Chris Bowen

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to developing applications for Windows Phone 7.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this introduces the design of Windows Phone 7, options for creating applications (using Silverlight and XNA),...

This screencast with Chris Bowen is an overview of writing parallel code using the new classes and features available in .NET Framework 4 and the tools in Visual Studio 2010.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this walks through the basics of parallel programming,...

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to Windows Azure from the developer's perspective.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow ("Windows Azure - What, Why, and a Peek Under the Hood") this walks through the essentials of the...

This screencast with Chris Bowen takes an all-demo look at what's new in Visual Studio 2010.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow ("Visual Studio 2010 - That's a 10-4, Good Buddy!") you'll see many new features, from editing and debugging...

This screencast with Chris Bowen looks at development using ASP.NET Web Forms, scripting, and Ajax.  It's based on a session given on the Northeast Roadshow and walks through Web Forms, adding client-side behavior with Javascript and jQuery, improving UI interaction with the ...

Wondering how WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) fits in to your developer life? This screencast, presented by Chris Bowen, is based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow and introduces WCF for developers, covering the motivation, mechanics of creating distributed applications...

There are many places to find help for developers, but there are some programs that aren't widely known.  This screencast, based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, briefly reviews some of these.  From reporting bugs and feature requests, to finding support from Microsoft and the...