TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets (Channel 9)

TWC9: WP7 RTMs, Future of Silverlight, Excel Importer, Robot Gun Turrets

Posted: Sep 03, 2010 at 4:28 PM

By: Brian Keller

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

Windows Phone Blog - Terry Myerson - Windows Phone 7 RTM'd
Dave Anson - LayoutTransformer assembly enables WPF-style layout transformations in WP7
Indy from Oz - Windows Phone 7 Listbox pagination with MVVM Light and Application Bar
LessThanDot - Lazy DBA Series shows how to easily import Excel data via SQL Server wizards, via Alvin Ashcraft
SDL Team blog - Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle to be licensed under Creative Commons
IE Team Blog - Performance profiling different browser subsystems for popular Web sites
Coding4Fun - Peter Brownstein & Peter Juchniewicz - Building WEIShare, the Windows and Web app to share Windows Experience Index scores
Brad Becker - The Future of Silverlight
Web Camps TV - OData Overview with Jonathan Carter
Rudi Grobler - Timeslot Panel - an Outlook-like Calendar, now ported to Silverlight

Picks of the week!

Dan's pick: The .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ with hilarious drawings
Brian's pick: Trossen Robotics - Interbotix Robot Turrets

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ZippyV Fired Up

Sep 04, 2010 at 3:35 AM

What did Steve Marx do?
wisnia Tomasz Wisniewski

Sep 04, 2010 at 1:28 PM

The final developer tools for Windows Phone 7 will come out on the 16th of September as this post states

And the guy in the MEF FAQ comics looks more like Glenn to me
SteveRichter

Sep 06, 2010 at 6:05 AM

regarding silverlight, does Microsoft have plans to improve WPF? It is kind of complicated to work with. A basic requirement of a bulleted list is not easy to deliver in WPF, Silverlight and I am guessing WP7. And the process of styling a view seems easier with CSS than with WPF.
dtower Surface Fan

Sep 07, 2010 at 12:34 AM

PDC laptop is an Acer. Watching you on it right now.
jasuk1970

Sep 08, 2010 at 3:25 AM

Regarding everthings dead, just made me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Vj8pdJwpw

Jas
briankel

Sep 08, 2010 at 2:49 PM

Steve didn't do anything, he just happened to be the first person who popped into my head. Lucky him!
Marc Roussel

Oct 26, 2010 at 2:26 AM

My opinion, WP7 interface is a crap and not interesting to use. I prefer the Samsung Galaxy S interface kind of.

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