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Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community.

This week Brady and Cory are joined by the ASP.NET team's Erik Porter. Erik explores the new Facebook Application Template—a new template for ASP.NET projects...

In this episode of Web Camps TV, James is joined by Erik Porter, PM on the ASP.NET team (and@HumanCompiler on twitter). Erik is responsible for the Helpers that go into the WebMatrix tool. You can think of Helpers as shortcuts used to build apps more quickly, and these shortcuts are broken...

People often stop me in the streets to ask "Hey Tina, what's life "really" like at Microsoft?  Sometimes I can't even walk outside my house without somebody standing there with a giant neon sign that blinks "What is life "really" like at Microsoft"? ...

I don't know how many of you have played Viva Pinata yet, but my wife and I absolutely love it.  It may be kid oriented, but this kid hasn't played anything so entertaining since the first Halo game came out.  Gears of War is a great game, but even it can't keep me away from playing Viva Pinata! ...

That IS the question at the Blog Business Summit.  Ok, they're talking about a lot of other things there too, but that one seems very interesting to me.

HD is something we've been talking about for quite a while, but haven't been working on it aggressively for some of the reasons mentioned in the...

It's hard to write kernel mode drivers. Real hard. In fact, it's hard to believe how hard it is. Well, the Windows Driver People have been working tirelessly to make it a little less hard (not easy) to write kernel mode drivers that won't hose your system. You know, blue screen of death and the like. ...

This episode features the co-inventor of COM, software architect, Tony Williams. In his eighteen years at Microsoft, Tony has worked on the Windows team, in Microsoft Research, and on Office. His contributions benefit not just Microsoft's applications, but the fundamental way that all Windows applications...

Yesterday, Laura and I headed over with a video camera and smartphones armed and loaded.  Lego was coming in to show off their new robot the Lego Mindstorm NXT.  I've been getting into some robot building of my own lately (I'm still an extreme beginner) and had seen some buzz around the NXT. ...

So finally we posted up the Meet the 10 Team video, so I can finally put up the behind the scenes photos for that shoot.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikporter/sets/72157594188704780/

Enjoy!

You've probably already seen Major Nelson go through the upcoming XBox 360 dashboard update, but here are some behind the scenes photos taken before the shoot for anyone interested.  My amateurish photography still needs some work, but hopefully there are still some neat things for you to see. ...