Many thanks to the folks that attended my session at Microsoft Ignite about Building ASP.NET with Microsoft Azure.  We had standing-room-only in the room, and I understand that the overflow room was full as well.

Here are some link resources for more information from the session:

• Channel 9 Recording of the session
• Demo Source Code
• Demo Photo Album
• My Twitter
• ASP.NET Blog
• Azure Documentation Center

I’ll follow-up later today or tomorrow morning with some of my favorite pics that you shared with me during our interactive Ignite Photo session.

As some of you know, I also run the Microsoft Web Development blog on MSDN.  Last week, I had the pleasure of announcing an update to ASP.NET for Visual Basic developers. In addition to being my first post on the topic of Visual Basic, it was a post that really brought my programming career full-circle. I’ll explain Continue reading →

Anyone who has worked in an office with me knows that I crave screen real estate.  Really… there is no more valuable commodity for a developer.  We need to see code, debuggers, client applications or browsers, database connections, communication applications, source control screens, and that’s just getting started.  Its a lot to have to juggle in your head, and with your alt-tab keystrokes to be able to toggle back and forth between these essential applications that you need in order to get your job done.  This weekend, I started reconfiguring my office to support my additional monitors in a more sensible way. Continue reading →