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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:

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.

Ping 71: Windows Phone 7 & Xbox LIVE, Flight Sim, Facebook, Messenger, MENLO

August 23, 10 //

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It’s a blast from the past this week as Max Zuckerman joins us in the Ping studio. Max may be a Stanford scholar these days, but he still can’t hide the fact that he’s a ‘Softie through and through. Here’s the top news:

Menlo: Digital Bread Crumbs
Windows Live Messenger & Facebook
Xbox LIVE and Windows Phone 7
Return of Flight Sim!

And just for fun…

The Twitter Movie trailer

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

Ping 70: ZoomIt, PC & Mac Ads, Media Room, Gaming on Windows Phones

August 16, 10 //

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On this episode of Ping, Paul and Laura bring you all the hottest stories that ‘Softies have been buzzing over this week.

PC & Mac Ads
ZoomIt
Games & Windows Phone
Mediaroom

Onit- for MEN!

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

Countdown to TechEd Europe: The Yoda of Windows Phone

August 14, 10 //

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On this week’s episode, @anyware and @ritzy host Jaime Rodriguez, the technical evangelist giving a full day pre-conference deep dive on Windows Phone 7 application and development in Berlin on November 8. Jaime gives a sneak peek into some of the learnings of building a WinPhone app, and talks about some of the details his workshop will include such as MVVM and architecture, integrating user experiences, Silverlight optimization, FREE tools, plus discussion involving the rich marketplace opportunities. Sign up for his seminar before it’s too late! http://europe.msteched.com/

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

Ping 67: Visual Studio Power Tools, Facebook on Its Way to a Billion, Kinect, and More

July 26, 10 //

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The final Ping installment of Boys without Foys (Episode 6) has Adam and Paul sharing their insights on what is being chatted about on Microsoft’s campus.

Here’s what is going on this week…

Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools
Facebook Hits 500 Million
Windows Phone 7s for ‘Softies
Kinect Bundle

…Laura is coming back next week!

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

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