In this episode our special guest host, Haishi Bai, is joined by Yu-Shun Wang – Program Manager of Windows Azure Networking – who discusses the latest developments of Windows Azure Virtual Networks. Yu-Shun shows us the improved Site-to-Site connection and the new…

This week on Channel 9, Clint and Mark discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:38] Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system [02:10] Stay Connected with the Ch9 Events App [03:25] Putting the power of Unity in the hands of every mobile developer…

In part 6 of their Windows 8 Tips and Tricks series, Kevin Remde and Principal Technical Account Manager Lex Thomas  show off some of the new kinds of customization options found in Windows 8. [2:16] Demo: Start Screen background [6:33] Demo: Scheduled Maintenance [11:00] Demo: Power Options –…

Today's Hardware Friday project is from friend of the blog, Matt Cavanagh (who is a newly minted Nokia Developer Champion), who provides us a project that's very much a mix of old and new school... Old school ft. New school: Snake with a Lumia 920 controlling a 5110 LCD using a NetduinoThis project…

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Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this episode, Brady and Cory talk to Howard Dierking about the Katana Project. Katana, as Howard explains, is how developers can do OWIN hosting within…

In the world of Windows Phone development, the cornerstone app architecture is called MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). In this video, I talk through some of the structure of an MVVM application to talk about how we build MVVM apps for the phone to take advantage of benefits like data binding, commanding…

As just announced by Scott Guthrie, we're releasing the AMQP 1.0 support for Windows Azure Service Bus today, with commercial support and full SLA. That's more than reason enough for me to sit down with David Ingham, co-editor of the AMQP 1.0 specification and my peer in the Service Bus Program…

Today's project by Mick Palmer shows off, with source, one of the killer features of the Kinect, it's superior speech capabilities. And who doesn't want to name their Kinect and to be able to yell (err... talk too) their media player? SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR THE KINECT: Kinect speech media…

Golnaz visited the United States Imagine Cup Local Finals, Matt Smith is hosting our awards ceremony at Worldwide Finals this July, Facebook is giving an award, Avenade is sponsoring a special Women in Technology dinner this summer, and John found a very special photograph!