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[Note: This is the first in a series of videos on Visual Studio Team System from Brian Keller. Thanks for the content, Brian ]  The ability to branch and merge source code with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server can really enable a team to build software in a more agile and…

In this video we talk with Matthew Scott, a developer on the Word team who takes us through the design and development of the Word 2007 Content Control Toolkit, an application that natively reads and writes Word documents saved in the Open XML file format.  This application has been…

This is an interesting video for Channel 9. As many geeks know, the Office team at Microsoft is the team that typically sets the standard for UIs throughout our company, and then the industry beyond. It's where the experimentation takes place. It's like the Area 51 of UI workshops. In this…

There's some confusion among geeks about what the differences are between Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded, and Windows Mobile. In this video, I talk with Mike Hall and Derek Snyder about these differences, and what I got was a crystal clear explanation. Then Derek goes on to demo a few…

Mike Calligaro came to Microsoft thirteen years ago to help build a supercomputer. But, two days before his arrival, the project evaporated, leaving Mike on the payroll but without a position.   This isn't an unheard of situation for new hires, but Mike's story, detailing all the…

In Part One of this series, Boyd Multerer told us all about XNA. Now, in Part Two, Frank Savage shows it all to us. Frank will talk about XNA from his perspective, deploy an XNA project to an Xbox 360, modify the application, and also give a debugging demonstration. All of this is done at…

In this screencast, I show how to use the .NET CF 2.0 to create a simple web browser for the PocketPC. I also demonstrate how to access web resources programatically rather than by just using the new Web Browser Control. This is a slightly more advanced screencast than the previous in the…

Just as you need someone behind the scenes to articulate the motions of a MuppetTM for the screen, you also need someone to sit behind a web site and get it to do stuff. Adam Kinney was such a man (for the web thing - he has not, to my knowledge, except possibly at a few parties, ever been in…

For my first interview back from my little "vacation," I got to interview Tony Bernard about BizTalk. This video focuses on EDI features of BizTalk, but in the process shows off a bit of what BizTalk can do. Throughout my entire life as a geek, I've heard the name "BizTalk"…

On behalf of all of us at Channel 9, sorry about not having any content on Friday, but 2/3 of our city shut down because of a little bit of wind. Most of us woke up Friday morning to discover that, without heat, it's very easy for your house/apartment/condo to turn into a freezer over night in the…