This Week on C9: April Fools Day, open source MVC, ExceLINQ, and cool Silverlight apps

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Apr 3rd @ 2:43 PM | 34,102 Views | 11 Comments
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developer news including:

- Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC now is OSI certified open source, using the Microsoft Public License. 
- New Microsoft MVPs announced
- Bart de Smets - ExceLINQ - a prototype of an Excel provider for LINQ
- Scott Hanselman - Paving a machine must-have applications
- Chris Auld - Intergen's TextGlow a Silverlight-based OpenXML document viewer's source code now available
- VSTS Ranger Team - VS Team Test 83 Page Reference Guide available, via Greg Duncan
- TBODA Web Team - 5 Useful SQL Server Scripts
- VB QuickStarts and How-To topics for PRISM available
- Giovanni Montrone - Coding4Fun Article - Silverlight Image Comparison tool (see live demo)

April Fools Day Favorites
- Larry Larsen - The Microsoft Surface Stove
- Brian Peek - TwitterDrive, The Revolution in Cloud Storage
- ThinkGeek - Tauntaun Sleeping Bag (note: TG is now trying to productize this)
- Xbox - Alpine Legend (video)

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick: April Fools Day episode of 10-4 on Sentient DSLs
- Dan's pick: Extreme Sheep LED Art video, via Wes Hutchins
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#Apr 4th @ 3:25 AM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
TWonC9 MVP?

Hell yeah! Smiley

Good show as always 
#Apr 4th @ 3:46 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Dude! Empire! Geez!

I'll never do that DVD/BR image comparison thing. I currently have a huge library of DVD's that look great. If I compare them to BR, they'll look poor. I don't want to degrade the image quality of my movies, even if it's only in my mind. Tongue Out

Also: Alpenhorn.
#Apr 4th @ 8:31 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Wow. The ExceLINQ is awesome! Excel the gray thing in the corner finally stepping into the light Big Smile

7zip supports RAR and ZIP and tons more and is open source!
#Apr 4th @ 11:54 AM
Weizensack
Weizensack
re: April Fools Day Favorites
When I read this for the first time I really thought it's true... but unfortunately... Sad Go on guys and make this damn joke come true!!
#Apr 4th @ 5:22 PM
Stilgar
Stilgar
Actually SmartFTP is much better than FileZilla but I switched when I discontinued the free version. I don't feel like paying $40 when I use ftp like 2 times a week to copy some files.

Same with 7zip vs WinRAR. I don't mind paying for software that I use often and I even donate money to free projects but for some apps it just does not make sense.
#Apr 4th @ 9:01 PM
Dan
Dan
>>Also: Alpenhorn.
Yes, that's it, now to casually introduce that into conversation Smiley

As for DVD/BR, the cool part is the code is reusable so you could use to compare images using different camera settings (f stops, lighting, resolution, etc).
#Apr 4th @ 9:06 PM
Dan
Dan
Hmm, I'll have to try 7zip and potentially ween myself off of WinRAR.

As for SmartFTP, what's so much better about it that FileZilla doesn't have? Maybe my FTP needs are basic Smiley
#Apr 5th @ 7:49 AM
alashcraft
alashcraft
Thanks for the plug, guys. And congrats to all the other new and renewed Microsoft MVPs!
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