Channel 9

Creating Navigation Structures in Silverlight (Silverlight TV #38)

John Papa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT

In the first of 2 navigation videos we filmed, David Poll joins John Papa to demonstrate how the Silverlight navigation API can be used to solve common navigational structures. David explains how navigation works with Silverlight, how it integrates with the Silverlight templates, and demonstrates how you can expand on its features using custom content loaders.

Relevant links:

John's Blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
David's blog and on Twitter (@depoll)
- David's Navigation-related posts
- David's ContentLoader-related posts
MSDN’s Navigation overview

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Andrew Miner’s – What is in a Static Collection?

Larry Larsen — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:03:00 GMT

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week.

Andrew Miner discuss what comprises a Static Silverlight PivotViewer collection. Andrew reviews building a static collection using the authoring tools available to you. PivotViewer is a new visualization technology delivered as a Silverlight control. It helps visualize large collections of items in a more useful, powerful and organized way.

Below are links to resources which will help you get started with the PivotViewer Control today:

· Silverlight PivotViewer Download and Technical Documentation: here
· Collection Building Tools by Live Labs: here
· PivotViewer Community Forum: here
· First customer implementation: Hitched, a leading UK wedding planning site

endpoint.tv - Workflow and Custom Activities - Best Practices (Part 5)

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:55:00 GMT

In this episode, Windows Workflow Foundation team Program Manager Leon Welicki drops in to show us the team's guidelines for developing custom activities.

In Part 5, we cover more Activity Design guidelines including

XAML Serialization
Execution Properties
Validation

For more information

DirectCompute Lecture Series 120: Basics of DirectCompute Application Development

Gus Class — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:18:00 GMT

In this lecture, Jason Yang (a technical lead from AMD) goes over the basics of creating a DirectCompute application that performs matrix multiplication. Specifically, he covers:

Instantiating a DirectCompute Device
Writing and compiling DirectCompute Code
Executing code on the GPU
Retrieving resulting data from the GPU and passing it to the CPU

The Roundtable discussion for DirectCompute can be found here, the full DirectCompute lecture series is here, and the slides for this lecture are available from here.

Preview The New Channel 9

Jeff Sandquist — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:24:00 GMT

Check out this preview of an all new Channel 9. We're looking forward to your feedback and suggestions. If you are interested in how it was built and the decisions we made about the architecture, check out this video with Charles and Sampy.

Thank you all for your amazing support of Channel 9 and we look forward to seeing what you think of this major release of Channel 9.

-Jeff

Mike Sampson: Inside Rev9

Charles — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:18:00 GMT

A preview version of the new Channel 9 is now available at http://preview.channel9.msdn.com. Please file any bugs or suggestions on Connect.

Mike Sampson (aka Sampy) has done some stellar work with the backend architecture and design of the next version of Channel 9, code named "Rev9," and this fifth version includes a revamped UI and restructured backend.

In this conversation (it's a long and deep one, so set aside some time—it's well worth it), Sampy takes us through how and why he designed the new Channel 9 architecture. "Rev9" appears to be a very scalable and modern system built on tried and true technologies and architectural patterns such as MVC 2.0, Unity (from P&P), NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, Memcached, Enyim Managed Memcached driver, Azure – Fabric, Storage, Diagnostics, SQL Azure, xUnit (testing only), Live ID, Spark View Engine, Akismet (spam filtering service), AntiXSS, Tinymce, jQuery, and Silverlight.

Sampy's great work is simply astounding. I left his office feeling more confident than ever that Channel 9 will scale to the future and the experience of performance and reliability will be at an all time high. Thank you, Sampy, Duncan, Cara, Geoff, Clint, and Dan. The revolution is now televised and in full swing.

That's called a Giblet: But Why?

Laura Foy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:43:00 GMT

Microsoft is full of oddities and little known answers to mysterious questions. The purpose of this series is to seek out those answers and offer them to you. Please comment with other questions you'd like to get answered!

Watch other episodes of But Why?

Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern

Scott Hanselman — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:06:00 GMT

Scott sneaks into the office of Phil Haack and Morgan the Canadian Intern to talk about the release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 and some of the cool "futures" stuff that Morgan (and our fleet of interns) is working on.

Ping 67: Visual Studio Power Tools, Facebook on Its Way to a Billion, Kinect, and More

Laura Foy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:11:00 GMT

The final Ping installment of Boys without Foys (Episode 6) has Adam and Paul sharing their insights on what is being chatted about on Microsoft's campus.

Here's what is going on this week...

Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools
Facebook Hits 500 Million
Windows Phone 7s for 'Softies
Kinect Bundle

...Laura is coming back next week!

Introduction to Project Hilo

Yochay Kiriaty — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:00 GMT

Project “Hilo” is a series of articles and sample applications that demonstrate how you can leverage the power of Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and Visual C++ to build high performance, responsive rich client applications. Hilo provides both source code and guidance that will help you design and develop compelling, touch-enabled Windows applications of your own. Join Yochay Kiriaty and James Johanson for an introduction of Project Hilo, a quick tour of its architect and design principles.

Additional information about the project can be found in the Introducing Project HILO post, and on MSDN – Hilo: Developing C++ Application for Windows 7

endpoint.tv - Lab Introduction to WF4: Getting Started

Ron Jacobs — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:13:00 GMT

I've created a new Hands On Lab prototype using the Feature Builder PowerTool for Visual Studio. In this epsiode I'll show you how you can download and get started with this hands on lab. I'd love to hear your feedback on the lab so let me know what you think.

Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (Visual Studio Gallery)
Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (MSDN Code Gallery)

Lab Exercises

Exercise 1 - Hello Workflow (video)

Exercise 2 - Refactoring Workflow (video)

Exercise 3 - The CodeActivity (video)

Exercise 4 - Dynamic Workflows with XAML (video)

Exercise 5 – Testing Activities (video)

Exercise 6 – WorkflowApplication (video)

Exercise 7 – If/Else Logic (video)

A screenshot tour of the new Channel 9

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:49:00 GMT

Dearest Niners,

After a little bit of blood, sweat, and tears, we’re happy to give you the first taste of the new Channel 9 (codenamed: Revolution 9 or “Rev9” for short) that we first mentioned over a year ago.

Overview

Revolution 9 has four key themes:

Improve the user experience – For this, we “borrowed” Nishant Kothary, our design guru, as well as Nick Finck, Kevin Tamura and others at Blue Flavor and Matt Brown from Things that are Brown to build our site design. Here’s Nishant in his own words on the Revolution 9 user experience:

“If you cull any redesign endeavor down to its bare essence, you are left with a simple question — How will this improve the user’s experience? This question is the natural and the right starting point for pretty much every redesign project. Unfortunately, it quickly gets lost in the noise of people, process and politics.

What makes the Channel 9 redesign so unique is that the question truly did remain at the forefront through the entire process. And it helped us stay true to our overarching redesign credo—the new Channel 9 needs to be clean, clutter-free and visually put the focus back on content. From a rock-solid information architecture to the extremely clean and high-contrast color palette and typographic grid, the new design attempts to put the focus back on what’s most important about Channel 9—the content. Oh, and we gave the Nine guy a little facelift while we were at it .“
Improve quality, reliability, and performance – We’ve been getting this feedback for a while now and Revolution 9 was a good time to take a step back and make sure that we have the right architecture, process, and instrumentation in place to measurably improve this. Here a just some of the improvements coming with Rev 9 that will improve quality, reliability, and performance: Moving to Azure as our hosting platform, 1,300+ unit tests for production code, using memcache for caching, and the instrumentation we’ve added to monitor real-time usage.
Improve discoverability of content and site features – One of the key pieces of feedback we had in our user survey was that niners couldn’t find content on the site and there was no easy way of browsing content. With Revolution 9, we’ve added the Browse page (full details below) that lets you search and filter by tag, show, author and more. We’ve also improved the discoverability of features like ratings and download links.
Improve the experience for content creators on Channel 9 – While our primary audience is viewers of Channel 9 videos, another important customer of Channel 9 are the people who create content. With Rev 9, we've added some key features for content creators, like the ability to schedule the time a video is published, the ability to set content as “obsolete” so that customers don’t waste time trying to get a Beta 1 demo to work on the RTM version of a product, or the ability to add custom time-codes to a URL so that you can jump to any point in time in a video.

Show me some pictures
Now that you have an idea on the motivations behind this release; let’s look at some screenshots of the new pages and features!

The Home page
Here’s a quick before and after view of the home page

Let's dissect the new home page so you can better understand what's going on here.

Rotating "catbird" video
This rotates through three videos. You can watch a video on the home page and jump to the video detail page and we’ll remember the spot in the video where you were last watching the video. Also notice that the video player is larger and is also designed for a widescreen (16:9) format.

Easily see what’s new on Channel 9
Similar to YouTube, you can now easily find what’s new on the site by using the filters at the top – the most recent, the most viewed, or the top rated videos for the last seven days.

Cool Stuff
Like its name implies, the Cool Stuff section of the homepage is where we showcase fun and cool stuff related to Microsoft. The bulk of this content comes from Channel 10’s Sarah Perez who has a great eye for finding interesting tidbits on the Web.

Community Activity
The Community Activity area lets you get a pulse for what’s happening on Channel 9 – how many users are online, how many comments or discussions are on-going, etc. It's like a dashboard of what's going on.

Browse Page
The Browse page is new to Channel 9. It's designed to help you navigate and discover our large library of video content on the site. As you can see below, you can filter content both on the top and on the left hand pane.

Tabbed Filters
All across Revolution 9, we've added tabbed filters based on the type of data that you're looking at. For example, on the browse page, you can search all content for the most recent, most viewed or top rated content. For the most viewed and top rated content, you can, similar to YouTube, add an additional filter to see the most viewed videos this week (the last 7 days), this month, or of all time.

Content by Author
The authors browse page is unique in that unlike the list of videos, this view gives you an alphabetical list of content contributors to Channel 9 using their profile picture.

Tag Cleanup and Tag Pages
The tagging system on the current Channel 9 allowed any content contributor to build tags. Over time, and with many more contributors, what's happened is that we've amassed a huge number of tags such that the number of tags is overwhelming, the way we tag videos is inconsistent, some are pointless (ex: video and videos tags) and some tags are just variations on the exact same thing (ex: PDC, PDC Talk, PDC 2008, PDC+2008, PDC08). We can clearly do better. For the final release of Revolution 9, we're going to go through and clean up all of our tags and make sure content creators are tagging content consistently. Further we're going to only allow site admins to create new tags so we don't run into this problem every year or so. With our tags now cleaned up, you'll be able to go to a tag page, like the Windows Azure tag page below and filter just videos Azure videos by most recent, most viewed and top rated. Just like the browse page, you can further filter the results by week, month, and all time.

Shows and Series Pages
As the number of content contributors has grown, so have the types of content where we wanted to formalize how we think about them.
- A show is typically a regularly scheduled (ex: weekly) video that doesn't really have an end date. Show videos can stand on their own in that one show doesn't build on another, meaning if you missed last week's episode, you can see this week's episode and it should still make sense. Silverlight TV and Ping are good examples of Channel 9 shows.
- A series is a finite list of videos on a particular topic. Unlike a show, videos in a series are interrelated and each video in a series typically builds on each other. A good example of a series would be Erik Meijer's 13-part lecture series on functional programming or the History of Microsoft series.

Here's the before and after of our show pages:

Diving into the new show page, you'll notice the large banner for custom images, the area for authors of a show, and, like other pages on Rev 9, you can sort the list of shows here as well.

Bing Search
We've improved upon the built-in Bing search integration currently on Channel 9 so that you filter by content type, including blogs, shows, series, and forum threads.

Pinnable full-screen videos
Revolution 9 uses Silverlight 4 for the video player and we've updated our player to use one of my favorite features, pinnable windows. This feature lets you see a video on one monitor full screen while working on another monitor. To use this feature, simply click the full screen button shown below.

Anonymous commenting on videos
For users without a Channel 9 account, we've added the ability to comment on a video without needing to create a Channel 9 account. This only applies for videos though as you'll still need a Channel 9 account to comment on the forums or to rate content.

The New Ratings System
We’ve changed the ratings system from a thumbs up/thumbs down system to a five-star ratings system. It’s also much more prominent, both on the page and in any list of videos we have across the site (see below). To calculate the ratings for existing videos, we are making thumbs down votes be a rating of “1” and a thumbs up rating be a “5”. Like the previous rating system, you must be logged in to rate content. Our future goal is to be able to use your ratings to suggest videos that you might like, similar to the way that viewing and rating products on Amazon.com or videos on Netflix.com can then suggest content that you might enjoy.

Improving the discoverability of downloads
To help improve the discoverability of our video downloads, we've replaced the dropdown menu with three key video formats. Instead of a small line of text dropdown box, the list of video downloads is much larger and right next to the video player. [Hopefully] you can't miss it :)

Better integration with iTunes and Zune

We’ve always had RSS feeds with MP4 and Zune (WMV) formatted enclosures but getting that content into the Zune or iTunes software wasn’t as easy as it could be. In Rev9 we’ve added direct links (like this and this) that will take you right to a page where you can subscribe to a show, series or blog in either iTunes or Zune.

Improved user profiles
We've also improved user profiles for both contributors and niners. For niners like Bas, you'll see tabs for discussions and comments as shown below.

Channel 9 Forums
To help improve the discoverability of our site feedback and Tech Off forum, clicking on forums from the top navigation takes you to the list of forums pictured below. This should hopefully improve the signal-to-noise ratio so that the right content is posted in the right forum.

Forum features
Instead of radically changing how the forums worked, we worked on addressing some of the top feedback that we've received from you.

The first feature is that we've removed AJAX paging in favor of typical post-back paging for the next page of comments. We've also replace the back/next model of paging in favor of the more common page by page number shown below.

We've also added inline links to each of comment pages directly in the thread title for easier navigation.

Finally, we've replaced threaded conversations with the much-beloved ability to quote the text of another comment.

Improved Code Formatting
We've also updated our code formatting tool to use Alex Gorbatchev's Javascript syntax highlighter, both for our learning content and for adding code snippets to comments.

Now licensed under Creative Commons
Thanks to the work of our fearless leader, Jeff Sandquist, Channel 9 video content is also now licensed under this Creative Commons license. This helps clarify how you can reuse and redistribute our content, as we get emails from folks wanting to copy these files inside of their company or burn DVDs for their user group.

Goodbye wiki and Sandbox submissions
Given the proliferation of wiki's at Microsoft we are retiring the Channel 9 wiki in Revolution 9. We expect the wiki to move to Florida and enjoy shuffleboard and 5PM early bird dinner specials. If you'd like the content in the wiki, let us know and we can provide you a SQL script dump of the wiki content that you can use to your heart's content. Similarly, given that the Sandbox originally launched before CodePlex or code.msdn.com, both of which have a much richer feature set (versioning, issues, discussions, wikis, etc), we are no longer accepting submissions the Channel 9 sandbox. Unlike the wiki that's being retired, sandbox projects will continue to be available, but commenting and submissions to the Sandbox will be frozen (in carbonite).

Test Drive coming soon
Next week, we'll be releasing a version of Revolution 9 on a separate test domain that you you'll be able to play with in parallel with the existing site. Depending on the amount of feedback we get, and bugs that we have to fix, we may end up replacing the current Channel 9 site within a few weeks following the test release.

Let us know what you think
Hopefully you are as excited about this update as we are, and, as always, let us know what you think about Revolution 9!

Thanks again,
The Channel 9 Team

TWC9: The First Look at the New Channel 9!

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:49:00 GMT

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Duncan Mackenzie to do a live demo of the new Channel 9 Web site (codenamed: Revolution 9).

We've also published a screenshot tour of Revolution 9 here.

You'll see demos of:

The new Home page
The new Shows/Series page
Improved discoverability via the Browse feature
Improvements to the default Channel 9 player
Improvements to the Coffeehouse
The new profile page

Picks of the week!

Duncan's favorite feature: The new show/series page
Dan's favorite feature: The ability to add URL based timecodes. This timecode: "#time=15m22s" would jump to start the video 15 minutes and 22 seconds from the beginning

Just-In-Time Pivot Collections

Larry Larsen — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:18:00 GMT

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week.

Mark Bramley discusses Static and Just-in-Time Silverlight PivotViewer collections and why you would want to use one over the other. Mark continues by explaining the data formats and concepts required to build a web server that serves Just-in-Time collections for PivotViewer, a new visualization technology delivered as a Silverlight control. This control helps visualize large collections of items in a more useful, powerful and organized way.

Below are links to resources which will help you get started with the PivotViewer Control today:

Cloud Cover Episode 20 - Visual Studio Tools with Jim Nakashima

Steve Marx — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:11:00 GMT

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow.

In this episode:

Learn how to use Visual Studio to browse your Windows Azure compute and storage.
Learn how to deploy your application directly from Visual Studio.
Learn how to do historical debugging of your Windows Azure application using IntelliTrace.
Learn about using the SQL Azure Migration Wizard to help make the move to SQL Azure.

Show links:

CTP1 of Microsoft Project Code-Named "Houston" now available
Stack Exchange Data Explorer
Access Windows Azure Queues from PHP
Clearing the Skies around Windows Azure [Windows Azure pricing]
Microsoft PDC 2010
Jim Nakashima's blog

Understanding the Value of Prism (Silverlight TV #37)

John Papa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Brian Noyes discusses strategies for building Silverlight business applications. Brian is an advisor working with the Patterns and Practices team on the current and future versions of Prism. John and Brian discuss what Prism is, when to use it, when not to use it, and how to pick and choose which parts of Prism may be of most value to your application.

Prism is made up of various parts including modularity, regions, the shell, commanding, events/messaging. Brian explains and demonstrates how each of these concepts is tackled by Prism 2.2 and some possible future plans for Prism 4. We'll do some follow up shows on Prism and on MVVM later this summer, too!

Relevant links:

John's Blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)
Brian's Blog and on Twitter ( @BrianNoyes )
Prism on codeplex
John's Prism and Screen Presentation video from PDC 09
Prism 4: A Look Ahead

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Building a Dynamic Collection Solution for PivotViewer

Larry Larsen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:44:00 GMT

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week.

Mark Bramley walks you step-by-step through building a Just-in-Time Collection server. We review sample code for building a Just-in-Time collection and discuss how you build these collections. PivotViewer is a new visualization technology delivered as a Silverlight control. It helps visualize large collections of items in a more useful, powerful and organized way.

Below are links to resources which will help you get started with the PivotViewer Control today:

The Office Show: Microsoft Publisher

tina10 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:45:00 GMT

Need a flyer or a newsletter? We’ll show you how Microsoft Publisher 2010 makes creating publications easier with the new building blocks feature, plus we’ll show you how to import inventory data from Excel and generate a product catalog in seconds. And for the explosive finale, we’ve got footage of how one Publisher fan has used it -- literally -- for rocket science.

Get some of Gary McKay's Rebel Origami templates to try for yourself.

Learn more about building blocks.

Learn more about generating catalogs.

If you have ideas and tips you want to share about how to make great publications, write a comment and let everyone know. We'd love to hear from you, and we'd love to hear more about what you think of the show. The folks at Channel 9 created this in partnership with our friends at Office.com, where you can find even more videos about Office.

C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej - Standard Template Library (STL), 2 of n

Charles — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:16:00 GMT

Welcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. The great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership with the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft, including, of course, bug fixes and enhancements to the STL that ships as part of Visual C++). Simply, Stephan is a C++ library developer.

As is Stephan's nature, he elaborates on technical details in very substantive way. The Standard Template Library, or STL, is a C++ library of container classes, algorithms, and iterators. STL provides many fundamental algorithms and data structures. The STL is a general purpose library: its components are heavily parameterized such that almost every component in the STL is a template.

This is not an introductory series on C++. As such, it is expected that viewers already possess a working knowledge of the C++ language. Go ahead and open VC++ IDE and follow along--there are many examples provided on-screen and Stephan will monitor this thread and answer questions.

Enjoy. Learn.

Books mentioned by Stephen:

The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial And Reference by Nicolai M. Josuttis

Effective STL by Scott Meyers

DirectCompute Lecture Series 110: Memory Patterns

Gus Class — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:43:00 GMT

In this video, Matt Sandy, a Program Manager on the DirectX team, provides an in-depth look at memory usage patterns in DirectCompute.

In this lecture, you will learn how to most effectively use memory in DirectCompute. Topics include an overview of how memory resources are used within a DirectCompute application, methods for identifying execution threads, data I/O patterns for various resource types, and how to utilize groupshared memory to improve application performance.

Slides for this lecture are available from here.

This video is a follow up video for:
The DirectCompute Expert Roundtable Discussion
and
the Introduction to DirectCompute video.

For more information about DirectCompute, download the PDC 2009 DirectCompute Hands on Lab.

For more information about DirectX, check the DirectX Developer Center and the Windows Developer Center.

You can also download the Direct X SDK.

Building a Compelling Design with a PivotViewer Collection

Larry Larsen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:18:00 GMT

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week.

Jeff Weir walks you through how to build a compelling design for your Silverlight PivotViewer Collection. We review how to compose trade cards, general best practices when building a collection and the way to captivate your audience through your visuals. PivotViewer is a new visualization technology delivered as a Silverlight control. It helps visualize large collections of items in a more useful, powerful and organized way.

Below are links to resources which will help you get started with the PivotViewer Control today:

PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview

Larry Larsen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:07:00 GMT

Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record much of it for Niners. We'll air the five parts throughout the week.

Andrew Cox and Ralph Ruiz walk you through The Silverlight PivotViewer Control and how to embed your collection into a webpage. We review events, styling, how to create taking action on items and globalization within your collection. PivotViewer is a new visualization technology delivered as a Silverlight control. It helps visualize large collections of items in a more useful, powerful and organized way.

Below are links to resources which will help you get started with the PivotViewer Control today:

Developing Access 2010 Hybrid Apps with Dick Moffat

tina10 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:42:00 GMT

Dick Moffat is a professional Access developer who has been using Access 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 to build databases that run on Windows but live in SharePoint. We have a chat about how you can leverage your existing Access skills and bring your current databases into SharePoint to make sharing databases and working with users in remote locations fast & easy.

Ping 66: Kinect, WPC, Bing, Next of Kin, Free MSDN Universal Subscription

Paul M — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:10:00 GMT

Boys without Foys Episode 5 with Adam and Paul share their insights on what is being chatted about on Microsoft's campus.

Here's what is going on this week...

Next Billion Dollar Business?
Worldwide Partner Conference
Little Search Engine that Could
WP7 Gets Best of Kin
Kin's on Amazon -- $0.01!
Free MSDN Universal Subscription!

ThisWeekC9 - PDC10, Azure in a box, Windows Phone 7 Tools Beta, and Kings Quest

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:00:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

PDC10 - Oct 28-29, live from the Redmond campus, 1,000 people, $1,000 to attend, (register here). If you can't attend, we'll be streaming the event live! We'll also be doing some fun stuff for Niners who will be attending PDC
Steve Marx & Ryan Dunn -Windows Azure Platform Appliance, team blog for more information
Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta now available, make sure to uninstall the CTP before installing and find details on the consumer cloud services - My Phone.
Yochay Kiriaty - Updates to the Windows Phone Training Course (available online on Channel 9)
Matt Hawley - CodePlex now supports ClickOnce installation (and updates)
Josh Blake - Blake.NUI, a collection of controls and utilities for multi-touch development, including a book with details on how it all works, via Alvin Ashcraft
Miguel de Icaza - A Handy tip, you can tell a server to automagically gzip or deflate files before sending them to you via the HttpWebRequest AutomaticDecompression flag
Scott Hanselman - The official hardware selection for the ultimate developer PC
Charles Torre - Going Deep episode that goes inside the Razor Parser

Picks of the week!

Brian's Pick: TFS 2010 Support for Project Server, including a CTP virtual machine you can try
Dan's Pick: King's Quest remake is available (registration required before you can download)