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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

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, .NET, Web

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

Filed under: User Groups, Events, Training, .NET, Community, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas

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

Filed under: User Groups, Events, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Expression, C#, .NET, UX, Web, VS08, Entity Framework, Community, Dallas

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

Filed under: Events, ADO.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Training, AJAX, ASP.NET, WPF, Architecture, WCF, .NET, Web, VS08, S+S, Entity Framework, LINQ, Community, VSTS, Austin, Houston, Dallas, MSDN

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

Filed under: User Groups, ADO.NET, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Vista, Windows Live, C#, WCF, .NET, Web, VS08, Entity Framework, LINQ, Launch, Community, VSTS, Travel, Oklahoma City

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

Filed under: User Groups, Events, Training, .NET, Community, Dallas

MSDN Events coming to Little Rock!

Just a quick note to let you know that the MSDN Events team is coming out to Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25th, 2008 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock . There will be three separate sessions focusing on Visual Studio, WPF and Vista Security: Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:32 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Vista, WPF, .NET, MSDN

IE8 - Standards Mode and IE7-Compatibility Mode

As you all know, the Internet Explorer team has been working hard to make IE8 the most standards compliant browser around. Unfortunately, not all web sites confirm to these standards today. If you have concerns about your web site rendering Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:49 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

Filed under: Internet Explorer, .NET, Web

The Future of .NET Reflector

As someone who has been using .NET Reflector for a very long time, and actually put their name and email address in the registration form, I received this interesting news the other day in an email from Lutz concerning the future of .NET Reflector: After Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:20 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: .NET

Tulsa TechFest 2008 is Live!

The time is NOW and the word is GO! The 2008 Tulsa TechFest web site is up and running (and it looks great, by the way!) Get on over to http://www.tulsatechfest.com to see what David has planned for this year’s extravaganza. Last year Read More...

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 4:38 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Events, .NET, Tulsa, TulsaTechFest

GiveCamp Dallas - We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend 2008

Toi Wright has just updated the We Are Microsoft web site for registration to the 2008 We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend. As we did last year, we’re putting together this event to enable developers to give back to their local communities Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:25 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Events, .NET, wearemicrosoft, GiveCamp, Dallas

More Upcoming Events – ArcReady and MSDN Unleashed!

In addition to the list I posted the other day, I also want to call out a couple of new and improved event series that we’ll be hosting over the next year. We’re combining ArcReady and MSDN Events into a one day technical extravaganza, with ArcReady Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:56 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Training, .NET, Community, Austin, Houston, Dallas, MSDN

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

Want to learn about all the new features of .NET 3.5 SP1? Head over to the Microsoft Download Center and download your copy of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Tranining Kit. The kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, demos, and event materials Read More...

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 5:18 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Training, .NET

Visual Studio 2008 / .NET 3.5 SP1 Now Released!

The long anticipated update to Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 – Service Pack 1 – has now finally been released. Many of you have probably been using the SP1 bits for some time now, so it’s time to upgrade to the final release bits. Read More...

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:14 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, .NET, VS08

PostSharp now supports Silverlight 2!

While I was over in Poland a few weeks (or is it months now?) ago I met Gael Fraiteur, creator of the awesome Open Source .NET AOP container called PostSharp . We had a great talk about development, trends, history and music, as I recall, but one Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:42 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: C#, Architecture, .NET