This Week on C9: Win 7 Taskbar, the art of debugging, WPF, and the end of the world?

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Feb 13th @ 9:15 PM | 50,446 Views | 5 Comments
This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss this week's developer news, including:

- Moonlight 1.0 goes live
- Lots of cool Windows 7 Taskbar API Samples
- WPF Data Binding Cheat Sheet, via .NET Kicks
- Rudi Grobler: WPF Themes Project Updated
- Bruno Terkaly: 10 Part series on the Art of Debugging, via Greg Duncan
- New features coming for Web deployment with VS 2010 & IIS
- Tina Wood's new series on Channel 9, The History of Microsoft
- In the Coffeehouse: Jamie builds some amazing Microsoft + Channel 9 designs
- Smashing Magazine features Channel 9 as an example of what to do in their 10 Harsh Truths about Corporate Web Sites
- Scott Hanselman: List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers (with a shoutout to This Week on C9!)
- Mix 10K Challenge community voting is live until Feb 16th
- Laura Foy launches the Microsoft Guide to Valentine's Day
- Brian's pick of the week: On Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30 UTC, epoch time will offically be 1234567890
- Dan's pick of the week Mark Heath's Coding4Fun project, a Skype Voice Changer that can mask your voice on Skype (watch video demo)
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#Feb 13th @ 10:40 PM
jamie
jamie
cool - thanks guys
re- old ms ads
"are they as bad as our current advertising?"

haha  - good one brian
#Feb 14th @ 3:09 AM
Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
The end is hilarious Big Smile

Just one thing, I don't get the thing about 1234465560 = 'Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:06:00 UTC'
and for the record, world ends epoch 1236907890 and starts all over again in another reality Smiley
#Feb 14th @ 8:49 AM
Dan
Dan
Sorry for the confusion, that was a screenshot of http://coolepochcountdown.com/ which was counting down (technically up) the time to 1234567890 Smiley

Now what date/time is 1236907890?
#Feb 14th @ 12:14 PM
Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)
Ah, ok

1236907890 is Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:31:30 UTC because February is actually the last month of the year, which means we're actually still in 2008 they just changed the months somewhen, dunno when, and sice the world ends on a Friday 13th in 2009... or not... it just happens to be my 20th birthday, nothing special, but I'm still getting the feeling world ends that day, since I also know someone turning 50 the same day, it's very odd...

Actually world ends for real on Friday, 22 Dec 2282 20:13:30 UTC, which is counting down epoch "9876543210" and since we're all dead by then anyway, nothing to really worry about Smiley
#Feb 15th @ 11:22 PM
bradutz01
bradutz01
At, http://www.xamltemplates.net you can see lots of styels for all the wpf controls, let me know what you think.
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