Microsoft Personalities

In this week's episode, Brian, Dan, and Clint finish off our Mix spectacular with clips from: - Clint interviewing Miguel De Icaza including what Karate Kid Part I can teach students (0:50) - Chris Auld demonstrating an IIS module that dynamically combines resources (css, images,…

Mary Jo Foley has spent two decades watching and reporting on everything Microsoft. We thought it would be fun to turn the tables on Mary and find out who she is and why she does what she does. We caught up with her at Lang.NET 2008. Special guest Don Box joins us for the first part of the…

Watch a recap of the top news and events going on at Mix '08 from Dan, Brian, and our cameraman Clint Rutkas. This week's show includes: 1. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 highlights including Offline support for IE 8, and Activities 2. How NBC plans to revolutionize video using Silverlight for…

This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name courtesy of Ian and ChadK,…

Where do objects go when they aren't used anymore (and how to know that they are no longer useful to the executing code that created them)? Might seem like a silly question to most developers, but that's what Technical Fellow Patrick Dussud has been dealing with for most of his career.…

This is Episode #1 of <insert.name.here>, a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more. This week we cover: 1. MSDN Code Gallery went Live (found on Greg Duncan's Cool Thing of the Day blog) 2. Jason…

Some of the brains behind MIX08 went for drinks and discussion with me to talk about what’s new, what’s hot and what’s not about the upcoming consumer web conference happening once again in Vegas at the Venetian hotel on March 5-7, 2008. Why is Steve Ballmer keynoting? What’s the scoop with Guy…

Functional programming is increasing in popularity these days given the inherent problems with shared mutable state that is rife in the imperative world. As we march on to a world of multi and many-core chipsets, software engineering must evolve to better equip software engineers with the tools to…

Sara Ford is a Visual Studio program manager in the Developer Division’s Customer Product Lifecycle group and her job is fascinating which she describes in the first part of this interview, but you must listen to her incredible story about Hurricane Katrina and her little hometown of Waveland,…

Several weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs.  Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners.  In this interview: Jack talks about the BCL team and…