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TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing

channel9 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:26:00 +0000

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

Windows Live: Breakdown of Windows Live Essentials: Photo Gallery and Live Sync, including key features like Photo Fuse, Facial Recognition, tagging & search, better importing & more
Windows Azure - Windows Azure CDN Pricing Announced
Channel 9 Live at TechEd North America – Bob Muglia, Mark Russinovich, Jason Zander, Mark Minasi, Tony Scott, Jeffrey Snover
Jeff Wilcox: Silverlight Unit Testing for Windows Phone
AgUnit – Silverlight Unit testing with ReSharper
Jesse Liberty – Code Rush versus ReSharper
Brian Peek: The future of the Wiimote Library including the extension model Taiko Drum and DJ Hero support coming
Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx – Cloud Cover episode that shows how to swingify a song using Azure, Python and the Echo Nest API
Tim Heuer – Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight

Picks of the week:

Clint’s pick: Phil Haack - Copy & Paste works over Remote Desktop (and Live Mesh)
Dan’s pick: GivingAPresentation – Extensible App on CodePlex to clean up your desktop, close Messenger, and more, via Blake Handler

endpoint.tv – Activity Designers and Designer Rehosting with Kushal Shah

channel9 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:36:00 +0000

Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net 4 (WF4) makes it possible for you to build custom activity designers that allow different kinds of users to graphically design business processes. In this episode, Kushal Shah, program manager for the Workflow Designer team, shows us how you can build custom activities with support for the developers and end users who collaborate to build business processes.

Download the sample code from this video

For more information, see the Windows Workflow Foundation Developer Center on MSDN.

Cloud Cover Episode 14 – Diagnostics

channel9 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn about the Diagnostics capabilities in Windows Azure.
Discover how to remotely configure each instance's Diagnostics configuration.
Listen as we discuss debugging versus monitoring along with which techniques to use in Windows Azure.

Show Links:

Programming Windows Azure
Developing and Deploying with SQL Azure whitepaper
Windows Azure Architecture Guidance, Part 1
Announcing Windows Azure CDN Pricing
Web Role Crash Dumps

endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Server Farm Setup

channel9 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:31:00 +0000

You asked for it…here it is. In this episode, Byron Tardif is back to explain how you can setup Windows Server AppFabric in a server farm environment.

For more information, see the Windows Server AppFabric Developer Center on MSDN.

Cloud Cover Episode 13 – Running Python – The Censored Edition

channel9 — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:35:00 +0000

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this special censored episode:

We show you how to run Python in the cloud via a swingin' MP3 maker
We talk about how Steve debugged the Python application
Ryan and Steve join a boy band

Show Links:

SQL Azure Session ID Tracing
Windows Azure Guidance Part 2 - AuthN, AuthZ
Running MongoDb in Windows Azure
We Want Your Building Block Apps

Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing

channel9 — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:22:00 +0000

David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between Infrastructure vs Platform as a Service, and the role of private vs public cloud.

endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 2)

channel9 — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:24:00 +0000

Matt Winkler has been working with Windows Workflow Foundation for a long time. In fact, he used to be the Workflow Evangelist, but now he is a part of the team building the Workflow Designer. In this episode, Matt and I continue our long discussion about Workflow and Activities, focusing in on the designer space and how it works.

For more information see

Ron Jacobs’ Blog
Matt Winkler’s Blog
Windows Server AppFabric on MSDN
Windows Workflow Foundation Developer Center

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

Cloud Cover Episode 12 – Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication

channel9 — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:25:00 +0000

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn how to host WCF Services in Windows Azure using public input endpoints as well as private internal endpoints (i.e. inter-role communication)
Discover how to get your WCF Services MEX endpoints working from behind the load balancer

Show Links:

Exporting Data from SQL Azure
Vertical Partitioning in SQL Azure: Part 1
Extending the Thumbnails Sample
Datacastle Brings Data Protection From the Cloud
2-hr Windows Azure class (includes free hours on Windows Azure)

Hotmail: The Next Generation

channel9 — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:38:00 +0000

The Windows Live team previewed the next version of Hotmail Monday. This release has a foundation on saving time. Attachments, for example, often take you away from your inbox, they require you to wait for a new application or new window to open, one at a time. Hotmail will allow you to see a Silverlight Gallery of attached images or even linked images from Flickr and SmugMug. They have made it possible to send up to 200 photos @ 50MB each in a single email using Windows Live SkyDrive. Hotmail will open Office attachments using the new Office Web Apps right in your inbox, and even links to Hulu and YouTube will play within the email.

Another new feature is the ability to sweep your email removing unwanted mail. This goes beyond spam and into “graymail”, which is mail that you requested, but you really don’t care about. You can also sweep you Gmail and Yahoo! mail accounts.

There are many more features, be sure to check out the Windows Team Blog for more. Our good mate Nic Fillingham will be connecting with the Windows Live team when they get back for a video, so if you have questions please leave them here.