This Week on Channel 9: Feb 22 with Ed Kaim!

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 11:31 AM | 13,457 Views | 15 Comments

"Special" guest host Ed Kaim is in the studio as Dan is down covering GDC.

This week's episode includes

- Microsoft announces DreamSpark - Free software for students
- Max Zuckerman interviews Bill Gates on what he would do if he was 17 again.
- XNA announces Community Arcade which enables anyone to submit a game, get it peer-reviewed, and shared with the Xbox Live community
- XNA also announced that you'll be able to build games for Zune with XNA Game Studio 3.0 including wireless multiplayer
- Xbox also announced that publishers who have an XDK will now have access to a set of XNA APIs that enable leaderboard, matchmaking, achievements, and more, found via Greg Duncan
- Windows Live SkyDrive is out of beta and increased it's size to 5GB. Also see Angus Logan's Blog and http://dev.live.com.
- VS DB Pro team releases Power Tools - custom data generators, SQL Static analysis, data generation wizard, and more, via Gert Drapers
- Visualize LINQ Expression Evaluation - Utility that enables you to visually see and step through LINQ expressions from John Skeet
- Brian's pick of the week: William Stacey fixes the VS SLN problem with 1 line of PowerShell
- Ed's Pick of the week: Nikhil Kothari's Script#
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#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 12:25 PM
mawcc
mawcc
Make it so
Can we please have achievements for all C9 videos Wink
#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 1:44 PM
anguslogan
anguslogan

Ed mentioned me but they left a link out of the show notes.

Angus Logan's Blog and http://dev.live.com

#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 2:23 PM
briankel
briankel
anguslogan wrote:


Ed mentioned me but they left a link out of the show notes.

Angus Logan's Blog and http://dev.live.com



Dude what are you talking about? It's there! Wink

I just added it. Sorry for the oversight. "They" would be "Dan" who, as you saw, is having way too much fun this week.

Brian
#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 3:41 PM
ggponti
ggponti
Can we have a feed for the MP3, possibly tagged? Cool
#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 4:57 PM
gitwitguy
gitwitguy
mawcc wrote:
Can we please have achievements for all C9 videos


+1!!
#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 8:32 PM
mswanson
mswanson
Thanks for mentioning Show Off at MIX08, Brian.

If you have something cool that would wow your peers, we'd love to see a short video of it. You don't have to attend MIX08 to win. The audience will pick three winners. More details on the Show Off page: http://visitmix.com/2008/showoff/
#Feb 22nd, 2008 @ 10:13 PM
FireGarden
FireGarden
The Business of Software
If I met you two gay cow boys in a bar I would kick both your asses.
#Feb 23rd, 2008 @ 1:03 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Awesome show Smiley I like the jokes your guys put into it... Super Mario Land rox0rz!
#Feb 23rd, 2008 @ 3:27 PM
JChung2006
JChung2006
FireGarden wrote:
If I met you two gay cow boys in a bar I would kick both your asses.

You hang out in a lot of gay cowboy bars, Firegarden?
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