One of the highlights of the Big Room floor at PDC 09 was an Azure IT PAC (Pre-assembled container), the unit of deployment within the Azure Data Centers.  This particular model is the newest, Generation 4, and built to be deployed outside (versus the indoor models used in the Chicago and San Antonio facilities).  The unit on the PDC floor was (of course) a prototype - it's 20 feet long versus the 40-foot standard, and has more glass for viewing than a real unit would have.  Regardless, it…[more ]

In this episode guest Milan Negovan talks about health monitoring in ASP.NET and what to do when things go wrong! Also Peter and Dmitry talk about Eclipse support for Windows 7, the Azure Content Deliver Network and other news stories.[more ]

Kevin Wolf of Tampa, FL has published an innovative Casual Game framework to codeplex named WiMo-GF.  WiMo-GF allows a developer to target Zune, Silverlight, and Windows Mobile 5.0 to 6.5 with a single codebase.  The framework encapsulates multitouch, accelerometer, and ships with its own physics engine.  During this video we'll talk to Kevin about his framework, and how to build games with it.

In this video, Dani interviews Bill Volz and John Alessi of QuikSoft and SocketLabs. Bill and John discuss how their company got started and the influence that the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference has had in their success both directly and indirectly. They talk about their development process and how new product ideas go from dream to reality.[more ]

SQL Saturday #21 Orlando - Interview by Joe  Healy with SQL Saturday founder Andy Warren.  Over 230 folks attended the SQL Saturday event in Orlando on October 17, 2009.  We look at the photos and talk to Andy about the SQL Saturday series.[more ]

In this episode guest co-host and Interviewee Dave Crawford of Microsoft UK joins Dmitry to discuss News such as Windows 7, Windows Stores, ZuneHD development, Java Bridge, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and many more stories. Finally Dave tells us all about the User Experience project role, how development projects can benefit from it and how Developers and Designers need to play nice together.[more ]

This installment of the Northeast Roadshow screencast series covers a number of core concepts in the CLR.  Beginning with a discussion of the differences and nuances between reference and value types, the topics quickly move into concepts such as boxing, immutability, performance of String versus StringBuilder, constants versus readonly variables, and others.  These are concepts every .NET developer should be familiar with to build effective code.[more ]

Saturday, October 3, 2009, the 2nd Code Camp was held in Southwest Florida (Naples/Ft Myers).  Here Joe Healy interviews codecamp organizer John Dunagan.  Also inside are pictures, videos, and more from the event.  Over 140 people attended the only codecamp in the national with an airboat as its logo.  Drop in and see what they were excited about...

In this episode, Developer Evangelist Jim O'Neil, walks through a example of updating a legacy MDI application to take advantage of most of the features of the Windows 7 taskbar all the while maintaining backwards compatibility to Vista and XP.  You'll get a detailed look into using the managed code Windows API Code Pack to adapt your older applications to leverage jumplists, thumbnail previews, and thumbnail buttons.…[more ]

In this episode, guest Claudio Caldato joins Peter to discuss interoperability at Microsoft and how his team is working to make Windows Azure cloud services more accessible to PHP developers.  Claudio provides us details on the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services.[more ]