This Week on C9: Windows 7, Silverlight 2 ships, and PDC attendee fun

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Oct 19th, 2008 @ 12:10 PM | 56,893 Views | 13 Comments
This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan talk about this week's developer news, including:

- Windows 7 is the official name of the next release of Windows

- Silverlight 2 RTWs (demo video), via Scott Guthrie's blog

- Photosynth wins breakthrough award from Popular Mechanics, via LiveSide

- Deep Zoom Image Composer updated for Silverlight 2

- 2 Part series on Building Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW, via Alvin Ashcraft

- Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) enables you to dynamically build files in Visual Studio projects more at Oleg Sych and Scott Hanselman's blog

- Nikhil Kothari's Silverlight Fx Library updated

- Scott Hanselman gives a shout out to This Week on C9 Hooligans and actually implements Silverlight +networking support to BabySmash for PDC!

- Wiirtual Earth - A WPF Virtual Earth 3D Experiment via Brian Peek

- Larry Osterman - Engineering 7: A view from the bottom

- Windows Vista Bridge samples are .NET callable wrappers for new Vista APIs via Greg Duncan

- XAML to PNG Converter library

- Codeproject article on Codeproject article scraping

- 15 ways to track Web site popularity

- Going Deep 100th Episode!: Erik Meijer and Bart de Smet

- Coding4Fun projects at PDC - Unreal Tournament AI bots, a free robot a day, Segway skateboard project, and Virtual World Simulator

- Show Off contest at PDC, Monday 8:30pm - 10pm

- The Underground at PDC, Wednesday 6pm - 2am

- Codeplex meet at PDC at Channel 9 lounge, Wednesday 1:30pm

- Brian's pick of the week: Scott Hanselman's PDC talk will show BabySmash on Silverlight 2 with networking support

- Dan's pick of the week: Coding4Fun session at PDC - iTunes, YouTube, Wiimote, BabySmash, and Twitter, Tuesday at 12:45pm



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#Oct 21st, 2008 @ 2:23 PM
Psychlist1972
Psychlist1972
Pete Brown [MSFT]
So, I get my first mention on your show, and my blog readership drops to its lowest number in 6 months. You guys are killing me Wink

Thanks for the mention. Glad you like the Facebook tutorial.

Pete
#Oct 21st, 2008 @ 4:20 PM
Dan
Dan

Ouch on the traffic numbers, who knew we had a negative effect on traffic! 

#Oct 22nd, 2008 @ 5:19 PM
Koogle
Koogle
I'm a Terminator - Astalavista, Vis7a!
modem baud commands... lol Big Smile
 
#Aug 22nd @ 3:36 PM
Consacepo
Consacepo

Ouch on the traffic numbers, who knew we had a negative effect on traffic!

consacepo

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#Oct 4th @ 6:10 PM
LauraNina
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I am interested in implementing the Silverlight in daily operation. I heard there were many uses of Silverlight: to develop application, manage project timing, etc. Just curious to know further. thank you.

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#Oct 4th @ 6:12 PM
LauraNina
LauraNina

I am interested in the tutorials and discussion about Silverlight. Already hear for times that it can be used for developing many small as well as big applications. Seems to be interesting to know further.

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