Heh. So we got an email this morning with some exciting news and, as it happens sometimes, we each thought one of the others would blog about it. So it wasn't. I'm hereby grabbing the baton and running with it. Cue evil laugh... Windows IT Pro has announced the finalists for its Best Of TechEd...

The first session in our booth at TechEd has just finished, and we have time to grab a sandwich and relax a smidgeon before (cue impressive horror music - bam bam bammmm) the Partner Expo Reception. Grown men have been known to quail at this party, and that's just the attendees... So in essence the...

We're now at the end of day 3 of the TechEd Expo and another interesting day. For the first time we felt the effects of having the Expo area open at the same time as the sessions: the traffic today was slower and we were able to really get into some deeper conversations without fear of interruption...

Last night we attended the ceremony for the Best of TechEd Developer Awards. We were finalists in two categories: Database Development, for eXpressApp Framework (XAF), and Software Components and Middleware, for DXperience. Earlier on in the week, one of the judges had come round to our booth and Oliver...

"It is official. The Silverlight 2 Beta 2, "Go Live" license will be announced later this week. Where is Developer Express with it?" I have been asked this question many times this morning. (As you might have guessed, some of us are here in Orlando for TechEd ). And my eyes would...

As is my wont, I was musing to myself this morning about what seemed to be an impossible feature and how great it would be to have. It all came of a comment made to me at TechEd last week . Oh, yes, that reminds me: TechEd was last week and we were there . What with one thing and another I forgot to...

It seemed like a long day at the second exhibitor session today. In fact, now that I've sat down I don't know if I'll be able to stand again for quite a while. The biggest thing that happened today was the editor of Visual Studio Magazine popping around to the booth to present two awards...

If you are at TechEd, please dont forget to vote for your favorite DevExpress product - http://awards.windowsitpro.com/ eXpressApp Framework is nominated in the Database Developer category and DXperience is nominated in the Software Components and Middleware category. Thanks in advance

In the last couple of years, ASP.NET usage in organizations has been on the rise. Having a web interface is important to developers for many reasons. So it's very exciting and humbling to see the amount of interest that developers, managers, Microsoft staff, and even other vendors are showing in...

This evening at the Partner Expo Reception (free food! free drinks!) I got taken aside by a customer who'd been using XtraReports for a good couple of years — in fact as long as I've been working here: I wonder if there's a connection? — and proceeded to, er, give me some feedback...