TWC9: Coding4Fun, DevLabs projects, XAMLQuery, VS Achievements (Channel 9)

TWC9: Coding4Fun, DevLabs projects, XAMLQuery, VS Achievements

Posted: Jan 28, 2011 at 11:12 PM

By: Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez

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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:

[00:32] Coding4Fun is now on Channel 9,including blog posts, articles, and projects, and friend of the show Greg Duncan will be a contributing blogger
[01:45] Coding4Fun - Coding4Fun Windows Phone 7 Toolkit and the WindowsPhoneGeek Getting Started Guide
[02:55] Rudi Grobler - Easily scan barcodes with a Windows Phone 7 using open source Silverlight port of ZXing barcode library
[03:50] Prabu Arumugam - XAML Query CodePlex project - Like jQuery for XAML it simplifies traversing, finding, and updating XAML elements in a document/page, via Alvin Ashcraft

[04:41] TPL Dataflow to coordinate asynchronous tasks (see Stephen Toub video), via Soma
[05:58] Dryad (see Going Deep video) for writing data/compute intensive queries like image processing, and unrelateed to the D&D creature, via Soma
[08:00] Sho, a fast/powerful tool for data analysis/visualization, via Soma
[08:52] Data Developer Center - Reactive Extensions (Rx) has now graduated from Dev Labs

[09:35] Server Core Team blog - .NET Framework 4.0 will be available as a Server Core installation option (Q1 of 2011), requires Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, via Bruce Kyle
[10:08] Scott Guthrie - Web Farm Framework 2.0 (used to provision & manage a farm of web servers) isnow available for download
[11:31] Scott Hanselman - Video of what's new in the Microsoft Web Platform
[12:27] Malcolm Sheridan - How to create functions and helpers in WebMatrix
[13:12] UBelly - Use EaselJs to build a picture gallery with HTML5 Canvas in 5 minutes

Picks of the week!

[14:23] Dan's pick: Gorazd Breskvar - Visual Studio Achievements and we're building an add-in + service for this
[15:56] Brian's pick: Brian Harry - MSDN Radio: Brian Harry discusses TFS Running on Azure

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dtower Surface Fan

Jan 29, 2011 at 12:42 AM

*facepalm* Like a dryad would ever use a crossbow. I think you need to turn in your nerd cards.
Dan

Jan 29, 2011 at 8:59 AM

@dtower: LOL, true, I was thinking of a Drider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drider, half drow elf, half spider, so what's the word I'm looking for...ah yes FAIL
gduncan411 It's amazing what a professional photographer can do...

Jan 29, 2011 at 11:24 AM
didi2bond

Jan 30, 2011 at 11:38 AM

I see very nice
Rose

Jan 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM

@Dan:i like this
aL_ Kinect ftw

Jan 30, 2011 at 2:58 PM

sho looks pretty cool but i'd really like yo use those plots form c# too i think i saw some samples for that though
i think i have written a linq query with 30+ lines its nested 4 levels deep too i think.. its in geny.codeplex.com wish i had some time to work on that :/
gbrayut Check out PhraseMeme Scanner for Windows Phone at PhraseMeme.com

Jan 31, 2011 at 12:23 PM

Nothing better than getting up on a Monday morning and finding that my Silverlight ZXing port is featured on TWC9!
ACHIEVMENT UNLOCKED: Created noteworthy CodeProject
You guys just made my week
Dan

Jan 31, 2011 at 2:07 PM

@aL_: Let us know if you figure out what can/can't be done with sho + C#

@gbrayut: - Kudos on the project, I know a lot of WP7 devs will find it useful!
Sam

Feb 02, 2011 at 4:22 AM

The time links "[04:41]" doesn't work :(
Clint I'm a "developer"

Feb 02, 2011 at 4:26 PM

@Sam: fixed link, sorry about that.

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