This Week on C9: IE8 RC1, Windows 7, SDKs, and zombies may be attacking (Channel 9)

This Week on C9: IE8 RC1, Windows 7, SDKs, and zombies may be attacking

Posted: Jan 31, 2009 at 12:12 PM

By: Dan Fernandez

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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss:

- Our first live studio audience featuring Todd Bishop (TechFlash.com) and Jeff Sandquist
- Internet Explorer 8 RC1 released
- Charles interviews the IE 8 team on RC1
- Scott Guthrie blogs on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC
- Enginnering Windows 7 blog on everything you need to know about Disk Defragmentation
- Channel 10 post on how to install and use Search Connectors (C9 video Part 1, Part 2)
- Long Zheng on RSS-Powered Desktop Slideshows
- Virtual Earth 3D SDK released (C9 video of flying through VE 3D)
- Karin Meier on All Microsoft SDKs in one place, via dotnetkicks.com
- Joe Wrobel on How to do Conditional Formatting in Silverlight DataGrid
- C9'er Sven Groot builds Ookii Dialogs, a library for adding Windows Vista Common Dialogs for .NET developers
- Robert Hess is starting a new Channel 9 show named The Knowledge Chamber
- Bill Buxton is going to keynote at MIX09
- Brian's Pick of the week: New connector that integrates Team Foundation Server with HP Quality Center
- Dan's Pick of the week: Enterprising hackers learn how to modify construction sign LEDs to add Zombie warnings

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Was that said because there was no time to write a defrag tool? Does someone know why they said that?
I honestly don't know, perhaps it was just marketing at the time instead of resources, but who knows.

you something about the 7 defrag showing a preview of the disk with the fragmented files and the defragmented. I can't find that in 7
defrag... did I get this wrong?
No, I think I misread this from the E7 blog post, here's the snippet

"In Windows Vista, we had removed all of the UI that would provide detailed defragmentation status. We received feedback that you didn’t like this decision, so we listened, evaluated the various tradeoffs, and have built a new GUI for defrag!"

I think the new GUI for defrag may just be the progress bar though, or perhaps there is a new GUI coming (I couldn't find a detailed defrag view either).

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Sven Groot Don't worry... I'm a doctor.

Jan 31, 2009 at 8:12 PM

Thanks for mentioning my library guys! And thanks to Christian for dropping them the link.

You didn't quite pronounce my name right (Sven was ok, Groot was not). Nor "ookii" for that matter, which is Japanese and pronounced roughly as "oh-key" (it means "big", and my last name is Dutch for the same).

Note that with the exception of the TaskDialog, all of the dialogs in Ookii.Dialogs are also supported on XP, but will give a better experience on Vista and later. And a neat thing about the ProgressDialog: because it's built on the Windows IProgressDialog API, you automatically get task bar button progress in Windows 7.
littleguru <3 Seattle

Feb 01, 2009 at 3:36 AM

Great show guys! I liked the echo when you spoke about the title of Rober Hess' new show Nice idea.

Btw. Brian I also heard about NTFS never becoming fragmented and that's why NT never shipped a defrag tool. I already confused me back then. I always wondered what a magic system that is. Was that said because there was no time to write a defrag tool? Does someone know why they said that?

Dan, you something about the 7 defrag showing a preview of the disk with the fragmented files and the defragmented. I can't find that in 7 defrag... did I get this wrong?
radekg

Feb 01, 2009 at 5:22 AM

Grat show as always. Hey, did you guys make it shroter? It is second or third time in a row when the show is less than 20 minutes.
By the way. For last few days I experience some issues with videos in silverlight player. After few minutes video sudenly stops and when I seek to other position following error appears:
Dan

Feb 01, 2009 at 8:43 PM

Apologies for the pronounciation, but thanks for the clarification on which controls work on XP vs Vista
Dan

Feb 01, 2009 at 8:52 PM

Was that said because there was no time to write a defrag tool? Does someone know why they said that?
I honestly don't know, perhaps it was just marketing at the time instead of resources, but who knows.

you something about the 7 defrag showing a preview of the disk with the fragmented files and the defragmented. I can't find that in 7
defrag... did I get this wrong?
No, I think I misread this from the E7 blog post, here's the snippet

"In Windows Vista, we had removed all of the UI that would provide detailed defragmentation status. We received feedback that you didn’t like this decision, so we listened, evaluated the various tradeoffs, and have built a new GUI for defrag!"

I think the new GUI for defrag may just be the progress bar though, or perhaps there is a new GUI coming (I couldn't find a detailed defrag view either).
rhm

Feb 02, 2009 at 3:18 AM

I miss watching the old "screen full of squares" defragger from Win95. Come on Windows 7 team, bring the entertainment back to defragging!
briankel

Feb 02, 2009 at 9:04 AM

Ok, which one of our viewers lives in Carmel, Indiana?

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/18620871/detail.html
littleguru <3 Seattle

Feb 02, 2009 at 11:36 AM

Hahaha Awesome. I wonder what patch is missing in these systems

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