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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

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

MSDN Events coming to Little Rock!

Just a quick note to let you know that the MSDN Events team is coming out to Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25th, 2008 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock . There will be three separate sessions focusing on Visual Studio, WPF and Vista Security: Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:32 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Vista, WPF, .NET, MSDN

Speeding up Vista boots

I know it’s usually tacky to link blog, but this is too good to pass up. Phil Wheat posted a great tip yesterday on speeding up your boot time on Windows Vista. Here’s the post: Catching up on posts, and saw that Bryant Likes (over at my former Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:13 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Vista

Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007

For all the talk that I continue to hear about how Windows is not a safe operating system, I'm really glad to see independent groups such as ZDNet putting out studies such as this one: » Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007 | Zero Day Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:03 PM by Chris Koenig | 6 Comments

Filed under: Windows, Vista

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

Scrape and Load

One of the interesting things about using Release Candidate, Beta, Alpha, Pre-Alpha, Developer Preview, Community Technology Preview and - since I've joined Microsoft - the famous "Dogfood" builds of products is the frequent reformatting of Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:01 PM by Chris Koenig | 2 Comments

Filed under: Vista, Fun

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

Filed under: Events, ASP.NET, Vista, Expression, Internet Explorer, PHP, Ruby, .NET, UX

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

Filed under: Events, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows, Vista, Expression, Fun, WPF, Popfly, C#, .NET, UX, TechFest, BarCamp

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

PHP on Vista 64-bit

I wanted to try out the FastCGI stuff for myself, and learn a little PHP along the way, so I downloaded and installed the FastCGI module from IIS.NET , and the latest version of PHP. Of couse, because I'm running 64-bit Vista , there were some things Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:51 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: ASP.NET, Vista, PHP

Workflow issues after upgrading to Orcas - Fixed!

I have been trying to dive into WF this week based on some questions from customers, but was having trouble getting the WF designer to work in Orcas. I upgraded to Orcas a few weeks ago after uninstalling VS2K5, but hadn't tried to run the WF designer Read More...

Posted Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:27 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, Vista, C#

WindowsClient.net

Hey all you WinForms and WPF fans out there - Microsoft just launched a new Web Site today at http://www.WindowsClient.net . This site is dedicated to the Smart Client programmer in all of us :) They've got some great aggregated news feeds, training/labs, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:29 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: Office, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows, Gadgets, Vista, WPF

Cool Twitter Screen Saver using WPF

http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2007/04/30/flitter-source-posted.aspx Technical Evangelist Karsten Januszewski has posted a cool WPF-based screen saver that hooks into Twitter. Check it out! Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:58 AM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments

Filed under: Vista, WPF

Visual Studio &quot;Orcas&quot; Installation Error

I've heard from a few people that they've had trouble installing Visual Studio codename "Orcas" on their machines. The problem they've all reported was a popup dialog that appeared when the .NET Framework 3.5 was trying to install. If you see this error, Read More...

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 1:37 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, Vista