Microsoft UK Technical Roadshow – Spring 2004

I will presenting at a couple of the forthcoming UK Microsoft Technical Roadshows (we used to refer to these as MSDN roadshows, but the new events now have an IT Professional and a Security track, alongside the traditional Developer track)

Full information on the event, registration details (the event is free), and agenda, can be found at https://www.microsoft.com/uk/resources/techroadshow/default.mspx. It does tend to fill up, so "book early".

The four locations are:

• Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 April 2004Bolton, Reebok Conference Centre
• Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May 2004
  Edinburgh, Corn Exchange Building
• Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 May 2004
  Telford, International Centre
• Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 June 2004
  London, Hilton Metropole

I’ll be at Edinburgh and Telford (near Birmingham – I had to check on MapPoint Europe 2004, a most excellent product I use all the time), and will be doing the session:

• Building Data-Driven Websites with ASP.NET

I had better start working on this – it’s a good subject, and alongside the actual presentations, I look forward to meeting and talking with many of you, which is part of why these events are so much fun to be involved with.

By the way, any suggestions as to what I should cover, or any cool demo ideas, appreciated via comments to this blog!

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
  I'd be interested in hearing more about MS Patterns and Practices, with respect to ASP.NET.
  
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/patterns/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnpatterns/html/EspWebPresentationPatterns.asp
  
  
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
  Hmmphh...can't go, the MSDN roadshow (which was a total waste of time) last year has poisoned my employers mind against these things...
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
  I'm with you on the MSDN roadshow. .NET for the clueless. I walked out after 30 minutes, which, granted, might have meant I was missing something, but I'd read through the slides and there was nothing that I didn't already know, or couldn't work out for myself.
  
  These things have to present sophisticated topics for them to be worthwhile.
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
  Hi David
  
  I would have to say that I think the content is more towards the begginner and there needs to be content geared towards actual developers have taken the time to learn or at least look at the products.
  
  Lets look at how youd go about a solution based on an already built web app and how you would add webservice which talk to mappoint to do specific tasks - could also mention add in com controls and talk about the new Mappoint location server and how yo could use a gos device to find out where you are using mappoint.
  
  
  More sophisticated content with new ideas to keep us sitting there with interest.
  
  p.s. I'll be in Edinburgh and would like you to have a mappoint desk tghere so we can query you on topics.
  
  Cheers
  Gregor Suttie
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
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  April 05, 2004
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• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
  I don't think you should be aiming at developers new to the platform. If you do, then there should be alternative streams.
  
  VS 2005 is still a little too far away for me to care about, although I've got the CTP installed and I'm following along.
  
  MapPoint would seem to be a little narrow as a topic, to my mind.
  
  Real-world solutions, is what's important.
• Anonymous
  April 05, 2004
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• Anonymous
  April 20, 2004
  a minor date change to the Birmingham date / venue. This list looks like this now:
  
  Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 April 2004
  Bolton, Reebok Conference Centre
  
  Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May 2004
  Edinburgh, Corn Exchange Building
  
  Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 June 2004
  London, Hilton Metropole
  
  Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 June 2004
  Birmingham, NEC
  
• Anonymous
  May 19, 2004
  I've been at the first day of the Microsoft Technical Roadshow 2004 in Edinburgh. In general, it was better than I expected with every session having something that was new to me (even if it was only in presentation techniques).
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2004
  Just got back from the first day of the roadshow at the London Hilton Metropole. The content was really aimed at beginners who don't know anything about .NET already. Would be nice to see some more advanced topics covered.
  
  The presentation was generally good, and I'm hoping day two will be better :-)
• Anonymous
  June 17, 2004
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