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 | 71,767 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 16th, 2008 @ 6:31 AM
Ion Todirel
Ion Todirel
buuu
actually I like how it looks now, there are so many things that needs to be fixed, how it looks is the last of them... there is place for improvements of course, but just copying Blend who has an awful UI is just plain crazy, improve performance, there is not time for play, I would say...
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 8:48 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
It's my own unique accent Big Smile It took me forever to mix it together Tongue Out
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 9:41 AM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
So, that's what littleguru looks like when he's not wearing a dress Smiley
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 11:21 AM
vesuvius
vesuvius
Das Glasperlenspiel
He speaks Italian, English, German fluently and some other Italian regional dialects, you?
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 11:47 AM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...
The Wow starts now!  Think the wow campaign should have been saved for SP1.

fx 3.5 sp1 and VSsp1 are amazing so far.  Astoria, new web services, Entity framework, designers, Dynamic Data, sql 2008 support, and the list goes on.  I remember watching these things grow on C9 over the years, but having them all come together in this SP release is just amazing to see and finally have.  Now I just need another 6 months to learn all this stuff...  Great job MS and congrats!
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 12:16 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...
How is it VS does not show the MindScape Explorer as an installed Add-in?
#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 5:11 PM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle

The jokes are really really awesome. Smiley I love them! Crakes me up each morning.

#Aug 16th, 2008 @ 8:15 PM
jamie
jamie
haha excellent ... BIG guru!

* so ray ozzie has been at the fish market eh... hopefully not jackson fish market Tongue Out
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