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TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, is designed to make it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. It was announced recently while Anders Hejlsberg and other key members of the…

In this episode, Jason Zander joins us to celebrate the availability of Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate. Jason shows off a number of features that have been added to Visual Studio since Beta, including IDE updates [02:55] Web site optimization (bundling/minification) [07:00] Web publishing…

When web development reached critical mass in the early-mid 2000's, there was a lot of discussion about what it all meant for native development and apps that are optimized for devices, but developers' penchant for exploiting what devices can do has persisted through all of that, and it keeps…

Larry Osterman is a legend and one of Channel 9's favorite personalities - it's been too long since you've been on C9, Larry! Now, what would happen if C9 hero Erik Meijer interviewed Larry? Well, you'd get the latest episode of Checking In and one heck of a conversation. Oh…

At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. We'll begin with…

In this installment of GoingNative, it's all about the latest C++ compiler technology from Microsoft. Most of the time is spent discussing VC11's Auto-Vectorizer with a few short forays into other VC compiler improvements (like Auto-Parallelizer). You meet the lead developer for VC11's…

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…

Channel 9 was invited to this year's C++ and Beyond to film some sessions (that will appear on C9 over the coming months!) and have a chat with the "Big Three": Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, and Herb Sutter. If you are a C++ programmer, then you know these names very…

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,…