TWC9: Coding4Fun, DevLabs projects, XAMLQuery, VS Achievements

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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