Steve Walther, author of ASP.NET Unleashed , will be at ASP Vienna and ASP Rockville this week. He'll be doing two presentations, the first on Using Client Side Java Script in Custom Web Controls, and the second on Extending the ASP.NET Runtime Using...

It's finally done. We had a launch event for SQL Server Reporting Services earlier this week. A lot of people are excited, especially because you can add it to an existing (licensed) SQL Server with no additional license fee . I've been playing around...

I'm the developer community champion for West Virginia, Virginia, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. I've done events in Virginia, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and I know about user groups either in or close to each of these places...

I'm lucky enough to be invited to speak at the Dev Days in Philadelphia (PA Convention Center) on March 2 and Pittsburgh (Lawrence Convention Center) on March 9 . My session is “Developing Secure Web Applications: Examining an End-to-End, Hack-Resilient...

Dev Days 2004 now has a dedicated blogging site . Whenever you see the blogger guy , you're seeing the best in Dev Days related blogging. At PDC last October , one of the coolest things was the number of folks who blogged the PDC . PDC was in one...

The DC MCSD Study Group scheduled for Rockville this evening has also been cancelled. We'll resume next week with Chapter 2 of the Kalani book on controls.

Since we're enjoying a winter wonderland in the nation's capital , Brian Moran has cancelled tonight's Capital Area SQL Server User's Group that was scheduled for AT&T in Tyson's Corner. I was supposed to talk about SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services...

Interesting. The folks who run TheServerSide.com , which is a huge hub for the J2EE community, have just started a .NET site called TheServerSide.NET . These are the guys who ran the J2EE side of the controversial Pet Shop benchmark. They recently...

Brian Noyes , who is an awesome speaker on .NET, is doing a low cost one day class called Essential .NET in Reston on Feb 3rd. The morning is a drill down on the C# language. The afternoon session focuses on details of the way the CLR manages assemblies...

We have a couple of great ASP.NET seminars coming up in Fairfax and King of Prussia. The King of Prussia seminar is on Tuesday, January 27 th , and the Fairfax seminar is on Thursday, January 29 th . Both start at 1:00 PM. The content for both seminars...

Because the Pittsburgh Microsoft Office 2003 launch event got cancelled, we're running a series of make up events in Pittsburgh to cover the same content. This Tuesday, Jan 20th, we have the Office 2003 launch developer content. You can register here...

I spent Saturday teaching my two C# classes at Byte Back . Byte Back is a great organization in North East Washington DC that provides computer skills training at little or no cost. I was involved with Byte Back in the very early days (1997); I taught...

Last week I went to the inaugural meeting of a study group who are going to study for the ASP.NET exams in VB and C#. They plan to meet each Monday in Rockville, MD. This coming Monday, Jan 19th, they are going to study the first chapter of the Kalani...

This week I've been in Wilmington, DE and Allentown, PA , (actually Bethlehem) doing seminars on ASP.NET Architecture and ASP.NET security. It's been an interesting experience as I have a foot infection at the moment and I'm doing seminars in a wheel...

Hi, I'm Geoff Snowman, the Developer Community Champion for Maryland, DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The organization at Microsoft that I work for is called the “Seminar Sales Team“ and it's based in Dallas, Texas...