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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…

David Washington and Paul Gusmorino demonstrate the key enhancements in Windows 7 to finding and organizing your files. David and Paul show off the ways that the team has simplified the Windows Explorer, the new libraries feature, which is a virtual collection of your music,…

Step 1 for landing a job at Microsoft?  Send us your resume!  Lisa Olson - Microsoft Staffing Consultant, JobsBlogger, and Aggie computer science grad – shows you how to apply for your dream job and shares 10 simple resume tips to grab a Microsoft recruiter’s attention. …

Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko from EPAM Systems are two of the developers building AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft. AddOn Studio is a free developer tool built on top of the Visual Studio Shell that brings a Visual Studio-like experience to creating Lua addons…

This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Scott Hanselman and Charlie "ChadK" Eriksen in studio to discuss: Charlie and Scott introduce themselves and we see Scott's new upcoming books, I Am ASP.NET (and so can you!) and Why I became a Paid Microsoft Shill (0 - 0:39) SQL Server 2008…

Note: Due to the screen resolution, we recommend you watch this in full screen mode or download the video. Now that Silverlight 2 has released to the Web, we sat down with Scott Guthrie as he walks us through handcoding a basic Silverlight 2 application. You'll see the Silverlight eventing…

Take a behind-the-scenes look at just what goes into Scott Guthrie’s preparation for his  MIX ‘09 keynote. We finally reveal the rituals and habits that get  “The Gu” ready to deliver his one-of-a-kind keynote, and answer the burning question: Will Scott wear his red polo this year?

Live Mesh is built around a relationship directory to let the machines in your mesh communicate with one another on your behalf.  Any two devices can use the directory and the mesh communication services to set up an encrypted channel for sharing data or synchronizing.  In this…

Daniel goes through the four key reasons why BSODs happen, how Windows allocates memory and how developers need to be careful when setting kernel mode memory. Daniel then goes through a real-world example of a faulty device driver and how to debug and diagnose issues. Daniel also shows how to read…

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…