This Week on C9: TechFest, Windows 7, Dev Tools, and WPF in Visual Studio 2010
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This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss:
- Microsoft TechFest
- TechFest Project: Dynamically combine video streams (think photostitch for video)
- TechFest Project: Social Desktop - Make everything on your PC a URL like the Web
- Engineering 7 Blog: 36 Changes from Beta to Release Candidate
- New Windows 7 Feature: Trigger Start Services, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Charles Torre video on IE8 Dev Tools
- T4 Template tutorial for ASP.NET MVC Developers, via DotNetKicks
- Peli de Halleux video on Code Contracts - Now part of the .NET Framework 4.0
- Visual Studio 2010 loves WPF (and multiple monitors)
- Family.Show - A WPF Reference Application
- Josh Smith video - Implementing MVVM in WPF
- Sasha Barber's Sonic: Searchable Media Library Code Sample using MVVM and WPF
- Brian's Pick of the Week: TFS Plus - Lots of useful features for TFS
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Nintender - An open source Nintendo emulator in C#, it's a work in progress, but still cool
- Microsoft TechFest
- TechFest Project: Dynamically combine video streams (think photostitch for video)
- TechFest Project: Social Desktop - Make everything on your PC a URL like the Web
- Engineering 7 Blog: 36 Changes from Beta to Release Candidate
- New Windows 7 Feature: Trigger Start Services, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Charles Torre video on IE8 Dev Tools
- T4 Template tutorial for ASP.NET MVC Developers, via DotNetKicks
- Peli de Halleux video on Code Contracts - Now part of the .NET Framework 4.0
- Visual Studio 2010 loves WPF (and multiple monitors)
- Family.Show - A WPF Reference Application
- Josh Smith video - Implementing MVVM in WPF
- Sasha Barber's Sonic: Searchable Media Library Code Sample using MVVM and WPF
- Brian's Pick of the Week: TFS Plus - Lots of useful features for TFS
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Nintender - An open source Nintendo emulator in C#, it's a work in progress, but still cool
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Nice episode (as usual), but you're not entirely right about multi-monitor support being new in VS 2010. The scenario you guys explained (about dragging tool windows to another screen) has been possible since forever. At work, I usually run Visual Studio 2005 maximized on my primary screen, with a bunch of tool windows (Solution Explorer, Document Outline, Toolbox, ...) filling my secondary screen. What's new in VS 2010 is that now you can not only drag tool windows around, but also document windows. In previous versions, the document tabs were confined to a single rectangle. You could arrange them horizontally or vertically, but only within that rectangle.
The first tip I want to give ALL developers to massively improve their productivity, no matter what environment they use, is to use at least 2 monitors. Until you use more than 1 monitor, you have no idea what an impact it has. I've been using 2 monitors at work for about 2 years, and sometimes I feel the need for even more screen real estate.
I have 2 screens set up similarly at work (VS2005) -- now I want two widescreens ...
Nice episode, as ever.
Herbie
Nice show again. I should give Family.show (and genealogy) another go. Ever since I found out that there was a famous 18th century sideshow midget with my family name, I've been wanting to find out if he's related...
That was the mighty Sinclair Spectrum that they emulated in Silverlight!
I have two screens at work, and I nearly never use the secondary monitor. I just plain forget to use it.
I think the main problem is that I'm using my laptop connected to an external screen. The laptop sits to the right and its monitor is the secondary monitor. Because I need to leave room for my mouse, it sits rather far back, making text on that screen too small to read comfortably. There is no other place I can put it, and no way to increase font size on just that screen (DPI should really be a per screen setting, but I can understand the technical reasons why this isn't the case).
Another great episode, Dan and Brian. Thanks.
C
good show guys.
C
It's not great with a laptop but it's perfect on desktop systems.
Photoshop, Illustrator, Reason etc. have SO many tool pallets that it's almost a necessity.
@charles gonna have to try that 90 degree trick myself - seems useful!
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