This Week on C9: Charles Torre on camera, C9 turns 5, and lots of freebies

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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by special guest Charles Torre! This week we discuss

- Channel 9 turns 5 Years old and Jamie builds some 5-year anniversary wallpapers

- Nic Fillingham’s Flickr photos from the 5-year anniversary cake

- Where Dan, Brian and Charles were five years ago

Developer News
- Download SQL Server 2008 SP1

- Velocity Team - Velocity CTP3 now available(Download)

- Jesse Liberty – VideoWiki Open Silverlight 3 Project

- Jeroen Ritmeijer - Integrating TextGlow (Silverlight Open XML viewer) into Sharepoint

-  Yochay Kiriaty – Walkthrough of the Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library
- Update to free Azure Services Training Kit and Azure Services Management Tools

- Mohammad Khosravi – CodeProject Range Finder app, via Greg Duncan

- Jon Galloway - Troubleshooting an intermittent .NET High CPU problem

- Bill Ramos - SQL Management Studio Tips Part 1 and Part 2

- Adam Kinney – Video demo of Silverlight Spy to Visually Debug Silverlight applications

- SourceGear - DiffMerge available (free)

- RedGate offers Illustrated C# 2008 eBook for free, via Stefano Mapelli

Picks of the week
- Charles's pick of the week: Jonathan Shapiro, creator of EROS and BitC projects, was hired by Microsoft
- Brian’s pick of the week: Correction on features coming in XNA from Michael Klucher

-Dan’s pick of the week: Silverlight-based Future Desktop in Silverlight (blog post, Codeplex project), via Rishi Oberi