Comment Feed for LukePuplett http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png LukePuplett en Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:20 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:20 GMT Rev9 Re: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 For Git:

Install the update, then install this:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/abafc7d6-dcaa-40f4-8a5e-d6724bdb980c

Then open the Team Explorer, then drop the combo down right at the top and choose Changes. Then let out uncontrollable laughter.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-2012-Update-2#c635006956289230178 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:07:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-2012-Update-2#c635006956289230178 LukePuplett Re: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 And not a moment too soon. I'm going to be transported from 1990s Soviet technology to 2013 Land of the Free. i.e. I get to use Git from Visual Studio, you know, where I also write the codez.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-2012-Update-2#c635006940069296445 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:40:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-2012-Update-2#c635006940069296445 LukePuplett Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS What I would like to see, is more centralization. A digest of new classes and members being worked on would be great, so I can see what other team members are all doing, whether someone else's work looks like something I could use and vice-versa.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004139079891846 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:51:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004139079891846 LukePuplett Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @PaulS: I prefer centralized version control. I detest Git, in fact its the worst piece of software I have ever used, I really mean that. We have continual problems, from terrible usability/UX to reliability (it hangs or corrupts something almost weekly).

With prolific internet access (in the Western world), I can't even see why the distributed model has taken off. In particular, I can't see why Git took a hold, considering how abysmal it is.

Those I've worked with that love Git seem to be puritanical non-MS devs, working on Mac or Linux distros, don't believe in HTML email, and are more lightweight programmers, working in teams where there isn't vast amounts of daily change >500 lines/day average per dev.

I think its a hobbyist tool (even for pros). That sounds like an oxymoron, but in my current team I'm working with world professionals, but they still have never seen Visual Studio, or TFS ALM or life on the MS side, and worse, they refuse to even look, such is their 90s dislike of MS. Sometimes, I think its more like East and West Berlin, and Git is a tool from East Berlin.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004119124909026 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:18:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004119124909026 LukePuplett Re: Episode 103 - Windows Azure HDInsight Oops - refresh and resubmitted my form. Duplicate comment. Schoolboy error. Can't delete comment! Crisis. Must edit and type over the comment with this garbage.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-103-Windows-Azure-HDInsight#c634999727363121175 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:18:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-103-Windows-Azure-HDInsight#c634999727363121175 LukePuplett Re: Episode 103 - Windows Azure HDInsight Sorry to nit pick but F# is a functional language and PowerShell is the scripting language on top of .NET. Scala is a Java-based language that bridges the gap between Java and C# language features.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-103-Windows-Azure-HDInsight#c634999256294915762 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:13:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-103-Windows-Azure-HDInsight#c634999256294915762 LukePuplett Re: Introduction to the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Release Can't wait to send this to my Java colleagues.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-the-ASPNET-and-Web-Tools-20122-Release#c634970635885443926 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:13:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-the-ASPNET-and-Web-Tools-20122-Release#c634970635885443926 LukePuplett Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS I'm welling-up here. You wouldn't believe the nightmare I've had with Git on Windows with VS and the battling with (Java-centric) management about how Git is really not the amazing tool they think it is when you're a Windows/MS dev.

Suddenly we can use all the TFS ALM, the wonderful VS UI and please the Java/Mac developers. The timing is perfect.

Thank you!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952311079079715 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952311079079715 LukePuplett Re: Defrag Tools: #24 - WinDbg - Critical Sections How come, in all these decades, MSFT haven't built a debugger that's a little easier to use? Like the ANTS tools from red-gate.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-24-WinDbg-Critical-Sections#c634946328075018585 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:00:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-24-WinDbg-Critical-Sections#c634946328075018585 LukePuplett Re: Part 8: Understanding how Data Binding Works at Design Time P.S. I didn't know about the dark "Blue Thunder" (my name) VS theme until this series, so I'm pleased if I only learned that Wink

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-8-Understanding-how-Data-Binding-Works-at-Design-Time#c634934991072625357 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:05:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-8-Understanding-how-Data-Binding-Works-at-Design-Time#c634934991072625357 LukePuplett Re: Part 8: Understanding how Data Binding Works at Design Time I used to be able to just detect design-time in the page constructor and hook-up some view models with some fake data. This no longer seems to work; I set the DefaultViewModel but the IDEs still say that there's no DataContext set, but it works at runtime.

I take it something has changed from WP7, SL and WPF. How do we simply add fake values to TextBlock controls? There's no fallback value either.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-8-Understanding-how-Data-Binding-Works-at-Design-Time#c634934990003958344 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:03:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-8-Understanding-how-Data-Binding-Works-at-Design-Time#c634934990003958344 LukePuplett Re: Part 12: Working with Async Methods in the Windows Runtime I'm really sorry if you've answered this a thousand times, but is that colour scheme available somewhere? (and does it make XML and other documents look as sexy?)

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-12-Working-with-Async-Methods-in-the-Windows-Runtime#c634931538209500643 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:10:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-Store-apps-for-Absolute-Beginners-with-C-/Part-12-Working-with-Async-Methods-in-the-Windows-Runtime#c634931538209500643 LukePuplett Re: Episode 89 - Windows Azure Mobile Services Well presented Josh. Are there any limits on calls per day/hour, considering we're talking about a HTTP Web API + key scenario which could be abused? Normally, public API owners have to worry about such things.

Also, are there Azure-side tempates or demos available? So, in VS we can unzip a demo and open the solution and get going, but in Azure, there's no such quick start - or is there?

Cheers, dude.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-89-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services#c634866601168838367 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:21:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-89-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services#c634866601168838367 LukePuplett Re: Collecting and analyzing data in production: Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Great stuff. Well done.

 

By the way, can someone get on that broken progress bar bug in the player? Been there a while now.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-2012-Premium-and-Ultimate-Overview/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2012-Collecting-and-analyzing-data-in-production#c634820408426226320 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:14:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-2012-Premium-and-Ultimate-Overview/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2012-Collecting-and-analyzing-data-in-production#c634820408426226320 LukePuplett Re: Announcing MSDN Profile Integration All very lovely and that, but can you walk down the hall to Team MSDN and write a proper comments editor for the MSDN docs community section at the bottom? It's been too hellish to use for about 6 years now. It doesn't like Chrome and it barfs on code.

Microsoft needs some kind of system for managing long-running bugs. When a problem lasts years, we notice. We think, sheeze, this is a company that has incredible resources but doesn't care about quality.

For example, going off topic, Outlook has had that problem where the font randomly turns to Times New Roman since the product was invented in 1997. You can't let irksome experience bugs run for 15 years. Not in Apple era.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Announcing-MSDN-Profile-Integration#c634731961846431516 Mon, 21 May 2012 11:23:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/C9Team/Announcing-MSDN-Profile-Integration#c634731961846431516 LukePuplett Re: TWC9: Windows 8 Store, Azure Event, SignalR and more Jenson's "8 traits" session at BUILD has had the Windows 8 app store sales projections, as quoted here (01:53) redacted.

The figures are wrong. "point zero five" 0.05 "million dollars" is incorrect.

$1 app gives a margin of about 70c (ignoring MS bonus efficiencies), so a market share of 0.05% gives 200,000 units sold and $140,000.00 profit.

I think the speech writer didn't realise that 0.05 is actually 5%, since all the math is out by a factor of 10.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Dec-09-2011#c634637058523801707 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:10:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Dec-09-2011#c634637058523801707 LukePuplett Re: Nokia stores retail experience: Coming Soon! I'm not privy to the market research to comment on the disco stores, but such loud outlets will undoubtedly draw much needed attention to the platform.

Back in the 90s people used to say that Microsoft was a master at marketing mediocre software - I couldn't see it then and I definitely don't see it now. I think they let great products just die like they forgot to lift the lid and let some oxygen in. Lucky Xbox seemed to have a different team employed.

The phone is a great example of this. It's taken Nokia's publicised downfall and subsequent rebirth to bring it to the attention of people on the street.

I often show people amazing MS products they've never seen, or never would have if they didn't have a friendly programmer to show them, like Photosynth.

Microsoft finally have shops, at least in Seattle, which is hopefully the start of a new era. Sometimes I get the feeling that there are some old heavyweights deep in the management structure in Redmond that hold the company back.

P.S. Laura, maybe it was the jet lag but watch the folded arms, girl!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Nokia-stores-retail-experience-Coming-Soon#c634566461205081077 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:08:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Phone-7/Nokia-stores-retail-experience-Coming-Soon#c634566461205081077 LukePuplett Re: The complete developer's guide to the SkyDrive API Get Started on Live SDK for Windows Phone

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shelly_guos_ms_blog/archive/2011/09/20/get-started-on-live-sdk-for-windows-phone.aspx

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-134C#c634564524699657778 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:21:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/PLAT-134C#c634564524699657778 LukePuplett Re: Building your own hand-held game console with, Netduino, C# and the PIX-6T4 project [applause]

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Building-your-own-hand-held-game-console-with-Netduino-C-and-the-PIX-6T4-project#c634529850667215389 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:11:06 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Building-your-own-hand-held-game-console-with-Netduino-C-and-the-PIX-6T4-project#c634529850667215389 LukePuplett Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - Building 4 Refurb Wonderful. And note the slant on the physical technology world going on.

Would like to see how Redmond compares with regional offices.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Building-4-Refurb#c634495211680000000 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:59:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Building-4-Refurb#c634495211680000000 LukePuplett Re: Microsoft Campus Tours - Microsoft Hardware Model Shop Can that 3D printer take a PhotoSynth point cloud? Just wondering...

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Microsoft-Hardware-Prototyping-Workshop#c634401952240000000 Thu, 05 May 2011 12:27:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/CampusTours/Microsoft-Campus-Tours-Microsoft-Hardware-Prototyping-Workshop#c634401952240000000 LukePuplett Re: Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps @Kang - I agree, my first thought was that this is a shortcoming of the phone's backstacking design - devs shouldn't really be performing clever acrobatics to avoid this.

Definately one for MS - the stack should be JIT virtualised. Still, this SLTV episode was really valuable for this point alone.

As for chat (Wiep) - I guess the show format has to strike the right balance between cold presentation and affable TV show.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-69-UX-and-Perceived-Performance-of-WP7-Apps#c634394109910000000 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:36:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-69-UX-and-Perceived-Performance-of-WP7-Apps#c634394109910000000 LukePuplett Re: endpoint.tv - WCF Web HTTP (REST) Test Tool Preview Good work, Leo.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-WCF-Web-HTTP-REST-Test-Tool-Preview#c634361619900000000 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:06:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Endpoint/endpointtv-WCF-Web-HTTP-REST-Test-Tool-Preview#c634361619900000000 LukePuplett Re: Netduino Green Squared Super work. I'm having our barn conversion wired with multicore control cables so I can control everything later on with .NET MF boards. Love this kind of thing.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Netduino-Green-Squared#c634348460990000000 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:34:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Netduino-Green-Squared#c634348460990000000 LukePuplett Re: The Garage Science Fair Cool video, love this shizzle.

 

I heard Tony Stark didn't show up afterall.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/The-Garage-Science-Fair#c634345900770000000 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:27:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/The-Garage-Science-Fair#c634345900770000000 LukePuplett