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This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:10] 100 million licenses, 250 million Store app downloads, 400 million active Outlook accounts [00:56] Build will release a public preview of “Windows Blue” [01:36] Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live”…

Code Digger is a lightweight version of Pex that allows you to explore public .NET methods in Portable Libraries directly from the Visual Studio 2012 code editor. It's a highly simplified and nifty way to leverage the power of Pex and Z3, one of the…

At Xamarin Evolve 2013, I caught up with Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza after his keynote. It's been a while since I last chatted with Miguel, so it was great to catch up. Clearly, he and team have been very busy pushing Mono forward and building Xamarin—a new technology that enables developers to…

Immutable Collections are a new set of immutable types for .NET. We covered the high level aspects of this new technology a few months back when Erik Meijer interrogated (in his friendly way) the PM of the project, Immo Landwerth, and the lead developer, Andrew Arnott. Since this…

This video will demonstrate how to get all classes that inherit from a base class or implement an interface in a C#/VB.NET Windows Store app. Download C# sample code   |  Download VB sample code  Your App Adventure Starts here. Build your Windows Store and Windows Phone Apps and games…

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three top async patterns and anti-patterns. Tips: Async void is for top-level event-handlers only, and…

Async Tip #1: Async void is for top-level event-handlers only, and event-like things. Don't use it elsewhere in your code. Slides are available on Lucian's blog. Async void is a "fire-and-forget" mechanism: the caller is unable to know when an async void has finished, and the…

Async Tip #3: You can wrap events up in Task-returning APIs and await them. This can dramatically simplify code. Slides and source code are available on Lucian's blog. This video introduces a new pattern for dealing with events: you can await them! Now why would you want to do that? Well,…

Abstract: Jerry Nixon welcomes CEO of Xamarin, Nat Friedman and President of Hitcents, Chris Mills to the show as they discuss how Hitcents used Xamarin’s MonoTouch to launch their app, “Draw a Stickman EPIC” on Windows 8. Tune in as they chat about the ins-and-outs on how easy it was to use…

Erik Meijer interviews .NET team PM Immo Landwerth and Software Developer Andrew Arnott. The topic is Immutable Collections, a new set of immutable types for .NET. You can play around with these today as part of a preview release (NuGet link below). Tune in! Niners asked questions in advance…