This Week C9: Windows 7 RTMs, 7 Sins of App Compat, & cool Silverlight apps

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jul 24th @ 6:22 PM | 55,104 Views | 4 Comments
This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- Brandon LeBlanc -  Windows Team Blog - Video snippet of Steve Ballmer signing Windows 7 Gold Disc
- Michael Fortin - Windows 7 Efficiency
- Yochay Kiriaty - Ensuring your application is ready for Windows 7 RTM, including: 
    - Windows 7 Quality Cookbook
    - The seven sins on Windows 7 application compatibility
    - Optimizing for Windows 7
- 3 Developer Questions for Windows 7
    - Build Number:
    - .NET Framework version: 3.5 SP1
    - Default User Agent:
    - Silverlight Installed: No
- Windows 7 availability
- Microsoft contributes code to the Linux kernel
- James Clarke - Expression Encoder available for download, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen - Gestalt: Ruby/Python in HTML & Silverlight
- Nikhil Kothari - Silverlight.FX updated for SL 3, includes App framework, UI controls, effects/transitions
- Silverlight Toolkit updated (live demo) - Includes data visualization (TreeMap!), controls, theming, and more, via Greg Duncan
- Robby Ingebretsen - Free Silverlight Simple Styles
- Pete Brown - Silverlight Audio Synthesizer
- Roger Guess - Coding4Fun - Build a Simple Shooter Silverlight game
- Larry Larsen - Photosynths of Apollo 11,12,  & 17 Campsites
- Rick Strahl - CodePaste.NET - TwitPic for code - Lets you paste/share code snippets over Twitter/comments, etc, via Greg Duncan
- SFW pictures from Scott Hanselman Avatar Weekend on Twitter

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Ben Anderson & Adam Nathan - Coding4Fun - Popfly Game Downloader - Download games before August 24th and play them forever
- Brian's pick: 10-4 Episode on the Historical Debugger
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#Jul 25th @ 2:13 AM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw

my pick of the week is the Rx framework that was dropped stealthily  (by accident?) inside the sliverlight toolkit tests Smiley

check out this thread for details

http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/480432-Rx-reactive-framework/

#Jul 25th @ 1:44 PM
CrispYY
CrispYY

Yeah! Finally widescreen slides! Enjoyable Smiley But why is the video 4:3? 

Anyway;

 

I already use Windows 7 RC. It's awesome. I'm totaly look forward to the final version. It's so long 'till the public release Tongue Out

#Jul 29th @ 11:40 AM
finches
finches

I was under the impression that you didn't need Win7 ultimate for media center. 

#Jul 29th @ 6:09 PM
briankel
briankel

Finches,

You're right, there are some other editions which come with it as well. The Windows marketing site has more.

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