This Week On Channel 9

TWC9: Channel 9 Goes Live, Zune, detecting memory leaks, Life at MSFT

Dan Fernandez — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:53:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, we do our first ever live smooth-streaming episode with special guest Nic Fillingham. On the show we discuss:

- Our ch9live Twitter account to take questions during the show

- The new MSN page design
- MSN also integrates Bing
- Nic discusses his new Zune HD
- Sarah Perez - How to make Zune-compatible movies with Movie Maker
- Expression Blend 3 Zune Website Starter Kit
- Larry Larsen - NBC goes Silverlight for Winter Olympics
- TwinBox - How to use Twitter in Outlook
- Windows 7 sponsored theme packs, via Long Zheng
- Microsoft Press - Ten free Windows 7 book chapters
- Rudi Grobler - Anatomy of a Windows 7 Tabbed Thumbnail Part 1 & Part 2
- Lee Mathews - Download Squad - New tool enables you to right-click and mount VHDs
- Jason Allor - LinqLite is a small library of LINQ expressions to simplify building your own LINQ provider, via Brad Abrams
- Fabrice Marguerie - MSDN - How to detect and avoid memory and resource leaks in .NET applications, via Charlie Calvert
- PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010, via Greg Duncan

Picks of the week
Dan's pick: - Coding4Fun - Halloween Gremlins - Move a mouse, shake the screen, scroll windows and more
Nic's pick: Tina's Life at Microsoft video

TWC9: Asli Bilgin, Halloween, VS2010, and community events

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:38:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Asli Bilgin to discuss the week's top developer news including:

- We discuss Asli's blog, Sling Alibi, and her changing role from working in the east region to working in Dubai.
- Asli's east region team has a dedicated portal on Channel 9 with news, events, etc
- Andrew Duthie - CommunityMegaphone.com - The goal is to be the single source for Microsoft and community events
- Andrew's countdown to the Visual Studio 2010 launch gadget using Silverlight
- Scott Guthrie -Searching and Navigating Code in Visual Studio 2010, covers Navigate To, View Call Hierarchy, and Highlight references features
- Scott Guthrie - WPF 4 Improvements including new controls, performance, caching, easing, and more
- Pete Brown - Walkthrough of the new WPF 4 Calendar Control
- Brian Peek - Coding4Fun Show - WPF Media Kit with Jeremiah Morrill
- Lester Lobo - New WPF Beta 2 includes Windows 7 Jumplist support
- Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Team Blog - Windows 7 Trigger Start Services Part 1
- Joe Healy - Windows 7 Multitouch and TouchPack video
- Gunnar Peipman - The .NET Framework 4.0 string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() method for finding empty spaces, line breaks, tabs, etc
- Sara Chipps - Bundl.it, a way to share multiple links via Twitter
- Phil Haack - ASP.NET Web Server here Explorer extension to easily pull up an ASP.NET page through a browser
- Dmitry Lyalin, Peter Laudati - Connected Show podcast for all things interoperability
- Zhiming Xue - ArcCast.TV, Cx0 Level discussion on Cloud computing
- Startuponestop.com, Resources for helping startups get off the ground
- Girl Geek Dinners - A way for women in technology to get together to discuss and learn
- Girls in Tech - An organization dedicated to getting more women in technology
- Lynn Langit - Teaching kids to code and how to move projects from Small Basic to Visual Basic Express

Picks of the week:
Asli's pick - David Isbitski - Setting up a development environment on a Netbook
Dan's pick - Laura Foy - Bug Killer - A Channel 9 Halloween special

TWC9: Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 Blowout!

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:18:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan celebrate two of our favorite products being launched in the same week, Windows 7 RTMs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available to everyone!

Windows 7 Launch Content
- Watch the Windows 7 Launch event
- Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Team Blog - 7 Days of Windows 7 for great PC deals
- Sarah Perez - @MicrosoftHelps - Official Microsoft support channel on Twitter for Windows 7
- Channel 9 launches Training Courses for Windows 7 - Hands-on labs and videos
- Mark Russinovich - Windows 7 Redux
- Sara Perez posting on Channel 9 - CableCard how-to with Windows 7 Media Center

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
- Visual Studio 2010 (bootstrapper and ISO) and Visual Studio Express Editions available for download
- Visual Studio 2010 SKU Comparison Chart - Dan and Brian discuss what it all means
- Patrick Smacchia - Visualizing the .NET Framework 4 changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2
- Brian Keller: 10-4 Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
- Mike Snow - Uninstall the Silverlight SDK before installing VS 2010 Beta 2
- Rico Mariani - Inside Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Performance and Reliability
- Pat Brennar - Visual Studio 2010 MFC and Windows 7
- Habib Heydarian - Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace

Picks of the week:
- Brian's pick - Jason Zander - Step-by-step tutorial on getting started with TFS in VS 2010
- Dan's pick - The "myths" of upgrading to Visual Studio 2008 and 2010, via Greg Duncan

TWC9: Virtual PC tools, .NET 4.0 FAQ, MVC in Azure

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:40:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger to discuss the week's top developer news, including:

- SQL Team - SQL Azure Feature Complete, now supports bulkcopy
- Sarah Perez - Integrate Twitter into PowerPoint, via Scott Hanselman
- Systernals utility - Disk2VHD - Create a virtual hard drive from a physical hard drive, via Greg Duncan
- Virtual PC Guy - Virtual PC + XP mode RTM on MSDN/Technet
- Ayende Rahein - Choosing between Active Record, Fluent NHibernate, and XML mapping files, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Eric Lippert - The difference between"as" and "cast" operators
- Kirk Evans - Eric Schupps on TDD in SharePoint
- Jeff Brand - 5-part video series on Peer-to-Peer programming
- Rudi Grobler - Create your own IDE, with colorization, in 10 minutes using AvalonEdit
- Shivprasad Koirala - CodeProject - Multipart .NET 4.0 FAQ, part 1 is the DLR
- Wade Wegner - Video - How to run ASP.NET MVC applications in Windows Azure

Picks of the week
- Christian's pick: Sony Vaio Windows 7 Notebook
- Dan's pick: Family Guy meets Windows 7

TWC9: Office Engineering, Zune HD app, .NET Audio Recorder

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:44:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the week's top developer news including:
- Office Engineering blog - Office 2010 Starter Edition - Reduced functionality version of Office that would ship with OEM versions of Windows (Works replacement)
- Windows Phone launches, new developer portal up
- Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on MSDN
- CodeProject - How to build a Zune HD "level" app using the built-in accelerometer
- Office 2010 Engineering Blog - From sketch to finished product
- Scott Hanselman - New MSDN skin/features
- Coding4Fun - Mark Heath - .NET Voice Recorder
- Brian Harry - Team Foundation Server "Basic" - easy way to install TFS and no server requirement
- Rico Mariani - History of Visual Studio posts to complement the Visual Studio documentary

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick: "Go Live" license for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2
- Dan's pick: Five mice prototypes in five minutes (video clip at the end)

TWC9: SQL Azure, MVC 2, New Channel 9 Content

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:48:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian reunite to go through the week's top developer news including:

- The Visual Studio Documentary - Learn the history of Visual Studio, including Alan Cooper Scott Guthrie, Jason Zander, Anders Hejlsberg, Soma Somasegar, and many more
- Phil Haack - Details on the just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2
- Channel 9 Lectures: Erik Meijer teaches Functional Programming, including a 20% discount on Programming in Haskell
- But Why Series - Get answers to questions on design decisions, branding, and other Microsoft lore
- C# FAQ - Using the ExpandoObject with Dynamic C#
- Why you should never prank Clint Rutkas (photo, video)
- Jaime Rodriguez - Q&A from the Microsoft internal WPF discussion alias
- Four free chapters on Visual Web Developer Express 2008
- CodeProject - Convert Podcast RSS to Playlists
- James Senior - Seadragon Ajax Control Quick Start video
- Coding4Fun - Rick Barraza's tutorials on fluids and edge detection in Silverlight
- SQL Server 2008 Express How-To Videos
- CodePlex - SQL Azure Explorer project gives you great built-in tools for Visual Studio to visually explore your SQL Azure databases

Picks of the week:
- SharePoint blog - SharePoint.com using Aptimize, improves performance by up to 50%
- Charlie Calvert walks through using the XNA Role Playing Starter Kit

TWC9: WebsiteSpark, Win7 BootCamp, useful PowerShell scripts

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:26:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas where they discuss:

- Clint discusses his new job and his obsession with bacon
- Scott Guthrie on Channel 9 - WebsiteSpark, Web Platform Installer, and Web App Gallery
- Web App Toolkits - samples to build a FAQ, send email, add Messenger, etc (overview video)
- Free Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp with Mark Russinovich and Arun Kishan on Nov 16th, you don't even need to be a PDC attendee
- Microsoft announces Simple API for Cloud Application Services, APIs for PHP developers
- Microsoft: VB/C# Code Snippets to use with the Open XML Format SDK, via Greg Duncan
- Brian Peek and Rick Barraza - Coding4Fun Show - Advanced Rendering with Silverlight
- Scott Hanselman - Batch converting a directory of videos for Xbox 360 using Windows PowerShell and Handbrake or Expression Encoder
- Cody Batt - DevX - Call Windows PowerShell Cmdlets from C#
- Tom Hearn - Read iPhone text messages using C# and SQLite from your backup image, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Giorgio Minardi - Code Project - A basic introduction to the Unity Application Block
- Larry Larsen - MS Hardware Labs 6 part series
- Tina Wood - Niner questions: Curtis Creamer from Bungie on Halo 3 ODST

Picks of the week:
- Clint's pick: Scott Hanselman'sCross-browser testing recap
- Dan's pick: Mattel releases MindFlex mind control game, Dan wants to hack it, via Blake Handler

TWC9: Sven Groot, Beer taste test, Office Web, ASP.NET Auto-Starts, System.IO changes

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:21:00 GMT

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger, and Sven Groot where we do blind taste-testing of beer, and discuss the week's top developer news including:

- Dan introduces the blind beer taste test between Old English 800, Mickeys, Fosters, and Bud Light with Brian keeping score
- Sven discusses how he got talked into posing for a photo
- Office Web Applications are now in a private preview
- Zune HD launches, XNA Game Studio 3.1 also launched and it supports building games for ZuneHD for free, no need for Creator's Club members
- Scott Guthrie - Microsoft AJAX CDN - Includes ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, and ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX libraries
- Mahesh Sabnis - What's new in WCF 4.0 Part 1
- C# FAQ - Building a Dynamic Method using Expression Trees
- Mike Swanson - Evolving the PDC09 Event Site
- Krzysztof Kozmic - How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code
- PHP Toolkit for REST/.NET, via Joe Stagner
- Julien Manici - Windows 7 logon background changer, via Paul Thurott
- Michael Ceranski - System.IO Improvements in .NET 4.0 make us all giddy like school girls
- Dare Obasanjo - Building Scalable Databases by denormalizing your database
- Scott Guthrie - Auto-Start ASP.NET 4.0 applications

Beer taste test results (1 right out of 12)
- Christian: 0/4
- Sven: 0/4
- Dan: 1/4

Picks of the week:
- Christian's pick: SQL Azure Migration Wizard CodePlex project
- Sven's pick: monoTouch - .NET development kit for iPhone
- Dan's pick: NotAlwaysRight.com, via Scott Hanselman

This Week C9: NFL goes Silverlight, VS 2010 features, new freebies

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:23:00 GMT

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

- NFL debuts Silverlight streaming of football games
- CodePlex adds Editor role, Work Item Notifications and recommended downloads
- Soma - Doloto, a tool to decrease the initial download size of AJAX applications (46% average savings for popular sites)
- Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (Firefox requires full Expression Web)
- David Hayden - xUnit 1.5 released - 64-bit, MVC 1, MVC 2 Preview 1
- Larry Larsen - Build your own 3D video for $350
- Brian Keller - Zoom-in/Zoom-out with Visual Studio Editor
- 10-4 Show - Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 7, MEF now includes Silverlight support (CodePlex)
- Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET, HTML, and JavaScript snippets in Visual Studio 2010
- Free Visual Studio Extensibility Summit
- Martin Woodward *EDIT the cost was incorrectly discussed as free, the real cost is $10/user/month*, Hosted TFS for $10/user/month if you're in BizSpark
- DZone ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Ref Card
- Coding4Fun - Giovanni Montrone (aka Brian Peek's friend) - Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application

Picks of the week:
- Brian's pick: Telerik release free TFS Work Item Manager & Project Dashboard, via Joel Semeniuk
- Dan's pick: Dust: An Elysian Tail wins the Dream.Build.Play XNA Competition, watch the trailer for the winning game or trailers for other entries

This Week C9: VS 2010, Must-Have Developer Utilities, Upgrade your home

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:06:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan (back from paternity leave) and Brian (back from Brazil) discuss the week's top developer news including:

- Scott Guthrie - Visual Studio 2010 Multi-Monitor support
- Phil Haack - 7 Stages of new language keyword grief, Dan adds that Step 0 is the developer Rorschach test where they see a keyword and say that it already existed in some previous language/tool they used (Fortran, Delphi, RoR, etc)
- Jeffrey Snover - Use PowerShell to find and use the right WMI Object
- Coding4Fun - GPS Tools for .NET Developers
- Ben Anderson - Popfly Game Engine source code on CodePlex
- Scott Hanselman - 2009 Ultimate Developer & Power Tools List
- Daniel Crenna - Visual Studio Add-in on CodePlex - Markup Tamer, via Greg Duncan
- Christian Kleinerman: SQL Server "Project Madison" - high scale massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse
- Larry Larsen - Windows Home Server Power Pack 3
- Rudi Grobler - Windows 7 Sensor Platform Basics - Adjust WPF theme based on ambient light
- Windows 7 User Experience Interaction Guidelines
- Soma - VS 2010 tools to generate a dependency graph and a sequence diagram

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick: Clemens Enrich figures out how to Connect VS 2010 Use Case Diagram with SketchFlow
- Dan's pick: If you're a geek, upgrade your home network to Gigabit networking for $30 USD. I'd also suggest at least CAT 5e cable.

This Week on C9: .NET Micro Framework, Azure, and PHP

Jason Olson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:22:00 GMT

This week, Jason Olson and Jonathan Carter review the week's top developer stories including:

- .NET Micro Framework Dare To Dream Different Winners
- .NET Micro Framework v4.0 on ChipworkX module
- Oomph 2
- LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver
- PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
- Coding 4 Fun - Windows 7 Taskbar
- ASP.NET MVC Virtual Labs
- Has The OOP Train Left The Building?
- SQL Azure CTP Available
- First Graduating Class of School Of The Future Begins
- JavaScript MVC

Jason’s pick of the week: Larry Osterman's "N Years Ago Today"

Jonathan’s pick-of-the-week: Fun with Method Missing and C# 4.0

For those twits out there (you know who you are):
- http://twitter.com/jolson88
- http://twitter.com/lostintangent

This Week C9: IE8 most secure, Unix turns 40, SQL DBA eBook

Brian Keller — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:46:00 GMT

This week Brian Keller and Amanda Silver review the week's top developer stories including:

- IE8 most secure browser according to NSS labs

- Unix turns 40 (here and here)

- Riviera: Windows Azure reference application

- Azure Platform Training Kit

- Complete and searchable list of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts

- STM.NET – Who. What. Why.

- PDC Classics: 2001

- Free SQL Server DBA eBook

- Introduction to the SQL Server 2008 Profiler by Pinal Dave

- IT scripts galore at the TechNet Script Center

- Physics Helper 3 adds WPF support!

- Sketchflow Viewer for DotNetNuke

- SWF to Silverlight converter

Amanda’s pick of the week: MakeOfficeBetter.com

Brian’s pick-of-the-week: The Lessons of Microsoft Bob

This Week C9: Win7 API's, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits

Brian Keller — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:31:00 GMT

This week on C9, Brian and Habib "Runtime" Heydarian review the week's top developer stories including:

Windows 7 API Code Pack for .NET Framework hits v1.0

Yahoo! API’s starting to shut down

Spec# and Boogie comes to Codeplex

Expression 3 Starter Kits from UX Connection

Silverlight 3 adoption curve by VBandi

Charles Petzold on Fluttering 3D Photo Effects with Silverlight 3

LINQ to SQL cheat sheet via Greg Duncan

Gunnar Peipman’s tips for documenting source code

Habib Heydarian, debugging exceptions with the VSTS2010 Historical Debugger:

“An Introduction to UI Automation” by Sam Jack

Visual Studio 2010 Themes (1 from Rob Conery and 2 from Jimmy Bogard)

Using WPF in Office Clients by Beth Massi

Open Source Licenses demystified by Zack Rusin

Just for fun: Musical Sorting Algorithms (1 and 2)

Habib’s pick of the week: Getting started with robotics at

http://www.helloapps.com/

Brian’s pick of the week: Pre-order your Zune HD

This Week C9: Win7 on MSDN, PDC 2009, Drunktender

Brian Keller — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:08:00 GMT

This week on C9, Brian and Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger review the week's top developer stories including:

- Dan on paternity leave – welcome to Gavin Xavier Fernandez!
- MSDN & Technet availability of Windows 7 (Correction to the video: Windows Server 2008 R2 not available just yet... team says "available in the coming weeks")
- Windows 7 on 9 and Windows 7 on Edge
- Windows 7 Physical and Virtual Deployment Options
- Windows 7 Remote Desktop with multi-mon
- Windows 7 Bing Desktop Wallpaper
- PDC 2009 Registration Launched
- Silverlight SDK for Bing
- Customizing TFS Process Guidance
- Team Review for Team System
- Using VSTS 2010 to catch string formatting bugs
- 31 Days of Refactoring
- Clint Rutkas’s Drunktender 1.0 Demo
- AI in C# and LINQ

Picks of the week:
- Christian’s pick-of-the-week, RoombaSCI
- Brian’s pick-of-the-week, Russ’s Toolshed on Channel 9

This Week C9: Microhoo, ATL Security, VS 2010 Cut List

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:47:00 GMT

This week on C9, Dan and Brian review the week's top developer stories including:

- Microsoft & Yahoo Search partnership - What does it mean for developers?
- What happens SearchMonkey/BOSS? Answer is TBD
- Expression Studio RTMs, available to MSDN Subscribers now
- Charles Torre - Active Template Library (ATL) Security Update
- How and which versions of Visual Studio are affected
- Michael Howard - The offending code and why automated tools didn't catch it
- Charles Petzold - Animated "3D" text in Silverlight
- New Xbox Live Creators Club features
- Hanu Kommalapati - Silverlight version compatibility when a Web page hosts both SL2 and SL3 XAP files
- Habib Heydarian - Visual Studio 2010 Cut List includes: Application Verifier, Object Test Bench, C++ IntelliSense for managed code, SQL 2000 Debugging
- Tina Wood - History of Microsoft Finale - 1999
- CodePlex releases it's Wiki Engine source code - WikiPlex (details), via Sara Ford
- Scott Mitchell - Multi-Part Series on using the Microsoft Chart Control
- Making Silverlight 3 more digestible by Blend, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Experimental .NET 4.0 with Transactional Memory, via Soma's blog

Picks of the week:
- Dan's pick: Brian Peek and Arian Kulp - MEF Utility Runner
- Brian's pick: Preston Gralla - Follow up on Microsoft contribution to Linux – Linus Torvalds says “Microsoft hatred is a disease”

This Week C9: Windows 7 RTMs, 7 Sins of App Compat, & cool Silverlight apps

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:22:00 GMT

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

- Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Team Blog - Video snippet of Steve Ballmer signing Windows 7 Gold Disc
- Michael Fortin - Windows 7 Efficiency
- Yochay Kiriaty - Ensuring your application is ready for Windows 7 RTM, including:
    - Windows 7 Quality Cookbook
    - The seven sins on Windows 7 application compatibility
    - Optimizing for Windows 7
- 3 Developer Questions for Windows 7
    - Build Number:
    - .NET Framework version: 3.5 SP1
    - Default User Agent:
    - Silverlight Installed: No
- Windows 7 availability
- Microsoft contributes code to the Linux kernel
- James Clarke - Expression Encoder available for download, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen - Gestalt: Ruby/Python in HTML & Silverlight
- Nikhil Kothari - Silverlight.FX updated for SL 3, includes App framework, UI controls, effects/transitions
- Silverlight Toolkit updated (live demo) - Includes data visualization (TreeMap!), controls, theming, and more, via Greg Duncan
- Robby Ingebretsen - Free Silverlight Simple Styles
- Pete Brown - Silverlight Audio Synthesizer
- Roger Guess - Coding4Fun - Build a Simple Shooter Silverlight game
- Larry Larsen - Photosynths of Apollo 11,12, & 17 Campsites
- Rick Strahl - CodePaste.NET - TwitPic for code - Lets you paste/share code snippets over Twitter/comments, etc, via Greg Duncan
- SFW pictures from Scott Hanselman Avatar Weekend on Twitter

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Ben Anderson & Adam Nathan - Coding4Fun - Popfly Game Downloader - Download games before August 24th and play them forever
- Brian's pick: 10-4 Episode on the Historical Debugger

This Week C9: Office 2010, Azure pricing, ScottGu on MVC, and Silverlight 3

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:30:00 GMT

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

- Larry Larsen - Office 2010 private beta and Web Access features
- Azure pricing announced at WPC
- Jeff Barnes - Azure .NET Services - July CTP
- Tim Heuer - Overview of Silverlight 3 including tools to get you started
- Adam Kinney - 30 tutorials on Silverlight and Expression Blend 3
- Free chapter on how to use Expression Blend 3's SketchFlow, via Christian Schormann
- Arturo Toledo - How to design a Glassy Button using Expression Design
- Andy Beaulieu - Physics Helper 3 library is out
- Stimulant - Project Tuva - Richard Feynman annotated video series using Silverlight
- John Montgomery - Popfly service is shutting down August 24th
- ASoft - .NET Version Detector app, or use "javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent)" in Internet Explorer, via Blake Handler
- Scott Guthrie - 2-Part ASP.NET MVC Session - Part 1, Part 2
- Jason Zander - PhotoView - Windows 7 Reference Application

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: Celso Gomes - Amazing Silverlight-based tutorials on deconstructing apps
- Brian's pick: Developer + Designer Therapy

This Week C9: Scott Hanselman, Silverlight, Expression Studio 3, C#/CLI

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:17:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and Dan talk about this week's news, including:

- Silverlight 3 & Expression Studio 3 are now available
    - Scott Guthrie & Christian Schormann
    - Scott Guthrie Silverlight 3 overview
    - Developer & Designer Therapy (fun)
- Hanselman relates how he took pictures of Scott's office and posted a pic on Twitter and people asked to see what was in Scott's fridge, which he thought was going too far.
- Dan talks about playing the part of the bear that greco-roman wrestles ScottGu
- Emil Protalinski - Ars Technica - Michael Jackson memorial streamed in Silverlight
- Kirill Osenkov - Undo Framework Samples
- Hanselman gives Dan advice on doing english dubbing imitations, Dan explains how his (pregnant) wife is now PREGOR - a beast that must be satiated.
- Sara Ford - CodePlex turns 3 years old, Breaks 10,000 project mark
- Miguel de Icaza - C# and the CLI now under Community Promise for cross-platform
- Brian Peek - How to build your first XNA Game Studio Session by building a Space Invaders clone from Facebook .NET Programmers Group (and the Coding4Fun book)
- Scott & Dan rant on being Brian Peek fans and that more people should follow his blog
- Microsoft Code Analysis Tool (CAT.NET) - IDE addin to identify security issues including Cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, XPath injection and more, via Greg Duncan
    - Scott discusses the XPath issues that people attributed to Bing, but that was also an issue in Google
- Paul Lakeland Import US Census Spatial Data into SQL Server 2008, via Greg Duncan
- Aaron Stebner - Wix v3.0 now available
- WPF team releases Chart Controls
- Somasegar - BizSpark hits 15,000 startups including StackOverflow, Sobees (including Bdule a TweetDeck-like app), and Curse
- Jaime's Amazing Motivational Posters
- Hanselminutes on 9 - Alpha Geek laptops
- Scott talks about the Creative Vado HD which he recommends

Picks of the week
- Dan's pick: David Sleeckx - Head Tracking and 3D WPF using a standard, built-in camera
- Scott's pick: HaaHa Show - Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman do a session in Norway where Phil is the hacker and Scott is the dev where they go back-and-forth to break in and mitigate against attacks

This Week C9: Speech Recognition, Army of 1, TweetCraft and more

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:26:00 GMT

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

- Joel Bennett - Control your PC with your voice and PowerShell, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Frank La Vigne - Speech Recognition in WPF
- Dan Waters - Great 4-part series on Audio Programming
- Andrew Woodward - Doing Agile in a Team of One
- Leah Budley - UX Team of One, via Frank La Vigne
- Aaron Marten - Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines
- Corey Schuman - YouTube video in Silverlight 3, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Tina Wood - The History of Microsoft 1995
- Jaime Rodriguez - Best questions/answers in the WPF Discussions email alias
- MySpace Releases MSFast, a browser plugin for measuring CPU, memory, screenshost, HTML rendering, and more (download)
- Registering Preview Pane types using PreviewConfig, via Greg Duncan
- Alois Kraus - The differences between Logging and Tracing

Picks of the week
Brian's pick of the week: Habib Heydarian - Debugging a Unit Test Failure with the Historical Debugger
Dan's pick of the week: TweetCraft an in-game World of Warcraft Twitter client, including a gratuitous video trailer

PS - Happy fourth of July to our American viewers

This Week C9: Revolution 9 - The Future of Channel 9

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:08:00 GMT

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Jeff, Duncan, and Nishant to talk about the recent survey results, and the Revolution 9 project

- (0:00 - 1:00) Jeff Sandquist, Duncan Mackenzie, and Nishant Kothary
- (1:00 - 1:57) Survey results request by Minh
- (1:57 - 2:47) How we're working on being more transparent including content and our dev team and helping other organizations be more transparent
- (2:47 - 7:20) Jeff discusses the history of Channel 9
- (7:20 - 10:55) Survey Results - The Good
    - High satisfaction with Microsoft
    - Most Important site features: Video interviews, screencasts/podcasts
    - 50% visit daily, 75% visit at least weekly
    - 66% will try a new technology
    - 91% gave verbatim feedback
- (10:55 - 12:23) Channel 9 Traffic
    - 131 Terabytes/Monthly
    - 2.8 Million Minutes/Month
- (12:23 - 15:17) Survey Results - The Bad
    - Site reliability
    - Finding content through search/tags
    - Site organization
    - Satisfaction for non-developers was lower than developer satisfaction
- (15:17 - 16:48) Survey Results - Importance and Usage Graph
- (16:48 - 17:18) RossJ Coffeehouse comment on artificial classification of devs, students, and consumers
- (17:18 - 17:50) Long Zheng blog comment on Evangelism Network and the "dilemma of choosing a community"
- (17:50 - 19:20) Current State of the World - Channel 8, 9, 10, Coding4Fun, Edge, and MIX Online
- (19:20 - 24:00) Future State of the World
    - Channel 10 and Coding4Fun content will now be on Channel 9
    - Existing Channel 8 content moves to Channel 9, while the Microsoft Student site becomes the portal for students
    - Edge and MIX sites stay unchanged
- (24:00 - 25:28) The origins of the Revolution 9 name based on Jamie's PDC artwork and coming full circle to our roots
- (25:28 - 26:10) Revolution 9 is three things - Content, User Experience, and site reliability + features
- (26:10 - 29:00) Content - Common theme is more - Erik Meijer, Silverlight, real world examples, how-to training, Scoble/Rory style interviews, more history of Microsoft
- (29:00 - 40:10) Adding new content, not taking away existing, not one size fits all, different topics, formats, styles, length, continuous evolution.
   - New stuff
   - Learn - Going Deep, 10-4, MSR/Coding4Fun Projects
   - Opinions - Erik Meijer, Anders Hejlsberg, favorite Windows 7 apps
    - Culture - Old-school C9 videos, history of Microsoft
    - Community - Channel 9 Live - Live streaming town halls with leaders at Microsoft, online "bootcamp" for different technologies
    - Grow # of C9 authors
- (40:10 - 54:54) Nishant on User Experience
    - Jeff talks about the Bruce Williams podcast
    - Nishant's dog and how he is on Twitter (@yoweim)
    - How Channel 9 played a huge part in him joining the company
    - Discoverability - Can we help you find content you're searching for or content you find interesting that you weren't searching for. It's too hard to browse through through 1,300+ tags
    - Readability - How consumable is the content, both text and video, ensure the content is pleasing to look at
    - Interactivity - Don't over-complicate interaction model
    - Visual Design - Let the content shine through, design only begins when you launch, it will continue to evolve
- (54:54 - 58:38) Duncan on site reliability
    - Duncan's request for comments
    - SQL Performance Tuning and de-normalization
    - Replacement of Editor control
    - Cross-Browser Compatibility with Chrome/Safari
- (58:38 - 1:05) Duncan on new features
    - Improve video - Windows Media profile, smooth streaming, video bookmarks/chapters
    - Channel 9 Live - Live chat stream in some way (Twitter, uStream-style)
    - Misc - Anonymous comments, spam filtering, star-rating system so more people will use ratings (content recommendations like Netflix)
- (1:05 - 1:07) Recap
- Thank you for being members of the Channel 9 community

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

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:41:00 GMT

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

This week on C9: XNA updates, Win 7 Training, VS 2010, build your own arcade

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:55:00 GMT

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

- XNA Game Studio 3.1 now available
- Howard Dierking - Extreme MSDN Magazine ASP.NET Makeover screencast series
- Peter Kellner - Compile LINQ to SQL to improve query performance (110 uncompiled vs 780 requests compiled), via Alvin Ashcraft
- Windows 7 RC Training Kit available for download
- Brian Peek - Coding4Fun Show - Physics Helper for Silverlight
- SQL Team - Free SQL Server tools and utilities that make your life a little easier, via Greg Duncan
- Rico Mariani - Why isn't there a 64-bit Visual Visual Studio?
- Joe Pruitt - PoshBing: Bing for PowerShell, via Jamie Thomson
- Phil Haack -ASP.NET MVC Installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and Roadmap
- Aaron Marten - What is the VSIX Project Template?
- Wintellect - Programming Differences between WPF and Silverlight, via Jaime Rodriguez
- XAML Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

Picks of the Week
- Brian's pick of the week - Compare Bing, Google, and Yahoo, without the brand and decide who has the best results using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Blind Search
- Dan's pick of the week - Hanselcade - Home brew arcade system for geeks

This Week on C9: Project Natal, Qex for SQL, and Bing for Devs

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:11:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover the week's top developer news including:

- Microsoft announces Project Natal (pronounced na-tall) for Xbox 360, Dan wants to code it, badly
- Gizmodo - Positive review of Project Natal in action
- Bing launches, including Developer page
- Brandon LeBlanc - Windows Blog - Windows 7 General Availability is scheduled for October 22nd
- Scott Guthrie - IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit step-by-step tutorial
- Nikolai Tillmann - Pex 0.13 Released, Unit Tests as Input and Visual Studio 2010 support, via Peli de Halleux
- Margus Veanes and Pavel Grigorenko - Video of Qex - Symbolic SQL Query Exploration
- Photosynth of Channel 9 Studio, via Larry Larsen and Nic Fillingham
- Gunnar Peipman - Code Snippet for reading embedded files at runtime, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Adam Kinney - Motion Capture viewer in Silverlight
- Habib Heydarian - WPF Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010
- David Ebbo - CodeDom vs T4 for Code Generation
- Dan-el Khen - CodeProject - LINQ to FQL (Facebook Query Language)
- Windows 7 Little Tweaker for 32-bit Windows, via Greg Duncan

- Brian's pick of the week: Watch Netflix videos with friends, Xbox 1080p HD streaming with Zune video
- Dan's pick of the week: Xbox gets Facebook & Twitter integration

This Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your Xbox

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:01:00 GMT

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

- Bing - Microsoft's new search engine, via Ars Technica
- Follow up - Microsoft services like Hotmail and Messenger won't be renamed to "Bing Messenger"
- Behind Bing - DiscoverBing.com has information on the Bing search engine
- Zune HD announced, includes touch screen, wireless, HD radio/video and Web browser
- Pattrick Smacchia - NDepend analysis of the .NET Framework 4.0
- Beth Massi - Video on the build & test process for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework
- BCL Blog - What's new in the Base Class Libraries for .NET Framework 4.0
- Tangible Engineering - Free VS T4 Editor available, auto-generate code from models, database, or XML, via VSX blog
- Jeffrey Richter - Power Live Framework library for programming Live Mesh
- Jaime Rodriguez - List of features in WPF 4 for Beta 1 & Beta 2
- Mark Russinovich - Using Process Monitor to decipher why an application load time increased after code signing

- Brian's pick of the week: Dice-O-Matic - Hardware to roll dice for you and send you the photo
- Dan's pick of the week: Sean Fausett - Virtu, an Apple IIe emulator built using XNA, Silverlight, and WPF. You can even play Apple IIe games on your Xbox 360!

This Week on C9: VS 2010 Beta 1, Windows API Code Pack, & a WPF Jukebox

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:06:00 GMT

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

- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for anyone to download!
- Dan's Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet
- Brian's 10-4 episode on how to download and install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
- Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit
- Favorite VS 2010 Features from Jason Zander's VS 2010 Post
- WPF Designer for RAD Data
- HTML Snippets + jQuery Love
- Visual Studio Extension Manager
- New Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility features
- Yochay Kiriaty - Windows API Code Pack released
- Corey Schuman - 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend, via Alvin Ashcraft
- Roy Osherove - The Art of Unit Testing book + two free chapters
- MVVM for Dummies, via Greg Duncan
- Charles Torre interviews the BCL Team
- Kyle Baley - TeamCity.CodeBetter Project List
- 25 Best ASP.NET MVC Tutorials, via DotNetKicks

Picks of the week
- Brian's pick of the week: Brian Harry - Security Development Lifecycle
- Dan's pick of the week: Coding4Fun - Rudi Grobler's WPF-Based Electric Jukebox