Chris Koenig

I've been using Office 2007 for some time now, and absolutely love it! Many people, including me, who have had a lot of experience with the toolbars, menus, context menus and general quirkiness of Office 2003 found it challenging at first to find our...

Check out the ADNUG website for more information on the Austin CodeCamp coming up on May 5th. These things are a blast - hope to see you there!

OK - Time to put down the code for a little while (just half of one day) and put your Architect hat on. There are several ArcReady events coming up that I want to make sure you all know about: May 7 – Houston May 8 - Dallas May 15 – Austin In “Architecting...

I'm starting to get more into these Gadgets as I get more used to using Vista . Here's a site I found today with a TON of gadgets. Check them out!

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new, public beta of the next generation server operating system, code name "Longhorn". "Longhorn", besides being named after one of my favorite animals , represents some serious advancements to the Windows Server operating...

A new Case Study was released yesterday outlining the recent adoption of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by (one of my former customers) Clear Channel . Clear Channel Communications, a Fortune 500 media company, owns more than 1,200 radio and...

The next version of Visual Studio, codename "Orcas" is now available for download . There are also some other great materials out there about it including this Channel9 Video and a whitepaper describing an overview of what's in "Orcas". "Orcas" enables...

Here are a couple of upcoming webcasts on extending Visual Studio with links to directly sign up: Webcast: Do-It-Yourself Tools Inside Visual Studio: May 3 Visual Studio includes a great set of built-in tools - but if it doesn’t have exactly the tool...

For those of you in the Dallas area, or who are going to be in the Dallas area with me on May 24th, TekFokus is offering a one-day seminar on AJAX entitled "Accelerated ASP.NET AJAX Development". Here's a clip straight from the flyer: In one day, you...

Microsoft Silverlight , the technology formerly known as WPF/E, is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. Silverlight seamlessly integrates...

For those of you in the Greater New Orleans area, the GNODNUG (that's Greater New Orleans .NET User Group), in association with INETA and the Louisiana Technology Council have invited William (Bill) Vaughn to speak at their next user group meeting, scheduled...

Here's a listing of some upcoming Hands-On Lab training in Dallas and Houston. Just go to http://msevents.microsoft.com and enter the Event ID into the search box to find more about the course. These are FREE , one and two-day events but seating is limited...

Those of you using Outlook, as I do, to manage more than just email will probably find this handy little add-in pretty valuable. The Live Search Maps Add-In for Microsoft® Office Outlook® adds maps, driving directions, traffic information, and travel...

Because I needed to set this up tonight - hopefully it will save you some time: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/10/10/Installing-Virtual-Server-2005-R2-on-Vista-RC1-_2F00_-RC2.aspx

For those of you in Houston, Scalability Experts is offering a 5-day course on SQL Server 2005 Infrastructure and Scalability. Link to ScalabilityExperts.com - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Infrastructure and Scalability From the course description...

It's time for the second annual Dallas Code Camp! http://www.dallascodecamp.com Come join the Dallas .NET User Group from 8:30-6:30 at the Microsoft Office in Las Colinas for a first-class program with some great speakers! For more information, and to...

Here is a listing of some important upcoming events in Central Region: April DevCares: Internet Information Services 7.0 – Web Server Platform The future of Microsoft’s Web Server Platform is exciting for developers! The release of Internet Information...

Greetings everyone! My name is Chris Koenig, and I'm a new Developer Evangelist in the South Central District. I am looking forward to using this forum to share information with you about upcoming developer community events in South Central, and hopefully...