C9Team

Hey folks, Duncan from the dev team here. Just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll be rolling out some new features along with a list of bug fixes in the next few days. The main new feature is a completely new editor. We've moved to TinyMCE for the commenting and creating new threads, and…

Hey folks, I thought I'd take a moment to update you on what the dev team has been working on recently, including spell checking in the editor, a slick way to insert code snippets and some already deployed features that you may or may not have noticed. We asked nicely and were given the code…

Build 2012 sold out in less than an hour. Build 2012 will be unlike anything we've held on our corporate campus in a long time. For those unable to attend, there will be a world class online experience and local developer events throughout the world.

Before we launched the most recent version of Channel 9 we did a lot of work to make sure site performance was acceptable for our users. This involves data collection to try to determine what aspects of the site are slow, and then work to make it all better. At some point though, we run into…

Build 2013, is taking place June 26-28, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.   Save the date and mark your calendar for the opening of registration at 9:00 AM PDT on Tuesday April 2, 2013 at http://buildwindows.com. At Build, we'll share updates and talk about what's next for…

Have you built your app yet? To help you get started we've just opened the Windows 8 Area on Channel 9. Right now we have over 85 videos and 17 hours of free developer content. You'll learn how to build beautiful apps and sell them in the Windows Store.  There's lots of new content for…

To kick off Build 2012, we put together a video featuring developers who have helped move the industry forward.  We asked them to share why they love what they do. Hear what they have to say in this video, shown on day one at Build. Participants included: Anders Hejlsberg: Technical Fellow,…

In partnership with Joel Martinez, the creator of the Windows Phone Khan Academy app (4/5 stars with 100+ ratings, Top 10 most popular app in Education category), we have finished a step-by-step video-series that shows how to migrate a popular, real-world Windows Phone app to the…

Whether it is comments on a video, forum posts or events, Channel 9 is all about facilitating conversations. And there are a lot of conversations. Wouldn't it be handy if Channel 9 aggregated the conversations you were interested in and notified you when there was new activity? We're excited to…

You can access the Visual Studio Achievements via an API. To get a list of all achievements as JSON, do an HTTP GET to the achievements page like this: http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio?json=true To get a list of a user's achievements, do an HTTP GET to the user's achievements…