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Rob Relyea: Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 Released!

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:38:53 GMT

The Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 is now available for download! Rob Relyea joins us to give a refresher on what the Kinect SDK can do, and what's new for Beta 2. There are a number of under-the-hood improvements including faster and more accurate skeletal tracking, support for x64, and support for multi-core machines. They've also added a new StatusChanged event to know when a Kinect has been connected, disconnected, or doesn't have enough power, as well as new APIs to better manage using multiple Kinects. Watch for more details!

Rob Relyea: Kinect SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:34:45 GMT

Now that the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live, we had a chance to talk to Rob Relyea a Principal Program Manager Lead on the Kinect for Windows SDK team to talk about what changed in the Beta 1 Refresh.

If you're on Twitter, make sure to follow the KinectSDKTeam for more information.

Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:35:00 GMT

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool aimed at building data-driven applications, like an inventory system or a basic customer relationship management system incredibly easy.

LightSwitch automatically generates the user interface in Silverlight for a data source and, with no code, you can create, read, update and delete data.

Watch the demos and see how you can build, customize, and extend LightSwitch applications including changing themes, templates, adding custom validation, providing smart data types, and deploying to Windows Azure.

The free, public beta will be available starting August 23rd.

ThisWeekC9 - PDC10, Azure in a box, Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta, and Kings Quest

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:00:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

PDC10 - Oct 28-29, live from the Redmond campus, 1,000 people, $1,000 to attend, (register here). If you can't attend, we'll be streaming the event live! We'll also be doing some fun stuff for Niners who will be attending PDC
Steve Marx & Ryan Dunn -Windows Azure Platform Appliance, team blog for more information
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta now available, make sure to uninstall the CTP before installing and find details on the consumer cloud services - My Phone.
Yochay Kiriaty - Updates to the Windows Phone Training Course (available online on Channel 9)
Matt Hawley - CodePlex now supports ClickOnce installation (and updates)
Josh Blake - Blake.NUI, a collection of controls and utilities for multi-touch development, including a book with details on how it all works, via Alvin Ashcraft
Miguel de Icaza - A Handy tip, you can tell a server to automagically gzip or deflate files before sending them to you via the HttpWebRequest AutomaticDecompression flag
Scott Hanselman - The official hardware selection for the ultimate developer PC
Charles Torre - Going Deep episode that goes inside the Razor Parser

Picks of the week!

Brian's Pick: TFS 2010 Support for Project Server, including a CTP virtual machine you can try
Dan's Pick: King's Quest remake is available (registration required before you can download)

Simon Calvert & Scott Hunter: WebMatrix and the new Razor Syntax

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:44:00 GMT

WebMatrix is a new lightweight tool, server, database and Web programming framework. The goal is to provide an easy on-ramp to building Web applications and to provide tools to easily create and customize pre-built applications like WordPress, Umbraco CMS and more.

WebMatrix Beta: More Information | Download

In this video, you'll see demos of:

Starting WebMatrix (13:02)
Downloading & Running Umbraco CMS (13:40 - 21:05)
SEO and Broken Links report (21:05 - 23:08)
How to publish a Web site using WebMatrix (23:08 - 24:20
Building basic Web sites using the new Razor syntax in VBHTML/CSHTML files, including editing HTML, adding headers and footers, database access, HTML forms and more (23:08 - 44:28)
Content Helpers - Content Helpers are wrappers for common tasks and 3rd party services, including database access, adding video to a site, captcha, photo processing, Twitter, and more (44:28 - 52:40)
Smarty Route - How routing works without explicit configuration and without file extensions (52:40 - 54:44)

Lane McCullough: Dell hardware running IE 9 Canvas demos

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:09:00 GMT

Lane McCullough from Dell shows off the performance improvements of hardware acceleration that Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 has over Firefox in the Asteroid Belt Canvas tag sample.

Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3
Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

David Ragones: NVIDIA hardware and IE9

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:09:00 GMT

David Ragones from NVIDIA shows off the 10x+ performance improvement between a hardware accelerated Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 and Chrome 5 using the Potato Gun demo.

Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3
Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

Dave Hoff: AMD Hardware and Internet Explorer 9

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:08:00 GMT

Dave Hoff from AMD shows off AMD-based notebooks and the power of hardware acceleration with Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3.

Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3
Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

Debby Lee: ASUS Hardware and Internet Explorer 9

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:08:00 GMT

Debbie Lee from ASUS discusses ASUS hardware that supports Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3.

Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3
Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore,

Dan Fernandez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:28:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas where we discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- Channel 9 Live at PDC - Three days of live streams with big names including Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, Scott Guthrie, and many more.
- Microsoft PressPass - Microsoft acquires Teamprise which means Martin Woodward is a blue badge!
- Microsoft SDK for Facebook, now officially supported by Facebook
- Bing Maps Silverlight Control Interactive SDK
- New Amazon Web Services .NET SDK, via Greg Duncan
- Channel 9 adds Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Windows Server R2 Developer courses with videos and hands-on labs
- Thomas Lewis - Devil's Field Guide to the PDC (2009 Edition)
- Steve Marx - How to use the Azure CDN for a custom domain
- Anders Hejlsberg - the Visual Studio Documentary
- Sync Toy 2.1 Available for download
- Access 2010 - Access for SharePoint Web databases

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Dragon Age Origins the game and the awesome toolset and developer wiki for building your own adventures.
- Clint's pick: Clint's Iron Bartender contest at PDC. It'sman versus machine in this blind taste test to see who builds the better drink, the Drinktender or an actual bartender.

Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:07:00 GMT

In this interview, we talk to Noah Coad, the Program Manager for Visual Studio Express. We talk about

- Who the customer target for Express is
- What features are and aren't in Express
- Demos of the new IDE features that come in Express.

More info
- Download Express 2010 Beta 2
- Follow the Visual Studio Express Twitter account

TweetCraft - A World of Warcraft Twitter Client

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:43:00 GMT

A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client.

Twitter is open source and includes:
- A Windows client written in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation
- A Warcraft AddOn written in FrameXML and Lua using AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Swine Flu (H1N1) Tracker Web Slice Released

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:56:00 GMT

The rapid spread of the H1N1 flu virus is obviously a source of concern across the world. To offer an easy way to stay up to date, we’ve just released a new web slice for Internet Explorer 8 that offers the latest updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Check it out, and stay safe out there!

This Week on C9: April Fools Day, open source MVC, ExceLINQ, and cool Silverlight apps

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:43:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developer news including:

- Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC now is OSI certified open source, using the Microsoft Public License.
- New Microsoft MVPs announced
- Bart de Smets - ExceLINQ - a prototype of an Excel provider for LINQ
- Scott Hanselman - Paving a machine must-have applications
- Chris Auld - Intergen's TextGlow a Silverlight-based OpenXML document viewer's source code now available
- VSTS Ranger Team - VS Team Test 83 Page Reference Guide available, via Greg Duncan
- TBODA Web Team - 5 Useful SQL Server Scripts
- VB QuickStarts and How-To topics for PRISM available
- Giovanni Montrone - Coding4Fun Article - Silverlight Image Comparison tool (see live demo)

April Fools Day Favorites
- Larry Larsen - The Microsoft Surface Stove
- Brian Peek - TwitterDrive, The Revolution in Cloud Storage
- ThinkGeek - Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (note: TG is now trying to productize this)
- Xbox - Alpine Legend (video)

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick: April Fools Day episode of 10-4 on Sentient DSLs
- Dan's pick: Extreme Sheep LED Art video, via Wes Hutchins

Throwing Ten Thousand bouncy balls down a stairwell

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:40:00 GMT

David Norris and Larry Osterman are classic Microsoft pranksters (watch their original Channel 9 interview for how they pranked Steve Ballmer, among others).

One of their weapons of choice is the bouncy ball and this (now declassified) video from midnight on April 1st, 2006 shows what happens when you throw ten thousand rubber bouncy balls down six flights of a stairwell.

Softies pranking Softies: A step-by-step video for pranking co-workers

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:39:00 GMT

Here at Microsoft, we like to have a little bit of fun, so a couple of months ago, Scott Stabbert built a VB.NET application to prank his co-worker, Xander. Watch and learn how Scott did it and download the project code to prank your own friends.

MIX09 Video Outtakes with Scott Guthrie

Tina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:14:00 GMT

A quick video of some outtakes from Scott Guthrie's intro video at MIX 2009.

1st place - MIX09 Show Off Contest - Physics Helper using Silverlight

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:12:00 GMT

An overview of the Physics Helper Library, which allows you to draw objects in Expression Blend 2, and have those objects translated directly into Physics objects using the Farseer Physics Engine. This can be a great timesaver for creating games, as it is traditionally difficult to line up underlying physics bodies, joints, and geometries with your Blend artwork.

Built by:
- Andy Beaulieu

Tools used:

- Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend, Farseer Physics Engine

See 2nd Place Entry.
See 3rd Place Entry.
See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.

2nd place - MIX09 Show Off Contest - Creating the Ganassi Racing Sidebar Gadget

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:12:00 GMT

A Vista sidebar gadget was designed and created for the Chip Ganassi Racing team. This video walks through each stage of the process that we used at projekt202 to go from concept to finished project.

Built by:
- Jeffrey McLean (Lead Designer, All development, Video compilation, Video Narration), Linda Richey (Project manager, requirement definition, Race fan daughter), Eric Bear (Interaction consultation), Laura Cramer (Additional visual design), Peter Eckert (Creative Oversight), Jeff Steinberg (Business Side of things)

Tools used:
- Expression Blend, Visual Studio 2008, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Expression Design, Pen and Paper

See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.

3rd place - MIX09 Show Off Contest - Stimulant Surface Applications 2009

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:10:00 GMT

Stimulant is an interaction design and development studio that specializes in new interaction paradigms on emerging hardware.

Microsoft Surface is an important part of our core offering. This is a short reel of our publicly-showable Microsoft Surface projects we created between 2008 and 2009.

Built by:
- Josh Santangelo, Jules Konig, Darren David, Lee Granas, Nathan Moody

Tools used:
- .NET 3.5, XNA, Visual Studio, Expression Design, Expression Blend, Expression Media Encoder, Microsoft Surface Emulator

See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.

Honorable Mention - MIX09 Show Off Contest - WPF & The Emotiv Headset

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:09:00 GMT

By leveraging the power of .NET combined with the EMOTIV thought control headset soon to be released later this year, users are able to control the WPF application using thought control alone. Navigation and interactions are based on the user thinking the commands directly.

Built by:
- Rick Barraza, Cynergy Systems

Tools used:
- WPF, C#, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 SP1 (Pixel Shaders), EMOTIV Thought Control headset, Photoshop

Honorable Mention - MIX09 Show Off Contest - Silverlight Commodore 64 Emulator

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:09:00 GMT

Cycle-exact Commodore 64 emulator written in C#, much ported from C++ Frodo emulator. Done just to prove Silverlight can do almost anything. Most C64 hardware is emulated and it’s running off real C64 ROM images. Display is a MediaStreamSource 50fps video I’m generating from raw emulated VIC-II graphics chip output.

Built by:
- Pete Brown

Tools used:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 3

Honorable Mention: MIX09 Show Off Contest - Playing in an augmented world

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:08:00 GMT

Realtime interaction with 3D objects using a webcam. Mix of managed and unmanaged code, tacking advantage of multi-core CPUs and GPUs for better interactivity.

Built by: YDreams
- Antao Almada, Goncalo Lopes, Andre Almeida, Joao Frazao, Nuno Cardoso, Amadeu Dias, Fernando Nabais, Ivan Franco

Tools used:
- Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft DirectShow, YDreams YVision, DirectShow.NET, OpenCV, Ogre 3D, Mogre, Open Dynamics Engine

Honorable Mention - MIX09 Show Off Contest - Magister 5, a large LOB app in Silverlight

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:07:00 GMT

Magister 5 is a large line of business application for secondary schools in Holland, targeting management, staff, teachers students and parents. It is a 100 % Silverlight application, there is also a mobile version of the software.

Built by: SchoolMaster BV
Siebrand Dijkstra & Fleur van der Laan

Tools used:
Visual Studio and Expression Blend

Q and A with Bill Buxton at MIX09

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:47:00 GMT

Nishant Kothary and Jonathan Carter host a live Q&A from MIX09 with Bill Buxton.