This Week on C9: IE8 and Popfly Betas, WPF tools and apps, SP1 improvements and more

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Aug 29th, 2008 @ 3:38 PM | 66,190 Views | 11 Comments

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This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover this week's news and videos including:

- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 available for download - (0:00 - 4:15)
- Popfly Game Creator goes from alpha to beta (4:15 - 5:32)
- Free eBook: Data Structures and Algorithms by Granville Barnett and Luca del Tongo (5:32 - 6:32)
- Lester Lobo's XAMLPadX 4.0 released, via Alvin Ashcraft (6:32 - 7:17)
- Charles Petzold shows Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D (7:17 - 8:04)
SP1 .NET Fx (8:04 - 9:25)
- Demo of Office Labs Chart Advisor (download) (9:25 - 11:03)
- Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing the Channel 8,9,10, and Edge team (11:03 - 13:11)
- Video clip of Adam Kinney with Matthew Allbee showing off Lawson Smart Office (13:11 - 14:44)
- Scott Hanselman - Windows Home Server saves his marriage (14:44 - 16:03)
- Video clip of Charles interviewing the Home Server team including the Niner-turned-'softire "dahat" (16:03 - 17:07)
- Visual Studio "Go To Definition" for WPF jumps to XAML in SP1, via Beth Massy (17:07 - 18:26)
- Zeep Mobile: Free (ad-supported) SMS Gateway for developers (18:26 - 20:01), via ReadWriteWeb
- Brian's Pick of the week: Microsoft Research Unwrap Mosaics let's you dynamically modify video with effects, including video clip (20:01 - 21:45)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Windows Live applications on Facebook, updating your Messenger status now can auto-update Facebook, Photozoom, and MapMate and Facebook hits 100 million users (21:45 - 23:33)

Rating:

littleguru
summer time! aperol spritz dreaming...

Nooooooooohhh!!! Brian shaved

Cool show guys! Smiley

Great picks of the week.

Btw. what happened to the small C9 guy?

HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

In reply to littleguru

#Aug 29th, 2008 @ 3:42 PM

Looks like he's practicing being a hologram (reflecting off of the laptop).

Dan

In reply to littleguru

#Aug 29th, 2008 @ 3:42 PM

I finally got a new laptop though Smiley

Specs here in case anyone is interested. I am digging it and as Erik pointed out, it's quite shiny Smiley

littleguru
summer time! aperol spritz dreaming...

In reply to Dan

#Aug 29th, 2008 @ 9:42 PM

Way to go! What happened to your old notebook, now that you have the new one?

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Sadly, I'm expecting webslices to fail horribly simply because nobody is going to implement them. I mean, look at ebay. Why do you have to go to a special search page? Why didn't they just render all auction pages with web slices? If the number one example that's always given for webslices doesn't even feature them by default, what's that going to say for the rest of the web?

I don't know. The popularity of this feature relies on broad implementation, and so far, I'm not seeing any indications of that happening.

Clofny

This guy, Dan, is very irritating. This interrups the presentation. Now, it's more or less a mad-man-show, with one word: "cool". That's not informative, sorry.

Dan

In reply to littleguru

#Aug 30th, 2008 @ 6:03 AM

I have to give it back as it's actually a loaner given that my Dell 1330 was...unsound. A team normally keeps an extra laptop so if someone's laptop dies, they can have use the loaner.

Dan

In reply to Bas

#Aug 31st, 2008 @ 8:02 AM

Good points, IE8 certainly has lots of work ahead for them. My biggest wish would be to be able to have a great extensibility model using managed code and built-in support in Visual Studio for building/debugging addins.

Dan

In reply to Clofny

#Aug 31st, 2008 @ 11:37 PM

LOL,

more or less a mad-man-show
This is our goal Smiley

Brian and I interrupt each other is because one of us knows a story deeper than another,

...with one word: "cool". That's not informative
Hmm, not quite, on Popfly I gave my personal view and pain on using custom audio, I explained how the data structures and algorithms book is a bit different in that it covers pseudocode, or how massive the changes were to NGen for SP1, all in the first nine minutes.