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

Picks of the week!

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.

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:

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

You can see Mike’s MIX10 presentation here:

Part 2, by Peter Torr, is here:

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

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

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.

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

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


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

Picks of the week!

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

Picks of the week!

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)

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

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

 

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.

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.