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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

Free Book Offer from Microsoft Learning

Visit Microsoft Learning at http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urvs5cn3s8 to register for 3 free eBooks: Technorati Tags: ebook , free , learning , silverlight , linq , asp.net , ajax Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:40 PM by Chris Koenig | 5 Comments

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, C#, Web, LINQ

Silverlight DevCamp 2007 - Dallas, TX

Here's a quick (ok, not so quick) message to all of you attending the Silverlight DevCamp here in Dallas on Saturday, Nov 10th. If you're registered on Microsoft World Wide Events, then you already got this message. If not, here it is in its entirety. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:27 PM by Chris Koenig | 14 Comments

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Expression, Popfly, C#, UX, Web, Design

Blog Series - ASP.NET Futures

I spoke last week at the Dallas ASP.NET User Group meeting about IIS 7.0 . The talk ended a little earlier than I expected, so we opened things up to general questions, and just started discussing whatever came up. One question I asked the group was "have Read More...

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 12:53 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Fun, C#, IIS, Web

Tim Rayburn [BizTalk MVP] on C# 3.0

If you've ever seen Tim present on this topic, you know how cool his presentations are. Here's a screencast of Tim doing is much requested "New Features in C# 3.0". http://flash.timrayburn.net/introtocsharp3/ Technorati Tags: .net Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:04 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: C#, .NET

Dallas BarCamp 4 - it's official!

OK - it's official! Dallas BarCamp 4 will be held somewhere in Dallas on September 29th, 2007. I say somewhere, because we're not sure yet where we're going to be able to to hold it. If you've got a location that might hold about 200 people during the Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:35 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Events, Training, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Expression, Fun, Popfly, C#, UX, BarCamp, Photosynth

Sure you're a gamer, but have you got game?

Most every developer I know is a gamer - at least on some level. Some are totally into shooters like Halo or BioShock , or realtime strategy and MMORPGs like Halo Wars , WoW or Age of Empires , or those of you like me are interested in Role Playing games Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:08 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Fun, C#, .NET, Games, XBOX

Houston TechFest and Houston BarCamp - This Weekend!!!

Looks like this weekend is going to be *very* busy for me :-) I'm presenting a 2-part session at Houston TechFest on Microsoft Expression Studio and Microsoft Silverlight, and then driving right over to the Houston BarCamp to present on Microsoft Silverlight. Read More...

Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 11:15 AM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows, Vista, Expression, Fun, WPF, Popfly, C#, .NET, UX, TechFest, BarCamp

Houston TechFest 2007

Michael Steinberg, John Ebeling and the rest of the HDNUG gang have put together a great program this year for the Houston TechFest . Brad Abrams , GM for the UI FX team at Microsoft (the folks that bring you Winforms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, and more) Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:53 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: User Groups, Events, Office, MVP, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Training, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows, Vista, Fun, C#, WF, Internet Explorer, Mobile, WCF

Ruby vs. C# - at the Dallas C# SIG

I attended the Dallas C# SIG meeting last night featuring Adam Keys on Ruby and Jef Newsom on C#. Adam started the evening off with an overview of Ruby philosophy, covering the fundamental design principals behind the language, a bit about how the language Read More...

Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 11:42 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: User Groups, C#, Ruby

Dallas C# SIG August Meeting - "Ruby vs. C# Smackdown"

The theme for the August C#SIG meeting is "Ruby vs. C# Smackdown". Adam Keys , local Ruby guru will be a featured speaker, along with Jef Newsom, Microsoft Certified Architect and Solution Architect MVP. It should be a great meeting - I hope to see everyone Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:48 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: User Groups, C#, Ruby, .NET

Enterprise Library 3.1 available for download

If you use Enterprise Library - the latest version is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Download: Enterprise Library Read More...

Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 12:23 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: ADO.NET, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, C#

Workflow issues after upgrading to Orcas - Fixed!

I have been trying to dive into WF this week based on some questions from customers, but was having trouble getting the WF designer to work in Orcas. I upgraded to Orcas a few weeks ago after uninstalling VS2K5, but hadn't tried to run the WF designer Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:27 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, Vista, C#