual Studio Team System 2008 will benefit your organization? - ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ session yet, but will update this post when I get it.  However, I did promise to have a post up this morning. The Benefits of Visual Studio Team System to Your Organization - deck What's New in ...

Thanks to everyone who stuck around for my "Defy Occasionally-Connected Challenges With Smart Client Applications" session at the DC Launch.  The deck and demo files are available here: Deck Workflow Services Demo Sync Services for ADO.NET Demo Server Database The demos require Visual Studio 2008 and depend on a SQL Server 2005 ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  As promised, I have gathered all the decks and code.  Here are the links:   The Benefits of Visual Studio Team System to Your Organization - deck Silverlight for Developers: Leveraging Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 2 - deck What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET ...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  You can get the deck here and the code here.  The code has been updated for Visual Studio 2008 RTM.   -Marc  Technorati Tags: asp.net,.net framework,ajax,linq,visual studio

Thanks to everyone who attended.  All of my demos are based on Visual Studio 2008 / .NET Framework 3.5 RTM.  Here are the downloads: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL - deck, demo code NOTE: You will need to install both the Northwind (available here) and AdventureWorks (available here) sample databases for the LINQ to SQL demos to ...

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe).  I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA ''issues'' it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted ...