Archives for posts with tag: Beta

TWC9: LightSwitch available, Windows Phone, OData, HTML 5 File API

August 28, 10 //

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

MSDN – LightSwitch Beta 1 now available
Dallas Blog – 3rd CTP of “Dallas” now available, includes basic auth, OData, and new content providers, via littleguru
Laura Foy – Brandon Watson discusses Windows Phone Developer Tools shipping Sept 16
David Anson – Easy fade animation when changing orientation on Windows Phone 7
XNA Creators Club – Getting Started with XNA for Windows Phone 7
CodePlex – Official Windows Phone 7 Patterns & Practices now available
Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Visual Studio Database Guide now available
Scott Guthrie – Debugging tips with Visual Studio 2010
Robert Nyman – Multi-file upload is easy with HTML 5 File API, via Alvin Ashcraft
Maarten Balliauw – Building an Azure application that exposes OData through a Service Bus
James Senior – Web Camps TV Launches
Code Project – Building a reporting dashboard for Log4Net, ELMAH, NLog, and more
Brian Harry – Update on the TFS Upgrade Fix now available for MSDN Subscribers
Anton Afanasyev – CodePlex ClickOnce Publishing Plugin automates publishing ClickOnce apps to CodePlex, via Greg Duncan

Picks of the week!

Brian’s pick: Microsoft’s first entry into the Red Bull FlugTag competition with Project Phoenix
Dan’s pick: Coding4Fun – Arian Kulp shows how to use the Sensor and Location API and how to graph accelerometer sensor readings.

Facebook Chat Now Available in Windows Live Messenger

August 17, 10 //

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The Windows Live team has released a new version of the Messenger 2011 beta with integrated Facebook chat.

Link your Windows Live ID with your Facebook account and you’ll be able to chat with friends logged into Facebook.

For a quick demo, check out the video, and to download the updated beta bits go here: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-messenger-beta.

Windows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh

August 2, 10 //

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With just a short time to go before Windows Phone 7 hits the market, there is no time like the present to start developing your applications. Mike Harsh recently presented a session at MIX10 on developing Windows Phone applications in Silverlight, and so I asked him to join me in the studio to discuss Windows Phone 7 and share some insights for any budding phone developers out there.

Your shortcut to all developer details regarding Windows Phone is here:

http://developer.WindowsPhone.com/

You can download the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta (published July 26, 2010) here:

Windows Phone Tools Beta

You can see Mike’s MIX10 presentation here:

Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight (Part 1)

Part 2, by Peter Torr, is here:

Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight (Part 2)

And you can get a listing of all of the Windows Phone sessions from MIX10 here:

MIX10 Windows Phone Sessions

You can get information about the new book on Windows Phone programming by Charles Petzold here:

Programming Windows Phone 7

And for an idea about some of the applications that others are already working on, you can see a lot of videos on YouTube under searches similar to:

Also, you may be interested in finding out more information about PDC10, which is October 28th and 29th, in Redmond WA, and will be streamed LIVE.

TWC9: New Channel9 Preview, Power Tools, MVC 3 Preview 1, Laser Graffiti

July 31, 10 //

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This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian get together to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Channel 9 Team – The public preview version of the new version of Channel 9 is up, file file bugs or vote up/down suggestions and hear from Mike Sampson aka “Sampy” discuss how it all works
Scott Guthrie – ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and use Eilon Lipton’s solution converter to convert MVC 2 apps to MVC 3
Jason Zander – Updated Productivity Power Tools Now Available – a MUST HAVE feature for developers
Lisa Feigenbaum – VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts now available, via Greg Duncan
Maarten Balliauw – A Quick Tour of “Project Houston” – An browser tool to manage SQL Azure databases
Rene Schulte – How to save, load, and iterate pictures on Windows Phone 7
Yochay Kiriaty – Windows Phone 7 Application Execution Model and how “tombstoning” works
Andre Vrignaud – Updated PDF document of the Windows Phone 7 UI & Design Interaction Guidelines and 28 layered Photoshop templates
David Anson – Diff’ing a Windows Phone CTP Charting sample versus the Beta to see what changed
Adam Kinney – Dissecting the IE9 Fish Tank Demo – Part 1

Picks of the week!

Brian’s pick: Brian Harry goes through a slew of useful updates and bug fixes coming for TFS 2010
Dan’s pick: Coding4Fun – Jeremiah Morrill – Building the Laser Graffiti System shown at PDC

ThisWeekC9 – PDC10, Azure in a box, Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta, and Kings Quest

July 17, 10 //

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

PDC10 – Oct 28-29, live from the Redmond campus, 1,000 people, $1,000 to attend, (register here). If you can’t attend, we’ll be streaming the event live! We’ll also be doing some fun stuff for Niners who will be attending PDC
Steve Marx & Ryan Dunn -Windows Azure Platform Appliance, team blog for more information
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta now available, make sure to uninstall the CTP before installing and find details on the consumer cloud services - My Phone.
Yochay Kiriaty – Updates to the Windows Phone Training Course (available online on Channel 9)
Matt Hawley – CodePlex now supports ClickOnce installation (and updates)
Josh Blake – Blake.NUI, a collection of controls and utilities for multi-touch development, including a book with details on how it all works, via Alvin Ashcraft
Miguel de Icaza – A Handy tip, you can tell a server to automagically gzip or deflate files before sending them to you via the HttpWebRequest AutomaticDecompression flag
Scott Hanselman – The official hardware selection for the ultimate developer PC
Charles Torre – Going Deep episode that goes inside the Razor Parser

Picks of the week!

Brian’s Pick: TFS 2010 Support for Project Server, including a CTP virtual machine you can try
Dan’s Pick: King’s Quest remake is available (registration required before you can download)

TWC9: WebMatrix and Razor, Debug MSBuild files, and beer fetching robots

July 10, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Larry Larsen to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Dan Fernandez – Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter on WebMatrix
Scott Guthrie – Detailed tutorial of using WebMatrix Beta – Skip down to the creating a site with custom code
MSCOM – WebMatrix Samples and eBook
Andrew Nurse – How the Razor parser works
CodePlex – Silverlight Media Framework 2.0 released
Scott Hanselman – How to setup & configure AppFabric memory cache in 10 minutes
Scott Hanselman – Removing dead tracks from iTunes using C#
SharpKeys – Open source Keyboard Remapper lets you remap keys on your keyboard
PowerGUI – Add IntelliSense support for PowerShell using this Visual Studio Extension, via Greg Duncan
Visual Studio Blog – How you can configure VS to debug MSBuild files Part 1 and Part 2

Picks of the week!

Larry’s pick: Larry on Hanselminutes to discuss building a 7.9 WEI Score PC, aka God’s Own Machine
Dan’s pick: A robot that can fetch and even open beers

Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter: WebMatrix and the new Razor Syntax

July 6, 10 //

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WebMatrix is a new lightweight tool, server, database and Web programming framework. The goal is to provide an easy on-ramp to building Web applications and to provide tools to easily create and customize pre-built applications like WordPress, Umbraco CMS and more.

WebMatrix Beta: More Information | Download

In this video, you’ll see demos of:

Starting WebMatrix (13:02)
Downloading & Running Umbraco CMS (13:40 – 21:05)
SEO and Broken Links report (21:05 – 23:08)
How to publish a Web site using WebMatrix (23:08 – 24:20
Building basic Web sites using the new Razor syntax in VBHTML/CSHTML files, including editing HTML, adding headers and footers, database access, HTML forms and more (23:08 – 44:28)
Content Helpers – Content Helpers are wrappers for common tasks and 3rd party services, including database access, adding video to a site, captcha, photo processing, Twitter, and more (44:28 – 52:40)
Smarty Route – How routing works without explicit configuration and without file extensions (52:40 – 54:44)

TWC9: IE 9 PP3, Windows Live Essentials Beta, God’s Own Machine

June 26, 10 //

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

IE Blog: Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 is now available (download) and includes improved support for HTML 5
IE Test Drive: IETestDrive.com adds new HTML 5 examples, including Canvas Pad, a page that hosts interactive and editable examples of using the Canvas tag
IE 9 PP3 also adds a Performance API that’s built into the browser for developers to better understand performance bottlenecks
Windows Live blog: Windows Live Essentials Beta is now available (download), including Live Sync and Photo Fuse
Scott Hanselman and Pete Brown: How to build a Developer rig that scores 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index (aka God’s Own Machine)
John Papa: How to use Duplex Communication with WCF & Silverlight to build a chat application
Visual Studio Blog: With the Productivity Power Tools, the Add Reference dialog is not only faster, but also searchable
Surface Blog: Code sample on using Bluetooth with a Surface
Eric Nelson - Windows Azure from the Trenches free PDF eBook, via Greg Duncan

Picks of the week!

Brian’s pick: Rory Primrose who shows how to add custom types in TFS Build 2010 Build Definition Editor with the help of Reflector
Dan’s pick: Rudi Grobler’s cool Windows Phone app, 7mc-gofer, that enables you to control your Windows Media Center including music, TV, photos and videos

An Introduction to Windows Live Sync and How to Migrate from Live Mesh

June 26, 10 //

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Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta introduces the new Windows Live Sync beta, the spiritual successor and replacement to Live Mesh and FolderShare.

In this video we look at how Sync works, how it compares to the Live Mesh Technical Preview and how to migrate your Mesh network over to Sync.

In order to try out Windows Live Sync you’ll need to be running Windows Vista or Windows 7 and you will need to uninstall Live Mesh (the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta installer takes care of this for you) as the two services cannot run side by side.

If you have additional questions about Sync please post them in the comments section below and we’ll do our best to get them in front of the Sync team on your behalf.

Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta – Available Now

June 24, 10 //

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The Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Beta is now available to download.

The WLE Wave 4 Beta suite contains updates to Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, and Messenger. Additionally, it introduces a new service, Live Sync, which replaces the Live Mesh technology preview.

The new betas of Windows Live connect to photo and video sharing sites (SkyDrive, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, SmugMug), social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn), email services (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail), blogging platforms (Spaces, WordPress, Blogger), and document productivity (Office Web Apps) services.

The beta requires Windows Vista or Windows 7 and is available in
English, French, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and
Spanish languages.

For more information, check out the Inside Windows Live blog.

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