ChrisKoenig

Upcoming Events in South Central – 11/7/08

2008-11-08T04:07:33Z

Now that the election is over, and gas prices have started to go down ($1.95 a gallon here in Dallas!) it’s time to get back out on the road and attend some great User Group meetings! Here’s what’s on tap for the rest of November here in SCD: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:30 PM: GNONUG Meeting - November GNONUG Meeting - Keith Elder, Guest Speaker [ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:30 PM: Caching and Exception Handling with WCF - We have...(read more)

Mesh-enabled Applications – Part 1: Getting Started

2008-11-06T17:24:36Z

This is the first in a series of posts around creating a Mesh-enabled web applications using all the new bits released at PDC 2008. the intent is to introduce you to the process of building Mesh-enabled web applications, and get your first app up and running quickly. I’ll try to be thorough about how I went about this so that once you have all the developer pieces you can follow along through what I’ve done and build your own Mesh-enabled application. I’m particularly interested...(read more)

Live Mesh now available for Mac and Mobile!

2008-10-31T02:16:56Z

I just went to the Live Mesh site and noticed that they’ve enabled functionality for Mac and Mobile! For current Mesh users, just hit http://www.mesh.com from your mobile device’s web browser or from your Mac and it will guide you through the installation process. If you’re not already using Mesh, you *definitely* need to get over to http://www.mesh.com and get started. I’ve been using it for a while now and it’s a really fantastic technology – especially considering all the announcements we...(read more)

Windows Live Mesh on Windows 7

2008-10-30T13:07:30Z

For those of you attending PDC and are experimenting with Windows 7, here’s an update you’ll need to apply to get Mesh working on your new OS. Just create a REG file with the following information in it, and run it on your Windows 7 machine. 1: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 2: 3: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Moe.MoeHost] 4: @= "MoeHost Class" 5: 6: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Moe.MoeHost\CurVer] 7: @= "Moe.MoeHost.1" 8: 9...(read more)

Java and Ruby SDKs for Microsoft .NET Cloud Services

2008-10-29T00:45:23Z

Look at that – I just noticed that we’re offering a Java and a Ruby SDK for our new Microsoft .NET Cloud Services announced yesterday at PDC: I didn’t remember hearing that yesterday, but this is AWESOME! Technorati Tags: Ruby , Java , .NET , Live , Cloud , Azure...(read more)

PDC Day 2 – Windows 7, Windows Live, Mesh and Office Online

2008-10-28T21:45:00Z

Today’s big announcements at PDC were around Windows 7, .NET 4/VS2010, Windows Live Mesh and Microsoft Office futures. Windows 7 Both Windows Server 2008 R@ and Windows 7 will have the ability to boot from a VHD as well as mount a VHD like a normal drive or create a VHD on the fly – all from the built-in disk manager. I’d love to see them expand this to ISOs, but maybe that’s feedback we can all supply to get them to put it in the product! Multi-touch is a huge game-changer. Not only...(read more)

Get your .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 right here…

2008-10-27T21:03:00Z

Hot off the presses this morning, a VPC containing the first CTP for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 were released to the public on Microsoft Connect. The VPC is broken down into a TON of files, but Brian Keller has some instructions on his blog for those of you using a fancy download manager to make the download easier. Also keep in mind this little note I got from the Product Team: When you use the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC, you will encounter some Activation messages. In most cases...(read more)

PDC Day 1 – Windows Azure

2008-10-27T18:04:27Z

You might have heard rumblings of secret projects at Microsoft called Red Dog, or Strata on various blog posts or Twitter feeds. Today at PDC, the covers came off these codenames to reveal Windows Azure: Originally called Windows Strata, Windows® Azure is “a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and...(read more)

New .NET Logos announced today!

2008-10-25T01:07:22Z

.NET is getting a logo facelift! This is not something I had planned to blog about – it just arrived in my inbox tonight while I was working on the other postings and I decided to see if I could be one of the first ones to talk about it :) Anyway, this is the new logo for Microsoft .NET and for the horizontally inclined: Some of you might be asking, as I was, “Why Change?” Here’s a pseudo-quote from the mail I got tonight announcing the new logos...(read more)

MSDN Developer Conference – Bringing PDC Home!

2008-10-25T00:57:18Z

Coming soon to a classy venue near you is the Microsoft MSDN Developer Conference. Modeled after the extremely popular MSDN events and stuffed full of the hottest PDC content. Come to the MSDN Developer conference and attend these great sessions: Cloud Services Client and Presentation Tools, Languages and Framework Lap Around Cloud Services Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) Roadmap The Future of Managed Languages: F#, C# and Visual Basic Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Services...(read more)

Get ready for MIX09

2008-10-24T22:24:31Z

I know that PDC starts on Monday, but it’s never too early to start thinking about MIX! Those of you who went last year know what an amazing conference MIX is, and those that didn’t should definitely make plans to attend this year. Held every year in the spring at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, MIX is a special conference for web designers and developers, information architects, UX professionals and digital marketers, or anyone that cares about building innovative web sites using the...(read more)

AgileDotNet Conference 2008

2008-10-22T19:52:52Z

I usually start out these posts saying "I don't typically link-blog", but I've said that so many times now, that I think I'll just say "I've found another occasion to link-blog something", this time from my good friend Todd Girvin at Improving Enterprises . I'm helping Improving host a conference specifically targeted at helping .NET developers discover and grow their understanding of Agile Software Development. More information can be found on the Agile.NET...(read more)

Hard Rock Cafe and Silverlight Deep Zoom

2008-10-22T03:30:15Z

Our friends at Vertigo Software have updated the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia site with some new features as they migrated the application to the released version of Silverlight 2. The new features include some AMAZING performance improvements in addition to almost twice the number of pictures as before. Check it out! Technorati Tags: silverlight...(read more)

Robotics Studio at MakerFaire

2008-10-20T18:24:48Z

I spent this past weekend in sunny Austin, TX at the annual Maker Faire event. The best way I can think to describe the event was a combination of a science fair on steroids and a circus carnival. There were some AMAZING things to see there such as a life-sized game of Mouse Trap, and Guitar Windmill and a live solar-powered rock band. If you are interested at all in making things, this is definitely the event for you. Phil Wheat , Zain Naboulsi and I helped our friends from...(read more)

Tulsa TechFest - Recap

2008-10-17T04:15:42Z

Last week at this time I was sitting in my hotel room in Tulsa amazed at how AWESOME the 3rd annual Tulsa TechFest had turned out. I personally had given two talks back-to-back on How to Add Style to Your WPF and Silverlight Applications, and had gotten to meet a lot of great people that come from all over to visit the conference. David Walker and company did a FANTASTIC job of putting this year’s event together, and I’m happy to say that it was a rousing success! If you don’t know...(read more)