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TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren’t bad

April 24, 10 //

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

Scott Guthrie – Silverlight 4 RTM
John Papa – Overview of Silverlight 4 Technical Whitepaper
New version of Silverlight Toolkit available
Roger Doherty – SQL Server 2008 R2 Overview
Grigori Melnik - Enterprise Library 5.0 is now available
Chris Sells – Understand the performance implications of IEnumerable vs IQueryable
Scott Guthrie – New syntax to automatically HTML Encode Output in ASP.NET 4.0, the “:” operator
Elegant Code – Eliminating Comments: The Road to Clarity – Clint and Dan think not all code comments are bad
Jon Galloway – Louis DeJardin on SparkView Engine
Charles Torre – Docs for Facebook: Making your Documents Social
MSDN – C# Language Specification 4.0
Laura Foy – John Harris presents SketchFlow in 90 seconds

Picks of the week

Dan’s pick: Dotnetrocks roadshow is coming to a city near you
Clint’s pick: Building the Coding4Fun Cannon

Ping 55: Visual Studio 2010 Launch, Kin Unveiled, GLO for women

April 12, 10 //

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Holy lots of announcements Batman! Let’s just get to it since this week was jam-packed!

Dan Fernandez dishes about the VS 2010 Launch
Check out the FIRST Kin demo!
Microsoft loves the ladies…
Forever immortalized in Country Music! Yee Haw!
Deep Zooming
“Get a Mac” ads are over

TWC9 – VB 2010, Collect app usage for free, donut caching, painting with light

April 10, 10 //

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This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint talk about the week’s top developer news, including:

Channel 9 Live at Visual Studio 2010/Silverlight 4 Launch
Scott Guthrie – VB 2010 Love Fest -Auto-Implemented Properties, Collection Initializers, Line Continuation support
Pete Brown – Encoding/Decoding strings with the .NET 4 Client Profile
MSDN – Collect Usage Performance & Stability Information with the Dotfuscator version included in Visual Studio (tutorial, video), via Greg Duncan
Patrick Smacchia – Windows Programming: The “it works on my machine” syndrome
Kevin Moore – XAML Bag of Tricks updated
Gunnar Peipman – Donut caching using dynamically loaded controls
Laurent Bugnion – MMVM Light Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
Blake Handler – Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Software & Resources
Tina Wood – History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story Part 1 & Part 2
Tina Wood – CliffyB of Epic Games on Channel 9 – Answering questions from Niners
Scott Hanselman – How to setup your site to use the AutoPageResize browser extension

Picks of the week

Dan’s pick: Steve Marx – Letting the Internet Choose My Wallpaper
Clint’s pick: Coding4Fun – Randall Mass – Paint With Light

Ping 54: Windows Phone 7 Training Kit, 64GB Zune, Microsoft helps electric cars

April 5, 10 //

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They seemed a little giddy this week…maybe a little too much candy from the Easter Bunny At any rate, here are the top stories making their way around Microsoft this week:

Plug in that vehicle!
Windows Phone 7 desktop theme
Your Zune is how big???
Start developing NOW for WP7

TWC9: Best of April Fools Day with Clint Rutkas and Christian Liensberger

April 3, 10 //

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On a special This Week on Channel 9, Clint Rutkas and Christian Liensberger review our favorite April Fools day pranks, including:

- Channel 9 Forum Quality filter
- XKCD goes UNIX command line
- YouTube – New “TextP” video format and how they did it, via Minh in the Coffeehouse
- Battle.net matchmaking for your personal life
- ThinkGeek moodINQ – Programmable Tattoo System
- ThinkGeek Canned Unicorn Meat
- Bungie.net - Halo Reach multiplayer will be chess-based
- Blizzard – X-treme Gamer Blanket
- Pacman – the movie
- Eilon Lipton – Last GUID used up, new ScottGuID to replace it
- Phil Haack - Closed Source Viral License
- MSDN Sweden - Comment Driven Development

Picks of the week:
- Clint’s pick: Amazing Object Tracking Demo
- Christian’s pick: Photoshop’s Content aware fill

TWC9: MIX Wrapup, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7 Tutorials

March 27, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by guest host Clint Rutkas to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

This week on Channel 9 is now on iTunes
Mike Swanson – MIX10 Wrap Up
- Interesting because: Lots of fun facts about MIX10 including the on-demand traffic spike, miles of cabling, Red Bull bottles
Larry Larsen – Dungeons & Dragons on Microsoft Surface
- Interesting because: Playing D&D on Surface is the coolest+geekiest thing you can do
Charles Torre – JavaScript – Project JSMeter
- Interesting because: JSMeter analyzes JavaScript from the top Web sites to profile real-world JS performance and it’s used for IE9
Brian Keller – Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machines with Sample Data and Hands-On Labs
- Interesting because: If you’re looking to get started with TFS, this ready-to-run VM includes sample data and hands on labs
Sara Ford - Visual Studio Color Theme Editor
- Interesting because: You can change the Visual Studio chrome colors (aka remove purple)
Simone Chiaretta - Delete Visual Studio artifact folders & SVN folders, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Interesting because: You can right click in Windows Explorer and clean your project up
Christian Schormann – Using Paths in a ListBox in Silverlight 4
- Interesting because: It’s a step-by-step tutorial for building a circular path for a ListBox
Robby Ingebretsen - 10 Favorite Open source fonts you can embed in WPF or Silverlight
- Interesting because: Free and beautiful fonts
Steve Clayton - I <3 Windows Phone Desktop Wallpapers
- Interesting because: Everyone loves the iconic I <3 Windows Phone
Channel 9 - Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Course
- Interesting because: Great resource for building your first Windows Phone applications using Silverlight or XNA
Scott Guthrie – Building a Windows Phone 7 Twitter Application in Silverlight
- Interesting because: It’s a step-by-step tutorial for building the Twitter application Scott built in the MIX keynote
Jeff Wilcox – Reusing the Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone
- Interesting because: Jeff walks through his testing of specific parts of the Silverlight Toolkit that work and don’t work on Windows Phone
Daniel Vaughan – CodeProject – Building a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game
- Interesting because: Tutorial on building a Silverlight game for Windows Phone
Andy Beaulieu - Physics Helper Deluxe Running on Windows Phone
- Interesting because: Physics Helper is a great library that you can easily reuse for building physics games

Picks of the week:

Clint’s pick: René Schulte – Coding4Fun – FaceLight – Silverlight 4 Real-Time Face Detection (live demo)
Dan’s pick: Channel 9 Live where Clint took a C02 propelled Channel 9 guy to the chest

Ping 52: Nic Fillingham, Windows Phone 7, XNA and Channel 9 Live

March 16, 10 //

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This week we welcomed special guest host, Nic Fillingham, who not only runs Channel 9 LIVE at MIX 2010 but also brings us these stories:

and Just For Fun: New Dork Music Video

GDC 2010 – first look at Power Gig: Rise of the Six String’s Gaming Controller

March 11, 10 //

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I’m in San Francisco for GDC 2010 this week and will be bringing you a few different stories from here. Later on today I will be publishing a Windows Phone 7 interview with Michael Klucher about The Xbox Live game hub. Yesterday I was invited to what was only called “An Unannounced Music Title”. I was skeptical but went and was incredibly excited when I left. SEVEN45 Studios out of Boston have created a new game for the Xbox 360 called Power Gig: Rise of the Six String and here’s a look at the future of gaming peripherals. Although we weren’t allowed to show the game footage because it’s under NDA until a later date it really is all about the Electric Guitar.

Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood!

March 8, 10 //

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You asked for it, so you got it! This week we have special co-host, Tina Wood bringing all the scoop that ‘Softies wanna know about.

TechFest recap
Ballmer Tweets!
Xbox & Facebook
Microsoft & Android..BFF’s

endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries

March 8, 10 //

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Last week we saw the release of Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 and came up with some interesting issues related to setting it up. We posted a great endpoint.tv episode, in which I talked through the setup experiences with Byron Tardif, and to follow up I added some blog posts.

In this episode of endpoint.tv we look at

How to install AppFabric with the Web Platform Installer
How to uninstall AppFabric
How to reference the AppFabric Cache client libraries from Visual Studio 2010

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