So what I did was convert my audio buffer visualizer (List<float> or List<double>) to accept base 64 encoded strings such that I can wrap the buffer in a special class that will return the base 64 representation of the buffer.

However after doing this, I noticed that while you can use the HTML String etc, VS doesn't seem to recognize any new visualizers that specify string as their supported type. It works when debugging a desktop app, but not a WP app.

Does anyone have any experience with getting something like this to work for Windows Phone development? Is there any other approaches that can work? Not being able to see the waveforms when debugging a WP app that does a lot of DSP is pain.

The question is now coming...

can we set up his desktop skydrive app to sync with my web skydrive (and therefore my desktop skydrive) so that when I make changes to the file it gets updated via syncing (in the background) with his desktop skydrive and vice versa

Because Microsoft is a company, instictively I would write "Microsoft is doing this..." just like I would write "comany X is doing this..." However I keep reading "Microsoft are doing this..." (the same seems to be true for all tech companies).

Does this imply "People at Microsoft are doing..."? Which is the most correct form?

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#remote-tools

Is anyone else able to get to msdn.microsoft.com?

Where is EvilD when you need him?

Apple issued the following in response to Motorola and Microsoft running each other's business into the ground:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2010/DEV322

They don't play OK in Windows Media Player. The audio plays, but the video is stuck.

We really might be just a spec in the corner of some giant's gerbal cage.

http://www.insidescience.org/inside-science-minds/1-2661

Ex:

POST /books - adds a new book
GET /books - gets all books
GET /books/1-get a particular book
PUT /books/1- update a particular book
DELETE /books/1-delete a particular book

Now I want to add another collection inside the books collection, say authors and want to implement the same POST, PUT, GET and DELETE calls for the new collection

I want the new calls to be something like this:

POST /books/1/authors - add a new author to a book
GET /books/1/authors - gets all authors of a book
GET /books/1/authors/a@a.com -get a particular author for a book
PUT /books/1/authors/a@a.com - update a particular author for a book
DLETE /books/1/authors/a@a.com -delete a particular author for a book

I am confused how to add a route to make this call work. By default I get this route with the project.

routes.MapHttpRoute(
name:"DefaultApi", 
routeTemplate:"api/{controller}/{id}", 
defaults:new{ id =RouteParameter.Optional}
);

What is the right way to handle routes in this pattern for collections and associations between them?

- Shashikiran

Looks really cool, think it only works at short range though.

So Kinect is still a better game tool

They will still be available but won't be updated beyond the current version 10. 

They will instead only be offering the following three products: 
  - Express for Windows Phone
  - Express for WIndows 8 (Metro only: supports C#, VB, C++, and Javascript)      
  - Express for Web    

At this point it isn't clear from Microsoft's blog post if you'll be able to produce "forms" or console applications in the "Windows 8" edition (but I suspect not).    

The express editions for the desktop are officially YANKED.

The only free express version for Windows will be for Metro apps-only. Sure you can use VS 2010 Express, but these will get very old within a few years.

BIG BIG DISCLAIMER: It seems I don't have a first hand experience of it (in other words i don't know wth i'm talking about ). 

A more complete discussion of features is found in the Visual Basic Express Edition Fundamentals and the Visual Studio Fundamentals series, also available on Channel9.

I don't care it is cheesy, I like the special masked transparent chrome a lot. IE9 is very pretty with it ad well. I hope this is a choice, not mandatory. I have beefy GPU, so, give me even more cheesy graphic, like jello chrome and other cheesy things.