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Today, we're introducing Vector. It's a blog about developers, platform, and big ideas/trends in tech, but with a little bit different bent on what folks are used to from Channel 9... It's been eight years since Channel 9 first introduced many of our key engineering folks to the developer community…

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to…

As promised, all on-demand media is now available and in multiple formats (WMV, MP4, WebM, MP3, WMA) including all slide decks! Please let us know how we did: Take the event survey (3 questions!). Here's the complete GoingNative 2012 Agenda: Concepts, variadic templates, STL11, static if,…

As everyone reading this blog, and those in the Kinect for Windows space, knows today is a big day. From what was a cool peripheral for the XBox 360 last year, the Kinect for Windows SDK and now dedicated Kinect for Windows hardware device, has taken the world by storm. In the last year we've seen…

In this episode, Vishal Joshi, Program Manager on the WebMatrix team, joins Windows Azure Technical Evangelist Brady Gaster to talk about the next version of WebMatrix. With WebMatrix v2, you can start creating websites faster than ever using the improved integration with popular open source…

Bring Some Game To Your Code!A software engineer's glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code--and all the heroics it took to write…

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by new-member-of-the-team Rick Barraza to discuss the week's top developers news, including: [1:40] Windows Store for developers Global reach (Antoine Leblond), Windows 8 First Apps Contest, https://buildwindowscontest.com/ [2:52] February 1, 2012: Use the…

In this episode, Robert is joined by Rowan Miller and Diego Vega of the Entity Framework team. They discuss and demo code first, database first, and model first—the three primary Entity Framework workflows—and give some tips on when to use each. They also clarify the update strategy for the Entity…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [1:07] New feature: your own personal video queue (Duncan Mackenzie) [2:22] 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 1 of 10) (Michael Crump) [3:39] Silverlight 5 Tutorials - A Collection of Beginner…

I was able to attend C++ and Beyond 2011 and it was a tremendous experience. I captured some great footage from the event for C9, like this end-of-last-day panel - Ask Us Anything - with Scott, Andrei and Herb. Great questions and excellent answers. This is the third and final…