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TypeScript is a programming language that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host.  Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg explains how TypeScript, which is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic…

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…

In this video Scott Guthrie shows how using Windows Azure Mobile Services one can add a cloud backend to a Windows 8 application in literally minutes. Use Windows Azure Mobile Services to: Create turnkey backend solutions to power your mobile apps. Accelerate your mobile app development. Incorporate…

In part 1, STL focuses on Name Lookup, which is a surprisingly complex process. Remember Herb Sutter's great GotW post (#30, to be precise) on Name Lookup? Here's the problem from that post, to refresh your memory (Thanks to Herb for providing information like this on GotW!): In the following code,…

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…

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 video Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio, walks us through the process of developing an application for Windows on ARM (WOA). Find out how you can use Visual Studio 2012 RC to do remote debugging, unit testing, and remote profiling on a Windows tablet. For more…

This presentation provides an overview of the key improvements in SQL Server 2012 from a developer perspective in the context of Microsoft's overall platform strategy. Roger Doherty Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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…

Rob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK. Download the 1.5 Release at KinectforWindows.com [00:33] Overview of the Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 Release…