Comment Feed for Channel 9 - TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/522342_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back together to discuss the week's top developer news, including: MIX10 - Windows Phone at MIX10 Interesting because: There will be sessions on developing applications and games for the next generation of Windows Phone. MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge - Build a cool app in under 10K lines of code using HTML 5, Silverlight or WPF. Interesting because: Users get to play and vote for their favorite entries and and the grand prize is a trip to MIX10 including hotel and $1,000 gift card for travel expenses. Scott Hanselman - How many PCs have the .NET Framework installed? Interesting because: Over 90% of PC have some version of .NET installed and over 65% have .NET 3.5 SP1. Tim Higgings - Coding4Fun - Wifi Warthogs - How to article on how to hack a Barbie Powerwheels using a Windows 7 Netbook and a Phidgets microntroller. Interesting because: You can hack your kids Powerwheels and drive them remotely via an Xbox 360 controller. Brian Jepson - Windows 7 driver for Arduino sensors, via Coding4Fun Interesting because: It makes it much easier to use popular Arduino microcontrollers in Windows 7 MultiPoint Mouse SDK - Using one PC, you can have multiple mice input Daniel Crenna - A .NET wrapper for Postmark, a service for email delivery for Web apps. Interesting because: It can be a pain (or impossible depending on your hoster) to use and track emails sent through SMTP Note: Service is still in private beta Michael Ballhaus - LinqToWikipedia - use LINQ to query Wikipedia results (live demo, source code), via Greg Duncan Interesting because: It makes it easy to search Wikipedia in .NET and because Michael is following up with a how-to article on building your own LINQ provider IIS team - Smooth Streaming Player Development Kit now available Interesting because: It makes it easier to build a media player, it includes an already built sample player as well as tools to simulate live encoding for test purposes John Papa - Silverlight TV show launches on Channel 9, including MultiTouch, Flash and Silverlight, Out-of-browser apps Interesting because: John's a Silverlight guru, it's developer-to-developer content that shows off cool demos and samples and he gets great guests including Mike Downey (former Adobe evangelist), David Kelly (Silverlight MVP), and Keith Smith from the Silverlight team.  MSDN - New Windows Azure How Do I videos Interesting because: Useful topics like  migrating a database to SQL Azure, managing Azure Services using PowerShell, etc Jonathan Carter - New release of Tailspin Travel Interesting because: Tailspin Travel is an open source sample travel booking Web site using ASP.NET MVC 2 and it now works with VS 2008 Intuit - Build Software-as-a-Service applications with QuickBooks data using Windows Azure  Interesting because: Microsoft partenered with Intuit and it's an opportunity for developers to build value-add services for Intuit's platform Help Desk with Chris Pirillo - January 27th at 2PM PST, send questions to @ch9live on twitter or ch9live [at] microsoft [dot] com. Interesting because:  Chris became well-known on TechTV's Call for Help & Screensavers so having him on Channel 9 taking live questions via Twitter will great  Cache My Work - Open source app that re-opens your applications after your PC reboots, via Greg Duncan Interesting because: If you have "automatically apply updates" on, chances are you're PC has rebooted and you've lost what applications were open. Pics of the week- Dan's pick: Bill Gates joins Twitter and he's following the Channel 9 user account! Check out TheGatesNotes for Bill's recommendations on learning content- Brian's pick: - Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines available so you don't have to configure VS 2010 or Team Foundation Server. en Sat, 25 May 2013 15:57:09 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 15:57:09 GMT Rev9 Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more As always, thanks for the shout-outs guys...

 

BTW, I like the new show notes layout. 

posted by gduncan411

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As for the show notes, I'm trying to add 1-2 sentences on why someone would care about a link Smiley

posted by Dan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633998786500000000 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:24:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633998786500000000 Dan Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more Has anyone tried downloading the Visual Studio VM and booting it natively in Windows 7 instead of VPC?

posted by wisnia

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633998818500000000 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:17:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633998818500000000 wisnia Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more "Nothing is soon." Ouch. Tongue Out

 

That wikipedia thing looks amazing. It's just what I needed for a current project, since using the mediawiki API is a total pain to use. Thanks guys (and Greg).

 

Edit: Ugh, didn't think about the fact that you can't reference that DLL in Silverlight. Gonna have to adapt it to a Silverlight class library, I guess. Then again, won't this cause a problem with cross-domain calls?

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999321130000000 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:15:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999321130000000 Bas Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more Wisnia,

 

There are several reasons why this won't work (boot to VHD doesn't really work that way), but the biggest is probably the fact that this is Windows Server 2008 R1 (not R2). Boot to VHD requires Win7 or WS08 R2.

 

Brian

posted by briankel

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999503000000000 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:18:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999503000000000 briankel Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more Glad we could help Smiley

 

As for calling the service in Silverlight, yeah, the service would need to have a cross-domain policy file so you'd have to see if one exists. Alternatively, you can proxy the request through your server and use the API on the server-side. Not ideal, but it may be the fastest way to get it done.

posted by Dan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999533740000000 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:09:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999533740000000 Dan Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more i like the detailed descriptions.

posted by MadLibrarian

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Found Tim Higgings - Coding4Fun - Wifi Warthogs intresting. Thanks

posted by doctoral degree

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999943410000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:32:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c633999943410000000 doctoral degree Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more Thanks for the positive feedback @doc and @mad -  I'll keep doing detailed posts Smiley

posted by Dan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000005470000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:15:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000005470000000 Dan Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more Excellent show, with a lot of good stuff!

K

posted by englishbob

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000108670000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:07:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000108670000000 englishbob Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more @prillo live show

 

love the live stuff and i hope you do more, but do niners really need windows support? dunno.. it will be interesting to se what kind of questions they get Smiley

 if the show should crash i really hope c9 doenst take that as an indication that niners dont want live videos

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000225270000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:22:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000225270000000 aL_ Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more Wow.  You guys invoked "The Finalizer", our battle bot.  I still twitch when I think about it.

posted by BrianPeek

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000450840000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:38:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000450840000000 BrianPeek Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more We're casting a little wider net audience wise for the helpdesk show. We're hoping the Niners who have the technical chops to answer questions can help and that we can attract a wider set of users to the show.

posted by jeffsand

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000460690000000 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:54:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more#c634000460690000000 jeffsand Re: TWC9 - Hack Powerwheels, APIs for Wikipedia, Smooth Streaming, Arduinos and more I was hopping that you would make the VHD on R2 Smiley

posted by wisnia

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posted by Bass

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