In this interview, we talk to Noah Coad, the Program Manager for Visual Studio Express. We talk about…[more ]

A gratuitious trailer for TweetCraft, a World of Warcraft Twitter client.[more ]

The rapid spread of the H1N1 flu virus is obviously a source of concern across the world. To offer an easy way to stay up to date, we’ve just released a new web slice for Internet Explorer 8 that offers the latest updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Check it out, and stay safe out there!

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developer news including:…[more ]

David Norris and Larry Osterman are classic Microsoft pranksters (watch their original Channel 9 interview for how they pranked Steve Ballmer, among others).

One of their weapons of choice is the bouncy ball and this (now declassified) video from midnight on April 1st, 2006 shows what happens when you throw ten thousand rubber bouncy balls down six flights of a stairwell.

Here at Microsoft, we like to have a little bit of fun, so a couple of months ago, Scott Stabbert built a VB.NET application to prank his co-worker, Xander. Watch and learn how Scott did it and download the project code to prank your own friends.

A quick video of some outtakes from Scott Guthrie's intro video at MIX 2009.

A Vista sidebar gadget was designed and created for the Chip Ganassi Racing team. This video walks through each stage of the process that we used at projekt202 to go from concept to finished project.

Built by: 
- Jeffrey McLean (Lead Designer, All development, Video compilation, Video Narration), Linda Richey (Project manager, requirement definition, Race fan daughter), Eric Bear (Interaction consultation), Laura Cramer (Additional visual design), Peter Eckert (Creative Oversight), Jeff Steinberg (Business Side of things)

Tools used:
- Expression Blend, Visual Studio 2008, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Expression Design, Pen and Paper

See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.

An overview of the Physics Helper Library, which allows you to draw objects in Expression Blend 2, and have those objects translated directly into Physics objects using the Farseer Physics Engine. This can be a great timesaver for creating games, as it is traditionally difficult to line up underlying physics bodies, joints, and geometries with your Blend artwork.

Built by:
- Andy Beaulieu

Tools used: 

- Visual Studio 2008, Expression Blend, Farseer Physics Engine

See 2nd Place Entry.
See 3rd Place Entry.
See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.

Stimulant is an interaction design and development studio that specializes in new interaction paradigms on emerging hardware.

Microsoft Surface is an important part of our core offering. This is a short reel of our publicly-showable Microsoft Surface projects we created between 2008 and 2009.

Built by:
- Josh Santangelo, Jules Konig, Darren David, Lee Granas, Nathan Moody

Tools used:
- .NET 3.5, XNA, Visual Studio, Expression Design, Expression Blend, Expression Media Encoder, Microsoft Surface Emulator

See Honorable Mentions 1, 2, 3, 4.