I'll be speaking on the 31st of May at the Portland Area DotNet User Group next week (directions). The topic is 'Building a reusable ASP.NET Toolbox', which is a grab bag of tips and tricks and a handful of tools that just about every ASP.NET application needs. It's a fairly basic session, but a fun one nonetheless. In the past this session has been kind of interesting in sparking a wide range of discussions of other tools as well comparing what others are doing. It's bound to be a lively session.
Here's the official line:
Building a resusable ASP.NET Toolbox
This session demonstrates some re-usable tools, classes and components that every Web Application should integrate. Every application needs a core set of features, like managing configuration settings, handling and reporting errors consistently, logging requests, providing application status information, displaying consistent error and information message pages, managing application cookies consistently and more. In this session I'll demonstrate a handful of useful utility classes and processes that accomplish these tasks in a reusable fashion and show how they work under the covers.
If you're in or around Portland, stop on by and say hello to this lively and fun group.