My guest for today's episode is Mary Czerwinski, a research area manager at Microsoft Research. Our conversation begins with a reference to the search strategy I used to recall Mary's name, which I'd seen in a SeattlePI.com story about a workshop on attention and interruptions that was held…

My guest for today's episode is Mary Czerwinski, a research area manager at Microsoft Research. Our conversation begins with a reference to the search strategy I used to recall Mary's name, which I'd seen in a SeattlePI.com story about a workshop on attention and interruptions that was held…

Working mobile is about to take a leap forward with Windows Mobile 6 - bringing great enhancements to familiar Microsoft® mobile applications like Outlook® Mobile, Office Mobile, and now Windows Live™ for Windows Mobile. Plus with security, scalability and manageability improvements, you will find…

I'm back from New York City where I had an opportunity to meet with customers and provide a keynote at our Healthcare Executive Forum event at the Reuter's Building in Times Square. My visit to New York was all the more exciting (if that is the word to use) because the hotel where I stayed had a…

How will VC++ evolve? How has the advent of managed code affected the evolutionary trajectory of VC++? What's the VC++ team up to these days, anyway? How much time are they spending innovating C++, the native language? Tune in and learn first hand from two people…

Brian Peek, one of the Coding 4 Fun authors, posted a video of the King from Chuck E. Cheese.  If you haven't been to Chuck E. Cheese, he is one of their animatronic characters that sings and dances and generally scares children. Now what it really cool is how the person controlled the…

In this show, I'll show you how to use the Visual Studio Templates I created to help you build Windows PowerShell CmdLets. You can download the templates from http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=256835.

A few weeks ago, Channel 9 was fortunate enough to be present at the Imagine Cup Innovation Accelerator "finals". Six of the top teams from the 2006 competition spent two weeks together learning about choices available to them for taking their ideas, and they are great ideas,…

Without a doubt, WPF is one of the coolest features of Vista. If you're a new Vista user and want to see an example of how WPF opens up new alternatives to UI, check out UniveRSS. This WPF app lets you explore your RSS feeds in a 3D space, mapping your feeds to rotating cubes. There is a grid view…

  Description: Join Don Campbell, Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, and Michael Scherotter, Solutions Platform Evangelist for Mindjet, to see a demonstration solution from the Mindjet Labs that uses the Open XML file format of Microsoft Office Word 2007 to transform business data from…