Channel 9 - Discussions by littleguru http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by littleguru http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions en Tue, 21 May 2013 14:40:24 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 14:40:24 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Is Sync Framework dead-pooled? Maybe I can dig up some information... no promise though Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Is-Sync-Framework-dead-pooled/631dbee3447349dabf68a08d01747947#631dbee3447349dabf68a08d01747947 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:36:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Is-Sync-Framework-dead-pooled/631dbee3447349dabf68a08d01747947#631dbee3447349dabf68a08d01747947 Christian Liensberger 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Please join us for the Nineys! @Richard.Hein: I love it. Very nice to hang out with you.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Please-join-us-for-the-Nineys/60f466e1c79c42e584ce9ec60048480e#60f466e1c79c42e584ce9ec60048480e Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:23:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Please-join-us-for-the-Nineys/60f466e1c79c42e584ce9ec60048480e#60f466e1c79c42e584ce9ec60048480e Christian Liensberger 67 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Please join us for the Nineys! Hi guys... I am flying down tomorrow and going to meet with Sven once there... Reply here if you are interested in meeting up and doing something fun! I am looking forward to meet you all...

Btw. SQL Azure and DataMarket will also have a booth... I will be there to answer questions! In case you wannt to meet and hang out.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-like-my-new-chair/ebdd293212cc44f2b01b9e8c006546e4#ebdd293212cc44f2b01b9e8c006546e4 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:08:44 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-like-my-new-chair/ebdd293212cc44f2b01b9e8c006546e4#ebdd293212cc44f2b01b9e8c006546e4 Christian Liensberger 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Do you use Windows Sidebar? I was never a huge fan of widgets. I don't know I really like a lean and mean desktop...

But I love the strategy of a friend of mine when it comes to clean up the desktop. He uses a folder that he calls "Old desktop" and drags everything in that folder. Whatever he needs he drags back out. And then he created another "Old desktop" folder and does the same stuff again. He has like 50 nest "Old Desktop" on his desktop.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-like-my-new-chair/c1b5f350c2384359942e9e8b004ba311#c1b5f350c2384359942e9e8b004ba311 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:35:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/I-like-my-new-chair/c1b5f350c2384359942e9e8b004ba311#c1b5f350c2384359942e9e8b004ba311 Christian Liensberger 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - C#'s biggest mistake I personally don't like how nullable structs are exposed through the language. I always got the feeling as if the feature is only half-done Smiley

But other than that C# is one of my favorite languages!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/If-everything-was-made-by-Apple/7b7ce7417a7f40d39fea9e880054b2b0#7b7ce7417a7f40d39fea9e880054b2b0 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:08:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/If-everything-was-made-by-Apple/7b7ce7417a7f40d39fea9e880054b2b0#7b7ce7417a7f40d39fea9e880054b2b0 Christian Liensberger 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Afterthoughts on the Nokia - Microsoft deal It's kind of funny. Other than the iPhone I only had nokia phones or phones running with some sort of Windows Mobile / Windows Phone 7 software...

I am pretty happy with this deal being announced.

Let's see how expensive the phones will be Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/IE-is-Back-Internet-Explorer-9-RC-Is-coming/6deb6a338044407cb4299e880053bd6c#6deb6a338044407cb4299e880053bd6c Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:04:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/IE-is-Back-Internet-Explorer-9-RC-Is-coming/6deb6a338044407cb4299e880053bd6c#6deb6a338044407cb4299e880053bd6c Christian Liensberger 58 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - IE is Back!! Internet Explorer 9 RC Is coming Oh... I love the RC. Actually the whole IE9 is very nice. Clean UX. No cluttering. The website is in the center, everything else stepped back. So nice.

I wonder why they added the ability to bring all the bars from IE8 back... is anybody actually doing that?

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  • HIMYM
  • The Office
  • Family Guy
  • Californication
  • Dexter
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  • HIMYM
  • The Office
  • Family Guy
  • Californication
  • Dexter
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/TV-Series-Thread/0bc138fe405a4aba8fd99e6200e9bb04#0bc138fe405a4aba8fd99e6200e9bb04 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:10:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/TV-Series-Thread/0bc138fe405a4aba8fd99e6200e9bb04#0bc138fe405a4aba8fd99e6200e9bb04 Christian Liensberger 37 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - The DataMarket contest: win an Xbox+Kinect and a couple of notebooks Hi niners!

As a couple of you might know I am working on a project called DataMarket at Microsoft. DataMarket is a store/repository for data. We have a huge amount of statistics data, weather data, real estate data, and much more. Subscribing to data is as easy as buying a book online. After you subscribed you can use Visual Studio (or any other environment) to create an application that interacts with the data. All with a couple of lines of code!

 

To celebrate our V1 launch we announced a contest!

Visit the following page to learn how you can win an Xbox+Kinect or a couple of notebooks by building applications that leverages the data from DataMarket: http://www.codeproject.com/Competitions/460/Azure-DataMarkets-Competition.aspx

I am looking forward to see your contributions!

Go niners go and win all the prices!!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-would-you-describe-an-out-parameter-in-XML-comments/e06de6bbc82640eca74a9dfe0060644d#e06de6bbc82640eca74a9dfe0060644d Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:50:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/How-would-you-describe-an-out-parameter-in-XML-comments/e06de6bbc82640eca74a9dfe0060644d#e06de6bbc82640eca74a9dfe0060644d Christian Liensberger 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Bill found in Outlook 2010 This is awesome. I like these kind of easter eggs. Very suttle but once discovered plain awesome Smiley

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Happy-New-Channel-9-Cake/5682deb1173448e8a5a39df800ea2f18#5682deb1173448e8a5a39df800ea2f18 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:12:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Happy-New-Channel-9-Cake/5682deb1173448e8a5a39df800ea2f18#5682deb1173448e8a5a39df800ea2f18 Christian Liensberger 14 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - What would you do for MS? Microsoft is fun to work at. I haven't been at building 1 in Silicon Valley - didn't even know that there's a building 1 down there - but our secretaries in building 34 are very nice. Always greet, smile and chat a bit with you. I like it.

 

It's interesting that there's an idea of Microsoft being "a robot". Probably it's because the company is so big - and this is my personal opinion (as always) Tongue Out What I see is that we are rather a ton of small companies within one company. Small agile teams (at least in Azure, which is where I have visibility) working on interesting projects.

 

So far, after 1 year in Redmond, I can say that it is really a dream job. I enjoy going to work and I work long hours because it's so much fun. Our team has startup mentality with a lot of people who want to build interesting things, thinking about simplifying APIs and interaction with software and how to make things open for everyone.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/567463-What-would-you-do-for-MS/29b0f0fc3384400998409dea001f041e#29b0f0fc3384400998409dea001f041e Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:58:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/567463-What-would-you-do-for-MS/29b0f0fc3384400998409dea001f041e#29b0f0fc3384400998409dea001f041e Christian Liensberger 49 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/littleguru/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Video's Forum please CKurt has a great point here - I also noticed the same over the last few years. Videos (and the thread created with them) are all isolated conversations because it's hard to understand whether somebody replied, etc. (an overview is missing) - whereas the Coffeehouse is more like one big conversation due to the overview that allows you to fast understand what has changed since your last visit.

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MasterPie said:
Charles said:
*snip*

Ah yes, he told me about it once. Congrats LittleAwesomeGuru!

Thanks... I can only tell you guys that working here was a blast so far... if you interested and given Charles has time we could do a short wrap up on how it is to work here Smiley

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