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Come to MDC Dallas and See Me Shave My Head!

That’s right – you heard right! I’m issuing a challenge to all the architects, DBAs, enthusiasts, and professional software developers in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas… If we can get 750 people registered to attend the MSDN Developer Conference Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:47 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Filed under: Events, AJAX, ASP.NET, Fun, .NET, Community, Dallas, Azure, Cloud

Silverlight 2 RC0 Available Today!

The Silverlight team announced today that Silverlight 2 RC0 was released today for public consumption. Please note that applications built using this release will work off of the Silverlight 2 RC0 Developer Runtime only. Please keep that in mind Read More...

Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 3:14 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, .NET, Web

Adding Style to WPF and Silverlight Apps at DDNUG

I had a great time speaking at the Dallas .NET User Group meeting last night on WPF and Silverlight Styles, Templates and Data Binding. I’ve posted the slides up on Slideshare and the demos (with the pptx) out on FolderShare . Here are the Read More...

Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 11:34 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: User Groups, Events, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Expression, C#, .NET, UX, Web, VS08, Entity Framework, Community, Dallas

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

Filed under: Events, ADO.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Training, AJAX, ASP.NET, WPF, Architecture, WCF, .NET, Web, VS08, S+S, Entity Framework, LINQ, Community, VSTS, Austin, Houston, Dallas, MSDN

OKC Developer Group Presentation – Next Gen Web Apps

I had a great time last night at the OKC Developer Group meetings. I love presenting there because you actually get to do 2 presentations – one at lunch (there was about 85 people in attendance) and one at dinner (about 15 people). That’s Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:16 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: User Groups, ADO.NET, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Vista, Windows Live, C#, WCF, .NET, Web, VS08, Entity Framework, LINQ, Launch, Community, VSTS, Travel, Oklahoma City

Registration is open for first Code Camp in Kraków

For those of you living in or around Poland (hey – it turns out I have pretty decent readership in Poland – and I hope they’re all subscribed to this blog!) you can now register for the first ever Kraków Code Camp on June 7th. I’ll be heading Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:33 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Web, VS08, Launch, Travel, CodeCamp

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 | 7 Comments

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

Tulsa Launch and ASP.NET AJAX

We had a great time last week at the Tulsa Launch event. After a long drive and a short sleep, Tulsa turned out about 500 people to the Heroes Happen {Here} Launch event. Zain and I tag-teamed to deliver the developer track in the afternoon. Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:51 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Launch

.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)

Some very important stuff announced today on Scott Guthrie's blog around the collective futures of ASP.NET, Silverlight and IIS7. You should read the whole post to get all the details, but here are some of the key, important points: Silverlight Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:46 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: ADO.NET, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Silverlight, .NET, IIS, Web, VS08

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

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

ASP.NET AJAX Training in Dallas

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’ll Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:48 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Training, AJAX, ASP.NET