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• Silverlight 2 RC0 Available Today!

  The Silverlight team announced today that Silverlight 2 RC0 was released today for public consumption.  Please note that applications built using this release will work off of the Silverlight 2 RC0 Developer Runtime only. Please keep that in mind... Posted Sep 26 2008, 03:14 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, .NET, AJAX, ASP.NET, Expression, Web, blend

• 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

• MSDN Unleashed and ArcReady

  Not sure if everyone is subscribed to the MSDN Flash or not, but if you’re not – it is a GREAT resource for finding out what’s happening in your area.  I like the fact that it’s customized to show events and happenings in your geography (my copy... Posted Sep 10 2008, 08:51 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Training, Visual Studio, SQL Server, WPF, Dallas, .NET, Community, MSDN, AJAX, WCF, ASP.NET, LINQ, vsts, Events, Houston, Austin, Web, Architecture, arcready, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, S+S

• 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

• New Release of Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio

  The Windows Live team recently released and update to their Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, and added a new ASP.NET Server Control for Virtual Earth!  Now it is super easy to add a Virtual Earth capabilities to your ASP.NET applications... Posted Aug 04 2008, 09:36 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Visual Studio, Silverlight, Windows Live, WindowsLive, ASP.NET, VisualStudio, virtualearth

• Customizing the SharePoint/WSS UI – Part 1

  Have you noticed that you can almost always spot a SharePoint site when you encounter one on the web?  They all seem to have the same layout, with the familiar blue menus, and the little team icon in the upper-left hand corner.  It’s always... Posted Jun 28 2008, 01:46 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: SharePoint, ASP.NET, Web, wss, css

• Exploring the NextWeb

  On June 10th, Microsoft will be hosting a FREE seminar, presented by our friends at Pluralsight , on our NextWeb technologies – specifically ASP.NET , Silverlight and WPF .  Points of interest will include: Here’s the text from the original invite... Posted May 29 2008, 05:25 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, WPF, Silverlight, Dallas, ASP.NET, Events

• Registration is open for first Code Camp in Kraków

  For those of you living in or around Poland (hey – it turns out I have pretty decent readership in Poland – and I hope they’re all subscribed to this blog!) you can now register for the first ever Kraków Code Camp on June 7th.   I’ll be heading... Posted May 22 2008, 11:33 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Visual Studio, AJAX, ASP.NET, Poland, Launch, Events, CodeCamp, Web, krakow, Travel

• Free Book Offer from Microsoft Learning

  Visit Microsoft Learning at http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urvs5cn3s8 to register for 3 free eBooks: Technorati Tags: ebook , free , learning , silverlight , linq , asp.net , ajax Posted Apr 22 2008, 11:40 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, C#, LINQ, ebook, free, learning, Web

• Tulsa Launch and ASP.NET AJAX

  We had a great time last week at the Tulsa Launch event.  After a long drive and a short sleep, Tulsa turned out about 500 people to the Heroes Happen {Here} Launch event.  Zain and I tag-teamed to deliver the developer track in the afternoon... Posted Mar 30 2008, 11:51 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: AJAX, ASP.NET, Launch, HHH, Tulsa

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training Kit

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8BDAA836-0BBA-4393-94DB-6C3C4A0C98A1&displaylang=en The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help... Posted Jan 22 2008, 07:52 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: VS08, Training, WPF, Silverlight, .NET, VisualBasic, VSTO, WF, WM6, AJAX, WCF, ASP.NET, C#, ALM, LINQ, CardSpace