This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week’s top developer news, including:
- Second IE9 Developer Preview, with lots of performance improvements and updates on standards support including HTML 5
- CloudPoll – Sample Windows Azure application for Facebook
- Bing adds Windows PowerShell Cmdlets visual search, via Larry Larsen
- Unity 2.0 now available for Desktop/Web & Silverlight
- Coding4Fun – Dan Waters – Generating Sound Waves with C# Wave Oscillators
- Secrets of SQL Server: Performance Tuning 5-hour virtual event, via Greg Duncan
- Scott Hanselman – Help Viewer Power Tool Beta – a standalone tool that brings a simple experience, like the previous Help Viewer
- Max Adams – How do I video on using the Sync Framework Powerpack for SQL Azure to sync a local database to SQL Azure
- Miguel de Icaza – What if the CLI was natively embedded in a browser (the way JavaScript is)
- Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Phone Application Lifecycle describes how you publish apps through the marketplace
- Tim Heuer – Cool Silverlight Themes
- Luke Lowrey – CSS Tools for ASP.NET including Blueprint CSS and Bundler, which now includes support for LESS a way to build logic into CSS files
Picks of the week:
- Dan’s pick: Video of Mech warfare at RoboGames
- Brian’s pick: Brian’s new book, Professional Application Lifecycle Management
To win a copy of Brian’s book:
To win an autographed copy of Brian’s book, be the first person to post a comment with the right answer to this question:
- What was the original code name for the application lifecycle management capabilities which shipped in Visual Studio 2010?
Update: We have a winner! Mohammad Jalloul correctly guessed “Rosario.” Read more about the selection of this code name here.
Watch Zach Owns in this introductory video about how a free upgrade to SQL Server Express will give your data, and your business, room to grow. Whether you manage your company’s database, build applications for it, or both, the features and benefits of Microsoft SQL Server Express will take the pains out of growing. And unlike other free database software, there are absolutely no hidden or future costs. 
As part of our lead-up to PDC09, I am joined today by Omri Bahat who is going to share with us some of the aspects of SQL Server 2008 R2 which will provide a more efficient way to develop, deploy, and manage applications which rely on an integrated data tier.
This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Christian “Littleguru” Liensberger to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian reunite to go through the week’s top developer news including: 
Join thousands of SQL Server & BI professionals at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle from Nov. 2-5 for the largest SQL Server conference in the world! PASS Summit offers 168 technical sessions presented by SQL Server experts, one-on-one time with Microsoft’s SQL Server engineering team, free troubleshooting & design architecture guidance from Microsoft consultants, keynotes from Microsoft’s senior executives and much more!
Join thousands of SQL Server & BI professionals at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle from Nov. 2-5 for the largest SQL Server conference in the world! PASS Summit offers 168 technical sessions presented by SQL Server experts, one-on-one time with Microsoft’s SQL Server engineering team, free troubleshooting & design architecture guidance from Microsoft consultants, keynotes from Microsoft’s senior executives and much more!