Earlier this week the Office team released a video that showed some of the new features of PowerPoint 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite. The latest version is hardware-accelerated with new transitions and animations. All of this means that you can better use PowerPoint to not just present bullet points or graphs, but to really tell your story.
Here is that video, all of which was done with PowerPoint 2010.
This week Brian Keller and Amanda Silver review the week’s top developer stories including:
- IE8 most secure browser according to NSS labs
- Unix turns 40 (here and here)
- Riviera: Windows Azure reference application
- Complete and searchable list of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts
- Introduction to the SQL Server 2008 Profiler by Pinal Dave
- IT scripts galore at the TechNet Script Center
- Physics Helper 3 adds WPF support!
- Sketchflow Viewer for DotNetNuke
- SWF to Silverlight converter
Amanda’s pick of the week: MakeOfficeBetter.com
Brian’s pick-of-the-week: The Lessons of Microsoft Bob
This week on C9, Brian and Habib “Runtime” Heydarian review the week’s top developer stories including:
Windows 7 API Code Pack for .NET Framework hits v1.0
Yahoo! API’s starting to shut down
Spec# and Boogie comes to Codeplex
Expression 3 Starter Kits from UX Connection
Silverlight 3 adoption curve by VBandi
Charles Petzold on Fluttering 3D Photo Effects with Silverlight 3
LINQ to SQL cheat sheet via Greg Duncan
Gunnar Peipman’s tips for documenting source code
Habib Heydarian, debugging exceptions with the VSTS2010 Historical Debugger:
“An Introduction to UI Automation” by Sam Jack
Visual Studio 2010 Themes (1 from Rob Conery and 2 from Jimmy Bogard)
Using WPF in Office Clients by Beth Massi
Open Source Licenses demystified by Zack Rusin
Just for fun: Musical Sorting Algorithms (1 and 2)
Habib’s pick of the week: Getting started with robotics at
Brian’s pick of the week: Pre-order your Zune HD
In this week’s episode, Mike & Jennifer talk about how to keep up with PDC news via Twitter, highlight the 7 deep-dive Workshops being offered this year, remind folks that students and professors qualify for a great PDC academic discount (only $595!), and begin to talk about the Birds of a Feather sessions. But, only so much can be squeezed into ten short minutes, so I guess you’ll have to watch next week’s episode to hear the rest of that sentence. http://microsoftpdc.com/
This week on C9, Brian and Christian “Littleguru” Liensberger review the week’s top developer stories including:
- Dan on paternity leave – welcome to Gavin Xavier Fernandez!
- MSDN & Technet availability of Windows 7 (Correction to the video: Windows Server 2008 R2 not available just yet… team says “available in the coming weeks”)
- Windows 7 on 9 and Windows 7 on Edge
- Windows 7 Physical and Virtual Deployment Options
- Windows 7 Remote Desktop with multi-mon
- Windows 7 Bing Desktop Wallpaper
- PDC 2009 Registration Launched
- Silverlight SDK for Bing
- Customizing TFS Process Guidance
- Team Review for Team System
- Using VSTS 2010 to catch string formatting bugs
- 31 Days of Refactoring
- Clint Rutkas’s Drunktender 1.0 Demo
- AI in C# and LINQ
Picks of the week:
- Christian’s pick-of-the-week, RoombaSCI
- Brian’s pick-of-the-week, Russ’s Toolshed on Channel 9