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[00:00] GoingNative();// Charles and Ale construct the show. Sorry about missing last month! Milan update. NuGet.
[02:25] Charles interviews Garrett Serack about NuGet for C++
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More information:

NuGet Team blog post on NuGet for C++
VC++ Team blog post on NuGet for C++
Building Native Libraries for NuGet with CoApp's Powershell Tools (video)
Consuming Native NuGet Packages in Visual Studio (video)

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• [00:42] Announcing the Release of WebMatrix 3
• [01:13] Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• [02:56] Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK (Scott Guthrie)
• [03:58] Windows Azure Training Kit - April 2013 Available (Dr. Z), Download
• [05:03] Moving 4th & Mayor to Windows Azure Web Sites (Jeff Wilcox)
• [06:08] Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 (VSTA) is Now Available, VSTA 2012 SDK, VSTA 2012 Redistributable
• [07:19] Enterprise Library 6.0 (S. Somasegar), Just released - Microsoft Enterprise Library 6 (Grigori Melnik)
• [08:53] NuGet 2.5 Released (Jeff Handley)
• [09:17] NuGet for C++ (Jennifer Leaf)
• [10:28] Taking NuGet to the Enterprise (Alex Papadimoulis)

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week:[11:52] Turning a standard LCD monitor into touchscreen with a $5 wall-mounted sensor
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[13:34] What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? (Patrick)
• Brian's Addendum:[15:41] Indie Game: The Movie

• [00:20] Android Developers Welcome to Azure Mobile Services (Joel Citizen)
• [01:57] Azure Mobile Services managed client – now also from NuGet (Carlos Figueira)
• [02:39] Do you understand how your app is being used? (Lee Stott)
• [03:47] Three Essential Tips For Async - Introduction (Charles, Lucian Wischik)
• [05:07] Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI (Peter Kellner)
• [05:45] HTML Game Dev with Construct 2
• [06:49] Using Phone Resources in Windows Phone 8 (Rob Tiffany, Andy Wigley)
• [07:47] Web Development Goodies in Visual Studio 2012 (Adil Mughal)
• [08:47] A new resource for your icons… (ROUSSEAU Michel )
• [09:07] JavaScript API for Office (wall poster)
• [10:13] New Unit Test functionality in VS2012 Update 2: Test Playlist (Ricci Gian Maria)

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week:[11:42] Tech Fails in film (Scott Hanselman)
• Dan's Pick of the Week:[12:57] Battery powered Kinect on wheels!

• [1:01] Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS (Martin Woodward, Brian Keller)
• [3:14] Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service (Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin Woodward)
• [3:39] Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2) (Brian Harry)
• [6:35] Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 2 (Blend fro VS 2012)(Unni Ravindranathan)
• [7:51] Installing your app on your Windows RT device (Dries Marckmann)
• [8:41] Lex.db: a new database storage solution for Windows Phone 8 (Matteo Pagani )
• [9:16] WinRT Toast Notification From Desktop Application (Shai Raiten)
• [11:29] Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet (Dylan Smith)
• [12:23] Microsoft Launches modern.IE Internet Explorer Testing Resource (Darryl K. Taft), modern.IE
• [13:46] Using Visual Studio database projects in real life (Gunnar Peipman)
• [15:40] Multithreading Demystified (anshu dutta)
• [16:42] Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Choices (Zain Naboulsi), http://studiostyl.es/, Visual Studio Color Theme Editor
• [17:29] Hyper-V for Developers Part 1 (Ken Kilty)

Picks of the Week!

• Rick's Pick of the Week:[18:38] Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Base, Maelstrom
• Brian's Pick of the Week:[20:29] Nokia Drive+ Beta for all Windows Phone 8

Abstract
NuGet has been around for some time now and has introduced the concept of package management into the heads of many .NET developers. A central package repository and integrated tooling suddenly made it a whole lot easier to deliver and ship software components, proof of which can be found into the increasing rate at which many packages make it to the NuGet Gallery. At the same time, many businesses are struggling how to take optimal benefit from this while trying to avoid a situation commonly known as "dependency hell". Package hell can be just around the corner if not implemented properly.

Questions are raised on how to deal with symbols and debugging. Do we check these packages into source control or not? What's the impact if I don't? How to mitigate potential downtime of the NuGet Gallery? This session will provide you with guidance, tips and tricks on how you can take benefit from NuGet and TFS11 to take your CI environment to the next level.

Extra resources
- http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToAccessNuGetWhenNuGetorgIsDownOrYoureOnAPlane.aspx
- http://www.xavierdecoster.com/post/2012/03/09/How-to-help-yourself-when-NuGet-goes-down.aspx

Next events
Feel free to have a look at the list of events for developers run by the Microsoft Community in Belgium and Luxembourg. If you're specifically looking for events about Windows 8 in Belgium, your one-stop-shop is here: the Metro Map. It lists all Windows 8 events for developers and is your local guide to your app in the Windows Store.

In this episode, our very own Nick Harris —Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure and all round good guy —  builds on the foundational knowledge presented in Cloud Cover Episode 73 and takes us on a deeper dive into how add Push Notifications to both Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications using  MPNS, WNS, Windows Azure and a number of re-usable NuGet packages. The session is code heavy so enjoy!

In the News:

• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing using Twilio for Windows Azure Customers
• Automatic Migration of Access Control Service Version 1.0
• Announcing Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++

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• [0:24] ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman (Brady Gaster, Scott Hanselman)
• [2:22] PowerShell Scripting Games, All in One Page, Registration Information, The Announcement, Top 10 Reasons for competing in the 2012 Scripting Games, The judging criteria (Ed Wilson)
• [3:35] Using NuGet PowerShell to Replace Missing Macros in Dev 11 (John Robbins)
• [4:49] FIX: April 2012 Update for Visual Studio 11 Beta, April 2012 Updates to Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta (x86 and x64) - (English) on MSDN Subscriber Download [Note direct link may not work due to MSDN Subscriber site architecture. If not, should be listed in New downloads or our can search for it]. POST SHOW UPDATE: Since the recording of this show more information has been released as well as downloads for the public. Please see this blog post Improving how we update Visual Studio for more information.
• [5:46] Talk: What's new in VB11 & Talk: Async Part 1 - the message-loop, and the Task type (Lucian Wischik)
• [8:31] Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors (Shawn Wildermuth)
• [9:41] Installing enterprise metro apps without using Microsoft Store (Lee Stott), TechNet 's How to Add and Remove Apps (aka Sideload)
• [10:42] Optimize [WinPhone7 App] Startup Time(Mike Battista)
• [12:17] 10+ powerful debugging tricks with Visual Studio (Ivan Shcherbakov)

Picks of the Week!

• Brian's Pick of the Week: [13:39] Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance
• Dan's Pick of the Week: [14:25] KMotion Capturer, the 3ds Max Script generator

• [0:39] Mark your calendar: We are hosting a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event on Feb 29 in Barcelona!
• [1:52] C++ AMP Open Specification (S.Somasegar)
• [4:08] C# to C++ – A Somewhat Short Guide (Michael B. McLaughlin)
• [5:40] One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman)
• [7:11] 10 myths holding HTML5 back (Martin Beeby)
• [9:11] Beta of Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone released (Adalberto Foresti), Beta release of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone ( Lee Stott) [Found Via: Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone]
• [10:27] Extension Me Serialize: With Encryption! (Caleb McElrath)
• [12:53] IntelliTrace Moves Beyond Development in Visual Studio 11 (Mickey Gousset)
• [14:13] MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases (Boris Lublinsky) , "MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Case" (Ilya Katsov)
• [16:08] The State of NuGet (Phil Haack)
• [18:04] How to Set Up a Local NuGet Gallery (Michael Ceranski), [MSDN Magazine] Creating a NuGet Gallery (Clark Sell,Mark Nichols)
• [19:17] Going Native: Interactive Panel: The Importance of Being Native (Herb Sutter , Bjarne Stroustrup , Andrei Alexandrescu , Stephan T. Lavavej , Hans Boehm)
• [20:07] Microsoft Mouse Mischief [Found Via: MicrosoftFeed - Download Microsoft Mouse Mischief and Enter the New Generation of Learning Solutions]

Picks of the Week!

• Duncan's Pick of the Week! [22:14] The Defrag Show, Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File
• Dan's Pick of the Week! [24:25] Day 2 Keynote - Herb Sutter: C++11, VC++11 and Beyond

This video walks you through the process. You can find all the storage NuGet packages on the NuGet Gallery:

• http://www.nuget.org/packages/Phone.Storage
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/Phone.Storage.AccessControl
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/Phone.Storage.Membership
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/Phone.Storage.Sample
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage.AccessControl
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage.Membership
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy.AccessControl
• http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy.Membership

Thanks to Damián Martinez Gelabert, Nicolás Bello Camilletti, and Mariano Convertifor for putting this video together. 

To learn more about these NuGet packages take a look at the post NuGet Packages for Windows Azure and Windows Phone Developers.

In this episode, Wade walks through the NuGet packages for Windows Azure storage and Windows Phone, highlighting how easy it is to interact with blobs, tables, and queues, both directly against storage and securely through proxy services.

In the news:

• Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency
• New Webcast Series Explores SQL Azure Data Sync
• ISO 27001 eCertificate
• New Windows Azure Marketplace Data Delivers the Latest Weather and Stock Information
• Unable to find assembly references that are compatible with the target framework 'Silverlight,Version=v4.0, Profile=WindowsPhone71′ 

Update:

To accomodate addition NuGet packages in the future, we have made a few minor changes:

WindowsAzure.Storage -> WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy
WindowsAzure.Storage.AccessControl -> WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy.AccessControl
WindowsAzure.Storage.Membership -> WindowsAzure.Storage.Proxy.Membership

We have updated other NuGet packages (i.e. Phone.Storage and WindowsPhone.Notifications.ManagementUI.Sample) to reflect these changes.

Download the slides.

Speaker
Maarten Balliauw is a technical consultant in web technologies at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies. His interests are ASP.NET (MVC), PHP and Windows Azure. He's a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Azure and has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature such as MSDN magazine and PHP architect. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events such as MIX (Las Vegas), TechDays, DPC, ... His blog can be found at http://blog.maartenballiauw.be.

Extra resources
- Microsoft Azure Access Control Service - MSDN Documentation
- Access Control Service Samples and Documentation

Next events
Feel free to have a look at the list of events run by the Microsoft Community in Belgium and Luxembourg.

About Scott

Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this Scott was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. Scott also has a blog and a few podcasts.

About Tim

Tim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI)- Touch, Gesture, and Neural, in Rich Client Technologies on a broad spectrum of devices Tim has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press. Tim has been awarded many times for the highest rated technical presentations and keynotes for Microsoft and many other technology conferences around the world. Tim has been on stage with, and done numerous keynote demos for many Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Tim founded InterKnowlogy, a custom application development company, in 1999 and Actus Interactive Software in 2011 and has over 30 years of experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.

Scott Hanselman and Tim Huckaby recommend you check out

• NuGet Gallery
• Scott's blog
• This Developer's Life podcast series
• InterKnowlogy website
• Actus Interactive Software

Thank you Marcin for having the courage to withstand a truly impromptu conversation led by one of the world's foremost language designers and cloud programmability theorists (new title for Erik? ). It's always great to meet and learn about the folks at Microsoft who write and check code in for a living. Keep on coding, Marcin!

Enjoy!

Update: 12/3/11 - Microsoft.Activities has been renamed to Microsoft.Activities.Extensions

Ron Jacobs
http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs
Twitter: @ronljacobs http://twitter.com/ronljacobs

Let’s start with NuGet. Why should you, the coding guy and gal, care about NuGet?

You mean besides the fact that Brian has made it almost painfully easy to get his very cool WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET libraries via it. Besides the fact the NuGet is opening the floodgates to the vast reservoir of .Net third party and open source libraries, making the adding of them to your project just a right-click away? How about making it easy for you to share your projects, binaries or code, as Brian has, with the world? Finally that it’s not owned or controlled by Microsoft, but instead the new OuterCurve open source incubation foundation?

As an added bonus, besides making his libraries available via NuGet, Brian also “teaches us to fish.” Using the experience of making his libraries available, he shows all of us how to do it ourselves.

Haven’t heard of WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET? WiimoteLib is a .Net library for the Wiimote (Funny that). ThinkGearNET is a .Net library for the Neurosky Mindset headset (Think “very cool, wear on your head and read your thoughts to control your PC” device).

NuGet-enabled WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET

“With the official release of NuGet and the NuGet gallery, I decided to try it all out by uploading the current versions of WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET to the gallery.  The process was pretty smooth, but I learned a little bit along the way which I thought I’d share.

So what’s NuGet?
From their own page:  NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.

In short, this means you can right-click and add a reference to a third party library without having to download it yourself, extract it, locate it manually on your drive, deal with dependencies, etc.  All of this is handled automatically, as is finding and integrating new versions of those libraries with your projects.

NuGet as a User

NuGet as a Package Developer
If you are the developer of a third party library, getting it up to the NuGet Gallery for the rest of the world to consume is pretty simple.  Full documentation on all of the advanced features is located on CodePlex, but I’m going to explain the basics using WiimoteLib as an example.

NuGet is still very shinny and new and you can expect to be hearing a great deal more about it in the coming year. Simply put, this NuGet will be THE way you add third party libraries to your projects.

Here’s a few more links you might find interesting:

• MindBlaster
• Managed Library for Nintendo's Wiimote
• http://nuget.codeplex.com/
• http://nuget.org/
• Uploading Packages To The NuGet Gallery
• Sharing NuGet packages with the world is now just an NuGet.Org away… or The NuGet Gallery and package submission is now live at NuGet.Org!

For other episodes in this series, check out: http://bit.ly/mvcscreencasts.

Visit Brandon's blog at http://www.userinexperience.com or follow Brandon on Twitter at @BrandonSatrom