Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Developer Tools

TechNet Radio: Taste of Premier - Premier Support for Developers & “Surface! Surface! Surface!”

ChrisCaldwell, TechNet Radio, Lex Thomas — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:00:54 GMT

Lex Thomas welcomes Jeremy Rule to the show as they discuss Microsoft Premier Support for Developers. Tune in as they chat about what services are available such as application development, field engineering, 24 hours a day/ 7 day technical support and much much more! And what’s that you say? Surface! Surface! Surface! The Microsoft Surface tablet is now available and be sure to check out what Lex as to say about that!

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June Developer News - Windows 8 RP, Visual Studio 2012 RC, Apps! Apps! Apps!, Windows Azure Events, TechDays TV, and Developer Movement

Jonathan Rozenblit, Marc — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:52:02 GMT

Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news:

Latest Bits: Download the Windows 8 Release Preview
Latest Bits: Download the Visual Studio 2012 RC
Windows 8 Codeapaloozas in Ottawa and Montreal
Canada Windows 8 App Excellence Labs
Think you know Windows Azure? Think Again - Meet Windows Azure Live from San Fransisco (June 7)
Think you know Windows Azure? Think Again - Learn Windows Azure Live from Orlando (June 11)
Think you know Windows Azure? Think Again - Windows Azure DevCamp Live in and from Toronto (June 20)
TechDays TV - DEV282: What's New in TFS and Test Manager 11 (with Dave Lloyd and Deb Forsyth) (Available on-demand)
TechDays TV - DEV282: The New Team Explorer (with Dave Lloyd)
Developer Movement: Windows Azure - The Cloud is Strong in This One (really simple lab to do)

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D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE
In case you haven't heard about the show, Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTIVE (D³) is a monthly show hosted by Jonathan Rozenblit. The show airs live every first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 PM ET and features the latest updates on what's new and exciting in the world of development; featured presentations; and guests. LIVE and INTERACTIVE means that you'll be part of the show – You're invited to interact with us; ask questions and get them answered; and share your thoughts and opinions.

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DEV282 - What's New in TFS and Test Manager 11 Live Q&A with Dave Lloyd and Debra Forsyth

Testa Sharpee, Jonathan Rozenblit, Dave Lloyd — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:28:45 GMT

DEV282 - What's New in TFS and Test Manager 11
The word in the TFS/Test manager world for 2012 is "Agile". Lightweight requirements gathering through PowerPoint Storyboarding. Additional reporting, including a task board, in TFS and exploratory/agile testing through Test Manager. Lots of new features to delve into and they will be in this session.

Watch >>

This Session's Experts

Dave Lloyd (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)
Debra Forsyth (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)

This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

DEV282 - What's New in TFS and Test Manager 11

Testa Sharpee, Jonathan Rozenblit, Dave Lloyd — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:04:30 GMT

The word in the TFS/Test manager world for 2012 is "Agile". Lightweight requirements gathering through PowerPoint Storyboarding. Additional reporting, including a task board, in TFS and exploratory/agile testing through Test Manager. Lots of new features to delve into and they will be in this session.

Watch the live Q&A with Dave Llyod and Debra Forsyth >>

This Session's Experts

Dave Lloyd (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)
Debra Forsyth (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)

This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism LIVE Q&A with Colin Bowern

Colin Bowern, Jonathan Rozenblit — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:47:41 GMT

Live Q&A with Colin Bowern.

DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism
We're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords. For .NET, assistance with parallelism this session is the big topic. Between these and other topics, the tools that will make your development life easier are covered.

Watch the session >>

This Session's Experts

Colin Bowern (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)

This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

DEV281 - Visual Studio 11, .NET 4.5, and Parallelism

Colin Bowern, Jonathan Rozenblit — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:18:20 GMT

We're still a few months away from its release, but the beta version of Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 is available and with a Go-Live license too. With Visual Studio, reduction and simplification are the keywords. For .NET, assistance with parallelism this session is the big topic. Between these and other topics, the tools that will make your development life easier are covered.

Watch the live Q&A with Colin Bowern >>

This Session's Experts

Colin Bowern (Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn)

This session was recorded live at ObjectSharp's annual "At The Movies" event - May 1, 2012, Scotiabank Theatre, Toronto, Ontario.

DEV380 - What's New in Visual Studio 11 Beta

Jonathan Rozenblit — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:47:42 GMT

It's exciting times for software developers, with the beta release of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5. In addition, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and associated tools to create stunning new apps are here! There's so much new in the Visual Studio tooling, it's hard to know where to start! In this session, you'll walk through the new IDE, new application models and designers, and new language capabilities that give developers incredible productivity enhancements and let them quickly build the next generation of their applications.

This Session's Experts

Adam Gallant (Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog)

This session was recorded live on TechDays TV - March 27, 2012. Join host Jonathan Rozenblit every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 12:00 PM EST for live TechDays presentations on the very latest in technical training topics.

YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More

Charles — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:34:58 GMT

Dave Thomas is the godfather of YOW!, a platform-agnostic developer conference that spans three cities in Australia once a year (Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney(workshops only)). Australia is home to a very vibrant and talent-rich developer community. It was great to have the chance to spend time at YOW! and attend several excellent sessions (you've met some of the speakers here on C9). Dave is well known for his work in object oriented and dynamic programming language design (SmallTalk) as well as virtual machines. He's a compiler guy. Dave is currently the CEO of Bedarra Research Labs.

Let's see what the godfather has to say about YOW!, JavaScript, HTML5, concurrency, modern development methodologies, technoculture and more. It's always a pleasure to get the chance to talk to Dave and we hope he'll make many more appearances on C9. Thanks again for inviting C9 to YOW!, godfather!

The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff—Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others—for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar!

Inside the Mango Dev Tools: Push & Live Tiles

Laura Foy — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:08:21 GMT

Join Brandon Watson as he interviews the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango. In this installment he chats with Thomas Fennel- one of the people behind the new push & live tiles functionality.

Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Bing Audio

Laura Foy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:04:01 GMT

Join Brandon Watson as he interviews the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango. In this installment he chats with Steve Cosman- one of the people behind the new Bing Audio.

Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Communications

Laura Foy — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:09:41 GMT

Join Brandon Watson as he interviews the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango. In this installment he chats with Ian Todd- one of the people behind the new communications functionality.

Inside the Mango Developer Tools: Search

Laura Foy — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:06:57 GMT

Join Brandon Watson as he interviews the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango. In this installment he chats with Jared Brown- one of the people behind the new search functionality.

Inside the Mango Developer Tools: App Platform

Laura Foy — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:51:21 GMT

Join Brandon Watson as he interviews the people behind the next release of Windows Phone, Mango. In this installment he chats with Andrew Clinick- one of the people behind the new App Platform.

Windows Phone will challenge the way people think about apps. Today their usefulness is measured by what can be done within the app, but we see the promise of apps in how they can be integrated directly into the core experiences of the phone. In addition to making it easier to get timely notifications and updates from apps right from the Start Screen, the Mango release will also surface apps as part of search results and within Windows Phone Hubs.

Windows Phone "Mango" Developer Tools Release

Laura Foy — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:23:54 GMT

You can learn all about the next release of Windows Phone, code named "Mango" in ANOTHER video- this video is strictly for the devs. Matt Bencke gave us all the 411 on what is to be expected in the Developer Tools that were released TODAY.

Make sure to GET THE TOOLS and start developing!

Developers can use this beta release to get ready for the upcoming Windows Phone OS release. The new application platform capabilities coming in Mango deliver the top features you have asked for:

- Background processing

- New profiler and emulator for testing

- Use of Silverlight + XNA together

- Silverlight 4

- IE9 web browser control

- Live Tile enhancements: use of back of tiles and ability to update Live Tiles locally

- Deep linking into apps from notifications and Live Tiles

- Additional sensors; direct camera access, compass & gyro

- Fast application switching

- Networking / sockets for communications

- Local SQL database for structured storage

- Access to calendar and contacts for apps

MSDN Radio: Chatting with Scott Guthrie

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:07:37 GMT

We talk with Scott Guthrie about Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC), and other up and coming topics in the technology space. Scott’s passion for software and developer tools has made him a leader in providing developers with what they need to build great applications.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.msdnradio.com to register for upcoming shows.

Host and Guest: Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist, and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer tools evangelist on the MSDN team at Microsoft. He has worked in a variety of professional roles, including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer.

Orleans: A Framework for Scalable Client+Cloud Computing

Charles — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:07:10 GMT

Orleans is a Microsoft Research (MSR) project and managed (.NET) software framework for building client + cloud applications. As outlined in the recently released paper on the topic: Orleans defines an actor-like model of isolated grains that communicate through asynchronous messages and manage asynchronous computations with promises. The isolated state and constrained execution model of grains allows the Orleans runtime to persist, migrate, replicate, and reconcile grain state without programmer intervention. Orleans also provides lightweight, optimistic, distributed transactions that provide predictable consistency and failure handling for distributed operations across multiple grains.

Here, we meet the Orleans team—Sergey Bykov, Alan Geller, Gabriel Kliot, James Larus, Ravi Pandya, and Jorgen Thelin—as they introduce Orleans and provide insights into the rationale and design decisions behind the project and also spend a fair amount of time focusing on the basic unit of isolated computation in Orleans, the grain. Very interesting and promising research!

I highly recommend that you read the paper—it's very approachable and makes many aspects of Orleans crystal clear. In fact, that's the goal of the Orleans project: to make reliable and scalable distributed concurrent computing easier for developers to compose using tools and concepts they already understand (.NET). As we all know, it's hard to effectively program scalable distributed concurrent systems reliably. Orleans's goal is to change this fact by exploring and implementing new approaches (like grain-based programming) using novel combinations of time-tested programming models and technologies (actors, promises, transactions, etc).

Tune in. Enjoy.

Scott Guthrie & Charlie Kindel celebrate Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Release

Laura Foy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:07:00 GMT

Microsoft and the Windows Phone 7 team are thrilled to announce the final release of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools. Last night, here in Seattle, we held an event with Scott Guthrie, Charlie Kindel and some engaged influencers- here are the highlights.

And HERE are the dev tools.

Click here for a closer look at the demos.

Bytes by MSDN: Erik Mork and Tim Huckaby discuss Silverlight & Microsoft Developer Tools

Bytes by MSDN — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:48:00 GMT

Erik Mork, Founder of Silver Bay Labs, shares his passion for Silverlight and development tools for the Microsoft platforms.

About Erik

Erik is passionate about the future of applications on the Web and on mobile devices. He sees Silverlight as a way to make the apps he's dreamed of. In fact, when he heard that Silverlight was on the horizon, he quit his full-time job and started looking for Silverlight work. Thankfully he didn't starve, and he found freelance projects such as the Heroes Happen Here Silverlight 1 site and Microsoft internal training materials. The Silverlight Consulting company he founded (Silver Bay Labs LLC) has gone on to become a preeminent source of Silverlight services including high-value consulting, Silverlight mentoring, and Silverlight custom development. When not working on the next generation of Web and mobile applications, Erik is teaching on the Silverlight Tour, podcasting on Silverlight topics, creating Silverlight screencasts, running the Portland Silverlight User Group, and creating Silverlight Open Source projects. Erik is honored to be a Microsoft Silverlight MVP.

Stuff Erik recommends you check out

Windows Phone 7: News for Developers

Laura Foy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:34:00 GMT

Brandon Watson, Director for Windows Phone 7, is making some announcements for developers today so we stopped by his office to get the highlights. Plus, we got the official word that on September 16th the final Windows Phone Developer Tools will be available. Here's an overview of what Brandon talks about:

XNA Creators Club
Updated Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Kit
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start
Updated Marketplace Policies

Also in the September 16^th final release, the panorama, pivot and Bing maps controls will all be available to drop into applications.

MSDN Radio: Past, Present, and Future of .NET with Rocky Lhotka

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:18:00 GMT

This week on MSDN Radio we talk with Rocky Lhotka, a Regional Director, author, and keynote presenter on technologies and how to do things right. See what's new, what's old, and what to look for as we dive into patterns, practices, and practical insight and find out what you need to know about the rapidly changing technology landscape.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.MSDNRadio.com to register for upcoming shows or watch past shows on-demand.

Host and Guest: Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation and Rockford Lhotka, Principal Technology Evangelist, Magenic

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer tools evangelist on the MSDN team at Microsoft. He has worked in a variety of professional roles, including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer. Mike is also a published author with WROX Press and APress, exploring how developers get the most from their SQL databases. Since appearing in the 1994 Microsoft DevCast, Mike has presented technical information at seminars, conferences, and corporate boardrooms across America.

Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the popular CSLA .NET development framework, and is the author of numerous books, including Expert 2008 Business Objects. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and a regular presenter at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic (www.magenic.com), a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. For more information visit www.lhotka.net.

geekSpeak Recording - Mastering the Dynamic keyword in C# with Bill Wagner

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:24:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, author and expert Bill Wagner introduces us to one of the coolest language features of Microsoft Visual C# 4.0, dynamic keyword. Bill explains how to use the dynamic keyword without ever leaving Visual C#, and he shares techniques to minimize reflection and provide runtime resolution of different actions. Come see how mastering the dynamic keyword can boost your programming productivity.

This geekSpeak is hosted by Glen Gordon and Jennifer Marsman. The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast.

Guest Presenter: Bill Wagner, Co-founder, SRT Solutions

With more than 20 years experience, Bill Wagner, SRT Solutions cofounder, is a recognized expert in software design and engineering, specializing in C#, Microsoft .NET, and the Windows Azure Platform. He serves as Michigan's Regional Director for Microsoft and is a multi-year winner of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. An internationally recognized author, Bill has published three books on C# and currently writes a column on the Microsoft C# Developer Center. Bill was awarded the Emerging Technology Leader Award by Automation Alley, Michigan's largest technology consortium. Bill earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

6/5 MSDN Simulcast Event: NYC Silverlight 4 Firestarter

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:27:00 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight 4 is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, desktop, and mobile applications when online or offline. First introduced in 2007, Silverlight has come a long way, with four major version releases in less than three years. By now, you’ve likely heard about the Silverlight platform. You’ve probably even seen a quick demo or two of an application running cross platform with some streaming media, or even a simple animation. But now you want to learn how to build real-world business applications using Silverlight.

Join us online for a full-day learning event at the Silverlight 4 Firestarter taking place in New York City. We'll spend the whole day bringing you up to speed on all you need to know about the platform to build Silverlight applications, with a focus on line-of-business applications. We'll cover how to use Microsoft Expression Blend and Sketchflow to make your apps look better.

Date/Time: 6/5/10, 6:00 AM - 1:45 PM Pacific
Registration: http://bit.ly/asLohQ

Behind Windows Phone Tools for Developers – The Emulator

Yochay Kiriaty — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:01:00 GMT

While Silverlight and XNA Framework enable developers to create new and innovative applications and games for the Windows Phone (WP), these are just sets of libraries. In order to complete the development experience, a set of powerful tools is required. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is a free express version of Visual Studio tailored to the Windows Phone. It includes Visual Studio Express to write great software, but more importantly for our purposes, it also includes the Windows Phone Emulator, which allows you to test and debug your application without even having a WP device. This enables you to create your software with high predictability and ease.

Join Amit Chopra, Raghuram Lanka, and Mukund Bhoovaraghavan from the Windows Phone and Tools team, and Yochay Kiriaty, Senior Technical Evangelist, for a tour of the internals of the Windows Phone Emulator.

MSDN Radio: From Visual Studio to CodePlex

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:47:00 GMT

This week on MSDN Radio Zain Naboulsi talks with Sara Ford, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist and previous Program Manager for CodePlex. Join the conversation about Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 tips and tricks.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today's technology stack. Register for upcoming shows at www.MSDNRadio.com.

Host and Guest: Zain Naboulsi, Senior Developer Evangelist and Sara Ford, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

For over 15 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies. He is the creator of Online Community Evangelism which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like LinkedIn, Facebook, and OpenSim. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual environments but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer.

Sara Ford is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist for Northern California. Previously she was the Program Manager for CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Prior to CodePlex she worked on the Visual Studio team.

MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight

MSDN Online Media — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:21:00 GMT

This week on MSDN Radio Mike Benkovich talks with Tim Heuer, a Microsoft Silverlight Program Manager that you may know by his video series that helps developers leverage the power of Silverlight to build exciting user experiences.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Attendees can dial-in during the show to talk with the hosts on the air. To register for upcoming shows visit www.MSDNRadio.com.

Host and Guest: Mike Benkovich, Senior Developer Evangelist and Tim Heuer, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Mike Benkovich delivers technical presentations around the U.S. as a developer tools evangelist on the MSDN team. He's worked in a variety of roles including architect, project manager, developer, and technical writer. Mike is a published author with WROX Press and APress, exploring how developers get the most from their SQL databases.

Tim Heuer is a program manager for Microsoft Silverlight, he helps build the worldwide Silverlight community and is very passionate about the platform and technology in general. Having over 16 years of experience with Microsoft Web technologies, Tim is excited about the opportunities that Silverlight brings for developers and designers and wants to ensure that everyone has the best information and tools available to them for success.