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• 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

• .NET Rocks! Interview from Dallas TechFest is LIVE

  The first session of the morning in the .NET Track at Dallas TechFest this year was a panel discussion on Building Communities hosted by our frieds Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks!   The panel consisted of Toi Wright (ASP.NET MVP... Posted May 23 2008, 01:21 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, DallasTechFest, UserGroups, Events, dnr

• UI Patterns at DFWUPA

  I attended a great meeting of the DFW Usability Professionals User Group meeting this month at the Central Market in Dallas.  The small room was filled to the brim to see Brian Sullivan talk about Design Patterns .  I was very curious about... Posted May 22 2008, 04:04 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, design, usergroup, designpatterns, ui, ux

• 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

• NWA SQL Server User Group

  Congratulations to Jason Pluenneke and the folks in Northwest Arkansas for their first ever Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group meeting tonight!  A very respectable 20-person crowd gathered together tonight to hear Boyd Evert discuss the new... Posted May 16 2008, 01:19 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: SQLServer, SQL Server, User Groups, nwa, usergroup

• NWA SQL Server User Group starting up!

  For those of you in the Northwest Arkansas area, don’t miss the inaugural meeting of the Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group. Meeting Details: The first ever NWASQL meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14th from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm .  Pizza... Posted May 09 2008, 11:53 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: SQL Server, User Groups, sql, nwa, user group, usergroup