This Week on C9: April Fools Day, open source MVC, ExceLINQ, and cool Silverlight apps (Channel 9)

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

Posted: Apr 03, 2009 at 2:43 PM

By: Dan Fernandez

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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

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Chadk excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Apr 04, 2009 at 3:25 AM

TWonC9 MVP?

Hell yeah!

Good show as always
Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Apr 04, 2009 at 3:46 AM

Dude! Empire! Geez!

I'll never do that DVD/BR image comparison thing. I currently have a huge library of DVD's that look great. If I compare them to BR, they'll look poor. I don't want to degrade the image quality of my movies, even if it's only in my mind.

Also: Alpenhorn.
littleguru <3 Seattle

Apr 04, 2009 at 8:31 AM

Wow. The ExceLINQ is awesome! Excel the gray thing in the corner finally stepping into the light

7zip supports RAR and ZIP and tons more and is open source!
Jeroen Ritmeijer

Apr 04, 2009 at 11:23 AM

TextGlow is pretty cool. After seeing this video I wrote an article about how to use it from SharePoint.
Weizensack

Apr 04, 2009 at 11:54 AM

re: April Fools Day Favorites

When I read this for the first time I really thought it's true... but unfortunately... Go on guys and make this damn joke come true!!
Stilgar

Apr 04, 2009 at 5:22 PM

Actually SmartFTP is much better than FileZilla but I switched when I discontinued the free version. I don't feel like paying $40 when I use ftp like 2 times a week to copy some files.

Same with 7zip vs WinRAR. I don't mind paying for software that I use often and I even donate money to free projects but for some apps it just does not make sense.
Dan

Apr 04, 2009 at 9:01 PM

>>Also: Alpenhorn.
Yes, that's it, now to casually introduce that into conversation

As for DVD/BR, the cool part is the code is reusable so you could use to compare images using different camera settings (f stops, lighting, resolution, etc).
Dan

Apr 04, 2009 at 9:06 PM

Hmm, I'll have to try 7zip and potentially ween myself off of WinRAR.

As for SmartFTP, what's so much better about it that FileZilla doesn't have? Maybe my FTP needs are basic
alashcraft

Apr 05, 2009 at 7:49 AM

Thanks for the plug, guys. And congrats to all the other new and renewed Microsoft MVPs!
littleguru <3 Seattle

Apr 05, 2009 at 12:42 PM

The name is actually Alphorn and not Alpenhorn (without the en)
HumanCompiler Now with more program management

Apr 06, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Multiple EPIC Star Wars FAILS!!!!

Agreed on FTP. FileZilla FTW
10percent

Oct 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM

For me it's http://www.tugzip.com all the way.

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