In keeping with what has become a holiday tradition here on Channel 9 he have Chris Anderson, Don Box and now Amanda Silver singing you a special holiday song.

You can compile along with them by grabbing the source project for this video.  

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Rory, in one of his final interviews for Channel 9 turned around the camera and interviewed me (Jeff ) for Channel 9.  Here's the description Rory wrote for this piece:Jeff Sandquist was there at the beginning. He has been behind the scenes at Channel 9 for years. He was part of the initial crew and has had a tremendous impact on the development of the site ever since. Oddly, despite his core involvement, Jeff has never before done a Cha…[more ]

Matt Winkler and David Tesar catch up with Shawn Burke to talk about the announcement today that the source for the .NET Framework will be made available. In this video we find out about how this is all going to work and see it in action as Shawn steps into the Windows Forms code from Visual Studio. Shawn also talks about how this has been something he has been working on for a long time in order to bring a really deep debugging experience for .NET developers.Lots of excitement about this today for sure.[more ]

Meet Pablo Castro one of the folks behind Astoria.  Astoria exposes "data services" that enable applications to access and manipulate data over regular HTTP connections, using URIs to identify pieces of information within the data service, and simple payload formats such as XML and JSON to represent the data exchanged between the client and the server. 

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Channel 9 now has a sister This weekend we launched an all new community called 10 at http://on10.net 10 was built from the ground up using ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005 with a simple, easy to use design.Our dream with 10 is to create a place for those people who want to use technology to change the world.  Int his video Adam, Duncan, Erik and Jeff talk with Robert about how the site was built and the crazy weeks…[more ]

A couple of months ago we interviewed the Virtual Earth team and got an early look at what they were planning. They have now gone live so we went back and interviewed the team again. They jumped right into a demo and talked about some hot secret features: locate me and a developer SDK.

Want more?
Visit the Virtual Earth site at http://virtualearth.msn.com ( [more ]

Here Michael talks about the Codin' My Way to the PDC contest and the Shareware Starter Kit.[more ]

So just what is the Shareware Starter Kit? In this video Michael Lehman (the new Channel 9 Podcaster) demonstrates the beta of the Shareware Starter Kit for Visual Studio 2005.

Submit an application written using this Starter kit and you might win tickets, accomodations and a $1000 (US) airfare voucher for PDC05.

Get started in the Codin' My Way to the PDC Contest Today!

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Who says it doesn't pay to blog? :-> In the Blog your way to the PDC contest you could win tickets, accomodations and a $1000.00 (US) airfare voucher for PDC05.

Scoble talks more about the contest in this video. Check out our special PDC section.

But the big question is... Just who is this mystery person behind the camera?
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