This Week on Channel 9: Feb 22 with Ed Kaim! (Channel 9)

This Week on Channel 9: Feb 22 with Ed Kaim!

Posted: Feb 22, 2008 at 11:31 AM

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"Special" guest host Ed Kaim is in the studio as Dan is down covering GDC.

This week's episode includes

- Microsoft announces DreamSpark - Free software for students
- Max Zuckerman interviews Bill Gates on what he would do if he was 17 again.
- XNA announces Community Arcade which enables anyone to submit a game, get it peer-reviewed, and shared with the Xbox Live community
- XNA also announced that you'll be able to build games for Zune with XNA Game Studio 3.0 including wireless multiplayer
- Xbox also announced that publishers who have an XDK will now have access to a set of XNA APIs that enable leaderboard, matchmaking, achievements, and more, found via Greg Duncan
- Windows Live SkyDrive is out of beta and increased it's size to 5GB. Also see Angus Logan's Blog and http://dev.live.com.
- VS DB Pro team releases Power Tools - custom data generators, SQL Static analysis, data generation wizard, and more, via Gert Drapers
- Visualize LINQ Expression Evaluation - Utility that enables you to visually see and step through LINQ expressions from John Skeet
- Brian's pick of the week: William Stacey fixes the VS SLN problem with 1 line of PowerShell
- Ed's Pick of the week: Nikhil Kothari's Script#

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mawcc Make it so

Feb 22, 2008 at 12:25 PM

Can we please have achievements for all C9 videos
anguslogan

Feb 22, 2008 at 1:44 PM

Ed mentioned me but they left a link out of the show notes.

Angus Logan's Blog and http://dev.live.com
briankel

Feb 22, 2008 at 2:23 PM

anguslogan wrote:

Ed mentioned me but they left a link out of the show notes.

Angus Logan's Blog and http://dev.live.com

Dude what are you talking about? It's there!

I just added it. Sorry for the oversight. "They" would be "Dan" who, as you saw, is having way too much fun this week.

Brian
ggponti

Feb 22, 2008 at 3:41 PM

Can we have a feed for the MP3, possibly tagged?
daryllmc just another nerd...

Feb 22, 2008 at 4:57 PM

mawcc wrote:

Can we please have achievements for all C9 videos

+1!!
mswanson

Feb 22, 2008 at 8:32 PM

Thanks for mentioning Show Off at MIX08, Brian.

If you have something cool that would wow your peers, we'd love to see a short video of it. You don't have to attend MIX08 to win. The audience will pick three winners. More details on the Show Off page: http://visitmix.com/2008/showoff/
FireGarden The Business of Software

Feb 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM

If I met you two gay cow boys in a bar I would kick both your asses.
littleguru <3 Seattle

Feb 23, 2008 at 1:03 AM

Awesome show I like the jokes your guys put into it... Super Mario Land rox0rz!
JChung2006

Feb 23, 2008 at 3:27 PM

FireGarden wrote:

If I met you two gay cow boys in a bar I would kick both your asses.

You hang out in a lot of gay cowboy bars, Firegarden?
mcampbell

Feb 23, 2008 at 11:45 PM

Very good, and the achievements were quite fun.
staceyw Before C# there was darkness...

Feb 24, 2008 at 5:50 AM

Thanks for shout out Brian. Good show.
--William
Chadk excuse me - do you has a flavor?

Feb 24, 2008 at 6:09 AM

Keep on rocking guys. Very nice show.
ian.coetzer

Feb 24, 2008 at 2:55 PM

Hi

I would realllly like to gain access to the software available via DreamSpark! I'm a 3rd year B.SC Computer Science student.

But alas my country is not listed

I'm in South Africa studying part-time via the University of South Africa (UNISA).

Any chance us getting access to the software?

Bye

Ian
littleguru <3 Seattle

Feb 25, 2008 at 4:47 AM

More and more countries will follow DreamSpark in the next year. The service has just launched. Give us some time to add more countries. This information is also found in the FAQ.

DreamSpark FAQ wrote:

Why isn't my location enabled on the map? Why isn't my country/region listed?
Well, it’s not because we don’t want you to be. It’s just because we don’t have a verification source for your region or country right now. We will be adding locations as fast as we can. So check back often to see if your location is enabled on the map or if your country/region is listed on the DreamSpark Student Status Verification page.
Yankee

Feb 26, 2008 at 11:19 AM

I hope it will be available for Romania too.

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