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August 2007 - Posts

Two New Articles on XNA Game Developer's Studio

Found 2 new articles from CoDe Magazine : Microsoft XNA - Ready for Prime Time? and Introducing XNA Game Studio Express . The author of the second article, George W. Clingerman, runs a great web site called XNADevelopment.com . If you're interested in Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:48 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Rainbow's End

I don't normally get a lot of time to read books just for fun - usually I'm doing my best just to keep up with email, blog postings, and the occasional technical book. Recently my good friend Phil Wheat , our AE down here in South Central, suggested a Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:38 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

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

Brad Abrams in Second Life on Silverlight

Event Details: Guest Speaker: Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager, .NET Framework When : Thursday, August 30th, 3 – 4 PM PST Where : Visual Studio Island Auditorium in Second Life How to join the event: If you’re already a member of Second Life, you can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:13 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Welcome Gwyneth Rose Palermo!

Congratulations to Jeffrey and Liana Palermo on the birth of their daughter Gwyneth Rose! http://www.flickr.com/photos/palermo/sets/72157601707151891 Jeffrey said to check back on the Flickr site in a few days as more pictures will be posted. Congrats Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:53 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

ALM Article by Chris Menegay

Chris Menegay, Microsoft Regional Director and Principal at Notion Solutions has written Part 2 in a two-part series on ALM and the Microsoft Stack. Go check it out! Application Lifecycle Management – Part 2 – Understanding the Microsoft Stack by Chris Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:29 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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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
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Bill English at DFW SharePoint User Group

Here's a note from the DFW SharePoint User Group - you know that I'll be there... Save the date! The November meeting will be on November 6 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM. Bill English, Microsoft MVP and author of SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 4:43 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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Community Server Camp - Oct 20-21

Rob, ScottD, Jason, ScottWater and all of our good friends over at Telligent Systems are running a 2-day development camp for their flagship product, Community Server. Here's the full information straight from the source! ========== Announcing the First Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 9:56 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Keyboard Shortcuts for Outlook!

OK - So maybe you already know this, but I'm a total Keyboard Junkie. The mouse is really cool for a lot of things, but with Office, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and get "distracted" by the mouse as little as possible. With many of the new Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 1:09 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments
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Webmaster Jam Session 2007

I'm happy to announce that Microsoft will be sponsoring, participating and speaking at the upcoming Webmaster Jam Session 2007 in Dallas, TX on Sept 21 and 22 at the Adam's Mark Hotel downtown. This is a great event for bringing designer and developers Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:23 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

Microsoft Tafiti - Search on Steroids

I know I'm not always the first to blog about stuff (I'm working on that) but I wanted to make sure that I sent out an announcement about Microsoft Tafiti - http://www.tafiti.com . Tafiti is a new take on the search engine metaphor that builds on the Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:50 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

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 | 3 Comments
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Now Available: The Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor Tool for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

The Business Data Catalog Definition Editor has been included in the newest release of the MOSS2007 SDK. It has been designed to assist in the lifecycle management for Application Definition files. The tool enables searching over databases and web service-based Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 11:33 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 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

Concert Time?

Anyone want to go with me to see Styx, Foreigner and Def Leppard ? I realize this completely gives my age away, but if you're interested let me know. I already missed Rush last week because of a camping trip, and Weird Al a few weeks ago because I was Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 11:58 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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Macworld: News: Apache losing ground says another survey

Technorati Tags: IIS , Windows , Server , ASP.NET A couple of interesting quote from an article in Macworld: “If the trend from previous surveys holds, IIS 7 should be the dominant web server for Fortune 1000 sites by 2011.” "Microsoft ASP.NET and ASP Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 2:13 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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Dallas/Fort Worth DNUX User Group

Cory Smith , VB.NET MVP over there in Forth Worth has launched a new User Group called the ".NET User Experience User Group", or DNUX for short. Follow Cory's blog at addressof.com for more information as this group comes more into focus and starts their Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 8:35 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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IronXSLT

For those of you who spend a lot of time dealing with XML data, you might be interested in this add-in for Visual Studio: IronXSLT . Written by XML MVP Oleg Tkachenko , IronXSLT aims to provide complete integration of XSLT into the VS08 environment. Features Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:02 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

BetaNews | Universal Goes DRM Free, But Not on iTunes

Interesting news from the world of online music - I'll let you draw your own conclusions... BetaNews | Universal Goes DRM Free, But Not on iTunes Read More...
Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 2:37 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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CommunityFest - we have a date!

We met this morning to determine the date for the upcoming CommunityFest - we settled on Feb 16, 2008. So - mark your calendars now and reserve the date. We'll host the event in Dallas somewhere, but we haven't figured out where yet. I'll have a much Read More...
Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 10:29 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Joining Technorati

I just set up my Technorati Profile and was told I needed to put this tag in a new blog post so that my account will get activated correctly, so here it is... Read More...
Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 9:20 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Visual Studio Team System - Codename "Rosario"

For those of you interested in what the future holds for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, codename "Rosario", there are a bunch of resources out there available on the net to quench your VSTS thirst. I've listed some of them here to make it easy on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 5:22 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

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

3-Day Silverlight Training

Chris Sells posted a notice last week about a "comprehensive 3-day Silverlight shortcouse" coming to various cities around the country, including Dallas! Please see the Silverlight Tour website for more information. Even if you're not going to make the Read More...
Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 7:09 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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The Triple Negative

I used to work for a guy who was famous around the office for his double-negatives - "I don't disagree with you" was almost his tagline. Thanks to my good friend Matt, we've finally identified one better than our old boss... From the San Antonio Express Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:20 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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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
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A Very Successful Oklahoma City CodeCamp!

Congrats to Ray and the other folks in OKC for their first annual CodeCamp ! It's really exciting to see so many development communities getting together to put on high-quality events for developers. If you have some ideas on what kinds of events for Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:12 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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AUT at the NDDNUG

I just got back from the North Dallas .NET User Group meeting tonight where Dave O'Hara presented on Automated Unit Testing. I thought the talk was a great primer for people who were not familiar with Unit Testing philosophy, and showed off a lot of the Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:03 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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