Today I presented an intro to ASP.NET MVC beta to 300+ folks at the Toronto Congress Centre. This was the largest audience I have presented to thus far. Overall I am pretty happy with how it went.... Only a few folks got up and left and the demos it did blow up too badly. I finished a little early but had about 10 people lined up afterward for questions. Overall a great experience which I plan to do again. I will post a link to the video when it comes available.

I did have a little issue with advancing the slides because of presenter mode in powerpoint which I never used before .... Hopefully it won't be too difficult to watch.

ASP.NET MVC is currently not that well known in Toronto with less than 5 people from the audience actually having played with it before my talk. Also practically only 2 people were practising TDD or Test Driven Development.

Here is a link to the powerpoint deck, (Car vs. Motorcycles)

In regards to the demos and code I really did not due too much more than the default project which is created when you create a new ASP.NET MVC webproject. You can get the latest ASP.NET MVC code here .. currently in beta (ASP.NET MVC beta).

You can find videos of both the routing and the Unit testing demo's I did here.

(Routing) & (Unit Testing) Thanks to Stephen Walther for these.

Lastly I would really like to thank Scott Hanselman for his deck and his stellar presentation skills. (Sadly I did not do his jokes justice). Check out his blog you will be glad you did.

Finally I want to thank Microsoft Canada DPE for allowing me to present... in particular Christian Beauclair, John Bristowe, and Paul Laberge.

Cheers