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Visual STudio 2008 / .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 BETA now Available

For those of you looking for it, ScottGu published a blog post earlier today announcing the BETA release of VS08/.NET 3.5 SP1.  There are a ton of bug fixes, updates and improvements to Web Development (including ASP.NET Dynamic Data), Visual Studio Read More...
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 2:08 PM by Chris Koenig | 0 Comments
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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

GDC08: XNA games coming to Zune - Joystiq

  I don't usually link-blog like this, but this announcement is just too cool not to get something out there: Microsoft's Chris Satchell just announced that XNA Game Studios games can also be made for Zune. He showed off a brief demo of Zauri – Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:47 PM by Chris Koenig | 3 Comments
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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

Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Available

If you're doing Web Development on Visual Studio 2008, head on over to the Microsoft Downloads area to get yourself a copy of the first Visual Studio 2008 hotfix.  http://tinyurl.com/33tpkr For information on what issues have been addressed by this Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 10:17 PM by Chris Koenig | 1 Comments
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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

InstallFest Wrocław

Hats off to the .NET User Group in Wrocław for putting together their own Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest ! They had over 60 developers attend, and a quarter installed Visual Studio at the event.  Apart from some awesome food, there were a few presentations Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:45 AM by Chris Koenig | 2 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

Triple Launch 2008 - Mark your Calendars!

Here are the currently known dates for the Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Launch Events in South Central District: March 6 - Baton Rouge, LA March 20 - Houston, TX April 8 - Dallas, TX April 10 - San Antonio, TX This info Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 3:38 AM by Chris Koenig | 3 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
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