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This Week on C9: VS2010 RC, Winter Olympics, Valentine’s Day

February 14, 10 //

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

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC is now available for everyone to download
- Interesting because: The RC Editor performance is much improved over Beta 2
Charles Torre – Charles interviews Jason Zander on Visual Studio 2010 RC release
- Interesting because: Jason talks about the performance improvements and even how he and Scott Guthrie went and bought low-end PCs for testing Visual Studio 2010
Jason Zander – Q&A on what’s included in VS 2010 RC
- Interesting because: Answers questions like which Silverlight versions are supported (3 is, 4 isn’t), that the bits expire June 30, 2010, and that no Express Editions will be released
Kirill Osenkov – Stress testing VS 2010 RC
- Interesting because: Kirill talks about being part of the Perf SWAT team and how they ran stress tests of Visual Studio running 8 hours a day for 5 days
Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC 2 (RC2) Available
- Interesting because: RC2 includes some API changes and this version works with VS 2008 and VS 2010 (see Phil’s post for installing with VS 2010)
Scott Hanselman – Setting up IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
- Interesting because: It’s a great walkthrough for everything you’ll need to setup smooth streaming
Code Project - Wiimote as a Windows 7 Sensor Driver, via Greg Duncan
- Interesting because: This shows how to build a driver for the sensor and location platform
Jeremiah Morrill – Silverlight 4 hack to use native desktop CLR without COM
- Interesting because: This (potentially evil) hack enables you to inject a native DLL into the Silverlight out-of-browser process
Jason Haley - Azure Table Query Project (on CodePlex)
- Interesting because: It’s a simple, easy-to-use tool for seeing your Azure table data
Roger Doherty - SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit
- Interesting because: Includes hands-on labs and videos for SQL developers including T-SQL, Filestream, PowerPivot, and StreamInsight
Saluse MediaKit for Silverlight - Silverlight based decoder for MP3 files, via Coding4Fun
- Interesting because: It’s a Silverlight MP3 decoder so you can add things like audio effects or use an equalizer
LiveSide Bing Maps for the Winter Games
- Interesting because: This includes the medal count, Tweets, event information as it’s happening, and more
LiveSide - NBCOlympics.com to provide Silverlight streaming including HD quality and DVR-style controls, 1,000+ hours of video, and more
- Interesting because: If you’re in the US and Canada (NBC doesn’t have a worldwide content license), this is a great way to watch the Olympics

Picks of the week
- Dan’s pick: Laura Foy’s Channel 9 Valentine’s Day video
- Brian’s pick: Brian’s recap post on all things Visual Studio 2010

Ultramon (beta) for Windows 7 Available

February 11, 10 //

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Previously, there have been some problems getting the incredibly useful utility Ultramon to run correctly on Windows 7. However, with a new beta version of Ultramon (3.0.9) available, it looks like such problems are now a thing of the past.

If you’ve never used it, Ultramon is a great way to extend the benefits of using multiple monitors in Windows 7, including adding a taskbar to the secondary displays, and adding some extra controls to the top right corner of applications for things such as moving an app to another display. Granted, some of these functions are now built in to Windows 7 (you can flip applications to another monitor with Windows Key + Left/Right arrow), but the new beta version of Ultramon is in any case a worthwhile install.

Download Ultramon here.

Jason Zander: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Released – General Download Available

February 9, 10 //

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The Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is here! Your Beta 2 feedback has been incredibly helpful to the engineering team. A big Thank You from Visual Studio!

Here, Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander sits down with us to discuss how the Visual Studio engineering team addressed your Beta 2 feedback and made some helpful updates to the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. Jason even demos some of the improvements made in the VS 2010 RC — and on quite a modest PC.

Jason and his team went to great lengths to improve the overall experience of writing applications inside VS 2010. Performance. Performance. Performance… Of course, Jason and team want you to have the final word regarding whether the updates hit the mark, so please download the RC and take it for a test drive. Your feedback is critical to the VS team and they thank you, as always.

TWC9: Sara Ford, recognize touch gestures, make Windows 7 into a hotspot

February 6, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by special guest host Sara Ford to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Sara’s leaving the CodePlex team to work as a Developer Evangelist
Nitin Bharti – 7-Part video series on using Microsoft Expression Blend, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Interesting because: It’s a free set of videos that cover the essentials of using Blend, including controls, data-binding, animation, and more
John Papa – Creating Custom Pre-loaders/splash screens in Silverlight
- Interesting because: There are certain things you can and can’t do in Silverlight’s splash screen
Channel 9 Team – Simplifying how to share content on Channel 9
- Interesting because: Most people didn’t discover the share feature on C9 and those who did used primarily used Twitter and Facebook
Don Syme - Introduction to F# Lecture Series
- Interesting because: It’s a three part series with Don Syme who created the F# language
Greg Duncan – The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts
- Interesting because: This is arguably the most comprehensive list of Windows 7 shortcuts
Code Project – Manoj Kumar – Gesture recognition for Touch Devices
- Interesting because: This library helps take raw multitouch data from Windows 7 and interpret specific touch gestures
Chris Pietschmann – Turn your Windows 7 PC into a Wifi hotspot
- Interesting because: It’s a free, open source 100% C# app that enables you to make your PC a wireless hotspot (great for travel)
Jason Zander – Visualizing Dependency Graphs using Visual Studio 2010
- Interesting because: Jason walks through how to use the Dependency graphing tools and discusses DGML (Dependency Graph Markup Language) an XML representation of dependency graphs that Visual Studio extensions could use to visualize dependencies
Wes Hutchins – Visual Studio Gallery Beta 2 extensions to be unpublished
- Interesting because: If you use or have created an extension in the visualstudiogallery, realize that all beta 2 extensions will be removed
Windows Azure Team - Windows Azure Drive and beta SDK available
- Interesting because: Azure Drive enables you to mount Azure as a drive

Picks of the week:

Dan’s pick: The Top 20 Xbox Live Indie Games for 2009
Sara’s Pick: Hurricane WhoDat – The Saints are going to the Super Bowl for the first time ever, and whodatnation is one of the most entertaining sites for Saint fans

Introduction to Test Case Management in Visual Studio 2010 with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager

February 5, 10 //

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This video demonstrates how to use the Microsoft Test and Lab Manager in Visual Studio 2010 to manage test suites and test cases. This video is based on the Application Lifecycle Management Hands-on Labs that you can download:

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education

Silverlight Object Binding in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

February 3, 10 //

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In this video, programming writer Steve Stein demonstrates the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 drag and drop data binding features applicable to Silverlight applications. The video demonstrates how to create a Silverlight application that displays data from custom business objects.

Kathleen McGrath
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

Binding Silverlight Controls to a Data Service in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

February 3, 10 //

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Kathleen McGrath
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

SnapFlow CEO Samad Wahedi demos Silverlight 4 pilot application SnapFlow

January 26, 10 //

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SnapFlow CEO and Founder, Samad Wahedi, recently spoke during Scott Guthrie’s Day 2 PDC09 Keynote. In this video, Sam Chenaur interviews Samad to discuss the SnapFlow service, and Samad provides an end-to-end demo on the Silverlight 4 pilot. Key Silverlight 4 features are shown (subject to change before release) like full-trust and key controls like charting, rich text, and data validation. For the PDC09 pilot, the SnapFlow service was successfully ported to the Windows Azure platform, but today still runs on Amazon EC2. SnapFlow provides fast and efficients way to build and deliver workflow applications in the cloud. ISVs, VARs, and consultants can convert simple and complex workflows into an online application in just hours through the service’s easy-to-use, drag and drop interface. This puts custom workflow software within reach of small to mid-size businesses by enabling them to quickly design and deliver a workflow application without relying on costly packaged software or a team of engineers. SnapFlow will soon be available in Beta and can be accessed through registration at www.snapflow.com.

TWC9 – Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more

January 23, 10 //

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

MIX10 – Windows Phone at MIX10
- Interesting because: There will be sessions on developing applications and games for the next generation of Windows Phone.
MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge - Build a cool app in under 10K lines of code using HTML 5, Silverlight or WPF.
- Interesting because: Users get to play and vote for their favorite entries and and the grand prize is a trip to MIX10 including hotel and $1,000 gift card for travel expenses.
Scott Hanselman – How many PCs have the .NET Framework installed?
- Interesting because: Over 90% of PC have some version of .NET installed and over 65% have .NET 3.5 SP1.
Tim Higgings – Coding4Fun - Wifi Warthogs – How to article on how to hack a Barbie Powerwheels using a Windows 7 Netbook and a Phidgets microntroller.
- Interesting because: You can hack your kids Powerwheels and drive them remotely via an Xbox 360 controller.
Brian Jepson - Windows 7 driver for Arduino sensors, via Coding4Fun
- Interesting because: It makes it much easier to use popular Arduino microcontrollers in Windows 7
MultiPoint Mouse SDK - Using one PC, you can have multiple mice input
Daniel Crenna – A .NET wrapper for Postmark, a service for email delivery for Web apps.
- Interesting because: It can be a pain (or impossible depending on your hoster) to use and track emails sent through SMTP
- Note: Service is still in private beta
Michael Ballhaus – LinqToWikipedia - use LINQ to query Wikipedia results (live demo, source code), via Greg Duncan
- Interesting because: It makes it easy to search Wikipedia in .NET and because Michael is following up with a how-to article on building your own LINQ provider
IIS team - Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit now available
- Interesting because: It makes it easier to build a media player, it includes an already built sample player as well as tools to simulate live encoding for test purposes
John Papa - Silverlight TV show launches on Channel 9, including MultiTouch, Flash and Silverlight, Out-of-browser apps
- Interesting because: John’s a Silverlight guru, it’s developer-to-developer content that shows off cool demos and samples and he gets great guests including Mike Downey (former Adobe evangelist), David Kelly (Silverlight MVP), and Keith Smith from the Silverlight team.
MSDN – New Windows Azure How Do I videos
- Interesting because: Useful topics like migrating a database to SQL Azure, managing Azure Services using PowerShell, etc
Jonathan Carter – New release of Tailspin Travel
- Interesting because: Tailspin Travel is an open source sample travel booking Web site using ASP.NET MVC 2 and it now works with VS 2008
Intuit – Build Software-as-a-Service applications with QuickBooks data using Windows Azure
- Interesting because: Microsoft partenered with Intuit and it’s an opportunity for developers to build value-add services for Intuit’s platform
Help Desk with Chris Pirillo - January 27th at 2PM PST, send questions to @ch9live on twitter or ch9live [at] microsoft [dot] com.
- Interesting because: Chris became well-known on TechTV’s Call for Help & Screensavers so having him on Channel 9 taking live questions via Twitter will great
Cache My Work - Open source app that re-opens your applications after your PC reboots, via Greg Duncan
- Interesting because: If you have “automatically apply updates” on, chances are you’re PC has rebooted and you’ve lost what applications were open.

Pics of the week
- Dan’s pick: Bill Gates joins Twitter and he’s following the Channel 9 user account! Check out TheGatesNotes for Bill’s recommendations on learning content
- Brian’s pick: – Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines available so you don’t have to configure VS 2010 or Team Foundation Server.

Expert to Expert: Inside LINQ-to-SharePoint

January 21, 10 //

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You first met Bart De Smet in an episode of Expert to Expert with the great Erik Meijer leading the conversational charge. LINQ-to-Anything was a very popular E2E episode and the 100th installment of Going Deep. If anybody in the world is an expert in LINQ-to it’s certainly Bart. Not surprisingly, Bart created an implementation of LINQ-to-SharePoint before he started at Microsoft. The SharePoint programmability team was impressed and decided to take a stab at a more robust solution, based loosely on Bart’s great work.

Well, here we are today with a new installment of E2E and Bart leading the conversation with two of the key SharePoint team members behind LINQ-to-SharePoint: Program Manager Maxim Lukiyanov and Software Developer Ivan Han.

Here, we learn all about the thinking behind the thinking (rationale, design decisions, solution paths, etc) and where this approach will lead the SharePoint programming experience for pro and non-pro developers alike. We also learn that Bart has joined Erik Meijer’s team of superdevelopers! I think Erik just may have the most talented team of creative thinkers and techinal over-achievers in the company! Go team, go!

Tune in. Enjoy.

Here’s the two links you need to click on to get started. Please provide feedback!!

SDK with LINQ-toS-SharePoint API

SharePoint Server 2010 Beta

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