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October 2008 - Posts

Live Mesh now available for Mac and Mobile!

I just went to the Live Mesh site and noticed that they’ve enabled functionality for Mac and Mobile! For current Mesh users, just hit http://www.mesh.com from your mobile device’s web browser or from your Mac and it will guide you through the installation Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:16 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Windows Live Mesh on Windows 7

For those of you attending PDC and are experimenting with Windows 7, here’s an update you’ll need to apply to get Mesh working on your new OS.  Just create a REG file with the following information in it, and run it on your Windows 7 machine.  Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:07 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments
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Java and Ruby SDKs for Microsoft .NET Cloud Services

Look at that – I just noticed that we’re offering a Java and a Ruby SDK for our new Microsoft .NET Cloud Services announced yesterday at PDC: I didn’t remember hearing that yesterday, but this is AWESOME! Technorati Tags: Ruby , Java , .NET , Live , Cloud Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:45 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

PDC Day 2 – Windows 7, Windows Live, Mesh and Office Online

Today’s big announcements at PDC were around Windows 7, .NET 4/VS2010, Windows Live Mesh and Microsoft Office futures. Windows 7 Both Windows Server 2008 R@ and Windows 7 will have the ability to boot from a VHD as well as mount a VHD like a normal drive Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:45 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Get your .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 right here…

UPDATE: Fixed the links to the bits! Hot off the presses this morning, a VPC containing the first CTP for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 were released to the public on Microsoft Connect. The VPC is broken down into a TON of files, but Brian Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:03 PM by Chris Koenig | 5 Comments
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PDC Day 1 – Windows Azure

You might have heard rumblings of secret projects at Microsoft called Red Dog, or Strata on various blog posts or Twitter feeds.  Today at PDC, the covers came off these codenames to reveal Windows Azure: Originally called Windows Strata, Windows® Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 1:04 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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New .NET Logos announced today!

.NET is getting a logo facelift! This is not something I had planned to blog about – it just arrived in my inbox tonight while I was working on the other postings and I decided to see if I could be one of the first ones to talk about it :)  Anyway, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 8:07 PM by Chris Koenig | 10 Comments
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MSDN Developer Conference – Bringing PDC Home!

Coming soon to a classy venue near you is the Microsoft MSDN Developer Conference.  Modeled after the extremely popular MSDN events and stuffed full of the hottest PDC content.  Come to the MSDN Developer conference and attend these great sessions: Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 7:57 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Get ready for MIX09

I know that PDC starts on Monday, but it’s never too early to start thinking about MIX!  Those of you who went last year know what an amazing conference MIX is, and those that didn’t should definitely make plans to attend this year.  Held every Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 5:24 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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AgileDotNet Conference 2008

I usually start out these posts saying "I don't typically link-blog", but I've said that so many times now, that I think I'll just say "I've found another occasion to link-blog something", this time from my good friend Todd Girvin Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:52 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Hard Rock Cafe and Silverlight Deep Zoom

Our friends at Vertigo Software have updated the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia site with some new features as they migrated the application to the released version of Silverlight 2.  The new features include some AMAZING performance improvements in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:30 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Robotics Studio at MakerFaire

  I spent this past weekend in sunny Austin, TX at the annual Maker Faire event.  The best way I can think to describe the event was a combination of a science fair on steroids and a circus carnival.  There were some AMAZING things to see Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 1:24 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Tulsa TechFest - Recap

Last week at this time I was sitting in my hotel room in Tulsa amazed at how AWESOME the 3rd annual Tulsa TechFest had turned out.  I personally had given two talks back-to-back on How to Add Style to Your WPF and Silverlight Applications, and had Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:15 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Pragmatic Beer - Dallas : Simpable

For those of you who are planning to go to the in.Telligent conference next week, or are just plain planning to be in Dallas next week, please join Scott and the guys for a trip to the local pub after the conference Pragmatic Beer - Dallas : Simpable Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:03 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Silverlight 2 RTW on Oct 14, 2008

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=PR&Date=20081013&ID=9263913&Symbol=MSFT This represents a HUGE step forward for .NET and Web Developers everywhere.  Over 1 year in various alpha and beta versions, Silverlight Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 12:13 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

HHH Launch Update - SQL Server 2008!

For those of you that attended one of the Heroes Happen {Here} Events in the US, I’ve just been told that your copies of SQL Server 2008 should be hitting the post office “within the month” (quote from one of our Marketing Managers).  Hopefully you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:23 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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Tulsa TechFest, Here I Come!

Hey everyone – I hope you’ve all had a chance to go out to the Tulsa TechFest web site and register for the upcoming event.  Registrations for the event are going strong, and we’re expecting another great turnout this year!  All you need to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:27 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

MSDN TechDays is Coming to Dallas!

Are you ready for a GeekFest?  We’re pulling out all the stops to make the next MSDN event a memorable one!  MSDN TechDays is a three-day geek-out covering a variety of topics for ITPros, Developers and Architects.  We’re holding the first Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:43 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
 
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