Chris Koenig

If you have a MSDN subscription, you can now download the FULL VERSION of Microsoft Robotics Studio and the CCR & DSS Toolkit! Microsoft Robotics Studio is a development and virtual simulation environment for creating robotics applications for a wide...

Zach Young , President of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group , has posted a great article on Setting Up Livemeeting for a User Group .  I had the privilege of speaking at their UG meeting last month and experienced his setup first hand. ...

I stumbled upon this today and thought it was really cool stuff!  DeepZoom Pix is a web site that enables people to explore and share photos using DeepZoom technology.  It combines the power of Microsoft Silverlight and DeepZoom for an innovative...

  I had a GREAT time touring across Arkansas (over 1300 miles of driving!) talking about Windows Live Framework (LiveFX for short), Windows Live Mesh , ASP.NET MVC , Silverlight 3 and building communities.  I’d like to thank Randy Walker, Michael...

Spring brings not only rain and flowers (you know, April shows and May flowers), it also brings our spring technical events. And this time our technical events are taking on a slightly different form. Okay, to be completely honest, we are still calling...

Wanted to let everyone know about an upcoming event at the Microsoft Office in Dallas. Put on by EPS (Publishers of CoDe Magazine and creators of Xiine ), this looks like it’s going to be a really great overview of what’s happening in the .NET community...

Announcing Dallas TechFest 2009! Dallas TechFest 2009 is a full day of technology learning, not just on one technology but on a broad array of technologies. From Ruby and Java to .NET and Flex there is something for everyone at this day long event. With...

I had a GREAT time at the Tulsa School of Dev today!  I didn’t expect to be able to visit as my wife had plans (meaning I needed to be home with the kids) but when her plans changed I jumped on the chance to come out!  I quickly put together...

Check out this link I just found:  http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/keyboard.aspx Shows all the Keyboard Shortcuts for a bunch of the consumer-focused Microsoft products, like Office, Windows and more.  I just entered a live meeting...

I’m totally loving Silverlight 3, and wanted to dig into some of the new features that I learned about at MIX09 this past week.  I’ve already posted on the Silverlight 3 out-of-browser experience , and now I want to augment that with some information...

Lots of great stuff from the upcoming MSDN Unleashed tour for April, May and June.  Check out the list at the bottom of this post for information on cities, dates and times near you!   Session 1: Internet Explorer 8 for Developers The Windows...

I know it was just announced today, but I had to play with the OOB experience in Silverlight 3 and give it a quick Road Test.  Luckily, it is just as simple as it looks.  This short post will give you an overview of creating a simple OOB experience...

There was a lot of great information shared this morning at the first of the #MIX09 keynotes .  As I reflect on it, it seems that most of it seemed to be centered around Silverlight 3, but there were a few gems tucked away in some other parts of...

Hey everyone – just wanted to let you know about the upcoming trip I have planned for Northwest Arkansas in April.  Randy Walker has done a great job coordinating with all the groups up there so that I can get to everyone in one week!  Here...

Man – I can’t believe I missed this!  Well, yes I can – I haven’t had a chance to read blog posts in a couple weeks. Anyway – the famous and exciting Deep Zoom Composer has been updated!  Go grab the latest version:   Expression Blend and...

This has been getting a lot of attention recently, so I thought I’d post it here so that you (and I) could easily find it. This is a montage of several different videos that Microsoft has put out for various events recently.  I was a little surprised...

Just got this 2 mins ago.  Speaks for itself…

Hey all – just wanted to let you know that #DallasTechFest has officially started!  Scheduled for April 17 th , 2009 at the Westin Stonebriar Resort in Frisco, TX , we’re opening up a CALL FOR SPEAKERS to anyone and everyone passionate about technology...

Here are the slides and demo from my talk Friday on MVC.  I really had a great time with everyone, and enjoyed all the really great questions!  If you think of anything else, please let me know via this blog and I’ll find the answers for you...

I just found out today that the folks over at Jcx. Software Corp have created a development environment called VS.Php that enables PHP Development from within Visual Studio 2008.  Now PHP developers can take advantage of all the power of Visual Studio...

Come get it while it’s hot! Technorati Tags: MSDN , VSTS , Visual Studio , Team System

I’ll be presenting on the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework at the DallasDevCares event on Friday, Feb 27th.  Click here to register and get your seat before they fill up! For those that don’t know, DevCares is a monthly series of FREE half-day events...

After months of planning, and three very intensive days of coding, the Dallas GiveCamp – a.k.a. We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge – is once again over.  Like the WAM event before it, this’ year’s WAM event was an outstanding success.  There...

Attention Designers!  Mike Swanson has released a Test Version of his Illustrator to XAML Plug-In for the Mac .  Help him out by downloading and trying out the plugin to make sure we’ve got a seamless experience for Mac-based web designers to...

Hey all – for those of you interested in getting more information about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, there are a bunch of resources available to you, including several online communities:   http://teamsystemrocks.com – this is a community...