This Week on Channel 9: March 21st episode (Channel 9)

This Week on Channel 9 we cover

- Silverlight Streaming increases storage, traffic, and runs Silverlight 2.0 (0:55 - 1:57), via Angus Logan
- Microsoft working Eclipse Foundation to support WPF with SWT and CardSpace (3:04 - 3:40)
- Charles Torre and Don Box interview Mary Jo Foley who gives her thoughts on Microsoft's blogging strategy (4:44 - 5:30)
- Michael Scherotter interviews Ice Cube on using Silverlight for UVNTV.com (5:50 - 7:43)
- Sean Shypula and Luis Villegas from Bungie on the "Bungie Server Farm" for rendering lighting on Halo (7:43 - 11:00)
- Arian Kulp's A Better Startup Experience Coding4Fun article (11:15 - 12:50)
- Free WPF Controls - FluidKit Codeplex project and Xceed DataGrid Express (12:50 - 14:10)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Jeff Beehler, DevDiv Chief of Staff on showing how he uses TFS to manage Visual Studio (14:10 - 16:50)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: SQLISV blog shows how to track execution statistics on running queries and converts a SQL cursor to a regular query and increases performance greatly, via Jason Haley (16:50 - 18:50)
- It Came from the Internets: YouTube Best Series Award: College Humor's Street Fighter: The Later Years (18:50 - 22:09)

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Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Mar 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Irish hat on 9 guy = win. It somehow makes him look suave.
littleguru <3 Seattle

Mar 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM

Dehehehe. The image makes me already smile. Downloading!

After watching: AWESOME! Great work, guys. For the next week you need a straw curved as a 9
littleguru <3 Seattle

Mar 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM

Bas wrote:

Irish hat on 9 guy = win. It somehow makes him look suave.

Yeah, awesome!!
Dan

Mar 21, 2008 at 2:38 PM

Thanks guys

As a side note, Brian won a "who's wearing more green" contest at a St. Patrick's Day party last weekend wearing the same outfit
Duncanma "yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"

Mar 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM

Dan wrote:

gives her thoughts on Microsoft's blogging strategy

We have a blogging strategy? I need to listen to that interview...
wetworker

Mar 21, 2008 at 7:33 PM

hey guys, can you provide a zune version of your show.
keep up the good work.
Vasudev

Mar 21, 2008 at 9:22 PM

Just downloding, Thanks for the nice work.
I also see Time being mentioned with each topic as requested. I think it was started from last week itself. Thanks for listening to requests.
Keep up the good work.

HumanCompiler Now with more program management

Mar 22, 2008 at 8:05 AM

wetworker wrote:

hey guys, can you provide a zune version of your show.
keep up the good work.

The zune version is actually there already. Just take the url (when you click "Download" and change the "2MB" to "Zune". You get this: http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/0/ThisWeekC9Mar20_Zune_ch9.wmv

We will expose the different file formats we have in a future version of Channel 9, but for now you can access them by following this pattern:


const string videoFileFormat = "{0}{1}_ch9.{2}";
string rootPath = "http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/0/ThisWeekC9Mar20";  // Change this to any recent video's root path

string wmvStreaming = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "_s", "wmv");
string wmv = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "", "wmv");
string wmvHigh = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "_2MB", "wmv");
string wma = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "", "wma");
string mp3 = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "", "mp3");
string zune = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "_Zune", "wmv");
string iPod = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "", "mp4");
string psp = string.Format(videoFileFormat, rootPath, "", "mp4");

wetworker

Mar 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM

hey i check marketplace and found you guys . thanks for the link though.
sokhaty

Mar 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM

Mighty cool. For extra-coolness [z-E-E-ma] should be pronounced [z-ee-m-A-A-h](which means wintEr in quite a few Slavic languages)
dcharles

Mar 23, 2008 at 3:21 PM

gotta love that St patrick's outfit!!
tereska

Mar 26, 2008 at 3:55 PM

Could you tell me the autor and song name played @ intro and outro?
Thanks!
briankel

Mar 28, 2008 at 8:27 AM

tereska wrote:

Could you tell me the autor and song name played @ intro and outro?
Thanks!

It's a ska band called OPC which my friends had in college. They are no longer playing together and were never signed - it was just something they did for fun - so unfortunately you won't be able to see them or buy their CD. But they have given us royalty free permission to use their music in the shows we produce, so the price is right (not to mention I love their stuff!).

Brian
tereska

Mar 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM

yeah! That intro music is hot Any chance to hear the whole one?