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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

• XAMLFESTOnline Coming Soon!

  For those of you that want to get a better handle on using XAML to build the next generation of Windows and Web Applications, and prefer to do it from the comfort of your own desktop, then XAMLFEST Online is for you!  Based on the wildly popular... Posted May 13 2009, 07:32 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Visual Studio, WPF, Silverlight, .NET, Expression, design, development, xaml

• SharePoint for Developers Video Series

  My friend Kirk Evans has been doing an incredible video series called “ SharePoint for Developers ” out on Channel 9.  There are 5 episodes so far, and they’re all very well done.  The segments are short enough to get everything on the first... Posted Apr 28 2009, 04:33 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Office, SharePoint, Expression

• MTV Adopts Silverlight!

  Viacom/ MTV announced a web based Digital Asset Management Workflow application completely built in Silverlight 3 (of course using the beta bits for now) and .Net 3.5. This is very cool, not just because it is an early adoption of Silverlight 3, but because... Posted Apr 28 2009, 10:42 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, silverlight3

• deepzoom pix

  I stumbled upon this today and thought it was really cool stuff!  DeepZoom Pix is a web site that enables people to explore and share photos using DeepZoom technology.  It combines the power of Microsoft Silverlight and DeepZoom for an innovative... Posted Apr 16 2009, 12:28 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight

• Tour of Arkansas

  I had a GREAT time touring across Arkansas (over 1300 miles of driving!) talking about Windows Live Framework (LiveFX for short), Windows Live Mesh , ASP.NET MVC , Silverlight 3 and building communities.  I’d like to thank Randy Walker, Michael... Posted Apr 10 2009, 12:26 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Windows Live, WindowsLive, User Groups, nwa, Travel, Mesh, Live, arkansas, azure, MVC, aspnetmvc, livefx

• Dallas TechFest 2009

  Announcing Dallas TechFest 2009! Dallas TechFest 2009 is a full day of technology learning, not just on one technology but on a broad array of technologies. From Ruby and Java to .NET and Flex there is something for everyone at this day long event. With... Posted Mar 30 2009, 09:38 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Dallas, .NET, DallasTechFest, Events, php, java, flex, coldfusion, ruby, flash

• Tulsa School of Dev 2009

  I had a GREAT time at the Tulsa School of Dev today!  I didn’t expect to be able to visit as my wife had plans (meaning I needed to be home with the kids) but when her plans changed I jumped on the chance to come out!  I quickly put together... Posted Mar 28 2009, 11:58 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, Events, Tulsa, CodeCamp, mix09, silverlight3, tulsaschoolofdev

• Detecting Network Status in Silverlight 3

  I’m totally loving Silverlight 3, and wanted to dig into some of the new features that I learned about at MIX09 this past week.  I’ve already posted on the Silverlight 3 out-of-browser experience , and now I want to augment that with some information... Posted Mar 22 2009, 09:07 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, silvelright, silverlight3

• Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser Support

  I know it was just announced today, but I had to play with the OOB experience in Silverlight 3 and give it a quick Road Test.  Luckily, it is just as simple as it looks.  This short post will give you an overview of creating a simple OOB experience... Posted Mar 19 2009, 02:18 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight

• #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

• Illustrator to XAML Plug-In for the Mac

  digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig/archive/2009/02/09/illustrator-to-xaml-plug-in-for-the-mac.aspx";digg_title = "Illustrator to XAML Plug-In for the Mac";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url... Posted Feb 09 2009, 01:14 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, design

• The Return of DevCares!

  When I first started as a Developer Evangelist almost 2 years ago (WOW – time flies), the very first thing I was asked to do was connect with the folks in SCD that were running the local DevCares events and make sure that they had the support they needed... Posted Jan 07 2009, 11:31 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, Dallas, ASP.NET, Events, MVC, devcares, aspnetmvc

• 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 Microsoft Office futures. Windows 7 Both Windows Server 2008 R@ and Windows 7 will have the ability to boot from a VHD as well as mount a VHD like a normal drive... Posted Oct 28 2008, 04:45 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Visual Studio, WPF, Silverlight, Windows, .NET, Windows Live, Fun, Events, Web, Mesh, PDC, Live, vs10, multi-touch, windows7

• Hard Rock Cafe and Silverlight Deep Zoom

  Our friends at Vertigo Software have updated the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia site with some new features as they migrated the application to the released version of Silverlight 2.  The new features include some AMAZING performance improvements in... Posted Oct 21 2008, 10:30 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight