This Week on C9: Dynamic Silverlight, VSTS, buying Caio, and Mech Wars

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Sep 5th, 2008 @ 11:42 AM | 61,666 Views | 10 Comments
This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss this week's developer news including:

- Microsoft purchases Greenfield for $486MM. Greenfield owns Ciao, which is Europe's largest shopping Web site with 5MM+ reviews.
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 reference source code now available via RSCC blog
- Rick Minerich: Change Garbage Collections settings on the fly with System.Runtime.GCSettings (Part 5 of 5-part GC series)
- Top 10 VSTS and TFS Articles via dotnetkicks
- Ben Hall: How to auto-zip your project using MSBuild
- Mech warfare is part of Robo Games 2009 including multiple mech classes via Trossen Robotics
- Slides and audio from Gamefest sessions are available for download including SQL Server for Games, Silverlight for casual games and blowing stuff up the Bungie way via Shawn Hargreaves
- Silverlight Spy lets you dissect Silverlight applications include code (using Reflector) via Greg Duncan
-A step-by-step article on how to Download XAML on demand
- Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines released
- Get list of installed applications using LINQ via DZone
- See what's going on inside the svchost process using this C# SVC Host Viewer via Greg Duncan
- Grudge Match: Dan and Brian are flying down to the Hurricanes vs Gators game where the winner gets to pick what the other person will wear next show (Dan gets the spread)
- Brian's pick of the week: Comcast to cap data transfers at 250GB in October
- Dan's pick of the week: Brianna the Brain clip
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#Sep 5th, 2008 @ 1:55 PM
gduncan411
gduncan411
It's amazing what a professional photographer can do...

Two shout-outs in one show? Wow!  Smiley Thanks guys! And thanks for the great work on these shows... "This Week" is officially on my "must watch as soon as it appears on my Zune" list...

Take care and thanks again,
Greg Duncan

#Sep 5th, 2008 @ 4:02 PM
Dan
Dan
Awesome, thanks Greg!

You always have great hidden gems every week so we always check your blog for what's going on every week Smiley
#Sep 5th, 2008 @ 6:11 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
It's near caturday and a new episode is up Smiley Haha... the entry is funny!
#Sep 5th, 2008 @ 6:28 PM
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
Very cool.
(Except you're still using the shower curtain backdrop.) Big Smile
#Sep 5th, 2008 @ 6:50 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle

Oh man you should see it in real... It's the best decoration ever and the studio is so tiny tiny tiny.

#Sep 6th, 2008 @ 9:02 AM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
Geez Dan.

EVE Online dude!
#Sep 6th, 2008 @ 9:03 AM
Andrew Alter
Andrew Alter
Hey guys, Andrew from Mech Wars & Trossen Robotics here. Love the show!

Glad you like the competition! We'll have some video in the near future of the first completed mech walking around and testing out it's weapons.

Cheers!
#Sep 6th, 2008 @ 1:22 PM
dentaku
dentaku

The lighting was different and the backdrop was too bright in this episode.
What changed?

#Sep 8th, 2008 @ 8:18 AM
Dan
Dan

LOL, I knew you would be rooting for Eve Smiley

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