TWC9: VS2010 SP1 Beta, Native Extensions for Silverlight, EF Code First

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This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including:

• [watch] Jason Zander - Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta (MSDN subscriber download) includes a local Help viewer, unit testing for .NET 3.5, Performance wizard for Silverlight and more
• [watch] Adam Kinney - A new series of Windows Phone 7 tutorials for designers on .toolbox
• [watch] Robbie Ingebretsen - Photoshop script to dither images with gradients for Windows Phone 7
• [watch] Native Extensions for Silverlight project adds, sensors, cameras, video capture, speech recognition, taskbar integration and more, via Coding4Fun
• [watch] Gunnar Peipman - An option to debug and redeploy your web application quickly using Windows Azure and Remote Desktop
• [watch] Scott Guthrie - A walkthrough of using Entity Framework (CTP5) Code-First development 
• [watch] Frans Bouma - Algorithmia CodePlex project - A .NET 3.5+ algorithm and data structures library including command management (ex: undo/redo commands), graph algorithms, sorting algorithms, event throttling, and more
• [watch] VSI Builder - enables you to build an installer for Visual Studio snippet files using VS 2010  via Greg Duncan
• [watch] Wade Wegner - BidNow Sample updated for Windows Azure 1.3, includes new features like startup tasks, AppFabric Caching, OData and much more
• [watch] XNA Team - New Graphics Profile Checker and Avatar animation samples and packs

Picks of the week!

• [watch] Clint's pick:Random Hacks of Kindness
• [watch] Dan's pick: Quadrotor - An autonomous flying Kinect sensor!