The MongoDB C# driver gives .NET developers the ability to take full advantage of the features of MongoDB. In this video, 10gen software engineer Robert Stam, the author of the driver, shows how to do basic create/read/update/delete operations in C#.You can download the driver from the MongoDB…

Replica sets are the secret to MongoDB's ability to scale out for high availability and great read performance. In this video, 10gen software engineer Sridhar Nanjundeswaran shows how easy it is to create a replica set on Windows, and he then covers some of the common failover scenarios and…

Another week closer and another jam packed episode of the Countdown Show.  This week Joey and Rick cover two very important topics: giving back to the local community and the evening parties!  First, giving back to the community is a very important part of TechEd.As mentioned in the video…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Dennis Delimarsky discuss the week's top developer news, including:[0:55] Show 200! [1:23] Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 Released [2:37] A look ahead at the Visual Studio 11 product lineup and platform support (The Visual Studio Team) [4:10] .NET 4.5 to…

Join Nate and Nick each week as they cover Windows Azure. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, we are joined by Alex Zambelli — Senior Technical Evangelist — and Samuel Nq — Senior Development Lead — who discuss…

Today's project is another chapter in the free Kinect web book, Practical Windows Kinect In C#. hosted by I Programmer and takes us into the Video and Depth features of the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDKKinect SDK 1 - Depth and Video SpaceIn previous chapters we learned how to read in video and…

Today's Hardware Friday post takes three of our favorite hardware things and show us how we can make them work together. Really, what's more more fun then a series that helps us build hardware and write code that let's Netduino, the .Net Micro Framework talk to Lego's!Using netduino and .NET…

iVoteSports Baseball Edition makes you part of the action of a live Major League Baseball game using your iPhone or Android device.In this video, iVoteSports CEO and co-founder, Dennis Peters, speaks with Microsoft Principal Architect Evangelist Brian Loesgen. Dennis discusses how iVoteSports…

Today's inspirational project is an example of how the Kinect can again be used in an unusual and unique way to teach and training "movement."LightGuide: Kinect Teaches MovementThe latest job for a Kinect is to teach you how to move. In principle, it could teach you how to play the cello,…

This is a recording from an MSDN Live Meeting broadcast from the Microsoft Belgium office on May 22, 2012.Abstract The promise of all cloud vendors out there is they can run your applications without changes. While that claim is true, it's better to optimize existing software or design specifically…