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I met Chris McConnell, an Architect on the Desktop Search team, in Barcelona at Tech Ed 2006. He mentioned to me that he had never met Anders and wanted to talk to him about LINQ over Desktop Search and get Anders' view of Intentional Programming. In true Channel 9 fashion, I thought "OK.…

Mike Swanson has done it again!  Check out his (http://www.mikeswanson.com/swf2xaml) SWF to XAML converter.  Wow! In this segment, he demos the tool in action and explains the secrets of how he pulled it off. Karsten Januszewski conducts the interview.

Recently, Microsoft announced a new type of licensing model aimed at making it much easier, therefore safer from a legal point of view, for developers to implement specs without having to spend a lot of time understanding complex license agreements and obscure legalese, then signing and…

Javier Martinez is a research developer for Spain's telecom giant Telefonica. He and team developed a WCF-based router configuration system used to set millions of routers remotely over a custom WCF channel they created. Javier and team have done some really innovative work with both WCF and WF.…

Ever wonder what the advent of IPV6 really means? Why does it matter, really? What about Toredo Server? What does it do and why? Well, wonder no more. Meet Michael Surkan, Program Manager in the Networking group. From security to performance, Mike explains how IPV6 represents the future…

From the LINQ Project site (http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq): “The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for…

By now, you've heard of MSN's Soapbox video site where you can upload your own videos and share your creativity and message with the world, for free, etc... Well, that sounds happy and nice, but we want to know how Soapbox actually works, how it's architected/designed for scale, and why they made…

Today we took Rory around to meet some of the folks that he's already met, but we decided to do it again on camera just for fun (and of course we film him meeting folks he hasn't actually met like our VP Sanjay Parthasarathy...) As always, this is a very random tour. It starts off slow, has…

We recently sat down to chat with Microsoft's Developer Division leader and Vice President, S. Somasegar (Everybody calls him Soma). We wanted to find out a few things about Visual Studio and life at Microsoft from a long time veteran and successful officer of the company who leads…

We caught up with David Anderson during his last week at Microsoft before he headed off to lead a development team at Corbis. During his time at Microsoft, David was an architect for the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) in the patterns and practices group. David talks about using Visual Studio…