Since I last wrote about our most excellent conference Øredev, there have been a few announcements. Go check out the program for all details as it is now time for you to register if you have not already done so.

After the Build conference, the key takeaways, in my most humble opinion, were vastly improved performance and features in multi-monitor, multi-DPI  support  in XAML in Windows 8.1 as well as the enormous paradigm shift in ASP.NET 4.5.1 which unifies all view engines and paradigms into one ASP.NET, which will help users cherry pick the things they need to create apps that leverage all things that comprise ASP.NET. WebForms, MVC, SignalR and WebApi.

To demonstrate those things from Build, Mads Kristensen, Sr. Program Manager on the Web Platforms & Tools team, will grace us with his presence and do a talk entitled What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 for Web Developers, while one of our old favourites, Tess Ferrandez will return to do a session called What is new in XAML for Windows 8.1.

We will also, as you may have read on the Internets, feature keynotes from Anna Beatrice Scott, Randall Munroe and Jens Bergensten have been added to the lineup.

In other words, we are pretty excited about our conference, and believe you would be too, so get started with your reservations.