Archives for posts with tag: Dan

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.

TWC9: Windows Phone videos, MVC for HTML 5, CoApp, Lab Management RTM

August 20, 10 //

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

Rob Miles & Andy Wigley – 12 Part Windows Phone 7 Jump Start series
Jaime Rodriguez – Windows Phone Design Day Recordings
Jeremy Alles – How to build a XAML Trigger to play a sound using XNA
Peter Torr – Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications
Dean Hume – ASP.NET MVC HTML 5 Toolkit, via Gunnar Peipman
Wes Hutchins – Patch available for growing Find and Replace dialog, via Alvin Ashcraft
Charles Torre – Garrett Serack, The CoApp Project – a package management system to simplify configuring Windows projects
Brian Peek – Think Gear wrapper to build applications using brain waves
jQuery Mobile – Touch Optimized Web Framework
3-Part PowerShell Getting Started Guide

Picks of the week!

Brian’s pick: Somasegar – Visual Studio Lab Management now available
Dan’s pick: Karsten Januszewski – How the architecture of the Archivist evolved over time

Windows Phone 7 app: Halo Waypoint just announced

August 16, 10 //

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I sit down with Dan Ayoub who is an executive producer at 343 Industries. 343 Industries just announced that the Halo Waypoint app will ship with Windows Phone 7. It is a Silverlight application and Dan talks about the Dev cycle, features and what we can expect.

TWC9: Windows Phone samples and controls, SQL Cop, WCF for large data

August 14, 10 //

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

MSDN Downloads - Whitepaper and samples on high performance Silverlight development for Windows Phone applications, via Greg Duncan
Compiled Experience – Windows Phone samples & tutorials
David Anson – Easy way to skin the Silverlight Toolkit Charting controls to work on Windows Phone 7
Jeff Wilcox – Windows Phone Pivot and Panorama controls
Jeff Wilcox – Tilt Shift content control sample available
Hajan Selmani – How to configure WCF services to accept large data
LessThanDot – SQL Cop – Think FXCop for your database, it looks at bad table design, fragmented indexes, issues with data types and more, via Jason Haley
Raihan Iqbal – HTML 5 IntelliSense in Visual Studio
Gil Fink – Setup Unity & ASP.NET MVC
Phil Haack – Versioning issues with C# 4 optional parameters
Beth Massi – Beyond the Basics for Visual Studio LightSwitch

Picks of the week!

Dan’s pick: Rene Schulte – PicFX – A Windows Phone application that applies effects to photos
Brian’s pick: Getting started with the TFS and Project Server Integration CTP

TWC9: VS LightSwitch, Lab Management, IE9 PP4, VS Jeopardy

August 7, 10 //

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

Jason Zander – A lap around Visual Studio LightSwitch
Jay Schmelzer – Video – Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch, a new tool to easily build data-driven applications
Brian Keller – Coming Soon, Visual Studio Lab Management
Rob Mauceri – IE9 Platform Preview 4 released + new test drive samples
James Senior – OData Helper for WebMatrix
WPF Team – Ribbon control for WPF
Dustin Davis – Configuring ELMAH with WCF Services
Make – Netduino – A .NET powered open source electronics platform, including C# Express templates to get started, via Greg Duncan
LessThanDot – SQL Cop – Think FXCop for your database, it looks at bad table design, fragmented indexes, issues with data types and more, via Jason Haley
Visual Studio Blog – Adrian Collier, Two Part series on creating a custom start page (Part 1 and Part 2)
Steve Marx – Two part series on how to setup adaptive streaming using Windows Azure and its limitations compared to IIS Media Services (Part 1 and Part 2)

Picks of the week!

Dan’s pick: Brian Peek’s Coding4Fun article on building Jeopardy for Visual Studio Live
Brian’s pick: Clint Edmonson video series on using UML with Visual Studio 2010

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

Mike Sampson: Inside Rev9

July 28, 10 //

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A preview version of the new Channel 9 is now available at http://preview.channel9.msdn.com. Please file any bugs or suggestions on Connect.

Mike Sampson (aka Sampy) has done some stellar work with the backend architecture and design of the next version of Channel 9, code named “Rev9,” and this fifth version includes a revamped UI and restructured backend.

In this conversation (it’s a long and deep one, so set aside some time—it’s well worth it), Sampy takes us through how and why he designed the new Channel 9 architecture. “Rev9″ appears to be a very scalable and modern system built on tried and true technologies and architectural patterns such as MVC 2.0, Unity (from P&P), NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, Memcached, Enyim Managed Memcached driver, Azure – Fabric, Storage, Diagnostics, SQL Azure, xUnit (testing only), Live ID, Spark View Engine, Akismet (spam filtering service), AntiXSS, Tinymce, jQuery, and Silverlight.

Sampy’s great work is simply astounding. I left his office feeling more confident than ever that Channel 9 will scale to the future and the experience of performance and reliability will be at an all time high. Thank you, Sampy, Duncan, Cara, Geoff, Clint, and Dan. The revolution is now televised and in full swing.

TWC9: The First Look at the New Channel 9!

July 24, 10 //

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On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Duncan Mackenzie to do a live demo of the new Channel 9 Web site (codenamed: Revolution 9).

We’ve also published a screenshot tour of Revolution 9 here.

You’ll see demos of:

The new Home page
The new Shows/Series page
Improved discoverability via the Browse feature
Improvements to the default Channel 9 player
Improvements to the Coffeehouse
The new profile page

Picks of the week!

Duncan’s favorite feature: The new show/series page
Dan’s favorite feature: The ability to add URL based timecodes. This timecode: “#time=15m22s” would jump to start the video 15 minutes and 22 seconds from the beginning

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

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