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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…

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…

You may notice that earning some of the achievements requires FxCop.  If you have Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate, you are all set, as FxCop gets redistributed with these products. However, if you have Visual Studio 2010 Professional, you will need to install FxCop from here.…

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…

We are going to be rolling out a new project soon called Visual Studio Achievements. With the Visual Studio Achievements add-in, your code will be monitored and, as you proceed, you will unlock various achievements based on your activity. When you unlock an achievement, Visual Studio will let you…

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…

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…

You are at work, browsing Channel 9 and you see this great episode of Defrag has just been published on Channel 9… but you work in a cubicle and if you lean back and watch a 30 minute video, you’d probably get fired. What to do? You could email the link to yourself as a reminder to watch it later,…

What versions of Visual Studio does the achievements extension work on? Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate.  Achievements marked with Uses FxCop only work on Visual Studio 2010 Premium or Ultimate unless FxCop is installed. FxCop is a free download and can installed from here:…

We just released the Visual Studio Achievements extension, here's the 60 second recap with what you need to know about how it works. Want more information, check out the Visual Studio Toolbox episode Download the Visual Studio Achievements extension