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IE9 shipped on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 9PM PST (UTC-8). Our fearless dev leader Duncan mentioned to me over lunch today that he thought it would be a really good idea to provide a single post on 9 with links to good C9 content related to IE9 (we tend to go out early on 9 and some…

Today we officially launched a new area on Channel 9, the Channel 9 Learning Center. This is an area where we’ll provide free training courses (videos, hands-on labs, and code samples) on emerging products and technologies, with our first set of training courses being Windows 7 and Visual…

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…

We are excited to announce a version of Visual Studio Achievements that works on Visual Studio 2012 RC.  Running this version of the extension will enable you to unlock a new achievement called Brave New World, which is unlocked when you create or open a project when running Visual Studio 2012…

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 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.…

Hey folks,  Our Content Delivery Network (CDN) is experiencing very high traffic due to MIX10 session content. To resolve this, we will be blocking access to the MIX sessions temporarily while they copy all of the MIX sessions into various edge caches around the world. The end result of…

Hey folks, we’ve launched yet another new feature on Channel 9, making a new home for all of our ‘on-demand’ event content, consolidating the content from numerous domains and sub-domains. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events  So while you are waiting to attend MIX11, come take a trip down memory…

We just released a feature that integrates MSDN profile information directly into Channel9. Now, for any niner that has an MSDN account, Channel9 shows that user's MSDN statistics – points earned in the MSDN profile system, badges, and links to their MSDN activity page and profile – both on hover of…

Achievements For Windows AzureIn January, we released Visual Studio Achievements to the delight of the developer community -- 80,000+ downloads and counting!  With cloud computing being all the rage these days, we thought it made sense to cook up some achievements for Windows Azure. As…