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Community Contributions: Entity Framework Learning Guide

One of our local area rockstars - Zeeshan Hirani - has released a 500+ page learning guide to Entity Framework. In his words, this document was developed over time as a learning guide for him and his co-workers, and he hopes that you will also find Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:39 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

Filed under: ADO.NET, Training, Architecture, .NET, VS08, Entity Framework

MSDN TechDays is Coming to Dallas!

Are you ready for a GeekFest? We’re pulling out all the stops to make the next MSDN event a memorable one! MSDN TechDays is a three-day geek-out covering a variety of topics for ITPros, Developers and Architects. We’re holding the first Read More...

Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:43 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Events, Office, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Vista, Architecture, Mobile, Community, Dallas, MSDN

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

PostSharp now supports Silverlight 2!

While I was over in Poland a few weeks (or is it months now?) ago I met Gael Fraiteur, creator of the awesome Open Source .NET AOP container called PostSharp . We had a great talk about development, trends, history and music, as I recall, but one Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:42 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: C#, Architecture, .NET

Managed Services Engine - Home

The June 2008 CTP of the Managed Services Engine is now available for you to download from CodePlex. For those not familiar with MSE, it is a framework for developing Enterprise SOA : The MSE fully enables service virtualization through a Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:08 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Architecture, WCF

Guidance and examples for Service Oriented Architecture

Some really exciting stuff coming from our friends @ MCS (Thanks Phil) - Definitely something for those of you interested in SOA to check out. Body: Chris Madrid (former co-worker from a number of various companies) just let me know that his team at MCS Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:35 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Architecture, WCF, .NET, oslo

CoDe Magazine - Article: Use the ASP.NET MVC Framework to Write Web Apps without Viewstate or Postbacks

CoDe Magazine recently published an article by Microsoft Solution Architect MVP Jeffrey Palermo about the new Microsoft MVC Framework for ASP.NET: On October 6, 2007, Scott Guthrie officially unveiled the ASP.NET MVC Framework at the AltNetConf in Austin, Read More...

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 10:57 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: MVP, ASP.NET, Architecture, .NET, Web

ALT.NET Conference 2007

Last weekend I had the pleasure of participating in the first ever ALT.NET conference , held in beautiful Austin, TX. Not only was it a great excuse to visit one of my favorite cities in the US, and see my Mom (who never thinks we bring the kids over Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:37 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Events, MVP, ASP.NET, Windows, Vista, Architecture, Ruby, .NET, TechFest, altnetconf

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

Filed under: Visual Studio, WPF, Architecture

Smart Client Software Factory - May 2007 Release

Head on down to MSDN and grab your copy of the latest p&p guidance: Smart Client Software Factory - May 2007 Release. The Smart Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers create composite Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:43 AM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: Architecture