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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

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

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

Exploring the NextWeb

On June 10th, Microsoft will be hosting a FREE seminar, presented by our friends at Pluralsight , on our NextWeb technologies – specifically ASP.NET , Silverlight and WPF .  Points of interest will include: Here’s the text from the original invite Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:25 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Hierarchical Databinding in WPF

I got an email the other day from a friend who was having some trouble getting the WPF TreeView to do what he wanted to do. He had a master-detail relationship between Doctors and Patients, and wanted to add some additional information about each Doctor Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:23 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments
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Cool WPF Effects Library

My friend and colleague Jared Bienz over on the ISV Evangelism Team just released a new project today out on CodePlex called Transitionals.   In the wake of all the recent upsurgence of interest in WPF, this cool effect couldn’t have come at a better Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:10 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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WPF Soup to Nuts Series

For those of you interested in learning more about WPF, you should definitely check out MSDN Evangelist Bill Steele 's WPF Soup to Nuts series on the MSDN Webcast Portal .  Garnering an average score of 8.5 out of 9 across all 18 installments, this Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:42 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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Expression Blend 2 - December Preview now available

Not sure how I missed this one, but Expression Blend 2 - December Preview is now available for download .  There are a bunch of new features (and hopefully bug fixes) in this release - you can learn more about it from the Microsoft Expression Blend Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:02 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

FarPoint’s Southern Fried Fall Tour

For those of you living in Louisiana or Alabama who really dig FarPoint, be sure to check out FarPoint's upcoming Southern Fried Fall Tour : Monday (10/15) in Huntsville, Alabama at the Huntsville New Technology Users Group Tuesday (10/16) in Birmingham, Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:47 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Houston TechFest and Houston BarCamp

I had a great time at the First Annual Houston TechFest on Saturday. Official attendance count was 476 (WOW!), not counting all of us that presented or had booths in the hallway. A humongous THANK YOU goes out to Michael, Michelle, John and everyone at Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:58 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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Guy Burstein's Blog : IOException: Cannot locate resource app.xaml - WPF in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

I don't know if any of you have run into this problem yet, but it's freaky. Basically what I've seen is WPF applications created in VS2K5 then converted to Orcas B2 give the following error: IOException: Cannot locate resource blah.xaml Not sure what's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:46 AM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments
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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

Microsoft "Acropolis"

Most of you know that I spent the most time in the past writing Windows clients instead of Web clients. There are lots of reasons for this, and it's not that I don't like writing apps for the web, it just seems that Windows apps was where my customer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:12 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

WindowsClient.net

Hey all you WinForms and WPF fans out there - Microsoft just launched a new Web Site today at http://www.WindowsClient.net . This site is dedicated to the Smart Client programmer in all of us :) They've got some great aggregated news feeds, training/labs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:29 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Cool Twitter Screen Saver using WPF

http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/04/30/flitter-source-posted.aspx Technical Evangelist Karsten Januszewski has posted a cool WPF-based screen saver that hooks into Twitter. Check it out! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:58 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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