This Week on C9: Free 3D tools, "Mojave", Cool Visualizations, and VS 10
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This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:
- The XNA Team discusses the upcoming release Xbox LIVE Community Games where developers can make money selling games through Xbox LIVE community arcade (0 - 1:25)
- Windows Home Server releases Power Pack 1 which includes a number of improvements including fixing the data-loss bug. (1:25 - 2:37)
- Caligari's TrueSpace 3D Modeling tools are now available to download for free. You can even export to DirectX or use a converter to convert the models into XAML 3D for WPF. Check out the training videos for more info. (2:38 - 4:32)
- Last week's call for people to vote up the BabySmash feature resulted in a 588% increase and has made adding an MMO to BabySmash the #1 feature request! (4:32 - 5:15)
- The Popfly team's July update includes lots of new features including game asset pre-loading, a high-score service and more. (5:15 - 7:10)
- Effectize: 25 ASP.NET Performance Tuning Resources via DZone (7:10 - 7:54)
- Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 released, found via Greg Duncan (7:54 - 9:10)
- Clint Rutkas's To Do App is featured in Lifehacker (9:10 - 10:12)
- .NetMap Codeplex project adds easy and cool visualizations for social networks into Excel (10:12 - 11:40)
- How to use Microsoft's .NET Framework Cleanup Utility - When uninstalling fails. (11:40 - 12:50)
- 90% of XP users love Windows "Mojave" (which is really just Windows Vista), Steve Clayton shows off a preview of the new ad campaign imagery and mock Folgers crystals campaign by Saturday Night Live (12:50 - 15:05)
- Video clip from Beth Massi with the Visual Basic Design Team talking about their favorite VB features (15:05 - 16:17)
- Give your feedback on new, unreleased Visual Studio 10 features like Call Hierarchy or Searching/Navigating symbols (16:17 - 17:25)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Video clip of Brian's "High Tech Hiking" video showing Virtual Earth 3D controlled by an Xbox controller (17:25 - 19:50)
- Dan provides some helpful Spanish phrases for Brian's trip to Patagonia (19:50 - 21:18)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Crayon Cannon a Popfly/Silverlight game built by Adam Nathan (21:18 - 22:56)
- The XNA Team discusses the upcoming release Xbox LIVE Community Games where developers can make money selling games through Xbox LIVE community arcade (0 - 1:25)
- Windows Home Server releases Power Pack 1 which includes a number of improvements including fixing the data-loss bug. (1:25 - 2:37)
- Caligari's TrueSpace 3D Modeling tools are now available to download for free. You can even export to DirectX or use a converter to convert the models into XAML 3D for WPF. Check out the training videos for more info. (2:38 - 4:32)
- Last week's call for people to vote up the BabySmash feature resulted in a 588% increase and has made adding an MMO to BabySmash the #1 feature request! (4:32 - 5:15)
- The Popfly team's July update includes lots of new features including game asset pre-loading, a high-score service and more. (5:15 - 7:10)
- Effectize: 25 ASP.NET Performance Tuning Resources via DZone (7:10 - 7:54)
- Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 released, found via Greg Duncan (7:54 - 9:10)
- Clint Rutkas's To Do App is featured in Lifehacker (9:10 - 10:12)
- .NetMap Codeplex project adds easy and cool visualizations for social networks into Excel (10:12 - 11:40)
- How to use Microsoft's .NET Framework Cleanup Utility - When uninstalling fails. (11:40 - 12:50)
- 90% of XP users love Windows "Mojave" (which is really just Windows Vista), Steve Clayton shows off a preview of the new ad campaign imagery and mock Folgers crystals campaign by Saturday Night Live (12:50 - 15:05)
- Video clip from Beth Massi with the Visual Basic Design Team talking about their favorite VB features (15:05 - 16:17)
- Give your feedback on new, unreleased Visual Studio 10 features like Call Hierarchy or Searching/Navigating symbols (16:17 - 17:25)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Video clip of Brian's "High Tech Hiking" video showing Virtual Earth 3D controlled by an Xbox controller (17:25 - 19:50)
- Dan provides some helpful Spanish phrases for Brian's trip to Patagonia (19:50 - 21:18)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Crayon Cannon a Popfly/Silverlight game built by Adam Nathan (21:18 - 22:56)
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I'm not sure I would classify potential customers as "incredibly dense", but it was just regular Vista. Maybe they changed it to using a new wallpaper with a build number in the corner
Please, pretty please with sugar on it, give VS better local to remote FTP features.
Amen, couldn't agree more, Wix is good if you have the time to learn it, but so many shops are instead using paying for installers (Wise, Installshield, etc)
I'd push the aspiration a bit further and say we should have xcopy installation for Visual Studio (see Eclipse).
I'd also add that if we can add xcopy installation for VS, let's build out the technology/framework/tools so that *anyone* can build xcopy applications (see Apple).
I'd also throw in that we need a much more flexible way to update software (see Firefox updater).
On the other hand, there are a lot of stupidities and complexities going on inside an msi package that makes it impossible to create a quick installation package.
Submitted 4 years ago: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=114408
Microsoft has a tough job, making a product that works right for millions, but people's data is their baby pictures, email, finances,etc.
Something that should be treated with respect.
-dp
el Lobo malo
I didn't mean to offend, I was trying to be humorous about the absurdity of blowing off an important bug. As someone who did lose data personally from Windows Home Server, I know how bad it is!
If an application is xcopyable, you can distribute it through Active Directory as well. I agree with you that application updates are key too, I want xcopy deployment and auto-updates. I want to be able to copy all my apps onto a USB drive and paste them onto a new PC and have everything "just work."
I don't know, I lost stuff due to that bug, but I figured I could see the tongue-in-cheekness there.
I agree with you that it's work, but I'd like the work to not be on porting VS, but rather enabling Reg-free, Xcopy-able COM. No re-writes, no degradation in features (per user settings still work), etc
I'm not saying I know how it should be built(clearly some general purpose abstraction layer for COM and the registry though), but rather that we do need it and every Windows application could benefit by making it "just work."
What I get frustrated by is that we attempt to instead make incremental improvements versus making big bets to completely overhaul something that is painful to all Windows developers. Worse yet, there are plenty of examples (Apple, Firefox, etc) where we could dramatically overhaul our installer technology.
btw. it seems that the MMO feature for BabySmash has been declined! How could that happend??
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