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Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Software Security Today

Charles — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:49:00 GMT

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team recently released two new security tools, BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fuzzer, to help you write more secure code. Jeremy Dallman, Michael Howard, and Ivan Medvedev created these tools so we decided to pay them a visit to chat about what these tools do and why they matter. Of course, it's been way too long since Michael Howard has preached to us from his security soapbox so we just had to get him talking about the general state of software security today and where it's going!

For the Microsoft SDL team, SDL is as much a lifestyle as it is a software development lifecycle. Developers, thrive securely so that others may securely thrive. Oh yeah, brothers and sisters. I'm sensing the need for a security soapbox show on 9. We need more preaching. There's still far too many developers writing insecure code. "Reverend" Howard, are you game, sir?

Get BinScope and MiniFuzz on SDL Tool Repository. Please use them!!!

Stay updated on the SDL at:

http://www.microsoft.com/sdl

http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl

Windows Identity Foundation RC is here!

Vittorio Bertocci — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:05:00 GMT

The release candidate of Windows Identity Foundation is here! Chock-full of improvements driven by YOUR feedback, WIF RC gives a very good idea of how the final release will look like.
Vittorio went to visit Sidd, Govind and Sesha to learn about the new features and explore the rationale behind some of them. From a comprehensive list of new features to deep dives in their favourite scenarios, the guys tell it all. Tune in!

URL references:

WIF RC Announcement
Download the Windows Identity Foundation RC
The Identity key topic on Channel 9

Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010

Kathleen McGrath — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:25:00 GMT

In this video, Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team, describes the new Help system in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

Life at Microsoft: The truth revealed...again!

tina10 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:00 GMT

False rumors about life at Microsoft abound, like "drinking the juice" or sleeping at our desks; even that everybody watches Battlestar Galactica. Truth is: only most of us watch it. In a continued effort to debunk the rumors once and for all, I present to you - Life at Microsoft Episode 2.

If you missed the first episode, go check it out!

Announcing Channel 9’s first live broadcast - This Week on C9 this Friday!

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Updated: Watch us live at http://live.ch9.ms today at 3:00 PM PST!

Mark your calendars, on Friday, November 6^th at 3:00PM Pacific Standard Time, Channel 9 will host its first live broadcast for This Week on Channel 9! We’ll have a special Web page setup for our live streaming player and you’ll be able to ask us questions in real-time via Twitter. Start following @ch9live on Twitter for more information.

FAQ:

Q: Do I need anything special to watch the live stream?
A: You just need Silverlight installed.

Q: How do I watch the live stream?
A: We’ll be posting the URL Friday morning PST?

Q: How can I participate?
A: Send questions or comments by replying to the @ch9live Twitter account during the live broadcast at 3PM Pacific Standard Time.

Q: Will the content be available afterwards?
A: Yes, we’ll be uploading the recording for anyone that can’t tune in during that time.

Q: Will you do it live?
A: WE’LL DO IT LIVE!

The .NET4 Countdown Synchronization Primitive

Phil Pennington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:53:00 GMT

Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to use the new .NET4 Countdown event synchronization primitive in task coordination scenarios.

Countdown and related constructs are new with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Learn more about the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and keep abreast of Parallel Computing tools and techniques via the Concurrency Dev Center.

Hanselminutes on 9 - Debugging Crash Dumps with Tess Ferrandez and VS2010

Glucose — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:04:00 GMT

I'm in Sweden this week and I got a chance to talk to legendary ASP.NET Debugger and Escalation Engineer Tess Ferrandez. In this video Tess shows me how to debug a dump of an ASP.NET Web Site with a pile of awesome and totally new features in Visual Studio 2010. I also talked to Tess for an extended Debugging 101 session on the full 30 minute audio edition of my Hanselminutes Podcast out later this week.

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 6 of 13

Charles — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:53:00 GMT

Some functions, such as factorial, are simpler to define in terms of other functions. As we shall see, however, many functions can naturally be defined in terms of themselves.

Properties of functions defined using recursion can be proved using the simple but powerful mathematical technique of induction.

You should watch these in sequence (or skip around depending on your curent level of knowledge in this domain):

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Now, we do have a textbook and you should go buy it: The great Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell. We worked with the publisher, Cambridge University Press, to get all Niners a 20% discount on the book. Now, you don't need the book to learn a great deal from this lecture series since Graham's website has all the slides and samples from the book as well as answers to the exercises. That said, it's highly recommended reading and you should consider it.

The promotion code is 09HASK and it is vaild on both the Hardback:

9780521871723 and Paperback: 9780521692694. The catalog pages are:

Hardback:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521871723 and the paperback is:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521692694

Note: This special offer is valid until December 31, 2009

Noah Coad: An Overview of Visual Studio Express 2010

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:07:00 GMT

In this interview, we talk to Noah Coad, the Program Manager for Visual Studio Express. We talk about

- Who the customer target for Express is
- What features are and aren't in Express
- Demos of the new IDE features that come in Express.

More info
- Download Express 2010 Beta 2
- Follow the Visual Studio Express Twitter account

Countdown to PDC09: Big Brains Descend Upon PDC and Teach Us How to Dream

Larry Larsen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:34:00 GMT

Charles Torre joins us today to discuss the Technical Leaders series to be held at PDC. For the first time ever, you’ll get to participate in a perfect storm of intelligence, imagination, knowledge, and vision as we bring together Microsoft’s Technical Fellows for the Technical Leaders sessions at PDC09. These are the big brains that develop and drive technical strategies for Microsoft and the industry; if you want to be inspired, this is a series you won’t want to miss. Browse Technical Leaders sessions.

Office Casual - How to Twitter in Outlook with TwInbox

tina10 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:12:00 GMT

There are more than a dozen ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally known as OutTwit in its beta stages) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in the hands of us Twitters as explained but Office Casuals very own Doug Thomas.

10-4 Episode 35: PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence

Drew Robbins — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:34:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4, Drew Robbins is joined by Gabriel Torok and Sebastian Holst to take a look at the new Runtime Intelligence features that are in the Dotfuscator edition included in the Visual Studio 2010 setup.

For more information on the new version of Dotfuscator and Runtime Intelligence features, be sure to check out the PreEmptive website.

For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, check out the Visual Studio 2010 Training Course right here on Channel 9.

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

10-4! Over and out!

NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight

Larry Larsen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:00 GMT

NBC and Microsoft are getting the band back together for a full Silverlight experience around the 2010 Winter Olympics. You'll have DVR control of the video, including rewind, sharing, and saving clips. There will be a Facebook Connect feature to allow you to socialize the insanity (or coolness, depending on your POV) of skiing with a rifle.

The site will also include Deep Zoom photo galleries so you can enjoy each flake of snow individually. More details to come as we get closer to the event. Related article from TechCrunch.

PDC09 Workshop: Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010

Robert Hess — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:51:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 recently released a new beta of Visual Studio 2010, which includes a variety of improvements for a broad spectrum of developer needs. For PDC09, Chris Tullier and Todd Girvin will present a day-long workshop which specifically focuses on the use of Visual Studio Team System to manage software development tasks for teams of any size.

Chris Tullier joins me on today’s episode to discuss his upcoming workshop and share some details and insights on how Visual Studio Team System can promote and support better software development practices.

You can find more information about this workshop here:

Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010

as well as more details about Visual Studio 2010 here:

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Lazy Optimized Resource Initialization

Phil Pennington — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:48:00 GMT

Join Josh and Steve as they demonstrate how to use the new .NET4 Lazy<T> class in optimized object initialization scenarios.

Lazy<T> is one of many new thread-safe data-structures available with .NET4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Learn more about the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace and keep abreast of Parallel Computing tools and techniques via the Concurrency Dev Center.

Discriminated Unions in F#

Kathleen McGrath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT

In this video, programming writer, Gordon Hogenson explains and gives examples of discriminated unions in F#.

You can also learn more in the topic Discriminated Unions (F#)

Kathleen McGrath
Visual Studio User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Content Survey

E2E: Erik Meijer and Burton Smith - Concurrency, Parallelism and Programming

Charles — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:00 GMT

The great Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow and an international leader in high-performance computer architecture and programming languages for parallel computing joins functional programming purist and language design guru Erik Meijer to discuss several major themes of parallel computing and distributed programming. As always, you will get a lesson in history, present trends and future possibilities. This is simply an awesome and deeply wonderful conversation. Burton is a treasure.

Erik shows up for the conversation only after Burton begins to talk about a potential definition for functional programming. Right on queue, Erik arrives!

Burton will be presenting his thinking on parallel and concurrent programming at PDC09. He will also be a panelist on the Future of Programming panel (and Erik will be the panel moderator - you won't want to miss the panel if you are attending PDC!).

The Visual Studio Documentary: Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview

tina10 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:56:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.
S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview
Jason Zander Full Length Interview
Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview

Scott Guthrie sits down and talks to us about his History with Visual Studio, .NET and what Life at Microsoft used to be like.

Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the Web.

Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development.

Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists

Laura Foy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:11:00 GMT

Paul drank his funny juice this week and spewed it all over this weeks episode. Here's what people were chatting about:

Halloween! Bugs! Killers!
Take a blade to your Zune
Family Guy not the right fit
Voice is the new touch
Bill & Melinda Gates: Impatient optimists

endpoint.tv - High Performance WCF .NET Stock Trader with Greg Leake

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:00 GMT

Greg Leake is the man! He is the driving force behind the .NET Stock Trader sample application. If you want to understand how to build high performance apps with WCF you need to check it out. In this episode I catch up with Greg and discuss all the details.

TWC9: Asli Bilgin, Halloween, VS2010, and community events

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:38:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Asli Bilgin to discuss the week's top developer news including:

- We discuss Asli's blog, Sling Alibi, and her changing role from working in the east region to working in Dubai.
- Asli's east region team has a dedicated portal on Channel 9 with news, events, etc
- Andrew Duthie - CommunityMegaphone.com - The goal is to be the single source for Microsoft and community events
- Andrew's countdown to the Visual Studio 2010 launch gadget using Silverlight
- Scott Guthrie -Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010, covers Navigate To, View Call Hierarchy, and Highlight references features
- Scott Guthrie - WPF 4 Improvements including new controls, performance, caching, easing, and more
- Pete Brown - Walkthrough of the new WPF 4 Calendar Control
- Brian Peek - Coding4Fun Show - WPF Media Kit with Jeremiah Morrill
- Lester Lobo - New WPF Beta 2 includes Windows 7 Jumplist support
- Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Team Blog - Windows 7 Trigger Start Services Part 1
- Joe Healy - Windows 7 Multitouch and TouchPack video
- Gunnar Peipman - The .NET Framework 4.0 string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() method for finding empty spaces, line breaks, tabs, etc
- Sara Chipps - Bundl.it, a way to share multiple links via Twitter
- Phil Haack - ASP.NET Web Server here Explorer extension to easily pull up an ASP.NET page through a browser
- Dmitry Lyalin, Peter Laudati - Connected Show podcast for all things interoperability
- Zhiming Xue - ArcCast.TV, Cx0 Level discussion on Cloud computing
- Startuponestop.com, Resources for helping startups get off the ground
- Girl Geek Dinners - A way for women in technology to get together to discuss and learn
- Girls in Tech - An organization dedicated to getting more women in technology
- Lynn Langit - Teaching kids to code and how to move projects from Small Basic to Visual Basic Express

Picks of the week:
Asli's pick - David Isbitski - Setting up a development environment on a Netbook
Dan's pick - Laura Foy - Bug Killer - A Channel 9 Halloween special

Multitouch Fingerpaint in 30 Lines of PowerShell Script

Larry Larsen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:32:00 GMT

Join James Brundage, Software Tester from the PowerShell Team, as he walks through how to write a multitouch finger paint in ~30 lines of Windows PowerShell script using WPK (WPF PowerShell Kit). You can download WPK and this example as part of the PowerShell Pack. (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellPack) .

Office Casual - Jott

tina10 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:47:00 GMT

How would like to make a quick call and do things in Outlook like send email, schedule meetings, and create notes? Doug Thomas made this Office Casual video about a service called Jott and a nifty free add-in from Office Online.

Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special

Laura Foy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:34:00 GMT

WARNING: This video contains blood, gore and one extremely frightening software developer.

Have you spent countless nights up late writing code? Have your eyes burned after staring at a monitor for 18 hours? Have you ever wanted to hack up a co-worker or two? Sure, we all have! Here’s the story of what happened to one developer on a dark and foggy night when the pressure was just too much…

Get the "Behind the Scenes" Theme here

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer - Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 5 of 13

Charles — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:31:00 GMT

We've kicked off C9 Lectures with a journey into the world of Functional Programming with functional language purist and high priest of the lambda calculus, Dr. Erik Meijer (you can thank Erik for many of the functional constructs that have shown up in languages like C# and VB.NET. When you use LINQ, thank Erik in addition to Anders).

We will release a new chapter in this series every Thursday.

In Chapter 5, Dr. Meijer introduces and digs into List Comprehensions. In mathematics, comprehension notation is used to construct new sets from old sets. In Haskell, you can create new lists from old lists using a similar comprehension syntax:

[x^2 | x <- [1..5]]

The above notation represents the list [1,4,9,16,25] of all numbers x^2 such that x is an element of the list [1..5]. The <- [1..5] syntax is known as a generator and list comprehensions can have mulitple generators that can have explicit dependencies on other generators. You will also learn about guards, which restrict values created by earlier generators.

You should watch these in sequence (or skip around depending on your curent level of knowledge in this domain):

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

Now, we do have a textbook and you should go buy it: The great Graham Hutton's Programming in Haskell. We worked with the publisher, Cambridge University Press, to get all Niners a 20% discount on the book. Now, you don't need the book to learn a great deal from this lecture series since Graham's website has all the slides and samples from the book as well as answers to the exercises. That said, it's highly recommended reading and you should consider it.

The promotion code is 09HASK and it is vaild on both the Hardback:

9780521871723 and Paperback: 9780521692694. The catalog pages are:

Hardback:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521871723 and the paperback is:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521692694

Note: This special offer is valid until December 31, 2009