This Week on C9: VS2010 RC, Winter Olympics, Valentine's Day

• Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC is now available for everyone to download
  • Interesting because: The RC Editor performance is much improved over Beta 2
• Charles Torre - Charles interviews Jason Zander on Visual Studio 2010 RC release
  • Interesting because: Jason talks about the performance improvements and even how he and Scott Guthrie went and bought low-end PCs for testing Visual Studio 2010
• Jason Zander - Q&A on what's included in VS 2010 RC
  • Interesting because: Answers questions like which Silverlight versions are supported (3 is, 4 isn't), that the bits expire June 30, 2010, and that no Express Editions will be released
• Kirill Osenkov - Stress testing VS 2010 RC
  • Interesting because: Kirill talks about being part of the Perf SWAT team and how they ran stress tests of Visual Studio running 8 hours a day for 5 days
• Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC 2 (RC2) Available
  • Interesting because: RC2 includes some API changes and this version works with VS 2008 and VS 2010 (see Phil's post for installing with VS 2010) 
• Scott Hanselman - Setting up IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
  • Interesting because: It's a great walkthrough for everything you'll need to setup smooth streaming
• Code Project - Wiimote as a Windows 7 Sensor Driver, via Greg Duncan
  • Interesting because: This shows how to build a driver for the sensor and location platform
• Jeremiah Morrill - Silverlight 4 hack to use native desktop CLR without COM
  • Interesting because: This (potentially evil) hack enables you to inject a native DLL into the Silverlight out-of-browser process
• Jason Haley - Azure Table Query Project (on CodePlex)
  • Interesting because: It's a simple, easy-to-use tool for seeing your Azure table data
• Roger Doherty - SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit
  • Interesting because: Includes hands-on labs and videos for SQL developers including T-SQL, Filestream, PowerPivot, and StreamInsight
• Saluse MediaKit for Silverlight - Silverlight based decoder for MP3 files, via Coding4Fun
  • Interesting because: It's a Silverlight MP3 decoder so you can add things like audio effects or use an equalizer  
• LiveSide Bing Maps for the Winter Games
  • Interesting because: This includes the medal count, Tweets, event information as it's happening, and more  
• LiveSide - NBCOlympics.com to provide Silverlight streaming including HD quality and DVR-style controls, 1,000+ hours of video, and more
  • Interesting because: If you're in the US and Canada (NBC doesn't have a worldwide content license), this is a great way to watch the Olympics

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Laura Foy's Channel 9 Valentine's Day video
- Brian's pick: Brian's recap post on all things Visual Studio 2010