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This Week on C9: Big updates to Live services, Windows 7 + ePC, Time's best of 2008

Dan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:11:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian is joined by Nic Fillingham from Channel 10 to discuss the latest news including:

- Dan was in a car accident Wednesday but is fine, the other driver is still recovering (0 - 1:40)
- Windows Live Profiles Updated (1:40 - 2:20)
- Windows Live Photo Gallery launches and SkyDrive increases storage limit to 25GB (2:20 - 5:04)
- DevLabs Small Basic launches (5:04 - 6:45)
- Emulator for Internet Explorer Mobile 6 (6:45 - 8:25)
- Quick and dirty Live FX console application to get Messenger status and contacts (8:25 - 8:55)
- Must have download: Devexpress CodeRush Xpress - Free Visual Studio addin (8:55 - 9:58)
- Updates for jQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio, via Jason Haley (9:58 - 11:27)
- Visual Studio 2010 Week on Channel 9 - Lots of great videos on IDE and platform features (11:27 - 12:32)
- Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions 2008 - Bullets that shoot bullets, instant replay on baseball/cricket, Large Hallidron Collidor (12:32 - 16:09)
- Brian's pick of the week: VSTS new Lab Management feature (16:09 - 18:22)
- Nic's pick of the week: Nic gets Windows 7 running on ASUS EeePC netbook (18:22 - end)

This Week on C9: Live ID goes Open ID, cool Silverlight Toolkit and themes, and SecondLight video

Dan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:38:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian go through this week's news including:

- BizSpark program for startup launches (0:35 - 1:53)
- XNA Game Studio 3.0 RTM's, via Greg Duncan (1:53 - 3:09)
- Windows Live becomes an Open ID provider (3:09 - 4:40)
- Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4.0 CTP Virtual PC available for download (4:40 - 6:15)
- Microsoft updates .NET logo (6:15 - 7:27)
- Silverlight Toolkit now available for download (7:27 - 8:30)
- Rudi Grobler: WPF themes available from Silverlight Toolkit (8:30 - 9:10)
- Video clip of SecondLight in action (9:10 - 10:54)
- Tutorial showing how to use Windows Azure with Silverlight (10:54 - 11:53)
- Brian's Pick of the week: Scott Hanselman's .NET Framework Overview session gives This Week on C9 a shout out (scan to about 5 minutes in). All PDC sessions available and check out Greg Duncan's PDC download page (11:53 - 13:48)
- Dan' s Pick of the week: Some very cool ShowOff entries including a Silverlight Spectrum Emulator, Best.Virtual Earth.Simulator.Ever, Brian the Build Bunny, and Clipboard History (13:48 - 17:08)

This Week on C9: PDC recap and Halloween with Scott Hanselman, Clint Rutkas, and Brian Peek

Dan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:10:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman, Clint Rutkas, and Brian Peek join us to share their thoughts on PDC, Azure, and even share their thoughts on the best geeky Halloween costumes.

This week on C9: Clean hard drive space, Microformats, Crack.NET, Pex updates & more

Dan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:03:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the top developers news, including:

- SQL Server Report Builder 2.0 - No-code database reporting and graphing, via Adam Cogan on the Regional Directors mailing list
- WPF 3.5 SP 1 Source/Debug Symbols now available, via Lester Lobo
- Mix Online relaunched & Oomph Microformat Toolkit available
- Crack.NET - A tool to listen and inspect .NET applications/memory while they run, via Lester Lobo
- SecondLight in PC Magazine - It's like Surface, but it also projects onto virtual objects, video coming next week to Channel 10
- Lucian Wischik - A VS plugin to background run your code and see the output, via Jason Haley
- Scott Hanselman - Freeing up Disk Space in Windows Vista and Brian shares his tips for shrinking VPC sizes
- Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 2 where Bill relates the history of letters and their evolution from symbols and learning to read animal tracks.
- Microsoft Web Application Installer tool installs open source applications including WordPress, PHPBB, DotNetNuke, and more
- For PDC attendees: Meet the Channel 9 team and get a free C9 t-shirt, Monday 3-4pm, designed by Jamie
- For PDC attendees: http://m.microsoftpdc.com is a Mobile phone interface for seeing announcements, session information and more.
- Brian's Pick of the week: Pex 0.8 + CodeDigger released - autogenerates exploratory unit tests and even gives suggestions to fix your code, via Jason Haley
- Dan's Pick of the week: Video clip of Adam Kinney showing QuakeLight, a port of the Quake game to Silverlight

This Week on C9 from Blizzcon with Mike "Sampy" Sampson

Dan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:23:00 GMT

On a "very special" episode of This Week on Channel 9 from Blizzcon, Dan is joined by Mike "Sampy" Sampson as they discuss the interesting developer stories of the week:

- WPF Effects Library ships on Codeplex (video demo)
- Stephen Walther - ASP.NET MVC 5-Part series on building a Family Videos site, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Microperformance benchmark - XMLDocument vs XElement, XElement performs 5-10x faster, via gOODiDEA.NET
- Live Search now in Facebook via Sarah Perez
- Web Platform installer ships, via Scott Hanselman
- Mono 2.0 is out, via Miguel de Icaza
- Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing Anders Hejlsberg on adding language constructs to C# for concurrency
- Video clip of Bill Hill whiteboarding how fonts include thousands of lines of assembly code to improve readability
- Touchless Multi-touch (video demo) open-source SDK on Codeplex, via TechCrunch
- Sampy's pick of the week, the Diablo III Wizard class
- Dan's pick of the week, the Blizzard Costume contest with the scary undead rogue girl

This Week on C9: Visual Studio 2010 week, Silverlight RC0, and Cloud services

Dan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:22:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan go through what happened this week in developer news including:

- Visual Studio Team System 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are officially announced with 20+ videos and the launch of the Visual Studio Channel 9 site
- "Bottoms-up" Design with VSTS 2010 Architect
- Requirements Management in VSTS 2010
- Video clip of Historical Debugging in action
- Video clip of Team Foundation Build 2010
- "Dublin" technology enhancements in Windows Server
- Silverlight 2 RC0 available now, Scott Guthrie's blog walks through the new features and how to edit control templates.
- jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio
- Silverlight 2 RC0 tools for Visual Studio now support Visual Studio Express
- Clint Rutkas walks through using the new Virtual Earth Web Services
- Amazon EC2 will soon support Window Server including ASP.NET, Media encoding, SQL Server and Visual Studio
- Windows Presentation Foundation Application Quality Guide, via Neil Hutson
- Free download: Codeplex XML Visualizer v.2
- Flickr Xplorer - An ASP.NET MVC Photo app for Flickr
- The Underground, a free event in LA during PDC
- Adam Kinney - Cool PDC Badges including This Week on Channel 9 Badges if you find us at PDC
- Brian's Pick of the week: Preview of the next TFS Power Tools
- Dan's Pick of the week: QuakeLight - Silverlight with 3D and Texture Mapping (video)

This Week on C9: New Live Search features, freebies, why TDD fails and Duke Nukem

Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger go through this week's news including:

- Powerset features now in Windows Live, via Channel 10.
- Four new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) videos on Visual Studio 2008.
- Mike Snow: How to add snow effects in Silverlight (live demo), via Alvin Ashcraft.
- Roy Osherove: Why Test Driven Development fails
- Andy Dunn: API changes from XNA 2.0 to XNA 3.0
- Popfly adds tracking ripped projects.
- Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services
- Updated version of Snippet Editor/Designer now available on Codeplex
- Take the .NET Framework deployment and redist survey to give feedback to the team.
- Steve Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell to keynote at Professional Developer's Conference.
- Larry Osterman and Raymond Chen to give Windows sessions at PDC
- Video clip of Lisa Olson on how to write a killer resume .
- Christian's pick of the week: Xbox Live Arcade adds Duke Nukem 3D including multiplayer and co-op modes.
- Dan's pick of the week: TweetSQL that adds CLR stored procedures that enable your database to automagically send tweets to Twitter, via Greg Duncan

This Week on C9: I'm a PC, Talk like a Pirate day, 101 Silverlight downloads and more

Dan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:55:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover:

- The Microsoft Company Meeting
- The new Windows without Walls campaign
- Clip from the new I'm a PC ads
- Visual Studio Extensibility conference on campus this weekend, videos coming soon
- XNA Game Studio 3.0 Beta now available with lots of new features and improved stability.
- Clarity Consulting releases cool Unified Communications presence controls in WPF, via Alvin Ashcraft.
- StackOverflow launches (kind of like a free version Experts Exchange with Web 2.0 goodness), and Jeff Atwood will be showing how they built it in Phil Haack's MVC session at PDC.
- Windows Live Wave 3 launches and Windows Live Photo Gallery SDK comes with a C# example that uploads photos to Flickr, via Greg Duncan.
- A great collection of 101 free Silverlight controls and tools
- Introducing SQL Server 2008 eBook, via Greg Duncan.
- Brian's pick of the week: Unethical developers build cheats into Ultimatebet.com, a Poker Web site, so they can steal money from the company they work for, Dan and Brian discuss whether developers should have a code of ethics/conduct like doctors.
- Dan's pick of the week: Warhammer Online now available, gameplay is lots of fun, but more importantly, the game is customizable by developers using Lua.

This Week on C9: Live Wave 3, New Zune software, Silverlight effects and LINQ myths

Dan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:19:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian Keller is joined by Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger to cover this week's news, including:

- What's the deal with the new Windows ads with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld? (0:36 - 1:10)
- Windows Movie Maker joins Windows Live, adds Soapbox/YouTube uploading via LiveSide (1:10 - 2:20)
- Windows Live Photo Gallery to add facial recognition to tag people in photos via LiveSide (2:20 - 4:23)
- New Zune Software update adds ability to purchase songs via FM tuner, and channels (4:23 - 7:07)
- MSDN Social Bookmarks launches, within 30 days 2K users, and 20K tags (7:07 - 9:00)
- MSDN Search improves performance and adds code search preview (9:00 - 10:45)
- Adam Kinney on Project Rosetta: How to go from Flash to Silverlight (10:45 - 12:25)
- Whitepaper on evolving a .NET 2.0 app to .NET 3.5 via Brad Abrams (12:25 - 14:00)
- 50 new PDC 2008 sessions added (14:00 - 15:33)
- Nikhil Kothari's Silverlight effects library (15:33 - 16:40)
- Top 10 LINQ Myths (16:40 - 19:03)
- Using PowerShell and NetMap to visualize the new World Bank API via Greg Duncan (19:03 - 20:47)
- FFLib - a full C# implementation of FFMPEG to convert videos (20:47 - 21:57)
- Brian's pick of the week: Large Hardon Collider to end the world, get updates at www.HasTheLHCDestroyedTheEarth.com (22:19 - 23:19)
- Christian's pick of the week: Babylon.NET software enables you to easily localize Visual Studio projects (23:19 - end)

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

Dan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:00 GMT

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

This Week on C9: IE8 and Popfly Betas, WPF tools and apps, SP1 improvements and more

Dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:38:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover this week's news and videos including:

- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 available for download - (0:00 - 4:15)
- Popfly Game Creator goes from alpha to beta (4:15 - 5:32)
- Free eBook: Data Structures and Algorithms by Granville Barnett and Luca del Tongo (5:32 - 6:32)
- Lester Lobo's XAMLPadX 4.0 released, via Alvin Ashcraft (6:32 - 7:17)
- Charles Petzold shows Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D (7:17 - 8:04)
SP1 .NET Fx (8:04 - 9:25)
- Demo of Office Labs Chart Advisor (download) (9:25 - 11:03)
- Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing the Channel 8,9,10, and Edge team (11:03 - 13:11)
- Video clip of Adam Kinney with Matthew Allbee showing off Lawson Smart Office (13:11 - 14:44)
- Scott Hanselman - Windows Home Server saves his marriage (14:44 - 16:03)
- Video clip of Charles interviewing the Home Server team including the Niner-turned-'softire "dahat" (16:03 - 17:07)
- Visual Studio "Go To Definition" for WPF jumps to XAML in SP1, via Beth Massy (17:07 - 18:26)
- Zeep Mobile: Free (ad-supported) SMS Gateway for developers (18:26 - 20:01), via ReadWriteWeb
- Brian's Pick of the week: Microsoft Research Unwrap Mosaics let's you dynamically modify video with effects, including video clip (20:01 - 21:45)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Windows Live applications on Facebook, updating your Messenger status now can auto-update Facebook, Photozoom, and MapMate and Facebook hits 100 million users (21:45 - 23:33)

This Week on C9: Brian Keller returns, Photosynth, Olympics, EvNet source code, and more

Dan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:46:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Brian Keller who is back from his vacation in Patagonia to cover:

- His experiences in Patagonia
- Photosynth RTW's! Turn 2D photos into 3D
- Lutz Roeder: .NET Reflector moving over to Red Gate Software, via Alvin Ashcraft)
- What's the deal with Seinfeld singing the praises of Vista? (via Ars Technica)
- Charlie Calvert: Future Focus: Document Map Margin (Feedback link)
- Sara Ford: Visual Studio Tips book with 100% of author royalties going to create a scholarship fund for Waveland, Mississippi (via Greg Duncan)
- Building a simple Windows Media Center application (via Matt Hardman)
- EvNet Source code (engine that runs Channel 8/9/10/Edge release , C9 Coffeehouse to instantly branch and build a bajillion features (via Kent Sharkey)
- Silverlight Olympics stats: 250+ TB of data and 8MM installs a day (via Ars Technica)
- Video Clip with Adam Kinney where he asks follow up questions from Niners on NBCOlympics.com
- Jaime Rodriguez: Everything you ever wanted to know about the .NET Framework Client profile
- Brian's Pick of the week: Ade Miller - 100 days of Continuous Integration
- Dan's Pick of the week: Minh Channel 9 Deep Zoom (via the Coffeehouse)

This Week on C9: Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger, VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Dan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger where they cover:

- LittleGuru's first week of being a Microsoft intern
- Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 shipped
- Julia Lerman - Tips and tricks for installing VS 2008 SP1
- Scott Hanselman: Hidden Gems of .NET 3.5 SP1
- Dan and Christian share their favorite SP1 features
- Brad Abrams: Managed code can now be launched from a network share
- WPF Performance blog: Using WPF SP1 splash screens to improve precevied startup performance
Codeplex: Official WPF Codeplex project for DataGrid and other out-of-band enhancements
- Patrick Smacchia: NDepend on .NET 3.5 SP1 shows hundres of new namespaces, methods, types and more
- Lloyd Humph - Painting his office ceiling using the Channel 9 guy!
- frickinsweet: A tool to build custom Visual Studio Themes
- CodeProject: Adding wallpaper to Visual Studio
- NewScientistTech: Rat brained robots (video demo)
- Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing Vince Orgovan on Windows Vista error reporting
- Sync Framework for Windows Mobile devices CTP1
- Steve Clayton: Office Lab's PPT Plex, kind of like adding DeepZoom to PowerPoint (video demo)
- Charlie Calvert: Axialis IconWorkshop Lite Visual Studio addin available including free pre-built icon templates
- DotNetKicks: Add Windows Explorer directly into Visual Studio using free Mindscape addin.
- DevExpress releases 60 free Windows Forms and ASP.NET controls
- Steve Sinofsky launches Engineering Windows 7 blog
- Coding4Fun: Jerry Brunning's Stall Status Silverlight Sidebar gadget let's you check to if the bathroom is occupied using ZWave Home Automation.
- CodeProject: .NET wrapper for Intel's Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) library via Greg Duncan
- We learn that Christian's thesis uses OpenCV for image analysis of "adult" content
- Christian's pick of the week: Daily cartoon - Wulffmorgenthaler
- Dan's pick of the week: Rob Burke combines DeepZoom and LOL cats to build DeepLOL

This Week on C9: ASP.NET Maps, Apache, Sphere, Warcraft, and more

Dan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:25:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9 Dan and special guest host Nick Hodge (on10) is in studio where they discuss:

**Update: I accidentally linked the article "Controlling your treadmill with Silverlight to Chris Craft when it should have been Page Brooks. My apologies! (Dan)

- Nick shares his view on Flickr photos and TechReady, an internal event for the Microsoft field (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft and Facebook partnership adds Live Search to Facebook, Dan hopes that means a Live Search API too (1:45 - 2:41)
- Video Clip of Mark Brown with Angus Logan demoing the new CTP of the ASP.NET Virtual Earth server control (2:41 - 5:30)
- We finally have an Angus Logan Fan Club on Facebook to share all of our Angus Logan photos, stories and rumors (5:30 - 6:53)
*** Update: Buttons and Stickers now available courtesy of Scott Lovegrove!
- SharpMap - Free, open source GIS project on Codeplex (6:53 - 7:30)
- Sam Ramji discusses Microsoft joining the Apache Software Foundation and the new open source PHP driver for SQL Server 2005 (7:30 - 8:53)
- Mojave Experiment videos are now up (8:53 - 10:08)
- PDC 2008 August Session Updates and early bird registration ends soon (10:08 - 11:15)
- Microsoft Research: The Robotic Receptionist (11:40 - 13:00 )
- Laura Foy shows off Microsoft Sphere (13 - 14:12)
- Martin Woodward: How to build "Brian the Build Bunny" via Greg Duncan (14:12 - 16:00)
- Page Brooks - How to control your treadmill in Silverlight via Coding4Fun (16:00 - 16:25)
- Nick's Pick of the Week: The F# Programming Language (16:25 - 18:34)
- Dan's Pick of the Week Attila Kisko and Gabor Ratky demoing AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft Beta (download) (18:34 - 21:24)
- Pictures from Brian Keller in Patagonia

This Week on C9: Free 3D tools, "Mojave", Cool Visualizations, and VS 10

Dan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:01:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

- The XNA Team discusses the upcoming release Xbox LIVE Community Games where developers can make money selling games through Xbox LIVE community arcade (0 - 1:25)
- Windows Home Server releases Power Pack 1 which includes a number of improvements including fixing the data-loss bug. (1:25 - 2:37)
- Caligari's TrueSpace 3D Modeling tools are now available to download for free. You can even export to DirectX or use a converter to convert the models into XAML 3D for WPF. Check out the training videos for more info. (2:38 - 4:32)
- Last week's call for people to vote up the BabySmash feature resulted in a 588% increase and has made adding an MMO to BabySmash the #1 feature request! (4:32 - 5:15)
- The Popfly team's July update includes lots of new features including game asset pre-loading, a high-score service and more. (5:15 - 7:10)
- Effectize: 25 ASP.NET Performance Tuning Resources via DZone (7:10 - 7:54)
- Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 released, found via Greg Duncan (7:54 - 9:10)
- Clint Rutkas's To Do App is featured in Lifehacker (9:10 - 10:12)
- .NetMap Codeplex project adds easy and cool visualizations for social networks into Excel (10:12 - 11:40)
- How to use Microsoft's .NET Framework Cleanup Utility - When uninstalling fails. (11:40 - 12:50)
- 90% of XP users love Windows "Mojave" (which is really just Windows Vista), Steve Clayton shows off a preview of the new ad campaign imagery and mock Folgers crystals campaign by Saturday Night Live (12:50 - 15:05)
- Video clip from Beth Massi with the Visual Basic Design Team talking about their favorite VB features (15:05 - 16:17)
- Give your feedback on new, unreleased Visual Studio 10 features like Call Hierarchy or Searching/Navigating symbols (16:17 - 17:25)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Video clip of Brian's "High Tech Hiking" video showing Virtual Earth 3D controlled by an Xbox controller (17:25 - 19:50)
- Dan provides some helpful Spanish phrases for Brian's trip to Patagonia (19:50 - 21:18)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Crayon Cannon a Popfly/Silverlight game built by Adam Nathan (21:18 - 22:56)

This Week on C9: Netflix, Extension Methods, Debugging, oh my

Dan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:50:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover:

- Netflix streaming coming to Xbox 360 via Gizmodo (0 - 2:00)
- Roiy Zysman: Programatically geotag photos (2:00 - 3:51)
- Mark Brown: Behind the Maps Series (3:51 - 4:21)
- Terrarium open sourced on Codeplex via Bil Simser (4:21 - 7:05)
- Chris Pietschmann: Enhance Enums using Extension Methods via dotnetkicks (7:05 - 8:20)
- Karl Seguin building an open source Extensions Methods library (8:20 - 9:40)
- Video clip from Daniel Pearson using WinDBG to change Notepad data live in-memory (9:40 - 13:30)
- Production ASP.NET Debugging via HumanCompiler (13:30 - 14:20)
- 4 Free chapters from ASP.NET 3.5 for Dummies (14:20 - 15:30)
- Charles Fitzgerald on IBM and Second Life Interoperability press release (15:30 - 16:50)
- Our petition to add an MMO component to BabySmash, go to feedback.babysmash.com. (16:50 - 18:25)
- Wisemx and Littleguru get prizes for helping Brian understand lambdas (18:25 - 19:02)
- Brian's pick of the week: Brian Harry posts on Team Foundation Server Power Tools (19:02 - 20:35)
- Dan's pick of the week: Graffiti Research Labs C++ Laser Tag application with the hope that Brian Peek builds this with a Wiimote (20:35 - 21:33)
- Video clip of C++ Laser tag in action - full YouTube video (21:33 - end)

This Week on C9: Imagine Cup, hosted services, C# 4.0, and ASP.NET tips

Dan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:03:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

- Microsoft announces Hosted Online services at Worldwide Partner Conference including Exchange, Communication Server, Sharepoint and more via ReadWriteWeb (0 - 2:20)
- Microsoft launches NGO site for non-profit organizations including details on getting free or discounted software grants from Microsoft via Tom Murphy (2:20 - 3:22)
- Team SOAK wins the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational including a video clip of their winning project with Max Zuckerman from Channel 8. (3:22 - 5:05)
- Video clip of Charles Torre dropping into the C# Language design team meeting and what the three broad themes are for C# in the future (5:05 - 7:05)
- Brian Keller asks for help on understanding lambdas (7:05 - 7:10)
- Useful ASP.NET snippet wiki via Mark Smith (7:10 - 7:56)
- Blogfodder - List of free open source ASP.NET applications (7:56 - 8:49)
- .NET Developer Reference Cards list from Alvin Ashcraft(7:49 - 9:25)
- Info-Q Anti-Patterns for REST services (9:25 - 10:47)
- Scott Mitchell's tip to speed up Firefox local development with Visual Studio (10:47 - 12:30)
- Remove browser auto-complete for password fields via DZone (12:30 - 13:26)
- AnkhSVN 2.0 RTMs and includes VS2008 support via Greg Duncan (13:26 - 14:23)
- CodeProject article to create a WPF Lunar Lander game using a 3D model built in Blender and exported to XAML (14:23 - 15:10)
- Trossen Robotics Mindsensors - 3rd Party sensors for Lego Mindstorms NXT (15:10 - 16:00)
- Codeplex - Skinnable Zune Minesweeper example using XNA (16:00 - 16:47)
- Mindsweeper the movie (16:47)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Brian Harry gets tickled by a Rosario feature: hierarchical work items in Team Foundation Server "Rosario" (16:47 - 19:10)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Technology to intercept and forward satellite phone calls helps release Ingrid Betancourt (after six years of captivitity), 3 Americans, and 11 Colombian soldiers from Colombian leftists (19:10 - end)

This Week on C9: Fireworks, Powerset, Equipt, Pex, and cool downloads

Dan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:10:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian go through the week's news and celebrate the 4th of July (American Independence Day):

- Shooting Roman Candles at a video camera with a fireproof screen
- Microsoft acquires Powerset, a natural language search company
- Microsoft announces Equipt, a $70/year subscription to Microsoft Office that includes three Office licenses and OneCare (via ReadWriteWeb.com)
- Imagine Cup 2008 Finals are taking place in France and Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com is competing (via Liveside.net)
- Video by Jason Sobel from Facebook's infrastructure team on how Facebook supports billions of photos(via James Hamilton)
- Video clip of Brian interviewing the researchers building "Pex" a new tool for automated exploratory testing
- Video clip of Amanda Silver on making tough feature cuts for Visual Basic 2008
- New, cool 3D XNA Starter Kit: Robot Game, available for download for Creator's Club subscribers
- Bart de Smet's blog post: A Lap around "Velocity"
- Sandcastle source code published to Codeplex (via Todd Mancini)
- New PDC Sessions updated on MicrosoftPDC.com
- Andy Konkel's Coding4Fun article: BlueBoss, Bluetooth Proximity Detection
- How Stuff Works: How Fireworks work
- Dan's Pick of the week: Erik Klimczak: Coding4Fun: WPF Custom Screensaver Art
- Brian's Pick of the week: Nick Berardi's analysis on male/female ratio's for developer bloggers (Phil Haack wins!)
- After the credits, Roman candle test failure