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From our humble beginnings as a website built with alpha quality forum technologies that we stitched together with creative code and a lot of love, and our videos were made by a few dudes roaming the halls of Microsoft with a cheap camcorder – look at us now. Channel 9 streams live events to…

Bring Some Game To Your Code!A software engineer's glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code--and all the heroics it took to write…

Dearest Niners, After a little bit of blood, sweat, and tears, we’re happy to give you the first taste of the new Channel 9 (codenamed: Revolution 9 or “Rev9” for short) that we first mentioned over a year ago.  Overview Revolution 9 has four key themes: Improve the user…

The Visual Studio Achievements WidgetSo you are racking up points in Visual Studio Achievements. You should tell the world about it! Enter the Visual Studio Achievement Widget! This widget is a small(<6k), simple and customizable javascript file that you can drop on your own page to give…

As part of the day two MIX11 keynote, Jeff Sandquist led us through a set of cool Kinect demos featuring various members of the Channel 9 team (and others!). Check them out, they are cool, inspiring and even somewhat embarassing. Update: adding direct links to the various parts of this demo 1:36…

You’ve seen this app before in various forms (we had a version in the consumer preview for Windows 8, and a beta up on the forum for awhile), but the v1 release just hit the Windows store. Features Pin your favorite shows and keep up to date with Live Tiles Watch videos with your choice of…

We are excited to announce an update to the Visual Studio Achievements extension: the availability of nineteen new achievements all oriented toward Windows 8 app development. These new achievements can be earned in JavaScript, C#, VB and C++. Some examples include: I Like To Move It Move It…

In partnership with the Visual Studio team, we are launching Code Snippets for Windows Store apps, a collection of around 60 IntelliSense Code Snippets for common Windows Store app programming tasks. The snippets are available for Visual Basic, C#, C++, and JavaScript developers. For…

Hey folks, Tech Ed North America 2012 just took place in Orlando, Florida on June 11-14th and you can view all 427 Tech Ed North America sessions now! They are published on Channel 9 under the events section. We also have all Channel 9 Live sessions up and on demand. If you…

Welcome to the all new Channel 9. This is the fifth major release of Channel 9 since our original launch back on April 6, 2004. With this major release we focussed on top requests from you in the forums along telemetry data to guide our design. We've made it easier to find content through…