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

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Aug 15th, 2008 @ 4:08 PM | 71,743 Views | 24 Comments
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
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#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 4:15 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
LittleGuru!!! Right on! Two weeks, two Niners. Man, I like this pattern.

Smiley
C
#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 4:42 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Wow. I wish I knew about the not having to uninstall Visual Studio Express thing before doing the uninstall Visual Studio Express thing.
#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 5:52 PM
Lloyd_Humph
Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.
I now know why Chris never became a singer Smiley

I'll definately be checking out the customizer thing, I would love it if VS emulated the way Blend looks! Rat brained robots is a little weird.

I read this thing about Unit 371 (I think - a Japanese experiment similar to the Názi experiments) where they kept a dogs head alive.. this reminded me of that, I suppose it's sortof in reverse Smiley

Awesome show, as usual. First time I've been able to comment though! Smiley For some reason it wouldn't work before :\
#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 6:19 PM
wisemx
wisemx
Live it
Cool stuff guys. Big Smile
#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 10:49 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Oh dear lord... he even put the video in (where we sing). My accent is getting better - hah!

It was really awesome to be part of the show. I hope I can join another time again Smiley
#Aug 15th, 2008 @ 11:33 PM
Dan
Dan
 I would love it if VS emulated the way Blend looks

I couldn't agree more, my personal wish is that they unite the WPF designer teams so that VS gets all the niceties of Expression Blend rather than having to jump from one product to another to get things like IntelliSense and statement completion versus better designers, better resource support, etc
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 5:02 AM
Dovella
Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!
Go Christian Go!!!! Wink
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 6:28 AM
Ion Todirel
Ion Todirel
buuu
haha, Christian's accent is very funny Smiley nice video, rock on!
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