This week on C9: Windows 7, WPF futures, and use UI testing to automate your job (Channel 9)

This week on C9: Windows 7, WPF futures, and use UI testing to automate your job

Posted: May 09, 2009 at 2:25 AM

By: Brian Keller

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This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the top developer news, including:

- Windows 7 RC is available to download now
- Yochay Kiriaty Windows 7 videos
- Windows 7 Taskbar: Changes from Beta to RC
- Windows 7 Taskbar: Advanced Features
- Windows 7 Multi Touch: Overview
- Windows 7 Multi-Touch: Part 1
- Windows 7 Multi-Touch: Part 2

- Windows SDK and Windows API Code Pack for the .NET Framework available, via Tim Sneath's Developers Guide to Preparing for Windows 7
- Michael Scherotter - New York Times Silverlight SDK
- Bill Buxton - On Engineering and Design - an Open Letter
- Silverlight blog: Expression Gallery to share images, WPF themes, CSS templates, XAML behaviors, and more
- Frank La Vigne - Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3, via Alvin Ashcraft
- WPF Futures released on Codeplex, includes Shader Effects, Splash Screen, Client Profile Configuration Designer, WPF Themes, M-V-VM Toolkit, via Lester Lobo
- Ayende Rahien - Are Util & Common libraries evil?
- Brian Peek: How to configure your device emulator to work after adding Windows Virtual PC to Windows 7 RC
- VS Gesture project, via Greg Duncan, and discussion on how you could Multi Touch enable Visual Studio
- Code Project: Improve performance of calculating image sizes using a binary reader
- Silverlight Blog - NBC Olympics wins an Emmy with Silverlight for Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage.
- Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger becomes a Microsoft employee!
- Brian's pick of the week - 10-4 episode on Functional UI Testing and discussion how you can use it to fake working
- Dan's pick of the week: Coding4Fun: Dan Waters article on Building Multiplayer Texas Hold 'Em Poker for the Zune

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raul.andrisan

May 09, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Guys, i think you need to reencode the video, because the quality is really bad: everything is doubled, in all the qualities. I cannot understand anything from the text on the sites, especially in HQ WMV version.
littleguru <3 Seattle

May 11, 2009 at 2:56 AM

Hahaha! Thanks for the announcement

Nice picks of the week this week guys!
briankel

May 11, 2009 at 10:54 AM

Thanks, Raul; yes we know it's a problem and I've got a request in to the studio techs for a re-encode. As you can tell from the backdrop the studio is going through a lot of upgrades right now and it's a bit chaotic. Hopefully we'll get a better encoding up for this one soon, otherwise it will have to wait until the next episode before we can fix it.
Maddus Mattus Maddus on C9, Is often controversial, But fun none-the-less -evildictaitor

May 12, 2009 at 6:11 AM

Grats Christan!

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