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• #ugPDC visits Northwest Arkansas

  Attention all you peeps in Ft. Smith, Fayetteville, Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale and surrounding areas!  Tonight and tomorrow night are the first parts of my 2010 #ugPDC tour.  Visiting the FSDNUG tonight and the NWADNUG tomorrow night, I... Posted Jan 11 2010, 02:20 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, VisualStudio, Microsoft, Events, development, arkansas, azure, cloud, Dynamic, #ugpdc, VisualStudio2010, Programming, Parallel

• Meet the Creator of Centipede!

  (screen shot photo courtesy of wikipedia) Who doesn’t like the game Centipede – fast, furious action in the garden where centipedes and spiders attack you mercilessly as you dodge through toadstools trying to eliminate the unwanted pests.  Ever wonder... Posted Oct 20 2009, 02:26 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Microsoft, Events, user group, arkansas, event, meeting, centipede

• Jennifer Marsman Blogs on Surface Development

  For all you Surface Fans, my colleague Jennifer Marsman has written a series of blog posts about developing on Microsoft Surface: Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? Surface Development Part 2: Surface Controls Surface Development... Posted May 29 2009, 10:55 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Microsoft, development, ux, multitouch, surface, nui

• Microsoft Robotics Studio on MSDN Downloads

  If you have a MSDN subscription, you can now download the FULL VERSION of Microsoft Robotics Studio and the CCR & DSS Toolkit! Microsoft Robotics Studio is a development and virtual simulation environment for creating robotics applications for a wide... Posted Apr 27 2009, 09:58 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: .NET, MSDN, Microsoft, dss, robotics, ccr

• #MIX09 Keynote – Day 1

  There was a lot of great information shared this morning at the first of the #MIX09 keynotes .  As I reflect on it, it seems that most of it seemed to be centered around Silverlight 3, but there were a few gems tucked away in some other parts of... Posted Mar 19 2009, 01:11 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, ASP.NET, Microsoft, Expression, Web, blend, mix09, ria

• 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 the public starting on Friday as a limited rollout: On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows... Posted Jan 07 2009, 10:21 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, windows7

• PDC Day 1 – Windows Azure

  You might have heard rumblings of secret projects at Microsoft called Red Dog, or Strata on various blog posts or Twitter feeds.  Today at PDC, the covers came off these codenames to reveal Windows Azure: Originally called Windows Strata, Windows... Posted Oct 27 2008, 01:04 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, pdc08, PDC, S+S, azure, services, cloud, os

• My Recent Trip to Poland

  I want to extend a HUMONGUS THANK YOU to my new friends in Poland for allowing me to travel out there a few weeks ago and meet with so many wonderful people in their community.  I had a great time travelling to and speaking at 5 different cities... Posted Jun 17 2008, 09:21 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, Poland, Microsoft, Events

• Expression Design Team Blog and Podcast

  I just found out today that the smart and creative folks over at The Official Microsoft Expression Design Support Team Blog have created a videocast series to go along with their popular blog.  You can visit their site to download the shows individually... Posted May 07 2008, 10:48 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Microsoft, Expression, podcast, design, blog

• Meet Your Local Microsoft Evangelists

  I have been getting a lot of email recently from people asking about ways to contact the local Developer Evangelist in their area.   Just recently, Microsoft published this new web site called “ Meet Your Local Microsoft Evangelists ” that provides... Posted Apr 22 2008, 09:40 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Community, Microsoft, de, developer evangelist

• We Are Microsoft - Event Summary

  From Friday, Jan 18th through Sunday, Jan 20th, I had the honor of working with over 80 developers, 20 volunteers and 18 charities on the first ever We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend .  The event was put together as a way to enable... Posted Jan 23 2008, 02:32 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: WeAreMicrosoft, Charity, Microsoft