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• Windows Phone 7 BootCamp Coming Soon!

  Start Dreaming. Start Building. There has been a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement in the developer community as we get ready to launch Windows Phone 7. There have been over 300,000+ downloads of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools as developers... Posted Sep 01 2010, 11:56 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, Houston, Tulsa, Austin, development, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, Little Rock, wp7, wp7dev, BootCamp

• Windows Phone 7 and Azure, Better Together

  The next Cloud Computing User Group Meeting for Dallas will be on Thursday, September 2nd from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Microsoft (Las Colinas Office, Building LC1). The presentation will be done by Derek Martin and Trent Foley and will cover Windows... Posted Sep 01 2010, 08:22 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Dallas, Events, development, texas, cloud, wp7, wp7dev

• Sharing the Light – Silverlight Development with Expression Blend

  I am very happy to announce that our own Teresa Burger has put together another amazing Silverlight training opportunity in the DFW area.  She has managed to successfully wrangle Victor Gaudioso, Microsoft MVP and Book Author to come to Dallas on... Posted Aug 23 2010, 10:09 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Dallas, Events, development, texas

• Windows Phone Design Day Recordings

  For those of you interested in doing development on Windows Phone 7, Jaime Rodriguez just posted links to recordings from the recent Windows Phone Design Day: A few weeks ago, our Studios team, the folks responsible for the end-to-end user experience... Posted Aug 13 2010, 03:22 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, development, wp7, Videos

• NWA CodeCamp

  Saturday, October 23, 2010 – http://nwacodecamp.org In the fine tradition of other great CodeCamp events across the world, the Northwest Arkansas developer community has announced their next CodeCamp, scheduled for October 23rd at the Tyson World... Posted Aug 05 2010, 03:19 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Events, CodeCamp, nwa, development, arkansas, cloud, ITPro, HoL, HandsOnLabs

• MVVM in Windows Phone 7

  For those of you that attended my talk at TechReady 11 or at Dallas TechFest 2010, here is the sample application I built along with my code snippets and my demo script.  I’ll be working on a Hands-on-Lab version of this talk, as well as producing... Posted Jul 30 2010, 09:37 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, development, texas, TechFest, wp7, MVVM

• Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp

  Are you ready to gain access to the latest tools, turning your hobby into a source of revenue, or expand your network? Stop dreaming. Start building. Join us for a new series of Windows Phone 7 Bootcamps where you can get an inside track on how to be... Posted Jul 30 2010, 02:55 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, Houston, Tulsa, Austin, oklahoma, texas, arkansas, Little Rock

• OKC VS2010 Community Launch

  For those of you in the Oklahoma City area, I’ll be presenting the opening Keynote at the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch put on by the Oklahoma City Developers Group on August 2nd. More information can be found at their website: Visual Studio... Posted Jul 28 2010, 10:47 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Launch, Events, oklahoma, Oklahoma City

• Time for Dallas TechFest!

  We’re only 2 weeks away from the 3rd annual Dallas TechFest!  The schedule is set, the bags are being packed and the speakers (including me!) are polishing up their talks.  Dallas TechFest has something to offer everyone, regardless of your... Posted Jul 20 2010, 04:22 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, development, texas, TechFest, cloud, ITPro, wp7, wp7dev

• Microsoft PDC 2010

  It looks like PDC10 will have an interesting twist, compared to previous PDCs: Held on the Microsoft Campus 2 days instead of 3 Registration price reduced to $1,000 I also didn’t see anything about a schedule, so I don’t know if there will be pre-conference... Posted Jul 12 2010, 10:03 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, development, PDC, wp7dev, pdc10

• BarCamp OKC on July 24th

  I just received a note from the okcCoCo about an upcoming OpenBeta BarCamp in Oklahoma City.  Here’s the details from the email BarCamp is back and will even bigger and better this year! A BarCamp is an intensely participant-driven conference where... Posted Jul 09 2010, 05:04 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, oklahoma, Oklahoma City, BarCamp, okc

• CodeJam Comes to NWA

  In case you’ve been living under a rock, you might not know that the Northwest Arkansas area hosts an AMAZING developer community that has become exceptionally active over the last 2-3 years. Along with this week’s NWA TechFest, This weekend will host... Posted Jul 06 2010, 12:08 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, nwa, arkansas

• Upcoming Community Events

  It’s been a while since I made one of these posts, so I figured I’d put one out there.  I really need to do this every week like I used to. Except for the typical upcoming user group meetings that you can learn about from http://www.southcentralcommunity... Posted Jul 05 2010, 10:35 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, development, ITPro

• Silverlightplooza! It’s a wrap!

  I had a great time over the weekend teaching and working with folks from all over South Central at our first ever Silverlightpalooza!  This two-day event was a combination instructor-led introduction to Silverlight, WP7, Blend and RIA Services and... Posted Jun 22 2010, 05:02 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Dallas, Events, development, wp7, windows phone 7, #silverlightpalooza

• NWA TechFest is Almost Here!

  The time has come to add another fine event to the TechFest family – Northwest Arkansas TechFest 2010   Scheduled for Thursday, July 8th at the Center for Nonprofits in Rogers, Arkansas, NWA TechFest is a community-organized, community-staffed technical... Posted Jun 16 2010, 01:57 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Events, nwa, development, arkansas, TechFest, cloud, ITPro, wp7