This Week C9: NFL goes Silverlight, VS 2010 features, new freebies

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Sep 11th @ 9:23 AM | 40,626 Views | 10 Comments
This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the top developer news including:

- NFL debuts Silverlight streaming of football games
- CodePlex adds Editor role, Work Item Notifications and recommended downloads
- Soma - Doloto, a tool to decrease the initial download size of AJAX applications (46% average savings for popular sites) 
- Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (Firefox requires full Expression Web)
- David Hayden - xUnit 1.5 released - 64-bit, MVC 1, MVC 2 Preview 1
- Larry Larsen - Build your own 3D video for $350
- Brian Keller - Zoom-in/Zoom-out with Visual Studio Editor
- 10-4 Show - Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 7, MEF now includes Silverlight support (CodePlex)
- Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET, HTML, and JavaScript snippets in Visual Studio 2010
- Free Visual Studio Extensibility Summit
- Martin Woodward *EDIT the cost was incorrectly discussed as free, the real cost is $10/user/month*,  Hosted TFS for $10/user/month if you're in BizSpark
- DZone ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Ref Card
- Coding4Fun - Giovanni Montrone (aka Brian Peek's friend) - Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application

Picks of the week:
 - Brian's pick: Telerik release free TFS Work Item Manager & Project Dashboard, via Joel Semeniuk
 - Dan's pick: Dust: An Elysian Tail wins the Dream.Build.Play XNA Competition, watch the trailer for the winning game or trailers for other entries
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#Sep 11th @ 12:08 PM
wisnia
wisnia
Tomasz Wisniewski

Good to know that VS 2010 B2 will have the keyboard shortcut for the zooming feature. Once I was looking for it everywhere and couldn’t find but now I know I just wasn’t here Big Smile

#Sep 11th @ 1:29 PM
pjhacker
pjhacker

Guys. You need to update the site. The TFS offer is $10.00 USD per user per month if you are in BizSpark. We offer no free TFS hosting.

 

Thanks

 

-paul

#Sep 11th @ 1:46 PM
Dan
Dan

Hey Paul, apologies for this, we read Martin's post incorrectly, this was our fault and we've updated the description.

 

Apologies again,

-Dan

#Sep 11th @ 3:56 PM
gbrayut
gbrayut

We are an ASP.NET shop and have created automated functional tests using WatiN to drive the browser, MbUnit as the testing framework, and Gallio as the test runner. WatiN lets you test a site exactly as it appears in the browser (IE, with Firefox and Chome in beta) and MbUnit/Gallio let you create great reports that include screenshots and rich text formatting. Highly recommended.

 

http://www.theroamingcoder.com/node/22

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2007/12/watin-integration-into-mbunitgallio.html

 

#Sep 12th @ 12:59 AM
Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

Hey, can you stop letterboxing the WMV videos? Those black borders are annoying and I don't know of any devices that have problems with widescreen WMV9 playback.

#Sep 12th @ 8:57 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

How do I go about figuring out why I can't download any C9 videos anymore? It only works on my Windows 7 machine, not on my (Vista) notebook in the same network where it worked just fine only a few weeks ago.

#Sep 12th @ 5:01 PM
Dan
Dan

Interesting stuff, I'll look into it Smiley

#Sep 13th @ 12:02 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle

Loved it! Smiley The Dream.Build.Play games look all nice! Sweet competition.

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