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Jim O'Neil continues his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers by looking at a variety of features to enhance end-user and developer productivity.  He shows how new features such as the window manager's "snap, shake, and peek", libraries, jumplists, federated search,…

In this first of a three part series on Windows 7 for Developers, Jim O'Neil discusses the guidance and tools available for smoothly migrating applications from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7.  Included in the discussion is the Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook,…

Why not take advantage of the millions of Live ID's already on the internet? Watch this video to learn how to incorporate Live ID into your application for authentication.  What is it? The Windows Live™ ID Web Authentication 1.0  and Client software development kit s(SDK) gives you a…

Got popcorn? Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow and a ton of “GOT TO KNOW ABOUT IT” content is all packed in just 1 hour of Episode 3. Try something different tonight and take an hour break from coding. You know you deserve it. Grab your favorite beverage and pizza and enjoy this…

In this episode of geekSpeak, we explore UI architectural patterns, such as the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, with two Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg. Christopher and Rob share their experiences developing Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)…

In the fifth and final debugging screencast by Brian Hitney, we'll look at how to use the set next statement while debugging. We'll also look at setting up the .NET Reference Source Code for stepping through the .NET BCLs, followed by some exception handling tips.  Finally, we'll take a look…

Let’s talk games!  In this screencast, Chris Bowen (http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen) tours the world of XNA, from the components of the XNA Framework, the XNA Creators Club Online, and resources for learning to create games.  The bulk of the screencast focuses using XNA Game Studio, which…

In this episode of Community Talk, Danilo Diaz interviews Steve Andrews. Steve is a TFS MVP and INETA board member. Steve is what you might call a community fanatic. His New Year's resolution was to speak at 52 events in 2009. Dani talks to Steve about about his passion for…

This is another DevNugget screencast from Brian Hitney. In the previous screencasts, we looked at setting breakpoints and how to work with advanced breakpoints, filters, and working with multiple threads.  We also took a quick look at tracepoints.  In part 4, we'll look at the watch…

Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, closes out his five part series covering topics on SQL Server for developers with an overview of execution plan generation.  Using SQL Server Management Studio it’s easy (and fun) to watch how queries are optimized and thereby get a better insight into…