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Posted on February 15, 2011 by Chris Koenig
If you are a developer, you’ve probably heard plenty about the cloud. But if you’re and IT professional, what have you heard about it? How does it intersect with the datacenter? How does it make your job easier – or harder? Is it something that your organization is looking at? Is the cloud something your [...]
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Posted on January 24, 2011 by Chris Koenig
+ + = What do WPF, Silverlight 4, and Internet Explorer 9 have in common? No, that’s not a riddle. Really, it’s not a riddle. They are all FTW. What I mean by that is they all offer developers unique ways to exploit the power of Windows 7, such as integrating with the taskbar, leveraging [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Starting in March 2011, we’re rolling out a series of 12 Web Camps in the Central US. Microsoft’s Web Camps are events designed to teach you all about building websites using ASP.NET MVC, WebMatrix, OData and more. We’ve held Web Camps all around the world over the past few years, but we’re taking them to [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Windows Azure Boot Camp is a two day deep dive class to get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep, real world experience with Azure, as well as a series of labs so you can practice what you just learned. Agenda Intro to Cloud Computing and [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2010 by Chris Koenig
I’m pleased to share with all of you an exciting announcement around a new (hopefully) annual technical event here in Dallas. On March 4 & 5, 2011, Dallas will host the first ever Dallas Day of Dot Net! DDDN is a 2-day conference featuring the top local technical talent as well as a special guest [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2010 by Chris Koenig
EPS Software presents the State of .NET A free, unbiased look at the current and future development with .NET. Brought to you by Microsoft, CODE Training & EPS Software, this free afternoon event presents an unbiased look at the current and future development with .NET. Join MVP and RD Markus Egger, for an afternoon of [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2010 by Chris Koenig
Tonight marks the kick-off meeting for the newest user group in the metroplex – Hands-On-Coding. Unlike many of the excellent .NET community-based groups around, the goal of Hands-On-Coding is to learn .NET coding by doing. The format will consist of a short conceptual overview of a coding topic, followed by a series of interactive, hands-on, [...]
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Posted on September 1, 2010 by Chris Koenig
The next Cloud Computing User Group Meeting for Dallas will be on Thursday, September 2nd from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Microsoft (Las Colinas Office, Building LC1). The presentation will be done by Derek Martin and Trent Foley and will cover Windows Phone 7 and Azure. September 2nd, 2010 6:00pm – 8:00pm Microsoft Corporation 7000 SR-161 [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2010 by Chris Koenig
I am very happy to announce that our own Teresa Burger has put together another amazing Silverlight training opportunity in the DFW area. She has managed to successfully wrangle Victor Gaudioso, Microsoft MVP and Book Author to come to Dallas on September 25th to conduct a two-day training seminar on Silverlight development using Expression Blend [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2010 by Chris Koenig
For those of you that attended my talk at TechReady 11 or at Dallas TechFest 2010, here is the sample application I built along with my code snippets and my demo script. I’ll be working on a Hands-on-Lab version of this talk, as well as producing a video the talk, but that will have to [...]
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