ChrisKoenig

.NET Rocks! 2010 Tour Comes to Dallas

2010-03-12T23:21:36Z

Microsoft and the Dallas ASP.NET User Group are proud to host the .NET Rocks! 2010 World Tour! Richard and Carl will be visiting our town on Tuesday, April 27th during the monthly Dallas ASP.NET User Group meeting. They will be putting on a 3 hour show focused around Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and [...]...(read more)

State of .NET Events coming to Dallas and Houston

2010-03-09T16:06:19Z

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 PM Microsoft Houston Office – 2000 W Sam Houston Pkway S, Houston, TX 77042 Brought to you by Microsoft, CODE [...]...(read more)

Technically Speaking coming to DFW

2010-02-28T19:26:17Z

Attention all current and potential public speakers! Are you a technical person with loads of great information to share with your peers? Do you get nervous speaking in front of crowds? Would you like to develop your public speaking, demonstration and group interaction skills? Then DFW Technically Speaking is for you! Led by some of our [...]...(read more)

New OKC SharePoint User Group

2010-02-24T02:23:54Z

My friend and teammate John Weston (a.k.a. @technetguy) just told me about a new SharePoint user group in OKC. Their first meeting is Thursday, March 11th at the Dell facility in OKC: 3501 SW 15th Bldg A, Hudson Hall Oklahoma City, OK 73108 Map to Dell Campus in [...]...(read more)

MVP Cowboys at the MVP Summit

2010-02-17T21:39:58Z

Our team bought cowboy hats for all of our MVPs in TX, OK, LA and AR (what we call South Central District). These are a few of the first folks to get their hats yesterday afternoon at the MVP Summit kickoff meeting/mixer/meal. The bandanas say “MVP Summit 2010 South Central District”. Rest assured, a good [...]...(read more)

Windows 7 RC To Expire Next Month

2010-02-17T19:43:20Z

It’s time to upgrade from the Windows 7 Release Candidate. While most people who tested Windows 7 have now moved to the final version, some are still running the Release Candidate. If you haven’t moved yet, it’s time to replace the RC. Starting on March 1, 2010 your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. [...]...(read more)

Dallas TechFest 2010

2010-02-17T07:25:41Z

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 30, 2010 Addison Conference Center The call for speakers is also open [...]...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 RC is now released!

2010-02-09T02:07:53Z

The RC has JUST been released – so get out there and get it!!! http://bit.ly/1MuRz1...(read more)

Cool Upcoming Events

2010-02-09T01:23:40Z

There are quite a few interesting (and cool) events coming up in SCD over the next couple of weeks… Check these out, mark your calendars and let ALL your friends know about them! Launch Event – Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM The event date [...]...(read more)

Trying a new theme

2010-01-31T04:32:42Z

Been a while since I tried out a new theme, so here it is. What do you think?...(read more)

ASP.NET Testability and Scalability at Dallas DevCares

2010-01-27T20:55:57Z

Our own Eric Sowell, better known to the Twiteratti as @mallioch, will be speaking at the next episode of Dallas DevCares on January 29th, 2010 on ASP.NET Testability and Scalability. Here are the abstracts for the event: Putting Some Testability in ASP.NET In the world of ASP.NET development, testing has been recognized as being more and more important [...]...(read more)

Are you SQL Server 2008 Certified?

2010-01-26T01:04:13Z

Do you want to be? I just heard about a FREE SQL Server 2008 Certification Boot Camp coming to OKC. Full details are at the registration site, but here’s a teaser: Course: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Certification Boot Camp 70-433 (31.5 hours) Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Session Dates: Monday, February, 8th, Tuesday, February 9th, Wednesday, February [...]...(read more)

GiveCamp.org Feeds Fixed

2010-01-23T02:45:36Z

I recently released a new blogging platform for GiveCamp.org, but forgot to update the RSS feed back to Feedburner. That means that any of you that have been subscribed to the feed there haven’t gotten any updates since it went live a couple weeks ago. Sorry about that, but the problem is now fixed. If [...]...(read more)

.NET 3.5 SP1 Weirdness on Windows 7

2010-01-22T02:44:19Z

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 save you the time that you could otherwise spend with [...]...(read more)

February 2010 MSDN Event – Windows Azure

2010-01-13T22:38:03Z

Hey all – just wanted to let you know about an upcoming MSDN Event in Dallas on Windows Azure. Here’s all the deets: MSDN Events presents: Take Your Applications Sky High with Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform Join your local MSDN Events team as we take a deep dive into cloud computing and the Windows [...]...(read more)