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Chris Koenig

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If you have received a Vista Ultimate with SP1 Promotional Kit - READ HERE!

I've gotten a number of question about the Vista kits that has been given out at some events - if...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 02/04/2009

Live Services and Mesh at the North Dallas UG

I’ll be presenting a Lap Around Windows Live Services and Mesh at the North Dallas .NET User Group...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 02/03/2009

Discount Code for MIX ‘09!

If you’re interested in coming to MIX ‘09 (and who isn’t) make sure that you register by February 13...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/28/2009

The Magician of the Wii-mote

I wrote about this guy a while back and the amazing stuff he was doing with the WII remotes. ...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/18/2009

Windows Azure Development Tools Updated

Just in from the Azure Services team: We are excited to announce that we have released an update to...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/15/2009

FREE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE - Houston TechFest

Heere ye, heere ye!  Houston TechFest is right around the corner!  You’ll remember that...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/14/2009

Get Fit in February Contest

Interested in getting your own Visual Studio Team Suite MSDN Subscription?  Don’t have the...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/11/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta

is now available for public download: Enjoy!digg_url =...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/09/2009

User Group Radio | Bringing community leaders together...

Jay Smith, one of the awesome community leaders in Northwest Arkansas, has created a new podcast...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/08/2009

Windows 7 Beta Available This Week!

Just announced at Steve Ballmer’s keynote at CES in Las Vegas, Windows 7 Beta will be available to...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/07/2009

The Return of DevCares!

When I first started as a Developer Evangelist almost 2 years ago (WOW – time flies), the very first...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/07/2009

MDC Experience Video

Some of our friends in Atlanta put this awesome video together of the latest MDC event from...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 01/05/2009

Vote for Mesh!

Windows Live Mesh was nominated for the Crunchies award for Best Technology...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/31/2008

Happy Holidays!

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Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/24/2008

Keynote at MDC Detroit, Minneapolis and Dallas

I’ve been invited to participate in the MDC events in Detroit, Minneapolis and Dallas as the Keynote...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/23/2008

Microsoft Expression at 50% Off!

Hey friends – I just heard from Renee, the Microsoft Expression Product Manager, that there is a...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/19/2008

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,...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/18/2008

Deck and Demos from DELL MDC

As promised, here are my deck and demos from the MDC event at Dell on Thursday. I had a really great...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/13/2008

Community Contributions: Entity Framework Learning Guide

One of our local area rockstars - Zeeshan Hirani - has released a 500+ page learning guide to Entity...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/09/2008

Windows 7 Beta for MDC Attendees!

Breaking news!!! Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/02/2008

Upgrading from SQL 2000/2005 to 2008

Still running SQL Server 2000 or 2005?  Interested in upgrading to 2008, but not sure how to go...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 12/01/2008

10 Reasons The Zune Beats The iPod. Seriously.

Nice post by fellow DE Jeff Blankenburg on why Zune is WAY better than iPod.  I know that for...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 11/24/2008

Free SharePoint Developer Training

SharePoint is one of the hottest topics around in the world of Microsoft development.  Are you...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 11/24/2008

AT&T Fuze – My New Phone

My new HTC Fuze phone from AT&T is really sweet.  I found out about its release on Tuesday...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 11/19/2008

Upcoming Events

The following is a map of all upcoming events in South Central District

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 11/07/2008

Upcoming Events in South Central – 11/7/08

Now that the election is over, and gas prices have started to go down ($1.95 a gallon here in...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 11/07/2008

Live Mesh now available for Mac and Mobile!

I just went to the Live Mesh site and noticed that they’ve enabled functionality for Mac and Mobile!...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/30/2008

Windows Live Mesh on Windows 7

For those of you attending PDC and are experimenting with Windows 7, here’s an update you’ll need to...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/30/2008

Java and Ruby SDKs for Microsoft .NET Cloud Services

Look at that – I just noticed that we’re offering a Java and a Ruby SDK for our new Microsoft .NET...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/28/2008

PDC Day 2 – Windows 7, Windows Live, Mesh and Office Online

Today’s big announcements at PDC were around Windows 7, .NET 4/VS2010, Windows Live Mesh and...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/28/2008

Get your .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 right here…

UPDATE: Fixed the links to the bits! Hot off the presses this morning, a VPC containing the first...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/27/2008

PDC Day 1 – Windows Azure

You might have heard rumblings of secret projects at Microsoft called Red Dog, or Strata on various...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/27/2008

New .NET Logos announced today!

.NET is getting a logo facelift! This is not something I had planned to blog about – it just arrived...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/24/2008

MSDN Developer Conference – Bringing PDC Home!

Coming soon to a classy venue near you is the Microsoft MSDN Developer Conference.  Modeled...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/24/2008

Get ready for MIX09

I know that PDC starts on Monday, but it’s never too early to start thinking about MIX!  Those...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/24/2008

AgileDotNet Conference 2008

I usually start out these posts saying "I don't typically link-blog", but I've said that...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/22/2008

Hard Rock Cafe and Silverlight Deep Zoom

Our friends at Vertigo Software have updated the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia site with some new...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/21/2008

Robotics Studio at MakerFaire

  I spent this past weekend in sunny Austin, TX at the annual Maker Faire event.  The best...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/20/2008

Pragmatic Beer - Dallas : Simpable

For those of you who are planning to go to the in.Telligent conference next week, or are just plain...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/16/2008

Silverlight 2 RTW on Oct 14, 2008

https://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=PR&Date=20081013&ID=9263913&Sy...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/13/2008

HHH Launch Update - SQL Server 2008!

For those of you that attended one of the Heroes Happen {Here} Events in the US, I’ve just been told...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/07/2008

Tulsa TechFest, Here I Come!

Hey everyone – I hope you’ve all had a chance to go out to the Tulsa TechFest web site and register...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/07/2008

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...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 10/06/2008

Pablo’s Day of TDD

The nice folks down in San Antonio and Austin have asked me to make sure and mention their upcoming...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 09/26/2008

Silverlight 2 RC0 Available Today!

The Silverlight team announced today that Silverlight 2 RC0 was released today for public...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 09/26/2008

MSDN Unleashed in Austin, TX

I had a great time today participating in the MSDN Unleashed event today in Austin, TX.  We had...

Author: ChrisKoenig Date: 09/26/2008

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