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TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing

June 5, 10 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Picks of the week:

Channel 9 Live at Tech.Ed North America 2010 – Updated with Schedule!

June 2, 10 //
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The Channel 9 and TechNet Edge teams will be broadcasting live, unscripted, and 100% interactive from New Orleans for Tech.Ed North America 2010.

Join us immediately following the keynotes on June 7th and June 8th for a full day of interviews, panels, demos and discussions where you control the content.

We have an amazing lineup of speakers and presenters across the two days including Microsoft Server & Tools President Bob Muglia, Microsoft CIO Tony Scott, Corporate Vice President Windows Server Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President Visual Studio Jason Zander, Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover and many more.

Channel 9 Live is 100% unscripted and so we rely on our viewers to tweet in their questions and comments in real time for our guests to address live on the air.

To be a part of the conversation send a tweet with your question or comment and include
@ch9live somewhere in the body of the message so that we can find it.

To watch the Tech.Ed keynotes and Channel 9 Live coverage head to http://www.msteched.com on June 7th & 8th at the following times:

(All times Central Daylight Time – as we’ll be in New Orleans)


Monday June 7th 2010
9:00AM – 10:30AM: Tech.Ed Day 1 Keynote
10:30AM – 5:00PM: Channel 9 Live Day 1 Coverage


Tuesday June 8th 2010
9:45AM – 11:15AM: Tech.Ed Day 2 Business Intelligence Keynote
11:15AM – 5:00PM: Channel 9 Live Day 2 Coverage

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Full Schedule (Subject to change)

Day 1: June 7th 2010
(All times Central Daylight Time)

10:30 AM: Keynote After Party. Join Charles Torre, Adam Carter and David Tesar as they answer your questions and recap the Tech.Ed Keynote.

11:00 AM: Talking Windows Server. Ward Ralston and Justin Graham with Adam Carter

11:30 AM: Cloud Cover Live! David Aiken and Ryan Dunn plus Special Guests

12:00 PM: Office & Unified Communications in 2010+. Jamie Stark and John Durant with David Tesar

12:30 PM – 1:30PM: Lunch Break – Go Grab a Sandwich

1:30 PM: Tony Scott, Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer with David Tesar

2:00 PM: Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President Visual Studio with Dan Fernandez

2:30 PM: SQL Server; Beyond Relational Data. Michael Rys with Charles Torre  

3:00 PM: Ask Mark Minasi Anything…. Live! with Joey Snow

3:30 PM: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about BPOS. Tom Keane, Sean O’Connor and Dan Kershaw with Adam Carter

4:00 PM: WM_IN Panel. Kate Gregory, Karen Forster, Lisa Feigenbaum and Jennifer Ritzinger discuss women in technology

4:30 PM: Client Development: Now and in the Future. Tim Huckaby, Patrick Hynds, Paul Sheriff and Richard Campbell

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Day 2: June 8th 2010
(All times Central Daylight Time)

11:15 AM: Deployment in the real world. Chris Jackson, Jeremy Chapman and Rhonda Layfield with Adam Carter

12:00 PM: Developing for Windows Phone 7. Brandon Watson with Dan Fernandez

12:30 PM – 1:30PM: Lunch Break – Go Grab a Sandwich

1:30 PM: Bob Muglia, President Server & Tools with Adam Carter

2:00 PM: Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President Windows Server with Joey Snow

2:30 PM: Ask Mark Russinovich Anything…. Live! with Charles Torre

3:00 PM: Talking Security. Mark Russinovich, Andy Malone and Special Guest with David Tesar

3:30 PM: Languages Panel. Eric Lippert, Luke Hoban and Mads Torgersen with Charles Torre

4:00 PM: PowerShell. Jeffrey Snover, Don Jones and Sean Kearney with David Tesar

4:30 PM: This Week On Channel 9 (Live). Dan Fernandez and (OMG it’s) Brian Keller with special guest Larry Larsen and his secret project.

The Visual Studio Documentary: Part Two (In celebration of the 2010 Launch)

April 12, 10 //
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Welcome to the Visual Studio Documentary. This is an hour long documentary that is split into two parts. Roughly a half hour each. Welcome to part two, where we dive straight into life at Microsoft during the Java Lawsuit.  Here is Part One in case you missed it.  Next week we will begin to publish each interviewee’s full length interview for an even deeper look. 

Not only did we sift through hundreds of videos and assets but we sat down for an intimate conversation with those that were there since the very beginning and those that are taking us into the future. 

Scott Guthrie, Dan Fernandez, Jason Zander, Tim Huckaby
S. Somasegar, Dave Mendlen, Dee Dee Walsh, Mardi Brekke, Jeff Hadfield, Alan Cooper, Anders Hejlsberg, and Tony Goodhew

We hope you enjoy!

The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One (In celebration of the 2010 Launch)

April 12, 10 //
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Welcome to the first installment of the Visual Studio Documentary.This is an hour long documentary that is split into two parts, roughly a half hour each. Welcome to part one, where we take you back to the days of MS-DOS and Alan Cooper who originally sold Visual Basic to Bill Gates back in 1988.  Next week we will feature Part Two but for those that would like to watch it sooner, here is Part Two. In addition, each week we will post a longer and more in-depth stand alone interview from the interviewees that were featured in the documentary.

Not only did we sift through hundreds of videos and assets but we sat down for an intimate conversation with those that were there since the very beginning:

Scott Guthrie, Dan Fernandez, Jason Zander, Tim Huckaby
S. Somasegar, Dave Mendlen, Dee Dee Walsh, Mardi Brekke, Jeff Hadfield, Alan Cooper, Anders Hejlsberg, and Tony Goodhew

Part One dives into MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows, Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual Basic 2.0, Visual Basic 3.0, Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Interdev, FoxPro, Visual Studio 97, ASP.NET and the early days of Microsoft’s Dev community. 

We hope you enjoy! 

TIMELINE

Products and Milestones

1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a version of Basic for Altair 8080

1982 – IBM releases BASCOM 1.0 (developed by Microsoft)

1983 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.35 for MS-DOS release

1984 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.36 release

1985 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0

1986 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.01, 1.02, 2.00

1987 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01, 3.00, 4.00

1987 – Microsoft BASIC 6.0

1988 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00, 4.00b, 4.50

1989 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0

1990 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1

1991 – Microsoft Visual Basic released May 20-Windows World Convention –Atlanta

1992 – Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0

1993 – Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 in Standard and Professional versions

1995 – Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 released, supported the new Windows 95

1997 – Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 – introduction of IntelliSense

1998 – Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 that included Visual Basic 6.0 released (first VS)

2002 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.0

2002 – Visual Studio .NET

2003 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.1

2003 – Microsoft Visual Studio w/Intellisense

2003 – Visual Studio .NET

2004 – Announce Visual Studios 2005 – Code name Whidbey

2005 – Visual Studio 2005 release w/Extensibility

2005 – Visual Studio Express released

2006 – Expression Tool Set released – devs and designers work together

2006 – Visual Studio Team release – November 30th

2007 – Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) ships November = Video Studio Shell

2010 – Visual Studios (code name Rosario)

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

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.

The Visual Studio Documentary: Jason Zander Full Length Interview

October 20, 09 //
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The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two. 
S. Somasegar’s Full Length Interview 

Jason Zander is the General Manager for the Visual Studio Team here at Microsoft.  He was an enormous asset to The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.   Here is Jason Zander in his own words from his blog: 

I’m the General Manager for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at Microsoft, including Visual Studio Pro and Visual Studio Team System. I’ve been in the Developer Division for a long time (back to ODBC).  I was lucky to be one of a small handful of folks who started working on what would become the CLR back in ‘97.  I worked primarily on the metadata, file formats, and compiler integration.  I was the first dev lead for those features as well as the debugger/profiler.  I was the Development Manager for V1.1 and the first part of V2.0, and ultimately became the PUM of the team before taking the GM role first in .NET and then for Visual Studio. 

I love writing code!  And it is an amazing opportunity to work on a team where dogfooding my product requires means writing code.  Please enjoy the .NET Framework and Visual Studio and make sure to send us your feedback!

TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content

October 3, 09 //
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian reunite to go through the week’s top developer news including:

- The Visual Studio Documentary – Learn the history of Visual Studio, including Alan Cooper Scott Guthrie, Jason Zander, Anders Hejlsberg, Soma Somasegar, and many more
- Phil Haack – Details on the just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2
- Channel 9 Lectures: Erik Meijer teaches Functional Programming, including a 20% discount on Programming in Haskell
- But Why Series – Get answers to questions on design decisions, branding, and other Microsoft lore
- C# FAQ - Using the ExpandoObject with Dynamic C#
- Why you should never prank Clint Rutkas (photo, video)
- Jaime Rodriguez – Q&A from the Microsoft internal WPF discussion alias
- Four free chapters on Visual Web Developer Express 2008
- CodeProject – Convert Podcast RSS to Playlists
- James Senior - Seadragon Ajax Control Quick Start video
- Coding4Fun – Rick Barraza’s tutorials on fluids and edge detection in Silverlight
- SQL Server 2008 Express How-To Videos
- CodePlex - SQL Azure Explorer project gives you great built-in tools for Visual Studio to visually explore your SQL Azure databases

Picks of the week:
- SharePoint blog – SharePoint.com using Aptimize, improves performance by up to 50%
- Charlie Calvert walks through using the XNA Role Playing Starter Kit