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This Week on C9: Dynamic Silverlight, VSTS, buying Caio, and Mech Wars

Dan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss this week's developer news including:

- Microsoft purchases Greenfield for $486MM. Greenfield owns Ciao, which is Europe's largest shopping Web site with 5MM+ reviews.
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 reference source code now available via RSCC blog
- Rick Minerich: Change Garbage Collections settings on the fly with System.Runtime.GCSettings (Part 5 of 5-part GC series)
- Top 10 VSTS and TFS Articles via dotnetkicks
- Ben Hall: How to auto-zip your project using MSBuild
- Mech warfare is part of Robo Games 2009 including multiple mech classes via Trossen Robotics
- Slides and audio from Gamefest sessions are available for download including SQL Server for Games, Silverlight for casual games and blowing stuff up the Bungie way via Shawn Hargreaves
- Silverlight Spy lets you dissect Silverlight applications include code (using Reflector) via Greg Duncan
-A step-by-step article on how to Download XAML on demand
- Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines released
- Get list of installed applications using LINQ via DZone
- See what's going on inside the svchost process using this C# SVC Host Viewer via Greg Duncan
- Grudge Match: Dan and Brian are flying down to the Hurricanes vs Gators game where the winner gets to pick what the other person will wear next show (Dan gets the spread)
- Brian's pick of the week: Comcast to cap data transfers at 250GB in October
- Dan's pick of the week: Brianna the Brain clip

This Week on C9: IE8 and Popfly Betas, WPF tools and apps, SP1 improvements and more

Dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:38:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover this week's news and videos including:

- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 available for download - (0:00 - 4:15)
- Popfly Game Creator goes from alpha to beta (4:15 - 5:32)
- Free eBook: Data Structures and Algorithms by Granville Barnett and Luca del Tongo (5:32 - 6:32)
- Lester Lobo's XAMLPadX 4.0 released, via Alvin Ashcraft (6:32 - 7:17)
- Charles Petzold shows Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D (7:17 - 8:04)
SP1 .NET Fx (8:04 - 9:25)
- Demo of Office Labs Chart Advisor (download) (9:25 - 11:03)
- Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing the Channel 8,9,10, and Edge team (11:03 - 13:11)
- Video clip of Adam Kinney with Matthew Allbee showing off Lawson Smart Office (13:11 - 14:44)
- Scott Hanselman - Windows Home Server saves his marriage (14:44 - 16:03)
- Video clip of Charles interviewing the Home Server team including the Niner-turned-'softire "dahat" (16:03 - 17:07)
- Visual Studio "Go To Definition" for WPF jumps to XAML in SP1, via Beth Massy (17:07 - 18:26)
- Zeep Mobile: Free (ad-supported) SMS Gateway for developers (18:26 - 20:01), via ReadWriteWeb
- Brian's Pick of the week: Microsoft Research Unwrap Mosaics let's you dynamically modify video with effects, including video clip (20:01 - 21:45)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Windows Live applications on Facebook, updating your Messenger status now can auto-update Facebook, Photozoom, and MapMate and Facebook hits 100 million users (21:45 - 23:33)

This Week on C9: Brian Keller returns, Photosynth, Olympics, EvNet source code, and more

Dan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:46:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Brian Keller who is back from his vacation in Patagonia to cover:

- His experiences in Patagonia
- Photosynth RTW's! Turn 2D photos into 3D
- Lutz Roeder: .NET Reflector moving over to Red Gate Software, via Alvin Ashcraft)
- What's the deal with Seinfeld singing the praises of Vista? (via Ars Technica)
- Charlie Calvert: Future Focus: Document Map Margin (Feedback link)
- Sara Ford: Visual Studio Tips book with 100% of author royalties going to create a scholarship fund for Waveland, Mississippi (via Greg Duncan)
- Building a simple Windows Media Center application (via Matt Hardman)
- EvNet Source code (engine that runs Channel 8/9/10/Edge release , C9 Coffeehouse to instantly branch and build a bajillion features (via Kent Sharkey)
- Silverlight Olympics stats: 250+ TB of data and 8MM installs a day (via Ars Technica)
- Video Clip with Adam Kinney where he asks follow up questions from Niners on NBCOlympics.com
- Jaime Rodriguez: Everything you ever wanted to know about the .NET Framework Client profile
- Brian's Pick of the week: Ade Miller - 100 days of Continuous Integration
- Dan's Pick of the week: Minh Channel 9 Deep Zoom (via the Coffeehouse)

This Week on C9: Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger, VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Dan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger where they cover:

- LittleGuru's first week of being a Microsoft intern
- Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 shipped
- Julia Lerman - Tips and tricks for installing VS 2008 SP1
- Scott Hanselman: Hidden Gems of .NET 3.5 SP1
- Dan and Christian share their favorite SP1 features
- Brad Abrams: Managed code can now be launched from a network share
- WPF Performance blog: Using WPF SP1 splash screens to improve precevied startup performance
Codeplex: Official WPF Codeplex project for DataGrid and other out-of-band enhancements
- Patrick Smacchia: NDepend on .NET 3.5 SP1 shows hundres of new namespaces, methods, types and more
- Lloyd Humph - Painting his office ceiling using the Channel 9 guy!
- frickinsweet: A tool to build custom Visual Studio Themes
- CodeProject: Adding wallpaper to Visual Studio
- NewScientistTech: Rat brained robots (video demo)
- Video clip of Charles Torre interviewing Vince Orgovan on Windows Vista error reporting
- Sync Framework for Windows Mobile devices CTP1
- Steve Clayton: Office Lab's PPT Plex, kind of like adding DeepZoom to PowerPoint (video demo)
- Charlie Calvert: Axialis IconWorkshop Lite Visual Studio addin available including free pre-built icon templates
- DotNetKicks: Add Windows Explorer directly into Visual Studio using free Mindscape addin.
- DevExpress releases 60 free Windows Forms and ASP.NET controls
- Steve Sinofsky launches Engineering Windows 7 blog
- Coding4Fun: Jerry Brunning's Stall Status Silverlight Sidebar gadget let's you check to if the bathroom is occupied using ZWave Home Automation.
- CodeProject: .NET wrapper for Intel's Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV) library via Greg Duncan
- We learn that Christian's thesis uses OpenCV for image analysis of "adult" content
- Christian's pick of the week: Daily cartoon - Wulffmorgenthaler
- Dan's pick of the week: Rob Burke combines DeepZoom and LOL cats to build DeepLOL

This Week on C9: ASP.NET Maps, Apache, Sphere, Warcraft, and more

Dan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:25:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9 Dan and special guest host Nick Hodge (on10) is in studio where they discuss:

**Update: I accidentally linked the article "Controlling your treadmill with Silverlight to Chris Craft when it should have been Page Brooks. My apologies! (Dan)

- Nick shares his view on Flickr photos and TechReady, an internal event for the Microsoft field (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft and Facebook partnership adds Live Search to Facebook, Dan hopes that means a Live Search API too (1:45 - 2:41)
- Video Clip of Mark Brown with Angus Logan demoing the new CTP of the ASP.NET Virtual Earth server control (2:41 - 5:30)
- We finally have an Angus Logan Fan Club on Facebook to share all of our Angus Logan photos, stories and rumors (5:30 - 6:53)
*** Update: Buttons and Stickers now available courtesy of Scott Lovegrove!
- SharpMap - Free, open source GIS project on Codeplex (6:53 - 7:30)
- Sam Ramji discusses Microsoft joining the Apache Software Foundation and the new open source PHP driver for SQL Server 2005 (7:30 - 8:53)
- Mojave Experiment videos are now up (8:53 - 10:08)
- PDC 2008 August Session Updates and early bird registration ends soon (10:08 - 11:15)
- Microsoft Research: The Robotic Receptionist (11:40 - 13:00 )
- Laura Foy shows off Microsoft Sphere (13 - 14:12)
- Martin Woodward: How to build "Brian the Build Bunny" via Greg Duncan (14:12 - 16:00)
- Page Brooks - How to control your treadmill in Silverlight via Coding4Fun (16:00 - 16:25)
- Nick's Pick of the Week: The F# Programming Language (16:25 - 18:34)
- Dan's Pick of the Week Attila Kisko and Gabor Ratky demoing AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft Beta (download) (18:34 - 21:24)
- Pictures from Brian Keller in Patagonia

This Week on C9: Free 3D tools, "Mojave", Cool Visualizations, and VS 10

Dan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:01:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

- The XNA Team discusses the upcoming release Xbox LIVE Community Games where developers can make money selling games through Xbox LIVE community arcade (0 - 1:25)
- Windows Home Server releases Power Pack 1 which includes a number of improvements including fixing the data-loss bug. (1:25 - 2:37)
- Caligari's TrueSpace 3D Modeling tools are now available to download for free. You can even export to DirectX or use a converter to convert the models into XAML 3D for WPF. Check out the training videos for more info. (2:38 - 4:32)
- Last week's call for people to vote up the BabySmash feature resulted in a 588% increase and has made adding an MMO to BabySmash the #1 feature request! (4:32 - 5:15)
- The Popfly team's July update includes lots of new features including game asset pre-loading, a high-score service and more. (5:15 - 7:10)
- Effectize: 25 ASP.NET Performance Tuning Resources via DZone (7:10 - 7:54)
- Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 released, found via Greg Duncan (7:54 - 9:10)
- Clint Rutkas's To Do App is featured in Lifehacker (9:10 - 10:12)
- .NetMap Codeplex project adds easy and cool visualizations for social networks into Excel (10:12 - 11:40)
- How to use Microsoft's .NET Framework Cleanup Utility - When uninstalling fails. (11:40 - 12:50)
- 90% of XP users love Windows "Mojave" (which is really just Windows Vista), Steve Clayton shows off a preview of the new ad campaign imagery and mock Folgers crystals campaign by Saturday Night Live (12:50 - 15:05)
- Video clip from Beth Massi with the Visual Basic Design Team talking about their favorite VB features (15:05 - 16:17)
- Give your feedback on new, unreleased Visual Studio 10 features like Call Hierarchy or Searching/Navigating symbols (16:17 - 17:25)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Video clip of Brian's "High Tech Hiking" video showing Virtual Earth 3D controlled by an Xbox controller (17:25 - 19:50)
- Dan provides some helpful Spanish phrases for Brian's trip to Patagonia (19:50 - 21:18)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Crayon Cannon a Popfly/Silverlight game built by Adam Nathan (21:18 - 22:56)

This Week on C9: Netflix, Extension Methods, Debugging, oh my

Dan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:50:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover:

- Netflix streaming coming to Xbox 360 via Gizmodo (0 - 2:00)
- Roiy Zysman: Programatically geotag photos (2:00 - 3:51)
- Mark Brown: Behind the Maps Series (3:51 - 4:21)
- Terrarium open sourced on Codeplex via Bil Simser (4:21 - 7:05)
- Chris Pietschmann: Enhance Enums using Extension Methods via dotnetkicks (7:05 - 8:20)
- Karl Seguin building an open source Extensions Methods library (8:20 - 9:40)
- Video clip from Daniel Pearson using WinDBG to change Notepad data live in-memory (9:40 - 13:30)
- Production ASP.NET Debugging via HumanCompiler (13:30 - 14:20)
- 4 Free chapters from ASP.NET 3.5 for Dummies (14:20 - 15:30)
- Charles Fitzgerald on IBM and Second Life Interoperability press release (15:30 - 16:50)
- Our petition to add an MMO component to BabySmash, go to feedback.babysmash.com. (16:50 - 18:25)
- Wisemx and Littleguru get prizes for helping Brian understand lambdas (18:25 - 19:02)
- Brian's pick of the week: Brian Harry posts on Team Foundation Server Power Tools (19:02 - 20:35)
- Dan's pick of the week: Graffiti Research Labs C++ Laser Tag application with the hope that Brian Peek builds this with a Wiimote (20:35 - 21:33)
- Video clip of C++ Laser tag in action - full YouTube video (21:33 - end)

This Week on C9: Imagine Cup, hosted services, C# 4.0, and ASP.NET tips

Dan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:03:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

- Microsoft announces Hosted Online services at Worldwide Partner Conference including Exchange, Communication Server, Sharepoint and more via ReadWriteWeb (0 - 2:20)
- Microsoft launches NGO site for non-profit organizations including details on getting free or discounted software grants from Microsoft via Tom Murphy (2:20 - 3:22)
- Team SOAK wins the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational including a video clip of their winning project with Max Zuckerman from Channel 8. (3:22 - 5:05)
- Video clip of Charles Torre dropping into the C# Language design team meeting and what the three broad themes are for C# in the future (5:05 - 7:05)
- Brian Keller asks for help on understanding lambdas (7:05 - 7:10)
- Useful ASP.NET snippet wiki via Mark Smith (7:10 - 7:56)
- Blogfodder - List of free open source ASP.NET applications (7:56 - 8:49)
- .NET Developer Reference Cards list from Alvin Ashcraft(7:49 - 9:25)
- Info-Q Anti-Patterns for REST services (9:25 - 10:47)
- Scott Mitchell's tip to speed up Firefox local development with Visual Studio (10:47 - 12:30)
- Remove browser auto-complete for password fields via DZone (12:30 - 13:26)
- AnkhSVN 2.0 RTMs and includes VS2008 support via Greg Duncan (13:26 - 14:23)
- CodeProject article to create a WPF Lunar Lander game using a 3D model built in Blender and exported to XAML (14:23 - 15:10)
- Trossen Robotics Mindsensors - 3rd Party sensors for Lego Mindstorms NXT (15:10 - 16:00)
- Codeplex - Skinnable Zune Minesweeper example using XNA (16:00 - 16:47)
- Mindsweeper the movie (16:47)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Brian Harry gets tickled by a Rosario feature: hierarchical work items in Team Foundation Server "Rosario" (16:47 - 19:10)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Technology to intercept and forward satellite phone calls helps release Ingrid Betancourt (after six years of captivitity), 3 Americans, and 11 Colombian soldiers from Colombian leftists (19:10 - end)

This Week on C9: Fireworks, Powerset, Equipt, Pex, and cool downloads

Dan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:10:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian go through the week's news and celebrate the 4th of July (American Independence Day):

- Shooting Roman Candles at a video camera with a fireproof screen
- Microsoft acquires Powerset, a natural language search company
- Microsoft announces Equipt, a $70/year subscription to Microsoft Office that includes three Office licenses and OneCare (via ReadWriteWeb.com)
- Imagine Cup 2008 Finals are taking place in France and Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com is competing (via Liveside.net)
- Video by Jason Sobel from Facebook's infrastructure team on how Facebook supports billions of photos(via James Hamilton)
- Video clip of Brian interviewing the researchers building "Pex" a new tool for automated exploratory testing
- Video clip of Amanda Silver on making tough feature cuts for Visual Basic 2008
- New, cool 3D XNA Starter Kit: Robot Game, available for download for Creator's Club subscribers
- Bart de Smet's blog post: A Lap around "Velocity"
- Sandcastle source code published to Codeplex (via Todd Mancini)
- New PDC Sessions updated on MicrosoftPDC.com
- Andy Konkel's Coding4Fun article: BlueBoss, Bluetooth Proximity Detection
- How Stuff Works: How Fireworks work
- Dan's Pick of the week: Erik Klimczak: Coding4Fun: WPF Custom Screensaver Art
- Brian's Pick of the week: Nick Berardi's analysis on male/female ratio's for developer bloggers (Phil Haack wins!)
- After the credits, Roman candle test failure

This Week on C9: Jeff Sandquist and Bill Gates stories

Dan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:23:00 GMT

On a very special This Week on Channel 9, Jeff Sandquist joins Dan and Brian in studio to discuss

CNN's special Bill Gates slideshow narrated by Bill himself (0 - 2:00)
Newsweek's update of the infamous New Mexico Microsoft company photo 30 years later (2:00 - 3:30)
Jeff shares how Charles Torre got Chicken Pox after his BillG interview and retells the backstory of the first Bill Gates interview (3:30 - 6:10)
Clip from Charles interviews Bill Gates on his transition (6:10 - 8:00)
Clip from Bill Gates looking back video (8 - 9:24)
BillG's other achievement, redefining Cribs (9:24 - 12:45)
Jeff Sandquist recounts the backstory for when Channel 9 was there to break the news of Bill's transition and his history at Microsoft (12:45 - 20:15)
Clip from 'softies sharing their favorite BillG stories (20:15 - 23:15)
10 Tools I replaced with VSTS, 10 Tools I still use with VSTS by Mohammed Ashraful Alam (23:15 - 25:00)
CodeProject article: WPF version of PicLens by Sascha Barber and Marlon Grech (25:00 - 25:40)
CTP of Microsoft (Classic) ASP SQL Injection Analyzer via Greg Duncan (25:40 - 26:45)
Entity Framework: vote of no confidence and a response from Tim Mallalieu from the EF team (26:45 - 29:20)
Free eBook: Karl Seguin: Foundations of Programming, Building Better Software (29:20 - 30:20)
Derik Whittaker: Dimecasts.NET, 10 minutes or less on a developer topic via Rhonda Tipton (30:20 - 31:00)
Dan's Pick of the Week: If Programming Languages were Futurama characters via dzone (31:00 - 32:00)
Brian's Pick of the Week: 9-part series on VSTS Rosario by Willy-Peter Schaub (32:00 - end)

This Week on C9: Live Mesh, Popfly, Microspotting, Poker bots & more

Dan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:04:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

Updates to Live Mesh
Improve Desktop Search performance by downloading Windows Search 4.0
Lots of updates to Popfly Game Creator from Adam Nathan
The IE team sends Mozilla a congratulations cake (via Ars Technica)
Update your Silverlight.js file for Firefox 3 (via Tim Heuer)
DeepEarth: Virtual Earth + Deep Zoom (via Jamie Thomson)
Ariel Stallings from Microspotting designs cool I am the empire t-shirts
Video clip of Richard Sprague demoing Response Point and discussing how they used research to build voice grammars
Sourceforge Community Awards will include Codeplex projects
Soma discusses the Secure Development Lifecycle and how Microsoft uses it internally
Golf Course powered by Virtual Earth 3D (via Mark Brown)
Video clip of Tiger Electronics AMP robot
Brian's Pick of the Week: James Devlin: Building a Real-world Poker bot with C++ (via Avi Pilosof)
Dan's Pick of the Week: Walt Mossberg reviews GoGo: In-flight Wifi which will be coming to Virgin and American
After the end, Dan, Brian, and Laura Foy unwind at TechEd

This Week on Channel 9: Clint Rutkas stops by, Project Velocity, Live Writer SDK, C9 bytes on IIS 7.0 and F#, and shameless self-promotion

Dan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:51:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by Clint Rutkas and we discuss:

Clint talks about MS 101 (0 - 1:00)
SQL Server 2008 RC0 is now available (and we don't know why some teams start with a zero based array and others don't) (1:00 - 2:30)
CTP of Project codename "Velocity" available, a Distributed object cache for Windows (2:30 - 3:40)
New CTP for the Windows Live Writer SDK including a Twitter and DiggThis example and another Live Writer plug-in by Alik Levin for building Blog Post Templates (3:40 - 5:28)
Scott Hanselman's BabySmash app makes Lifehacker (5:28 - 6:36)
Drew Robbins demos the IIS 7.0 Admin Pack (6:36 - 9:58)
Luke Hoban demos visualizing data using F# (9:58 - 13:23)
Templex a Template Process Library for Team Foundation Server (13:23 - 15:04)
Codeplex now include syntax highlighting for source code (15:04 - 16:00)
xgamer posts on CamSpace in the Coffeehouse with demo goodness (16:00 - 17:57)
Brian and Clint viciously throw 9 guys at Dan's head...in slow motion (17:57 - 18:11)
Zafer Savas releases a cool Codeproject article showing eye tracking with a Web cam using C++ (18:46 - 19:30)
Clint's Pick of the Week: Gary Farr's Coding4Fun RetroCommand arcade game using Silverlight and Expression Blend 2.5
Brian's Pick of the Week: The PDC ShowOff contest is launching with Brian and Dan hosting the event live at PDC (19:30 - 21:48)
Dan's Pick of the Week: Dan plugs his Coding4Fun talk at TechEd which showed off YouTube, iTunes, Zune, P2P, and Warcraft programming (21:48 - )

This Week on Channel9: TechEd, Bill Gates, Data Mining, IronRuby and more

Dan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:14:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian report from TechEd Developers 2008 in Orlando including:

Dan interviewing Bill Gates
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 now available
Interview with Rafal Luckawiecki
C9 Byte: John Lam shows of an IronRuby implementation of Try Ruby using Silverlight
C9 Byte: Stephen Toub showing off an amazing photo editing application that uses the Parallel Task Library
Clips from Laura Foy working the crowd at TechEd (Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3)
C9 V4 Launches
At the end of the show, weird random guy makes Brian and I awkward (more than usual) ...we'll have to find out who he is

This Week on Channel 9: PDC, Pex, Build Bunnies, UltraCam, Live Agents SDK

briankel — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:53:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Ed cover:

- PDC Registration (0:22)
- Improvements to MSDN and Technet [C9 Videos: Site Redesign] (1:30)
- Pex: Automated Exploratory Testing (6:00)
- .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile: What's in, what's out? by Justin Van Patten (8:30)
- Mark Brown talking about the UltraCam used by Virtual Earth (10:13)
- Andrew Kirillov's article on Hand Gesture Recognition using AForge.NET (11:35)
- Release of the Windows Live Agents SDK (12:24)
- Ed's Pick of the Week: ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release and Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Beginner Videos (14:50)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Brian the Build Bunny by Martin Woodward (17:23)
- Next Week's Show Coming from TechEd 2008! (20:45)

Special thanks to Rob Mackie, our awesome cameraman and all-knowing show technician, for playing the role of "Ed" during one of the segments. :-)

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