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Re: Windows networking with PowerShell: A foundation for data center management

FrankieC — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:12:48 GMT

Excellent job enhancing PowerShell with this new functionality. Great Session1 Thanks!

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Re: A deep dive into Hyper-V networking

FrankieC — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:44:04 GMT

Great presentation! Can't wait for the release of this product!

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Re: Windows Server performance improvements and optimizations

FrankieC — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:19:05 GMT

Excellent session!

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Re: Windows Server performance improvements and optimizations

FrankieC — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:19:04 GMT

Excellent session!

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Re: Using Windows Server 8 for building private and public IaaS clouds

FrankieC — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:03:09 GMT

Great session! Really happy to see all you guys are doing with this release.

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Re: Introduction to Windows Azure: the cloud operating system

FrankieC — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:58:58 GMT

Great overview of Windows Azure! Good choice of app for demo too!

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Re: From touch to gamepads: master player input in your Metro style game

FrankieC — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:45:34 GMT

Good overview of input APIs and best practices. Thanks!

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Re: Compelling audio and video for Metro style games

FrankieC — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:34:37 GMT

Excellent session! Provided great code examples and insight! Thanks!

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Re: Windows Runtime internals: understanding "Hello World"

FrankieC — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:58:43 GMT

Awesome, nice, deeeeeeeeep debugging techniques that really helped me to understand how things are really happening under the covers.

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Re: Create cool image effects with Direct2D

FrankieC — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:43:39 GMT

Very interesting. Can't wait to put some of these new featrues to work.

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Re: Tips & tricks: how to use Visual Studio to the fullest

FrankieC — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:50:14 GMT

Wonderful session! They move fast so don't blink .

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Re: Achieving high performance 2D graphics with Direct2D

FrankieC — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:07:25 GMT

Good FAST overview of D2D. Should be enough to get me going for what I need to do. Thanks!

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Re: Tips and tricks for developing Metro style apps using C++

FrankieC — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:08:16 GMT

Excellent session! Tons of examples for consuming winrt from c++. Well worth the watch.

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Re: 3D Graphics in Metro Style Apps and Games

FrankieC — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:11:38 GMT

This session provides a terrific overview of Direct3D 11. IMHO, it's good for someone who has minimal D3D exposure but it does cover some of the newer technologies from a very high level that will be beneficial for even the most experienced D3D developer. Thanks Chas! Great job!

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Re: A deep dive into Visual Studio 11 Express for designing Metro style apps using XAML

FrankieC — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:29:28 GMT

Excellent session! Provides a good overview of how to get common tasks accomplished in the VS Express UI. This style of presenting is great and was enjoyable to watch as well.

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Re: Building a sample Metro style canvas paint app using HTML

FrankieC — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:34:55 GMT

Unfortunately the first half of the video is rendered on the wrong screen and it's difficult to follow along. However, there are a few good tricks to be learned from this if you are new to html5 and js.

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Re: A deep dive into Expression Blend for designing Metro style apps using HTML

FrankieC — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:07:34 GMT

This was an excellent presentation and demo of how to do visual authoring in Expression Blend covering the UI, CSS, HTML5 and much, much more. Lots of gems in this. Will have to watch again. Thanks Christian!

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Re: A lap around DirectX game development tools

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:58:55 GMT

Loved the demo of the HLSL Editor and Graphics Debugger. Can't wait to put these to use. Also glad to see you guys are incorporating more graphics tools/capabilities into VS. Hopefully, since MS acquired Caligari, you can port some of that mature IP into VS and all of us can actually have a one stop shop for 3D model creation/animation and coding!

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Re: Build your first Metro style game

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:53:51 GMT

Chas did a great job in this session covering the APIs that are available that will help to develop DirextX based Metro Style Games. He covers APIs such as DirectWrite, Direct2D/3D, XAudio2, Media Foundation and best practices for specific phases of the appication life-cycle. Not a lot of code samples but I still found this to be a good presentation that helped me to become familiar with the fundamentals of this new release. There is a Game Dev Cheat Sheet at the end of the presentation that contains a listing of //build/ sessions for game dev if you are interested as well. Thanks Chas for this presentation!

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Re: Create Metro style apps quickly with built-in controls

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:24:17 GMT

If you are looking to learn about most (if not all) of the built-in user interface controls that are available, this is a great session to watch. While there's not a lot of code, Paul does an excellent job of walking through each of the controls showing each of their capabilities. This session really helped to raise my awareness on the new controls available in this release. Additionally, Paul moves quickly and has a very good presentation style. Don't blink or you may miss something . Great job Paul!

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Re: Metro style apps using XAML: Make your app shine

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:27:09 GMT

This session was lacking IMHO. Sorry Marco but I really try not to give negative comments but I think the audience deserved a little more coding samples. Most of what you refer to in this session is already referred to many times in other sessions at a much deeper level. Given the abstract of this session, I expected this to be much deeper content.

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Re: Metro style apps using HTML5 from start to finish

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:20:53 GMT

Great session! I am just learning HTML5 and this session really raised my awareness on this and other technologies as well. Great job Scott! Thanks for the upbeat presentation!

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Re: Using the Windows Runtime from C++

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:13:36 GMT

I loved this sessions! I don't know what all of the negative comments are about. I think what Microsoft has done to allow developers to easily integrate with WinRT and take advantage of everything it has to offer easily and efficiently instead of having to write a ton of mundane code to get the job done. Great job Herb! You have excellent presentation skills as well.

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Re: A lap around Visual Studio 11 Express for Metro style apps using C++

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:07:37 GMT

This is an awesome session! I just can't believe no one has commented on it yet! Vikas and Joanna team up and walk through a real-world app dev scenario (at least as real world as one can get in 60 minutes) and they show some excellent examples of XAML, how to navigate the VS UI, concrete examples of how to instantiate WINRT objetcs from C++, packaging, etc. Excellent job Vikas and Joanna! I will be watching this one again!

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Re: Metro style apps using XAML: what you need to know

FrankieC — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:02:49 GMT

Excellent XAML code demos. Covers Grid, List, Flip views. I know very little about XAML and this session helped to raise my awareness considerably. I have it tagged to watch again. Joe has a very upbeat presentation style. Great job Joe!

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