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• Dallas TechFest 2009 – Recap

  Dallas TechFest is a multi-technology, multi-disciplinary developer conference held this year it was held on June 19 th 2009 at the beautiful Westin Stonebriar Resort in Frisco, TX.  Completely organized and run by members of the local community... Posted Jun 29 2009, 05:02 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, User Groups, DallasTechFest, Events, texas, event, TechFest, #dtf09

• 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

• 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 meeting tomorrow night.  At this meeting you’ll learn about the Live Framework , our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services... Posted Feb 03 2009, 02:04 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Windows Live, User Groups, Mesh

• User Group Radio | Bringing community leaders together...

  Jay Smith, one of the awesome community leaders in Northwest Arkansas, has created a new podcast series called User Group Radio .  The idea behind this podcast series is best summed up by jay Smith in the first UGR blog post: Over the last several... Posted Jan 08 2009, 07:10 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, UserGroups, podcast, arkansas

• Dallas Cloud Computing User Group

  Mike Holdorf and Vince Blasberg have collaborated on putting together the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Cloud Computing User Group on January 21 from 6-8pm in the Dallas MTC.  It’s great to see the community so excited about embracing the... Posted Jan 07 2009, 09:49 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Windows Live, WindowsLive, User Groups, UserGroups, Events, azure, cloud

• The night was humid…

  … so we spent it at a local .NET User Group meeting!  If you’re looking for one, you can always check http://www.codezone.com , http://www.southcentraldevelopers.com or this blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig .  Here is the list of upcoming... Posted Sep 12 2008, 05:28 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, .NET, User Groups, Community, UserGroups, Events, oklahoma, louisiana, texas, arkansas

• Adding Style to WPF and Silverlight Apps at DDNUG

  I had a great time speaking at the Dallas .NET User Group meeting last night on WPF and Silverlight Styles, Templates and Data Binding.  I’ve posted the slides up on Slideshare and the demos (with the pptx) out on FolderShare .  Here are the... Posted Sep 12 2008, 11:34 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, WPF, Silverlight, Dallas, .NET, User Groups, Community, AJAX, ASP.NET, C#, VisualStudio, Expression, Events, Web, ux, vs08sp1, Entity Framework, blend

• OKC Developer Group Presentation – Next Gen Web Apps

  I had a great time last night at the OKC Developer Group meetings.  I love presenting there because you actually get to do 2 presentations – one at lunch (there was about 85 people in attendance) and one at dinner (about 15 people).  That’s... Posted Sep 09 2008, 11:16 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, Silverlight, Vista, .NET, Windows Live, User Groups, Community, AJAX, WCF, ASP.NET, C#, LINQ, vsts, Launch, Web, Travel, 35sp1, ADO.NET, vs08sp1, Entity Framework, Oklahoma City

• MVP Raymond Lewallen at NDDNUG

  Microsoft MVP Raymond Lewallen is coming to the North Dallas .NET User Group on Wednesday, September 10th at 6:00 PM to present an in-depth look at Behavior Driven Development (BDD). BDD is driven by business value!   The practices of BDD include... Posted Sep 03 2008, 11:36 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, Dallas, .NET, User Groups, Community, Events, usergroup, event, dfw, nddnug

• Upcoming Events in South Central District

  Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:00 AM: NTPCUG Microsoft ACCESS SIG - Regular monthly meeting: Special Guest Speaker Excel MVP Michael Alexander will show us some sample Tips for Power Users and give us an overview of what he will cover in his Power User... Posted Aug 15 2008, 07:18 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Events, oklahoma, louisiana, texas, arkansas

• User Group Meetings in South Central Distrct

  According to last count , we’ve got about a bazillion user groups in South Central (that’s Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana).  Here’s some info on some upcoming user group meetings that you might be interested in: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6... Posted Jul 17 2008, 02:42 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Events

• First Dallas XNA Community User Group Meeting

  Tonight marked the first ever Dallas XNA User Group meeting at the SMU Guildhall.   Most of the core group of us, as well as some new friends, were able to get together tonight to check out the venue, discuss what the group was going to cover... Posted Jul 15 2008, 11:48 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, XNA

• 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

• User Groups in South Central District

  I have begun the process of compiling a giant list of all the developer-focused User Groups across TX, OK, LA and AR.  I know I don't have them all yet, and might not have all the exact details correct on all of them, but I get so many questions... Posted May 27 2008, 08:43 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, UserGroups

• Jennifer Marsman’s ‘Featured Woman in Technology’: Toi B. Wright

  Toi is one of our most active community members in South Central, and I think it’s great that Jennifer was able to connect with Toi for the latest edition of Jennifer’s Women in Technology blog series. Jennifer has been featuring one woman per week who... Posted May 23 2008, 01:30 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, UserGroups, mvp