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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:

Picks of the week!

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:

Picks of the week!

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:

    Picks of the week!

    TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Refresh, Messenger Wave 4 Preview

    April 30, 10 //
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    This week on Channel 9, Brian returns from his European tour and there is much rejoicing with Dan as they discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

    Picks of the week:
    - Brian’s pick: TFS 2010 Power Tools now available, via Greg Duncan
    - Dan’s pick: Auto-Update your wallpaper with Flickr images using your location with Arian Kulp’s Coding4Fun app – Geo-location and Flickr

    TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage

    March 6, 10 //
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    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

    Second patch for IntelliSense crashes in the Visual Studio 2010 RC
    ·Interesting because: The RC is the last public build prior to RTM. It’s pretty rock solid, but users of touch displays, tablet PCs, screen reader software, and potentially some others as well may need these patches.

    Enabling Silverlight 4 with the Visual Studio 2010 RC (NOTE: This is an unsupported hack.)
    ·Interesting because: The RC of Visual Studio 2010 did not support Silverlight 4. This support is “coming” but no timeline yet. In the meantime, you can try this hack.

    Getting Silverlight 3 to build with Team Build 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood
    ·Interesting because: If your projects use Silverlight 3 and you use Team Build on a 64-bit server, you’ll need this. But it’s also a good look at debugging a Team Build 2010 workflow.

    What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 (ALM | The rest)
    ·Interesting because: There is a LOT of new stuff in this release. Blink and you’ll miss something. These documents do a pretty thorough job of documenting the goodness.

    Beta of FireFox testing package for Visual Studio 2010 is now available
    ·Interesting because: Visual Studio 2010’s testing framework is extensible and will provide support for additional target platforms via add-ins from Microsoft and 3rd parties.

    Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop via Greg Duncan.
    ·Interesting because: The Visual Studio 2010 IDE makes heavy use of WPF. If you RDP into a development workstation, or build applications in WPF, this post is a must-read.

    Configuring VS2010 with SourceGear’s diffmerge
    ·Interesting because: The diff / merge tool that ships with Visual Studio is fairly dated, but it’s easy to swap in your favorite tool in its place. This one is free, and comes highly recommended.

    Expression Studio 3.0 Tutorials from Paolo Barone
    ·Interesting because: Free hands-on tutorials featuring Silverlight, DeepZoom, SketchFlow, and more…

    Roundup of WPF Documentation Samples
    ·Interesting because: One-stop shopping for all of your WPF sample needs.

    4 free open-source WPF utilities
    ·Interesting because: Some good stuff in here; Snoop = “Firebug for WPF”, Inkscape = vector graphics editor…

    Write code to enter the NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
    ·Interesting because: There are dozens of coding competitions out there at any given time, but we thought this one was really cool – you can either build a “mechanical Turk” game or an image recognition application. And c’mon… it’s Mars! That should be reason enough.

    Picks of the week!

    Dan’s pick: Some (not all) MSR TechFest 2010 content is public and online

    Brian’s pick: Telling the Visual Studio 2010 testing story with DeepZoom, and SpeakFlow as a new non-linear presentation medium based on DeepZoom.

    And after the credits… special 100th episode bonus materials…

    TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing

    February 27, 10 //
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    This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

    • Mike Swanson – MIX 10 Recap
      • Interesting because: MIX10 is going to be BIG this year and Mike discusses everything going on with the event 
    • Coding4Fun – Brian Peek – Tweevo (download) – A free, open source application to have your Tivo Tweet what you’re recording
      • Interesting because: This is cool if you’re a Tivo user and want to know what your Tivo is doing while you’re busy at work :)
    • Ayende Rahien – LINQ to SQL Profiler released, enables you to see which LINQ statement created a query
      • Interesting because: It shows the SQL being generated by your LINQ queries
    • Mike Taulty – Silverlight 4 TCP Sockets video
      •  Interesting because: Mike has an 8 part series on networking with Silverlight
    • Somasegar - Key Software Development Trends
      • Interesting because: Brian makes the point that testing is now a 1st class citizen 
    • Adam Kinney - Ryan Lee creates Gesturecons, a set of free icons to describe touch gestures
      •  Interesting because: For touch interaction, a picture is worth a thousand words, and they look cool
    • System.Net team – FAQ on System.Uri, via Greg Duncan
      • Interesting because: You should really use System.Uri instead of strings where you can
    • Code Project – How to automate software using WPF UI Automation
      • Interesting because: It’s an underused, yet incredibly handy feature that lets you automate manual tests of an application  
    • Mercurial Integration with Visual Studio on CodePlex, via DotNetKicks
      • Interesting because: It’s a visual step-by-step tutorial on how to use CodePlex’s Mercurial integration inside of Visual Studio
    • Automated Tester: How to use Selenium and NUnit together
      • Interesting because: Selenium is a good, free option for Web testing and Brian compares it to Visual Studio’s Web testing tools
    • Web Distortion – 60 .NET libraries every developer should know
      • Interesting because: It’s always interesting to find new and useful APIs

    Picks of the week!

  • Dan’s pick – Rene Schulte’s Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit (SLAR) is now available on CodePlex, via Alvin Ashcraft
  • Brian’s pick Robocode .NET Beta – A Terrarium-esque programming game where you build a tank and battle against other tanks programmed in C# of Java, perfect for C# versus J# 

    • 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

    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:

    TWC9: Silverlight Web cam apps, VS extensibility, Explorer shell extensions

    December 12, 09 //
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    This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

    - Azure joins Server & Tools Business (STB)
    - Charles Torre – Chinese version of Channel 9 now available on CSDN
    - Visual Studio Ecosystem Summit – All sessions available on Channel 9, including Editor, Blend 3, T4 code generation, and more
    - Adam Kinney – BugCamSmash – Motion Detection with Silverlight 4 Beta (video demo)
    - Rene Schulte – Silverlight 4 Augmented Reality Proof of Concept (video demo)
    - MSR – EntityCube – Vanity search that maps relationships, search results, news and more, via Blowdart
    - PDC 2009 – Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp videos now online, via Duncan Mackenzie
    - Larry Larsen – Denise Trabona on the Windows 7 iconic background
    - Sarah Perez – Flickr Drive – Integrate Flickr into Windows Explorer
    - CodeProject – Custom Explorer commands for Visual Studio lets you Build, clean, zip a solution without opening it
    - A LINQ provider to run LINQ queries on your Visual Studio Solution (.sln) files, via Greg Duncan

    Picks of the week:
    - Dan and Brian’s photo shoot. Photoshop our photo and win!

    TWC9: Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 Blowout!

    October 24, 09 //
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    This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan celebrate two of our favorite products being launched in the same week, Windows 7 RTMs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available to everyone!

    Windows 7 Launch Content
    - Watch the Windows 7 Launch event
    - Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Team Blog – 7 Days of Windows 7 for great PC deals
    - Sarah Perez – @MicrosoftHelps - Official Microsoft support channel on Twitter for Windows 7
    - Channel 9 launches Training Courses for Windows 7 – Hands-on labs and videos
    - Mark Russinovich – Windows 7 Redux
    - Sara Perez posting on Channel 9 – CableCard how-to with Windows 7 Media Center

    Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
    - Visual Studio 2010 (bootstrapper and ISO) and Visual Studio Express Editions available for download
    - Visual Studio 2010 SKU Comparison Chart - Dan and Brian discuss what it all means
    - Patrick Smacchia - Visualizing the .NET Framework 4 changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2
    - Brian Keller: 10-4 Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
    - Mike Snow - Uninstall the Silverlight SDK before installing VS 2010 Beta 2
    - Rico Mariani – Inside Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Performance and Reliability
    - Pat Brennar – Visual Studio 2010 MFC and Windows 7
    - Habib Heydarian – Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace

    Picks of the week:
    - Brian’s pick – Jason Zander – Step-by-step tutorial on getting started with TFS in VS 2010
    - Dan’s pick – The “myths” of upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 and 2010, via Greg Duncan

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