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Reactive Extensions for .NET, Rx, is here!!! Erik Mejier explains what Rx is and why it matters in 15 minutes or less!

For most of their lifetimes, C# and VB.NET have evolved at their own pace and in their own ways (C# added iterators, VB.NET didn't. VB.NET added XML Literals, C# didn't. etc, etc...). Today, Luca Bolognese and team have embarked on a new approach to how .NET's premiere languages will evolve going…

Ever wonder what InfoCard is all about? Well, Nigel Watling, an InfoCard Technical Evangelist, and Andy Harjanto, an InfoCard Program Manager,  sure can explain it all to you. Here, they discuss all aspects of InfoCard (with a lot of time spent on the whiteboard). We're joined by…

Vice President of Windows Live David Treadwell explains Azure's Live Services. He whiteboards the architecture of Live Services (love getting VPs to the whiteboard!), discusses what's available in the Azure CTP, what's coming and, finally, why we are doing all of the cloud business in the first…

Jeffrey Richter’s Power Threading Library contains his AsyncEnumerator class which uses C# iterators to allow developers to perform asynchronous operations via an easy to use synchronous programming model. For those of you who can remember our conversations on CCR from years back, the use of…

MIX it up!  Hey, do you design, develop or manage web sites? Well, if so, then  MIX06 is the Conference not to miss. It all happens on March 20-22 in sunny, sultry Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.What is MIX? MIX is our new consumer web focused event, a 72-our conversation with…

Dan Fernandez et al are at it again with another cool contest for Visual Studio Express developers: Made In Express. You could win 10,000 US Dollars! Get to it, Niners.In this video we catch up with Mark Jewett and Dan Fernandez, a couple of the minds behind the contest, and talk about, well, the…

Is coding a chore for you? Well, MSDN’s new Coding for Fun site will change all of that! Come and see some fun ways to have fun with software.Check out the Coding4Fun Website. Also, be sure to download and install your favorite flavor of Express!

Scott Swanson introduces us to the MSN Messenger APIs and other Messenger related stuff.

We recently tracked down Karsten Januszewski, a technical evangelist focusing on WPF. He writes code to evangelize the technology as well as talk about writing WPF code. He's a very technical technical evangelist. Anyway, I randomly walked into his office one day and this video…