Entries for Dan Fernandez

TWC9: XAML tools, Silverlight for Live Writer, Surface SDK,

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:56:00 GMT

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

- Michael Shim - XAML Toolkit CTP - XAMLDOM, FXCop rules for XAML, and more (download)
- Visual Web Dev Team Blog - Add HTML 5 IntelliSense support to Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer Express
- Surface SDK 1.0 available to everyone, supports XNA Game Studio 3.0
- Habib Heydarian - Debug.WriteLine versus IntelliTrace
- Jeff Wilcox - Silverlight Toolkit includes Application Library Caching, details here
Picks of the week:
- Tina Wood interviews Corrinne Yu - Principal Engine Architect for Halo
- Elegant Code - Starting with the Silverlight 4 Webcam control
- Six revisions - 10 free server network/monitoring tools
- Blake Handler - RAW drivers for Windows 7 to read formats like (CR2, NEF, ORF, ARW, etc)
- Luc Vo Van - Silverlight plugin for Windows Live Writer

- Brian's pick - TechEd Berlin
- Dan's pick - Andy Dunn - Kissy Poo for Xbox Live

TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, [TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore, ]

Dan Fernandez — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:28:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas where we discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- Channel 9 Live at PDC - Three days of live streams with big names including Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, Scott Guthrie, and many more.
- Microsoft PressPass - Microsoft acquires Teamprise which means Martin Woodward is a blue badge!
- Microsoft SDK for Facebook, now officially supported by Facebook
- Bing Maps Silverlight Control Interactive SDK
- New Amazon Web Services .NET SDK, via Greg Duncan
- Channel 9 adds Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Windows Server R2 Developer courses with videos and hands-on labs
- Thomas Lewis - Devil's Field Guide to the PDC (2009 Edition)
- Steve Marx - How to use the Azure CDN for a custom domain
- Anders Hejlsberg - the Visual Studio Documentary
- Sync Toy 2.1 Available for download
- Access 2010 - Access for SharePoint Web databases

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Dragon Age Origins the game and the awesome toolset and developer wiki for building your own adventures.
- Clint's pick: Clint's Iron Bartender contest at PDC. It'sman versus machine in this blind taste test to see who builds the better drink, the Drinktender or an actual bartender.

in reply to TWC9: C9 Live at PDC, Teamprise, SDKs galore,

Countdown to PDC show will be live today at 12PM PST

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:28:00 GMT

At 12PM Pacific Standard Time (PST), Mike Swanson, Jennifer Ritzinger, and special guest star Nic Fillingham will do the Countdown to PDC show live!

To watch, go to: www.microsoftpdc.com

The show will be interactive and you can get your questions answered live by replying to @ch9live on Twitter.

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: Go to www.microsoftpdc.com at 12PM PST

Q: How can I participate?
A: Send questions or comments by replying to the @ch9live Twitter account during the live broadcast at 12PM 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!

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

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!

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

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

TWC9: Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 Blowout!

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:18:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan celebrate two of our favorite products being launched in the same week, Windows 7 RTMs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available to everyone!

Windows 7 Launch Content
- Watch the Windows 7 Launch event
- Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Team Blog - 7 Days of Windows 7 for great PC deals
- Sarah Perez - @MicrosoftHelps - Official Microsoft support channel on Twitter for Windows 7
- Channel 9 launches Training Courses for Windows 7 - Hands-on labs and videos
- Mark Russinovich - Windows 7 Redux
- Sara Perez posting on Channel 9 - CableCard how-to with Windows 7 Media Center

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
- Visual Studio 2010 (bootstrapper and ISO) and Visual Studio Express Editions available for download
- Visual Studio 2010 SKU Comparison Chart - Dan and Brian discuss what it all means
- Patrick Smacchia - Visualizing the .NET Framework 4 changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2
- Brian Keller: 10-4 Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
- Mike Snow - Uninstall the Silverlight SDK before installing VS 2010 Beta 2
- Rico Mariani - Inside Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Performance and Reliability
- Pat Brennar - Visual Studio 2010 MFC and Windows 7
- Habib Heydarian - Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace

Picks of the week:
- Brian's pick - Jason Zander - Step-by-step tutorial on getting started with TFS in VS 2010
- Dan's pick - The "myths" of upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 and 2010, via Greg Duncan

A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:12:00 GMT

Today we officially launched a new area on Channel 9, the Channel 9 Learning Center. This is an area where we’ll provide free training courses (videos, hands-on labs, and code samples) on emerging products and technologies, with our first set of training courses being Windows 7 and Visual Studio. As more products/technology betas get released, you can expect us to add additional training courses into the Learning Center. For more information on training courses, subscribe to the Learn blog which will have regular updates on new and upcoming content on the Learning Center.

Why are we doing this?

One of the key pieces of feedback from our Channel 9 user survey is that you wanted more technical content, especially on new products and technologies. Our goal with learning centers is to make it easy for developers to pick up and play with new products, APIs, SDKs, etc and to make the learning experience social. This is our first step towards that goal.

Taking a tour

To get a feel for the Channel 9 Learning Center, we wanted to give you a quick screenshot tour of what’s included.

Learning Center Home Page

The Learning Center home page includes the aforementioned Learning team’s blog and the list of courses on the right side. For our tour, we’ll click into the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course.

Visual Studio 2010 Training Course Home page

This is the home page for a training course and it includes:

· Breadcrumb navigation at the very top for easy navigation.

· A list of pre-requisites including experience or tools, frameworks, and SDKs you need to complete the course.

· Each course is broken down into a set of topics or units like Managed Language, ASP.NET 4, the Data Platform and so forth.

· The full training kit is available for download in the top right corner for anyone looking to do offline learning.

· The list of team members who built the training course are in the right column.

Managed Languages page

Here you’ll find a set of videos and hands-on labs that cover that particular topic. Note that Hands-on labs have the orange bubbly beaker image icon.

Hands on labs – Introduction to F#

Each hands on lab comes with

· A table of contents with all of the exercises for the Hands-on lab

· A download link to download the hands-on lab for offline use and any associated source code examples

· The ability to share (on Twitter, Facebook, etc), rate, and comment on the lab

· A list of resources for the Hands-on lab.

Inside a Hands-On lab

Once you’re inside the Hands-On lab, there’s a two column layout, the left column represent the Hands-on lab content and the right column provides quick navigation to other parts of the Hands on lab.

At the end of each lab exercise, you’ll also see a convenience link to jump to the next exercise in the Hands-on lab.

Feedback

Well, that’s our quick and dirty tour, as always, we’re open to your feedback and we hope you find this type of technical content valuable.

Cheers,

The Channel 9 & Learning Team

TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:40:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger to discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- SQL Team - SQL Azure Feature Complete, now supports bulkcopy
- Sarah Perez - Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint, via Scott Hanselman
- Systernals utility - Disk2VHD - Create a virtual hard drive from a physical hard drive, via Greg Duncan
- Virtual PC Guy - Virtual PC + XP mode RTM on MSDN/Technet
- Ayende Rahein - Choosing between Active Record, Fluent NHibernate, and XML mapping files, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Eric Lippert - The difference between"as" and "cast" operators
- Kirk Evans - Eric Schupps on TDD in SharePoint
- Jeff Brand - 5-part video series on Peer-to-Peer programming
- Rudi Grobler - Create your own IDE, with colorization, in 10 minutes using AvalonEdit
- Shivprasad Koirala - CodeProject - Multipart .NET 4.0 FAQ, part 1 is the DLR
- Wade Wegner - Video - How to run ASP.NET MVC applications in Windows Azure

Picks of the week
- Christian's pick: Sony Vaio Windows 7 Notebook
- Dan's pick: Family Guy meets Windows 7

TWC9: Office Engineering, Zune HD app, .NET Audio Recorder

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:44:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the week's top developer news including:
- Office Engineering blog - Office 2010 Starter Edition - Reduced functionality version of Office that would ship with OEM versions of Windows (Works replacement)
- Windows Phone launches, new developer portal up
- Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on MSDN
- CodeProject - How to build a Zune HD "level" app using the built-in accelerometer
- Office 2010 Engineering Blog - From sketch to finished product
- Scott Hanselman - New MSDN skin/features
- Coding4Fun - Mark Heath - .NET Voice Recorder
- Brian Harry - Team Foundation Server "Basic" - easy way to install TFS and no server requirement
- Rico Mariani - History of Visual Studio posts to complement the Visual Studio documentary

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick: "Go Live" license for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2
- Dan's pick: Five mice prototypes in five minutes (video clip at the end)

TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:48:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian reunite to go through the week's top developer news including:

- The Visual Studio Documentary - Learn the history of Visual Studio, including Alan Cooper Scott Guthrie, Jason Zander, Anders Hejlsberg, Soma Somasegar, and many more
- Phil Haack - Details on the just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2
- Channel 9 Lectures: Erik Meijer teaches Functional Programming, including a 20% discount on Programming in Haskell
- But Why Series - Get answers to questions on design decisions, branding, and other Microsoft lore
- C# FAQ - Using the ExpandoObject with Dynamic C#
- Why you should never prank Clint Rutkas (photo, video)
- Jaime Rodriguez - Q&A from the Microsoft internal WPF discussion alias
- Four free chapters on Visual Web Developer Express 2008
- CodeProject - Convert Podcast RSS to Playlists
- James Senior - Seadragon Ajax Control Quick Start video
- Coding4Fun - Rick Barraza's tutorials on fluids and edge detection in Silverlight
- SQL Server 2008 Express How-To Videos
- CodePlex - SQL Azure Explorer project gives you great built-in tools for Visual Studio to visually explore your SQL Azure databases

Picks of the week:
- SharePoint blog - SharePoint.com using Aptimize, improves performance by up to 50%
- Charlie Calvert walks through using the XNA Role Playing Starter Kit

TWC9: WebsiteSpark, Win7 BootCamp, useful PowerShell scripts

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:26:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas where they discuss:

- Clint discusses his new job and his obsession with bacon
- Scott Guthrie on Channel 9 - WebsiteSpark, Web Platform Installer, and Web App Gallery
- Web App Toolkits - samples to build a FAQ, send email, add Messenger, etc (overview video)
- Free Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp with Mark Russinovich and Arun Kishan on Nov 16th, you don't even need to be a PDC attendee
- Microsoft announces Simple API for Cloud Application Services, APIs for PHP developers
- Microsoft: VB/C# Code Snippets to use with the Open XML Format SDK, via Greg Duncan
- Brian Peek and Rick Barraza - Coding4Fun Show - Advanced Rendering with Silverlight
- Scott Hanselman - Batch converting a directory of videos for Xbox 360 using Windows PowerShell and Handbrake or Expression Encoder
- Cody Batt - DevX - Call Windows PowerShell Cmdlets from C#
- Tom Hearn - Read iPhone text messages using C# and SQLite from your backup image, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Giorgio Minardi - Code Project - A basic introduction to the Unity Application Block
- Larry Larsen - MS Hardware Labs 6 part series
- Tina Wood - Niner questions: Curtis Creamer from Bungie on Halo 3 ODST

Picks of the week:
- Clint's pick: Scott Hanselman'sCross-browser testing recap
- Dan's pick: Mattel releases MindFlex mind control game, Dan wants to hack it, via Blake Handler

TWC9: Sven Groot, Beer taste test, Office Web, ASP.NET Auto-Starts, System.IO changes

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:21:00 GMT

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger, and Sven Groot where we do blind taste-testing of beer, and discuss the week's top developer news including:

- Dan introduces the blind beer taste test between Old English 800, Mickeys, Fosters, and Bud Light with Brian keeping score
- Sven discusses how he got talked into posing for a photo
- Office Web Applications are now in a private preview
- Zune HD launches, XNA Game Studio 3.1 also launched and it supports building games for ZuneHD for free, no need for Creator's Club members
- Scott Guthrie - Microsoft AJAX CDN - Includes ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, and ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX libraries
- Mahesh Sabnis - What's new in WCF 4.0 Part 1
- C# FAQ - Building a Dynamic Method using Expression Trees
- Mike Swanson - Evolving the PDC09 Event Site
- Krzysztof Kozmic - How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code
- PHP Toolkit for REST/.NET, via Joe Stagner
- Julien Manici - Windows 7 logon background changer, via Paul Thurott
- Michael Ceranski - System.IO Improvements in .NET 4.0 make us all giddy like school girls
- Dare Obasanjo - Building Scalable Databases by denormalizing your database
- Scott Guthrie - Auto-Start ASP.NET 4.0 applications

Beer taste test results (1 right out of 12)
- Christian: 0/4
- Sven: 0/4
- Dan: 1/4

Picks of the week:
- Christian's pick: SQL Azure Migration Wizard CodePlex project
- Sven's pick: monoTouch - .NET development kit for iPhone
- Dan's pick: NotAlwaysRight.com, via Scott Hanselman

This Week C9: NFL goes Silverlight, VS 2010 features, new freebies

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:23:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the top developer news including:

- NFL debuts Silverlight streaming of football games
- CodePlex adds Editor role, Work Item Notifications and recommended downloads
- Soma - Doloto, a tool to decrease the initial download size of AJAX applications (46% average savings for popular sites)
- Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (Firefox requires full Expression Web)
- David Hayden - xUnit 1.5 released - 64-bit, MVC 1, MVC 2 Preview 1
- Larry Larsen - Build your own 3D video for $350
- Brian Keller - Zoom-in/Zoom-out with Visual Studio Editor
- 10-4 Show - Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 7, MEF now includes Silverlight support (CodePlex)
- Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET, HTML, and JavaScript snippets in Visual Studio 2010
- Free Visual Studio Extensibility Summit
- Martin Woodward *EDIT the cost was incorrectly discussed as free, the real cost is $10/user/month*, Hosted TFS for $10/user/month if you're in BizSpark
- DZone ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Ref Card
- Coding4Fun - Giovanni Montrone (aka Brian Peek's friend) - Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application

Picks of the week:
- Brian's pick: Telerik release free TFS Work Item Manager & Project Dashboard, via Joel Semeniuk
- Dan's pick: Dust: An Elysian Tail wins the Dream.Build.Play XNA Competition, watch the trailer for the winning game or trailers for other entries

This Week C9: VS 2010, Must-Have Developer Utilities, Upgrade your home

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:06:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan (back from paternity leave) and Brian (back from Brazil) discuss the week's top developer news including:

- Scott Guthrie - Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor support
- Phil Haack - 7 Stages of new language keyword grief, Dan adds that Step 0 is the developer Rorschach test where they see a keyword and say that it already existed in some previous language/tool they used (Fortran, Delphi, RoR, etc)
- Jeffrey Snover - Use PowerShell to find and use the right WMI Object
- Coding4Fun - GPS Tools for .NET Developers
- Ben Anderson - Popfly Game Engine source code on CodePlex
- Scott Hanselman - 2009 Ultimate Developer & Power Tools List
- Daniel Crenna - Visual Studio Add-in on CodePlex - Markup Tamer, via Greg Duncan
- Christian Kleinerman: SQL Server "Project Madison" - high scale massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse
- Larry Larsen - Windows Home Server Power Pack 3
- Rudi Grobler - Windows 7 Sensor Platform Basics - Adjust WPF theme based on ambient light
- Windows 7 User Experience Interaction Guidelines
- Soma - VS 2010 tools to generate a dependency graph and a sequence diagram

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick: Clemens Enrich figures out how to Connect VS 2010 Use Case Diagram with SketchFlow
- Dan's pick: If you're a geek, upgrade your home network to Gigabit networking for $30 USD. I'd also suggest at least CAT 5e cable.

This Week C9: Microhoo, ATL Security, VS 2010 Cut List

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:47:00 GMT

This week on C9, Dan and Brian review the week's top developer stories including:

- Microsoft & Yahoo Search partnership - What does it mean for developers?
- What happens SearchMonkey/BOSS? Answer is TBD
- Expression Studio RTMs, available to MSDN Subscribers now
- Charles Torre - Active Template Library (ATL) Security Update
- How and which versions of Visual Studio are affected
- Michael Howard - The offending code and why automated tools didn't catch it
- Charles Petzold - Animated "3D" text in Silverlight
- New Xbox Live Creators Club features
- Hanu Kommalapati - Silverlight version compatibility when a Web page hosts both SL2 and SL3 XAP files
- Habib Heydarian - Visual Studio 2010 Cut List includes: Application Verifier, Object Test Bench, C++ IntelliSense for managed code, SQL 2000 Debugging
- Tina Wood - History of Microsoft Finale - 1999
- CodePlex releases it's Wiki Engine source code - WikiPlex (details), via Sara Ford
- Scott Mitchell - Multi-Part Series on using the Microsoft Chart Control
- Making Silverlight 3 more digestible by Blend, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Experimental .NET 4.0 with Transactional Memory, via Soma's blog

Picks of the week:
- Dan's pick: Brian Peek and Arian Kulp - MEF Utility Runner
- Brian's pick: Preston Gralla - Follow up on Microsoft contribution to Linux – Linus Torvalds says “Microsoft hatred is a disease”

This Week C9: Windows 7 RTMs, 7 Sins of App Compat, & cool Silverlight apps

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:22:00 GMT

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

- Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Team Blog - Video snippet of Steve Ballmer signing Windows 7 Gold Disc
- Michael Fortin - Windows 7 Efficiency
- Yochay Kiriaty - Ensuring your application is ready for Windows 7 RTM, including:
    - Windows 7 Quality Cookbook
    - The seven sins on Windows 7 application compatibility
    - Optimizing for Windows 7
- 3 Developer Questions for Windows 7
    - Build Number:
    - .NET Framework version: 3.5 SP1
    - Default User Agent:
    - Silverlight Installed: No
- Windows 7 availability
- Microsoft contributes code to the Linux kernel
- James Clarke - Expression Encoder available for download, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen - Gestalt: Ruby/Python in HTML & Silverlight
- Nikhil Kothari - Silverlight.FX updated for SL 3, includes App framework, UI controls, effects/transitions
- Silverlight Toolkit updated (live demo) - Includes data visualization (TreeMap!), controls, theming, and more, via Greg Duncan
- Robby Ingebretsen - Free Silverlight Simple Styles
- Pete Brown - Silverlight Audio Synthesizer
- Roger Guess - Coding4Fun - Build a Simple Shooter Silverlight game
- Larry Larsen - Photosynths of Apollo 11,12, & 17 Campsites
- Rick Strahl - CodePaste.NET - TwitPic for code - Lets you paste/share code snippets over Twitter/comments, etc, via Greg Duncan
- SFW pictures from Scott Hanselman Avatar Weekend on Twitter

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Ben Anderson & Adam Nathan - Coding4Fun - Popfly Game Downloader - Download games before August 24th and play them forever
- Brian's pick: 10-4 Episode on the Historical Debugger

This Week C9: Office 2010, Azure pricing, ScottGu on MVC, and Silverlight 3

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:30:00 GMT

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

- Larry Larsen - Office 2010 private beta and Web Access features
- Azure pricing announced at WPC
- Jeff Barnes - Azure .NET Services - July CTP
- Tim Heuer - Overview of Silverlight 3 including tools to get you started
- Adam Kinney - 30 tutorials on Silverlight and Expression Blend 3
- Free chapter on how to use Expression Blend 3's SketchFlow, via Christian Schormann
- Arturo Toledo - How to design a Glassy Button using Expression Design
- Andy Beaulieu - Physics Helper 3 library is out
- Stimulant - Project Tuva - Richard Feynman annotated video series using Silverlight
- John Montgomery - Popfly service is shutting down August 24th
- ASoft - .NET Version Detector app, or use "javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)" in Internet Explorer, via Blake Handler
- Scott Guthrie - 2-Part ASP.NET MVC Session - Part 1, Part 2
- Jason Zander - PhotoView - Windows 7 Reference Application

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Celso Gomes - Amazing Silverlight-based tutorials on deconstructing apps
- Brian's pick: Developer + Designer Therapy

This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:17:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and Dan talk about this week's news, including:

- Silverlight 3 & Expression Studio 3 are now available
    - Scott Guthrie & Christian Schormann
    - Scott Guthrie Silverlight 3 overview
    - Developer & Designer Therapy (fun)
- Hanselman relates how he took pictures of Scott's office and posted a pic on Twitter and people asked to see what was in Scott's fridge, which he thought was going too far.
- Dan talks about playing the part of the bear that greco-roman wrestles ScottGu
- Emil Protalinski - Ars Technica - Michael Jackson memorial streamed in Silverlight
- Kirill Osenkov - Undo Framework Samples
- Hanselman gives Dan advice on doing english dubbing imitations, Dan explains how his (pregnant) wife is now PREGOR - a beast that must be satiated.
- Sara Ford - CodePlex turns 3 years old, Breaks 10,000 project mark
- Miguel de Icaza - C# and the CLI now under Community Promise for cross-platform
- Brian Peek - How to build your first XNA Game Studio Session by building a Space Invaders clone from Facebook .NET Programmers Group (and the Coding4Fun book)
- Scott & Dan rant on being Brian Peek fans and that more people should follow his blog
- Microsoft Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET) - IDE addin to identify security issues including Cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, XPath injection and more, via Greg Duncan
    - Scott discusses the XPath issues that people attributed to Bing, but that was also an issue in Google
- Paul Lakeland Import US Census Spatial Data into SQL Server 2008, via Greg Duncan
- Aaron Stebner - Wix v3.0 now available
- WPF team releases Chart Controls
- Somasegar - BizSpark hits 15,000 startups including StackOverflow, Sobees (including Bdule a TweetDeck-like app), and Curse
- Jaime's Amazing Motivational Posters
- Hanselminutes on 9 - Alpha Geek laptops
- Scott talks about the Creative Vado HD which he recommends

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: David Sleeckx - Head Tracking and 3D WPF using a standard, built-in camera
- Scott's pick: HaaHa Show - Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman do a session in Norway where Phil is the hacker and Scott is the dev where they go back-and-forth to break in and mitigate against attacks

This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:00 GMT

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

- Joel Bennett - Control your PC with your voice and PowerShell, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Frank La Vigne - Speech Recognition in WPF
- Dan Waters - Great 4-part series on Audio Programming
- Andrew Woodward - Doing Agile in a Team of One
- Leah Budley - UX Team of One, via Frank La Vigne
- Aaron Marten - Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines
- Corey Schuman - YouTube video in Silverlight 3, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Tina Wood - The History of Microsoft 1995
- Jaime Rodriguez - Best questions/answers in the WPF Discussions email alias
- MySpace Releases MSFast, a browser plugin for measuring CPU, memory, screenshost, HTML rendering, and more (download)
- Registering Preview Pane types using PreviewConfig, via Greg Duncan
- Alois Kraus - The differences between Logging and Tracing

Picks of the week
Brian's pick of the week: Habib Heydarian - Debugging a Unit Test Failure with the Historical Debugger
Dan's pick of the week: TweetCraft an in-game World of Warcraft Twitter client, including a gratuitous video trailer

PS - Happy fourth of July to our American viewers

TweetCraft - A World of Warcraft Twitter Client

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:43:00 GMT

A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client.

Twitter is open source and includes:
- A Windows client written in C# and Windows Presentation Foundation
- A Warcraft AddOn written in FrameXML and Lua using AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

This Week C9: Revolution 9 - The Future of Channel 9

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:08:00 GMT

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Jeff, Duncan, and Nishant to talk about the recent survey results, and the Revolution 9 project

- (0:00 - 1:00) Jeff Sandquist, Duncan Mackenzie, and Nishant Kothary
- (1:00 - 1:57) Survey results request by Minh
- (1:57 - 2:47) How we're working on being more transparent including content and our dev team and helping other organizations be more transparent
- (2:47 - 7:20) Jeff discusses the history of Channel 9
- (7:20 - 10:55) Survey Results - The Good
    - High satisfaction with Microsoft
    - Most Important site features: Video interviews, screencasts/podcasts
    - 50% visit daily, 75% visit at least weekly
    - 66% will try a new technology
    - 91% gave verbatim feedback
- (10:55 - 12:23) Channel 9 Traffic
    - 131 Terabytes/Monthly
    - 2.8 Million Minutes/Month
- (12:23 - 15:17) Survey Results - The Bad
    - Site reliability
    - Finding content through search/tags
    - Site organization
    - Satisfaction for non-developers was lower than developer satisfaction
- (15:17 - 16:48) Survey Results - Importance and Usage Graph
- (16:48 - 17:18) RossJ Coffeehouse comment on artificial classification of devs, students, and consumers
- (17:18 - 17:50) Long Zheng blog comment on Evangelism Network and the "dilemma of choosing a community"
- (17:50 - 19:20) Current State of the World - Channel 8, 9, 10, Coding4Fun, Edge, and MIX Online
- (19:20 - 24:00) Future State of the World
    - Channel 10 and Coding4Fun content will now be on Channel 9
    - Existing Channel 8 content moves to Channel 9, while the Microsoft Student site becomes the portal for students
    - Edge and MIX sites stay unchanged
- (24:00 - 25:28) The origins of the Revolution 9 name based on Jamie's PDC artwork and coming full circle to our roots
- (25:28 - 26:10) Revolution 9 is three things - Content, User Experience, and site reliability + features
- (26:10 - 29:00) Content - Common theme is more - Erik Meijer, Silverlight, real world examples, how-to training, Scoble/Rory style interviews, more history of Microsoft
- (29:00 - 40:10) Adding new content, not taking away existing, not one size fits all, different topics, formats, styles, length, continuous evolution.
   - New stuff
   - Learn - Going Deep, 10-4, MSR/Coding4Fun Projects
   - Opinions - Erik Meijer, Anders Hejlsberg, favorite Windows 7 apps
    - Culture - Old-school C9 videos, history of Microsoft
    - Community - Channel 9 Live - Live streaming town halls with leaders at Microsoft, online "bootcamp" for different technologies
    - Grow # of C9 authors
- (40:10 - 54:54) Nishant on User Experience
    - Jeff talks about the Bruce Williams podcast
    - Nishant's dog and how he is on Twitter (@yoweim)
    - How Channel 9 played a huge part in him joining the company
    - Discoverability - Can we help you find content you're searching for or content you find interesting that you weren't searching for. It's too hard to browse through through 1,300+ tags
    - Readability - How consumable is the content, both text and video, ensure the content is pleasing to look at
    - Interactivity - Don't over-complicate interaction model
    - Visual Design - Let the content shine through, design only begins when you launch, it will continue to evolve
- (54:54 - 58:38) Duncan on site reliability
    - Duncan's request for comments
    - SQL Performance Tuning and de-normalization
    - Replacement of Editor control
    - Cross-Browser Compatibility with Chrome/Safari
- (58:38 - 1:05) Duncan on new features
    - Improve video - Windows Media profile, smooth streaming, video bookmarks/chapters
    - Channel 9 Live - Live chat stream in some way (Twitter, uStream-style)
    - Misc - Anonymous comments, spam filtering, star-rating system so more people will use ratings (content recommendations like Netflix)
- (1:05 - 1:07) Recap
- Thank you for being members of the Channel 9 community

This week on C9: Get paid for open source, Azure for dating, debugging and naming lore

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:41:00 GMT

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

- Microsoft Security Essentials (previously code-named Morro)
- Peli de Halleux - New Release of CHESS with data race detection (video)
- Quan To - How to deploy a toolbox control using VSIX for Visual Studio 2010
- Codeplex Updates - Project owners option to receive advertising revenue (details), Code snippet support, more wiki formatting options
- Habib Heydarian - Import/Export Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010
- Tess Ferandez - Debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010
- Microsoft Product Naming Lore (courtesy of Jason Zander)
- Visual Basic 1.0 was codenamed "Thunder"
- The CLR Team was codenamed "Lightning"
- The NTSD extension to bootstrap v1.0 was called "Strike"
- The WinDBG extension for managed code was named "Son of Strike" but known to customers as SOS
- Gunnar Piepman - Visual Studio 2010 Web.Config transforms to change based on your environment (Dev vs Production)
- Will Tschumy - Photobucket Visual Search Launches (try it)
- Jeff Atwood, CodingHorror - Busting the Digg.com Frame and other site framers
- Clint Rutkas - Transferring Photoshop to XAML
- W3bbo - C9 Coffeehouse - Volunteers for fully managed 7-Zip C# Library
- TeamDevCentral provides free trial hosting for Team Foundation Server 2008

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick of the week: Brandon Bloom - XBOX LIVE Avatar Punch-out
- Brian's pick of the week: Steve Marx - Azure application, the CIA pickup (video), helping you get a date

This week on C9: XNA updates, Win 7 Training, VS 2010, build your own arcade

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:55:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the top developer news, including:

- XNA Game Studio 3.1 now available
- Howard Dierking - Extreme MSDN Magazine ASP.NET Makeover screencast series
- Peter Kellner - Compile LINQ to SQL to improve query performance (110 uncompiled vs 780 requests compiled), via Alvin Ashcraft
- Windows 7 RC Training Kit available for download
- Brian Peek - Coding4Fun Show - Physics Helper for Silverlight
- SQL Team - Free SQL Server tools and utilities that make your life a little easier, via Greg Duncan
- Rico Mariani - Why isn't there a 64-bit Visual Visual Studio?
- Joe Pruitt - PoshBing: Bing for PowerShell, via Jamie Thomson
- Phil Haack -ASP.NET MVC Installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and Roadmap
- Aaron Marten - What is the VSIX Project Template?
- Wintellect - Programming Differences between WPF and Silverlight, via Jaime Rodriguez
- XAML Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

Picks of the Week
- Brian's pick of the week - Compare Bing, Google, and Yahoo, without the brand and decide who has the best results using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Blind Search
- Dan's pick of the week - Hanselcade - Home brew arcade system for geeks