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• State of .NET Events coming to Dallas and Houston

  Free “State of .NET” Event coming to Dallas and Houston Dallas: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:30 – 4:30 PM Microsoft Dallas Office - 7000 SR-161 (George Bush Turnpike), Irving, TX 75039 Houston: Thursday, April 1, 2010 1:30 – 4:30... Posted Mar 09 2010, 10:06 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, Houston, development, texas

• Dallas TechFest 2010

  Hey everyone – just wanted to share the good news that Dallas TechFest is on the books for 2010!  We’ve secured a date and a location for the event, and are in the process of determining our session plan.  Here’s what you need to know: July... Posted Feb 17 2010, 01:25 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Events, development, ITPro

• .NET 3.5 SP1 Weirdness on Windows 7

  I discovered a quirk today related to  Windows 7 and .NET 3.5 SP1.  I’m classifying it as a “quirk” and not a “feature” since it was fixable <grin>, but since it took me several hours over several days to slog through it, I will hopefully... Posted Jan 21 2010, 08:44 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development

• #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

• Entity Framework Recipes

  Our own local Entity Framework smart guy Zeeshan Hirani spoke recently in Fort Worth about his book Entity Framework Recipes.  Shawn Weisfeld captured it all on video for us so that we could jam it into our brains over and over again until we become... Posted Dec 28 2009, 11:25 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development

• November Update to Windows Azure Tools

  The November version of the Windows Azure SDK and Tools was just released. Download them here. New in the November 2009 SDK: Windows Azure Service Runtime managed library: The latest version of the Service Hosting Runtime API includes support for enhanced... Posted Nov 14 2009, 10:14 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, cloud

• October DevCares – Windows 7 for Developers

  + I’ll be presenting at the October DevCares event in Dallas on Friday, October 30 on Windows 7 for Developers.  Here’s the session abstract: Windows 7 for Developers Windows 7 enables developers to create distinctive and intuitive applications... Posted Oct 28 2009, 12:56 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Dallas, Events, development

• CodeFx

  Looking for some fully detailed examples of how to get the most out of Microsoft development technologies?  the guys over at CodeFx have exactly the solution you’re looking for!  CodeFx is written by Microsoft Support Engineers based on the... Posted Sep 18 2009, 01:38 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: development, General

• WinMoDevCamp

  Announcing the first in a series of 6 international barcamp -style events for Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 OS called WinMoDevCamp ! WinMoDevCamp is a not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for the upcoming release of the Microsoft Windows Mobile... Posted Jul 13 2009, 02:44 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, Events, development, mobile, BarCamp, WindowsMobile

• TechNet Webcast: A Tour of Windows 7 (Level 100)

  A few weeks ago I did my first ever TechNet webcast on some of the new UX enhancements in Windows 7 .  It is a free session that you can view online, you just need to register on the site to get access to the video. For those of you just now getting... Posted Jun 01 2009, 05:42 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Windows, development, WebCast, windows7

• 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

• 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

• 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