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September 2008 - Posts

Pablo’s Day of TDD

The nice folks down in San Antonio and Austin have asked me to make sure and mention their upcoming mega-fantastic event – Pablo’s Day of TDD, a.k.a. PDoTDD.  PDoTDD is a day-and-a-half event of workshops, discussion, practice, and training around Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 3:53 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Silverlight 2 RC0 Available Today!

The Silverlight team announced today that Silverlight 2 RC0 was released today for public consumption.  Please note that applications built using this release will work off of the Silverlight 2 RC0 Developer Runtime only. Please keep that in mind Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 3:14 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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MSDN Unleashed in Austin, TX

I had a great time today participating in the MSDN Unleashed event today in Austin, TX.  We had about 85 folks join us for a pair of great discussions around WPF and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  I’ve attached the slide decks (via my SlideShare account Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 12:16 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

VSLive! Dallas 2008

The session listing for VSLive! Dallas is posted now and several of our local User Group leaders, MVPs and Community Personalities are speaking! Best and Worst Practices - SharePoint as an Application Development Architecture - David Walker Behavior Driven Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 12:10 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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XNA Creators Club Online - xna game studio 3.0 beta

All you XNA fans – get over to the XNA Creators Club Online – the new XNA Game Studio 3.0 beta has just been released!  This version includes a lot of updates from the CTP released earlier this year – some of the new features include: C# 3.0 coding Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:59 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Zune 3.0 Software Released Today

I ditched my iPoo a long time ago because I got fed up with using the crummy iTunes software that crashed my system 60% of the time I plugged the dang thing in, and bought a 30 GB Zune (this was way before I joined Microsoft).  I was instantly taken Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:57 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Houston XamlFest

Are you excited about the WPF but concerned about the learning curve? Have you seen Silverlight but don’t know where to get started? Or are you curious about how tools like Expression Blend help designers and developers deliver great user experiences Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 2:15 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

The night was humid…

… so we spent it at a local .NET User Group meeting!  If you’re looking for one, you can always check http://www.codezone.com , http://www.southcentraldevelopers.com or this blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig .  Here is the list of upcoming Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 5:28 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Adding Style to WPF and Silverlight Apps at DDNUG

I had a great time speaking at the Dallas .NET User Group meeting last night on WPF and Silverlight Styles, Templates and Data Binding.  I’ve posted the slides up on Slideshare and the demos (with the pptx) out on FolderShare .  Here are the Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 11:34 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Houston TechFest Postponed

ALERT – ALERT For those who haven’t yet heard, the upcoming Houston TechFest has been POSTPONED due to imminent threat of Hurricane Ike.  Michael and the HDNUG leadership are busy scouting new dates in January or February of ‘09.  As soon as Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 9:50 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

MSDN Unleashed and ArcReady

Not sure if everyone is subscribed to the MSDN Flash or not, but if you’re not – it is a GREAT resource for finding out what’s happening in your area.  I like the fact that it’s customized to show events and happenings in your geography (my copy Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:51 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

OKC Developer Group Presentation – Next Gen Web Apps

I had a great time last night at the OKC Developer Group meetings.  I love presenting there because you actually get to do 2 presentations – one at lunch (there was about 85 people in attendance) and one at dinner (about 15 people).  That’s Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:16 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

ADO.NET Data Services + Silverlight 2 B2 = Happiness

This one almost snuck by me, but on my Microsoft Downloads email today I saw that the ADO.NET Data Services bits had been updated to work work with Silverlight.  I had a demo a week or so ago that I tried to do where I was wiring up an ADO.NET Data Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 9:28 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

MVP David Walker featured on Quest Software's Pain-of-the-Week

Kudos and congratulations to our very own MVP David Walker for his starring role on this week’s Quest Software’s Pain-of-the-Week.  The topic was Quest Software's Pain-of-the-Week: The Converging Paths of SQL Server and SharePoint - Don't Wait Until Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:05 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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MVP Raymond Lewallen at NDDNUG

Microsoft MVP Raymond Lewallen is coming to the North Dallas .NET User Group on Wednesday, September 10th at 6:00 PM to present an in-depth look at Behavior Driven Development (BDD). BDD is driven by business value!   The practices of BDD include: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:36 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Houston TechFest Next Weekend

Hey everyone – make sure you’re registered for Houston TechFest next weekend, Sept 13th.  The registrations are filling up fast, so make sure that you get your name in there.  Michael and company have arranged for an AWESOME set of speakers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:37 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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