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Visual Studio 2008 at InstallFest - Another Update

For those of you that got free copies of VS08 at the recent InstallFests, you have only a few more days to activate your PIN and have your free copy shipped out to you.  Originally 2/22 (today), the deadline for registration is now Monday, 2/25.  Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 10:03 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Updating your Visual studio 2008 InstallFest Product key

For those of you that participated in the Visual studio 2008 InstallFest parties we helped host a wihle back, you should be receiving your VS08 Pro DVDs very soon, if you haven't already.  To help you get your installation updated with your full Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:14 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Free Software for Students - Microsoft DreamSpark

Calling all students!  Check out this video featuring Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as he discusses a new initiative called Microsoft DreamSpark targeted at offering Microsoft developer tools FREE to students: Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:10 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Webcast Series - VSTS 2008

As part of our customer launch readiness plans, we have partnered with Chris Menegay , and the folks at Notion Solutions to deliver a series of VSTS 2008 webcasts. Each Thursday from 1 -2:30pm CST and once a month from 3-4:30pm CST a VS2008 related webcast Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:55 PM by Chris Koenig | 4 Comments

Free training materials from Microsoft Learning

Wanted to let everyone know about some more free training materials and eBooks available at the Microsoft Learning web site: Download a Free Visual Studio 2008 e-book http://www.microsoft.com/learning/vstudio/2008/default.mspx Get a free e-book and find Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:59 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments
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Expression Blend 2 - December Preview now available

Not sure how I missed this one, but Expression Blend 2 - December Preview is now available for download .  There are a bunch of new features (and hopefully bug fixes) in this release - you can learn more about it from the Microsoft Expression Blend Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:02 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Tulsa InstallFest was awesome!

Thanks to everyone that came out to Tulsa InstallFest last night!  It was great seeing so many people come out to the Tulsa Developers User Group for the party, fun, food, drink, Xbox (love that Rock Band) and - of course - Visual Studio 2008.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:40 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments

.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

Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest Update

Over the past few weeks, I've been mentioning the Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest parties on my blog and have received a lot of great questions and comments about it.  Here's the latest version of "what's what" on the InstallFest, including Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:30 AM by Chris Koenig | 13 Comments

Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha just went up for VS2K8 RTM

Phil Wheat just posted that the update to the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 RTM just became available.  All of you who jumped on the RTM once it was available soon found that you could no longer use the Silverlight project templates!  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:02 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 RTM

Well, the day we've all been waiting for has finally arrived.  Visual Studio 2008 has now been released to manufacturing, and is now available from a few sites for download! If you're an MSDN subscriber, you can get Visual Studio 2008 - Team Suite Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 12:35 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest

  To celebrate the upcoming RTM of Visual Studio 2008 , we're going to host a few "InstallFest" parties in conjunction with some of our local user groups.  These parties will feature food, drink, Xbox and the opportunity for you to Read More...
Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 11:28 AM by Chris Koenig | 9 Comments
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