This week on C9: Get paid for open source, Azure for dating, debugging and naming lore

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jun 19th @ 5:41 PM | 52,544 Views | 6 Comments
This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the top developer news, including:

- Microsoft Security Essentials (previously code-named Morro)
- Peli de Halleux - New Release of CHESS with data race detection (video)
- Quan To - How to deploy a toolbox control using VSIX for Visual Studio 2010
- Codeplex Updates - Project owners option to receive advertising revenue (details), Code snippet support, more wiki formatting options
- Habib Heydarian - Import/Export Breakpoints in Visual Studio 2010
- Tess Ferandez - Debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010
- Microsoft Product Naming Lore (courtesy of Jason Zander)
  - Visual Basic 1.0 was codenamed "Thunder"
  - The CLR Team was codenamed "Lightning"
  - The NTSD extension to bootstrap v1.0 was called "Strike"
  - The WinDBG extension for managed code was named "Son of Strike" but known to customers as SOS
- Gunnar Piepman - Visual Studio 2010 Web.Config transforms to change based on your environment (Dev vs Production)
- Will Tschumy - Photobucket Visual Search Launches (try it)
- Jeff Atwood, CodingHorror - Busting the Digg.com Frame and other site framers
- Clint Rutkas - Transferring Photoshop to XAML 
- W3bbo - C9 Coffeehouse - Volunteers for fully managed 7-Zip C# Library
- TeamDevCentral provides free trial hosting for Team Foundation Server 2008 

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick of the week: Brandon Bloom - XBOX LIVE Avatar Punch-out
- Brian's pick of the week: Steve Marx - Azure application, the CIA pickup (video), helping you get a date 
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#Jun 20th @ 3:57 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Hey, the Silverlight player was fixed for widescreen videos. Awesome job.

#Jun 20th @ 4:37 AM
CKurt
CKurt
while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

You have got to love the CIA Pickup app Tongue Out

#Jun 20th @ 8:01 AM
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle

Hahahaha... the CIA stuff is really fun! Smiley

#Jun 20th @ 8:57 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

The CIA thing is awesome, but personally, punching those annoyingly smug avatars in the face takes precedence over picking up girls. Amazing!

#Jun 20th @ 9:01 AM
Koogle
Koogle
I'm a Terminator - Astalavista, Vis7a!

lol the CIA pickup, very sneaky Big Smile .. I wonder how many here will try it out.

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