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• Tulsa TechFest 2008 is Live!

  The time is NOW and the word is GO!  The 2008 Tulsa TechFest web site is up and running (and it looks great, by the way!)  Get on over to http://www.tulsatechfest.com to see what David has planned for this year’s extravaganza.  Last year... Posted Aug 22 2008, 04:38 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: .NET, Events, Tulsa, oklahoma, TechFest, tulsatechfest

• GiveCamp Dallas - We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend 2008

  Toi Wright has just updated the We Are Microsoft web site for registration to the 2008 We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend.  As we did last year, we’re putting together this event to enable developers to give back to their local communities... Posted Aug 20 2008, 04:25 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: WeAreMicrosoft, Dallas, .NET, Charity, Events, GiveCamp, event

• More Upcoming Events – ArcReady and MSDN Unleashed!

  In addition to the list I posted the other day, I also want to call out a couple of new and improved event series that we’ll be hosting over the next year.  We’re combining ArcReady and MSDN Events into a one day technical extravaganza, with ArcReady... Posted Aug 19 2008, 10:56 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Visual Studio, Dallas, .NET, Community, MSDN, Events, Houston, Austin, arcready

• .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

  Want to learn about all the new features of .NET 3.5 SP1?  Head over to the Microsoft Download Center and download your copy of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Tranining Kit.   The kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, demos, and event materials... Posted Aug 11 2008, 05:18 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, .NET

• Visual Studio 2008 / .NET 3.5 SP1 Now Released!

  The long anticipated update to Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 – Service Pack 1 – has now finally been released.  Many of you have probably been using the SP1 bits for some time now, so it’s time to upgrade to the final release bits... Posted Aug 11 2008, 04:14 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, .NET, VisualStudio, servicepack

• 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... Posted Jul 23 2008, 11:42 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: .NET, C#, Architecture, aop, postsharp, aspectorientedprogramming

• Silverlight + Virtual Earth = VIEWS

  My teammate Jared Bienz informed me the other day about a CodePlex project he just helped finish called VIEWS , which is a really cool Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight. It's released as a a managed layer for integrating mapping in your Silverlight... Posted Jul 07 2008, 08:05 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Windows Live

• Houston Game Developers Group

  Do you like playing games on your XBOX , Windows Desktop or your (gasp) Zune?  Want to learn how to write your own games for those platforms?  Then I have some good news for you :-)  Microsoft XNA Game Developer Studio is a very hot topic... Posted May 16 2008, 04:17 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Visual Studio, Windows, .NET, User Groups, Fun, VisualStudio, XNA, XBOX, Zune, Events, development, game, Games

• 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... Posted May 12 2008, 02:08 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, .NET, service pack, .net35

• 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... Posted Feb 19 2008, 12:10 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, SQLServer, SQL Server, Windows, .NET, Community, VisualStudio, XNA, WindowsServer, Expression, DreamSpark, XBOX

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training Kit

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8BDAA836-0BBA-4393-94DB-6C3C4A0C98A1&displaylang=en The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help... Posted Jan 22 2008, 07:52 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Training, WPF, Silverlight, .NET, VisualBasic, VSTO, WF, WM6, AJAX, WCF, ASP.NET, C#, ALM, LINQ, CardSpace

• Attention Insomniacs...

  Are you an Office Developer?  Do you want to get some great free training on SharePoint , Silverlight and Office Development?  Like the challenge of competing with your peers for $100,000 in prizes?  If so, then Sleepless Dallas might just... Posted Jan 08 2008, 11:53 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Silverlight, Sleepless, Dallas, Office, SharePoint, .NET