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Major Bing Maps Announcements and SDK Release

channel9 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:01:00 +0000

Today, at Tech Ed 2010 in New Orleans, the Bing Maps team is making some major announcements that are sure to please. Chris Pendleton came by our studio to talk about the SDK release and to give a hands-on demo of some of the new apps. He also promotes a few contests and explains why you really need to start developing applications for Bing Maps right now!

Read the full blog post HERE.

TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server

channel9 — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:21:00 +0000

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back in the studio talking about the week’s top developer news, including:

Windows Server AppFabric is available
Scott Guthrie – RTM of Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services
Sam Gentile – C# 4/BCL 4 What’s New Series – A series of short posts on new language and framework features
Michael Leonard – How to create a great online project template
Charles Torre – Bart de Smet on Rx – Observations on IQbservable – the Dual of IQueryable and Dan trys to explain Rx to Brian
Michael Washington – Simple Silverlight 4 Example using oData and Rx Extensions
Windows Home Server codenamed “Vail” overview and lots of new features for Home Server
Windows Azure Application Guidance (RC)
Ayende Rahein - RavenDB – A semi-structured database with LINQ
Finding Memory Leaks in WPF-Based Apps (includes samples and workarounds), via Rob Relyea

Picks of the week

Dan’s pick: Ohan Oda’s Coding4Fun article on the GoblinXNA engine for Augmented Reality and the must-watch video demo
Brian’s pick: Jumplist Extender adds Windows 7 jumplists to programs which don’t have them

Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Launch: New Designer Capabilities (Silverlight TV 27)

channel9 — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Mark Wilson-Thomas joins John to announce the launch of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! Mark shows off several impressive, new features in the Visual Studio 2010 designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF development. Some key new features that are covered include:

New interactive design surface
Working with Styles and Resources
Go To Value Definition lets you directly locate nested styles
Using the new “Data Can” to pinpoint data hookups
Moving stuff around in complex Grid panels using the new right click “goodies”

You can learn more about the new features from the Cider Designer blog, too.

Relevant links:

Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator

channel9 — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:01:00 +0000

While Silverlight and XNA Framework enable developers to create new and innovative applications and games for the Windows Phone (WP), these are just sets of libraries. In order to complete the development experience, a set of powerful tools is required. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is a free express version of Visual Studio tailored to the Windows Phone. It includes Visual Studio Express to write great software, but more importantly for our purposes, it also includes the Windows Phone Emulator, which allows you to test and debug your application without even having a WP device. This enables you to create your software with high predictability and ease.

Join Amit Chopra, Raghuram Lanka, and Mukund Bhoovaraghavan from the Windows Phone and Tools team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Senior Technical Evangelist, for a tour of the internals of the Windows Phone Emulator.

Tips & Tricks with Business Data Connectivity Model Deployment in Visual Studio 2010

channel9 — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:06:00 +0000

I'm back with Boris Scholl, the Program Manager who designed the BDC Model designer in Visual Studio 2010. Boris is a SharePoint expert, and in this interview he shares some tips and tricks having to do with BDC model deployment to SharePoint 2010. He provides insight into what the designer is doing behind the scenes, what happens when you deploy the package, and how you can configure it to do exactly what you need.

Boris and I are good friends and in this interview we joke around a bit as he explains to me (a total SharePoint n00b!) how BDC models work. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

For more SharePoint 2010 interviews with the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools team members see:

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Ch9Live at VS2010 Launch – Stephen Toub on Parallelism

channel9 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:19:00 +0000

Stephen Toub and Charles Torre discuss Parallelism at DevConnections 2010 as part of the Visual Studio 2010 Launch in Las Vegas.

This session was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch from the Bellagio Hotel & Casino on April 12th 2010.

Ch9Live at VS2010 Launch – Bob Muglia

channel9 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:27:00 +0000

Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Business (STB), joins Dan Fernandez at DevConnections 2010 in Las Vegas as part of the Visual Studio 2010 launch.

This session was recorded live as part of Channel 9 Live at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch from the Bellagio Hotel & Casino on April 12th
2010.

Best Practices on Building SharePoint 2010 Web Parts with Visual Studio 2010

channel9 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:03:00 +0000

In this interview, Boris Scholl, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team building tools for SharePoint development, shows off the new SharePoint 2010 tools in Visual Studio 2010 for web parts. He discusses the differences between "Visual Web Part" and "Web Part" item templates in Visual Studio, as well as best practices on when and why to use each of them. He also (patiently) teaches me the differences between sandbox and farm solutions.

For more information on SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 please see:

Also if you missed them, check out these interviews as well:

And please give us your feedback in the SharePoint Development Forums!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools

channel9 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Visual Studio 2010 is a fairly important release of the developer tool of choice for writing Windows applications. One of the important advancements in the new update is how it enables developers and architects to better visualize the assets and dependencies through UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams.

In this episode, Cameron Skinner gives us a quick overview of how Visual Studio 2010’s new UML visualization tool's design might help you with better understanding the overall structure of your applications.

You may also find the following links useful:

Sean McBreen: Proactive Project Management with Visual Studio 2010

channel9 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:26:00 +0000

Successful projects share a number of common characteristics – tight integration between the ground level practitioner and project management, agile methodologies such as Scrum are taking hold in mainstream development.

In this session, we’ll explore how teams can leverage the capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to manage, communicate, and track work to be done as well as report on project status and key performance indicators through the project lifecycle. You will see the new Agile Planning workbooks in Visual Studio 2010, as well as new reporting tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server dashboards. You will see you how to take advantage of these tools in your current and future projects.