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The Navigation Pane in Word 2010 in 60 seconds

channel9 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:48:00 +0000

Find out how easy it is to get where you need to go in your documents with the new Navigation Pane in Word 2010. This demo shows you how to quickly change views, move content, and do an advanced search for words, pictures, and tables. For more Office 2010 content, check out The Office Blog on Channel 9 and Office.com.

Office 2010 Launch Series: Open XML SDK and Microsoft Office 2010

channel9 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:45:00 +0000

Combining the Open XML file formats, the Open XML SDK, and Office Services can create rich Office document solutions that don’t need the Office client. These new types of solutions can work in both the client and the server. In this interview, Microsoft Word Program Manager Zeyad Rajabi explains how to get started creating your own solutions. For more Office 2010 videos check out The Office Blog on Channel 9 and Office.com

Major Bing Maps Announcements and SDK Release

channel9 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:01:00 +0000

Today, at Tech Ed 2010 in New Orleans, the Bing Maps team is making some major announcements that are sure to please. Chris Pendleton came by our studio to talk about the SDK release and to give a hands-on demo of some of the new apps. He also promotes a few contests and explains why you really need to start developing applications for Bing Maps right now!

Read the full blog post HERE.

TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing

channel9 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:26:00 +0000

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Windows Live: Breakdown of Windows Live Essentials: Photo Gallery and Live Sync, including key features like Photo Fuse, Facial Recognition, tagging & search, better importing & more
Windows Azure - Windows Azure CDN Pricing Announced
Channel 9 Live at TechEd North America – Bob Muglia, Mark Russinovich, Jason Zander, Mark Minasi, Tony Scott, Jeffrey Snover
Jeff Wilcox: Silverlight Unit Testing for Windows Phone
AgUnit – Silverlight Unit testing with ReSharper
Jesse Liberty – Code Rush versus ReSharper
Brian Peek: The future of the Wiimote Library including the extension model Taiko Drum and DJ Hero support coming
Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx – Cloud Cover episode that shows how to swingify a song using Azure, Python and the Echo Nest API
Tim Heuer – Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight

Picks of the week:

Clint’s pick: Phil Haack - Copy & Paste works over Remote Desktop (and Live Mesh)
Dan’s pick: GivingAPresentation – Extensible App on CodePlex to clean up your desktop, close Messenger, and more, via Blake Handler

endpoint.tv – Activity Designers and Designer Rehosting with Kushal Shah

channel9 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:36:00 +0000

Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4 (WF4) makes it possible for you to build custom activity designers that allow different kinds of users to graphically design business processes. In this episode, Kushal Shah, program manager for the Workflow Designer team, shows us how you can build custom activities with support for the developers and end users who collaborate to build business processes.

Download the sample code from this video

For more information, see the Windows Workflow Foundation Developer Center on MSDN.

Cloud Cover Episode 14 – Diagnostics

channel9 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn about the Diagnostics capabilities in Windows Azure.
Discover how to remotely configure each instance's Diagnostics configuration.
Listen as we discuss debugging versus monitoring along with which techniques to use in Windows Azure.

Show Links:

Programming Windows Azure
Developing and Deploying with SQL Azure whitepaper
Windows Azure Architecture Guidance, Part 1
Announcing Windows Azure CDN Pricing
Web Role Crash Dumps

The Coding4Fun Show: Natural User Interfaces with Josh Blake

channel9 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:44:00 +0000

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek chats with Josh Blake about Natural User Interfaces and Multitouch programming with .NET. Josh has written a multitouch PowerPoint replacement called NaturalShow, which was demonstrated during his NUI session at MIX10. Watch and learn a bit about how this application was created as well as how you can write multitouch applications with WPF. And for even more multitouch programming goodness and more on NaturalShow, Josh is currently working on a book titled Multitouch on Windows, which can be purchased and read while he’s writing it!

Diving into the RichTextBox (Silverlight TV #31)

channel9 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:59:00 +0000

Mark Rideout, Program Manager on the Silverlight product team, joins John to dive deep into many of the RichTextBox control's features. Mark has worked on the text aspects of Silverlight since the first version. Here are just a few of the areas that Mark covers:

Overview of RichTextBox vs. TextBlock and TextBox for rich content
Wire-up logic for applying formatting
Inline UI elements
Using text position to point for simple and complex operations
Basic "position to point/point to position"
How to walk content and getting rectangle data
Using rectangle data to generate line metrics/highlight bar
The clipboard XAML format and that the same data is exposed in the XAML property
TextAlignment=Justify on paragraph

Don't miss this great deep dive into the RichTextBox control with Mark and John!

Relevant links:

John's Blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
Mark's Blog
RichNotepad tutorial
RichTextBox features explained in the Silverlight Technical Whitepaper
RichTextBox documentation
Overview of Silverlight text and fonts

Channel 9 Live at Tech.Ed North America 2010 – Updated with Schedule!

channel9 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:38:00 +0000

The Channel 9 and TechNet Edge teams will be broadcasting live, unscripted, and 100% interactive from New Orleans for Tech.Ed North America 2010.

Join us immediately following the keynotes on June 7th and June 8th for a full day of interviews, panels, demos and discussions where you control the content.

We have an amazing lineup of speakers and presenters across the two days including Microsoft Server & Tools President Bob Muglia, Microsoft CIO Tony Scott, Corporate Vice President Windows Server Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President Visual Studio Jason Zander, Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover and many more.

Channel 9 Live is 100% unscripted and so we rely on our viewers to tweet in their questions and comments in real time for our guests to address live on the air.

To be a part of the conversation send a tweet with your question or comment and include @ch9live somewhere in the body of the message so that we can find it.

To watch the Tech.Ed keynotes and Channel 9 Live coverage head to http://www.msteched.com on June 7th & 8th at the following times:

(All times Central Daylight Time - as we'll be in New Orleans)

Monday June 7th 2010
9:00AM - 10:30AM: Tech.Ed Day 1 Keynote
10:30AM - 5:00PM: Channel 9 Live Day 1 Coverage

Tuesday June 8th 2010
9:45AM - 11:15AM: Tech.Ed Day 2 Business Intelligence Keynote
11:15AM - 5:00PM: Channel 9 Live Day 2 Coverage

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Full Schedule (Subject to change)

Day 1: June 7th 2010
(All times Central Daylight Time)

10:30 AM: Keynote After Party. Join Charles Torre, Adam Carter and David Tesar as they answer your questions and recap the Tech.Ed Keynote.

11:00 AM: Talking Windows Server. Ward Ralston and Justin Graham with Adam Carter

11:30 AM: Cloud Cover Live! David Aiken and Ryan Dunn plus Special Guests

12:00 PM: Office & Unified Communications in 2010+. Jamie Stark and John Durant with David Tesar

12:30 PM - 1:30PM: Lunch Break - Go Grab a Sandwich

1:30 PM: Tony Scott, Microsoft's Chief Information Officer with David Tesar

2:00 PM: Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President Visual Studio with Dan Fernandez

2:30 PM: SQL Server; Beyond Relational Data. Michael Rys with Charles Torre

3:00 PM: Ask Mark Minasi Anything.... Live! with Joey Snow

3:30 PM: Everything you've ever wanted to know about BPOS. Tom Keane, Sean O’Connor and Dan Kershaw with Adam Carter

4:00 PM: WM_IN Panel. Kate Gregory, Karen Forster, Lisa Feigenbaum and Jennifer Ritzinger discuss women in technology

4:30 PM: Client Development: Now and in the Future. Tim Huckaby, Patrick Hynds, Paul Sheriff and Richard Campbell

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Day 2: June 8th 2010
(All times Central Daylight Time)

11:15 AM: Deployment in the real world. Chris Jackson, Jeremy Chapman and Rhonda Layfield with Adam Carter

12:00 PM: Developing for Windows Phone 7. Brandon Watson with Dan Fernandez

12:30 PM - 1:30PM: Lunch Break - Go Grab a Sandwich

1:30 PM: Bob Muglia, President Server & Tools with Adam Carter

2:00 PM: Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President Windows Server with Joey Snow

2:30 PM: Ask Mark Russinovich Anything.... Live! with Charles Torre

3:00 PM: Talking Security. Mark Russinovich, Andy Malone and Special Guest with David Tesar

3:30 PM: Languages Panel. Eric Lippert, Luke Hoban and Mads Torgersen with Charles Torre

4:00 PM: PowerShell. Jeffrey Snover, Don Jones and Sean Kearney with David Tesar

4:30 PM: This Week On Channel 9 (Live). Dan Fernandez and (OMG it's) Brian Keller with special guest Larry Larsen and his secret project.

endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Server Farm Setup

channel9 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:31:00 +0000

You asked for it…here it is. In this episode, Byron Tardif is back to explain how you can setup Windows Server AppFabric in a server farm environment.

For more information, see the Windows Server AppFabric Developer Center on MSDN.