TheChannel9Team

Sorry for taking a week off. We ate and ate and ate during last week's Thanksgiving vacation. Don Box gets us back on air with something short and fun. More videos coming shortly.

"Show us the architecture of .NET on the whiteboard," is what we asked Jason Zander and that started out an interesting discussion of what .NET is. That led into a discussion of .NET's garbage collector and determinalistic finalization that developers will find interesting (Charles…

"What about those buttons on the Tablet PC?" That got Bert Keely to talk about a future input device he helped design that might show up on Tablet PCs. (Bert is one of the visionaries behind the Tablet PC's development). That led Bert to talk about how the Tablet PC might work…

Hear the roar! Oh, that's just the CLR team's lab where they are testing 64-bit versions of the .NET common language runtime. But, first, we drop into Adam Nathan's office where he shows us the pinvoke.net Web site. That concludes our tour of the CLR team, but next week we'll sit down with Jason…

Here Jason Zander continues his tour through the CLR team's offices. Do you know how hard it is walking backward while trying to aim a camcorder properly? What is that that Kit George is working on (he's a program manager on the BCL team)? Hey, who said working on the CLR team is all work…

Turns out we were confused about what Smart Clients were. So, we went looking for the answers. First visit? The MSDN Smart Client Developer Center. Things came clearer into view. Then, we were guided to Scott Garvey, who works in SmartClient evangelism. Ahh, so that's what they are!

Jason Zander invited Charles Torre and cameraman Robert Scoble to meet the .NET Common Language Runtime team.In this first of three segments (it's a big team!) you'll meet a variety of developers from across the team and see what they are working on.Don't know what this team does? Well, the .NET CLR…

Gabriel Torok is CEO of Preemptive Solutions. They sell the Dotfuscator, which lets developers protect their programs against reverse engineering while making them smaller and more efficient. Here Mike Hall interviews Gabriel about how Dotfuscator works.

Alan Griver, Steven Lees, and Jay Roxe are off to visit user groups in India in about a week. So, we visited them as they were hanging out at a .NET user group that meets at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, WA. Hmm, we wonder if they'll be seen on the Channel 9 India site soon? Speaking of…

Mike McKay drives the ship room for the next version of Visual Studio. He talks about what he and his team does to get Visual Studio to get to Zero Bug Bounce (ZBB).