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TWC9: Channel 9 Goes Live, Zune, detecting memory leaks, Life at MSFT

Dan Fernandez — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:53:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, we do our first ever live smooth-streaming episode with special guest Nic Fillingham. On the show we discuss:

- Our ch9live Twitter account to take questions during the show

- The new MSN page design
- MSN also integrates Bing
- Nic discusses his new Zune HD
- Sarah Perez - How to make Zune-compatible movies with Movie Maker
- Expression Blend 3 Zune Website Starter Kit
- Larry Larsen - NBC goes Silverlight for Winter Olympics
- TwinBox - How to use Twitter in Outlook
- Windows 7 sponsored theme packs, via Long Zheng
- Microsoft Press - Ten free Windows 7 book chapters
- Rudi Grobler - Anatomy of a Windows 7 Tabbed Thumbnail Part 1 & Part 2
- Lee Mathews - Download Squad - New tool enables you to right-click and mount VHDs
- Jason Allor - LinqLite is a small library of LINQ expressions to simplify building your own LINQ provider, via Brad Abrams
- Fabrice Marguerie - MSDN - How to detect and avoid memory and resource leaks in .NET applications, via Charlie Calvert
- PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010, via Greg Duncan

Picks of the week
Dan's pick: - Coding4Fun - Halloween Gremlins - Move a mouse, shake the screen, scroll windows and more
Nic's pick: Tina's Life at Microsoft video

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

Peer to Peer Series Part 6: Introduction to PeerChannel

Jeff Brand — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:32:00 GMT

In Part 6 of the Peer to Peer Series, I set the stage for learning how to use WCF's PeerChannel. After a simple overview of PeerChannel, I show a sample application that uses PeerChannel to play buzzword bingo. The focus of this installment is to give an understanding of some of the key considerations one must think about dealing with the message broadcasts that comprise a PeerChannel application.

The next few installments will focus extensively on building peer applications using PeerChannel.

Important Note: I errored in splicing my video together. The demo is actually later in the video and not immediately after the demo transition slide. Everything is there, just not in the right order. I'll try and get an edited version up later.

ASP.NET Webcast Teil 2: ASP.NET Server Controls, Listen, Detailansichten, Controls, Session State

codefest — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:21:00 GMT

Teil 2 der Webcast Serie zu ASP.NET.
Die Serie im Überblick auf webcast.codefest.at.

msdn tv Trailer mit Expression Gewinnspiel - Gewinne 1 von 5 Expression Studio 3

Jan Schenk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:43:00 GMT

„msdn tv – Nachrichten für Entwickler“ ist für MSDN ein echter Gewinn! Sagt MSDN. Wenn Sie das ebenfalls so sehen und andere auf unsere Video-Reihe aufmerksam machen, können auch Sie gewinnen: MSDN verlost fünf „Expression Studio 3“ unter allen, die über ihren Twitter-Account bis Ende November einen Tweet zum Thema „msdn tv“ versenden. Was dort drinstehen soll, erfahren Sie in diesem 'msdn tv'-Trailer. Wie Sie auch ohne Twitter mitmachen können und was es darüber hinaus zu wissen gibt, steht in den offiziellen Teilnahmebedingungen zum Expression Studio Gewinnspiel.
Viel Erfolg!

msdn tv - Nachrichten für Entwickler (Ausgabe vom 06.11.2009)

Jan Schenk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:02:00 GMT

Für die aktuelle Folge von „msdn tv“ hatte Moderator Jan Helmhut Schenk Gelegenheit, mit Hannes Preishuber zu sprechen, dem Vorstand des IT-Weiterbildungsspezialisten ppedv AG (Burghausen). Natürlich geht’s dabei u.a. um die anstehende Entwicklerkonferenz VSOne, die im Februar 2010 in München stattfindet, aber auch ums Trainingsbusiness im allgemeinen, um Technikvorlieben und um Pro & Contra Open Source.
In den Kurzmeldungen: die Beta 2 von Visual Studio 2010 und .NET 4.0, der erste Geburtstag von Small Basic, Neues zur Microsoft Press Preview, die Online-Trainings der Weiterbildungsinitiative LiftOff und die integrierte Entwicklungsumgebung Eclipse zur Verbesserung der Interoperabilität von Windows 7, Windows Azure und Silverlight.

Ausserdem gibt es am Ende der msdn tv-Folge noch die Gewinnmöglichkeit für eine von 5 Expression Studio 3 Lizenzen. Einfach diesen Text twittern (@jansche RTen und Expression Studio gewinnen! msdn tv - Nachrichten für Entwickler http://msdn-online.de/msdntv #msdntv) um automatisch an der Verlosung teilzunehmen. Die Gewinnspielbedingungen findet ihr hier: http://www.der-evangelist.de/rechtliches/expression-studio-gewinnspiel-teilnahmebedingungen/

Die Gewinner werden schriftlich über eine DirectMessage (bei Teilnahme über twitter.com) oder per Post (bei Einsendung einer Postkarte, Absender nicht vergessen!) benachrichtigt.

Viel Glück und Viel Spass,
Der Jan mit dem Hut

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

Toolshed: Episode 5 - Its All About The Tools TV Show

Russell Fustino — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:17:00 GMT

Episode 5 has killer content on Deep Zoom, Expression Web 3, a codeplex project on a Snippet Editor for Visual Studio, LINQ Tool Samples, LINQ Pad, Link To Twitter, and a more comprehensive list at www.thinqlinq.com/Post.aspx/Title/linq-tools. Expression Blend 3 Importing Adobe assets, and an incredible codeplex project must see on a solid Silverlight website starter kit using best practices! This is Russ's Tool Shed's best effort yet! Grab a beer and hope you enjoy this most educational, enlightening and entertaining instant classic video!

Producer: Russ Fustino
Audio and Video Editing: Russ Fustino
Many thanks to the many volunteers, live studio audience and presenters. This was an all volunteer effort!

It is well worth it to view this in its entirety, with great content and 4 MVP speakers who are awesome!

My Email: Russ Fustino
My Web Site: http://www.russtoolshed.net
Please feel free to contact me.
Russell Fustino

Developer Challenges this episode solves...

How can you quickly display and navigate a large, detailed image or a panorama of images on the web, and not be extremely slow to view?

What can you use to build a website that supports ASP.NET, Deep Zoom Composer images, AJAX, and Silverlight videos? … and do it quickly?

Do you wish you could find that perfect piece of code that you know you’ve written before?

You know how to write a query in SQL but how do you do it in LINQ? What tools are there to help you understand LINQ and what it is doing behind the scenes?

You have the source art from your design group, but how do you convert that into WPF or Silverlight?

You need to create a website for your group, and you would like to have a solid codebase as a starting point and get your feet wet in a real world Silverlight application.

Timeline:
00:00 - Theme Song, Intro of speakers and content
08:02 - Deep Zoom Composer by Russ Fustino
15:40 - Expression Web 3 by Russ Fustino
32:11 - Snippet Editor for VS by MVP Stan Schultes
44:35 - LINQ Tools by MVP Jim Wooley
58:34 - Expression Blend 3 - Importing ADOBE Assets by MVP Christopher Bennage
01:16:33 - Silverlight Web Starter Kit by MVP David Silverlight
01:31:27 - Community Update by Russ Fustino and David Silverlight
01:39:32 - Credits and Photos (please view for special dedication to the Developer Community and song)

Thank you Channel9.
Russ Fustino rfustino@hotmail.com

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!

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

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 6, Dr. Meijer guides us through the world of recursive functions. In Haskell, functions can be defined in terms of themselves. Such functions are called recursive.
For example:

factorial 0 = 1
factorial (n+1) = (n+1) * factorial n

factorial maps 0 to 1, and any other positive integer to the product of itself and the factorial of its predecessor.

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

Novinky ve Visual Basic 10 (CZ)

JanSteberl — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:11:00 GMT

V tomto videu se podíváme na novinky v jazyce Visual Basic 10, který přichází s novou verzí Visual Studia 2010. Ukážeme si nové syntaktické featury, jako třeba implicitní ukončení řádků, víceřádkové lambda funkce a procedury, inicializace kolekcí, ale také možnosti, které nám přináší nový .NET Framework 4 v oblasti paralelního programování, které můžeme právě díky přidaným funkcím využít.

Autorem screencastu je Tomáš Herceg. Další videa naleznete na webu www.mstv.cz.

Siemens Healthcare använder Sketchflow för att designa ny funktionalitet

Dag König — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:50:00 GMT

Teknologi: Expression Blend Sketchflow

Siemens Healthcare, som bland annat utvecklar två av de största journalsystemen i Sverige, Obstetrix och Melior, har börjat använda Expression Blend Sketchflow för att på ett bättre sätt designa ny funktionalitet. Genom Sketchflow har de fått ett verktyg för att göra prototyper av användargränssnitt som sedan andra kan testköra och ge återkoppling på.

Kontakt: Henrik Hjalmarsson, Siemens Healthcare; Jonas Brolin, Siemens Healthcare; Dag König, Microsoft

WPF XML Data Binding (CZ)

JanSteberl — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:04:00 GMT

Jednou z velmi silných stránek WPF i Silverlight jsou datové vazby (DataBinding). V seminář pro mírně pokročilé vývojáře si ukážeme základy práce s datovou vazbou, použití datových šablon a ovládacího prvku DataGrid z WPF Toolkit. Jako datový zdroj budeme používat Microsft SQL Server nebo XML.

Autorem screencastu je Štěpán Bechynský. Další videa naleznete na webu www.mstv.cz.

Silverlight 3 Animation Easing (CZ)

JanSteberl — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:14:00 GMT

Jednou z novinek v Silverlight 3 jsou nové objekty, označované jako Animation Easing, které ovlivňují průběh animace v čase. Některé z nich mohou simulovat jednoduché fyzikální vlastnosti. Tento screencast je určen všem zájemcům o novinky v Silverlight 3.

Autorem screencastu je Štěpán Bechynský. Další videa naleznete na webu www.mstv.cz.

Triggery ve WPF (CZ)