Entries tagged with msdn - Channel 9

NewsCast Brasil - Saraiva Digital

Markus Christen MS — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:26:00 GMT

Saraiva Digital

A equipe do Newscast entrevista Richard Chaves, Gerente de Novas Tecnologias da Microsoft Brasil, para discutir as tecnologias utilizadas no recém lançado projeto Saraiva Digital, que permite compra e alguel de filmes pela Internet e utiliza plataforma Microsoft de ponta-a-ponta e foi desenvolvimento com a abordagem Software plus Services (S+S).

Algumas das tecnologias utilizadas:

Expression Encoder para digitalização dos filmes
Expression Suite e Visual Studio para o Desenvolvimento da solução
Digital Rights Management (DRM10)/ Playready para proteção digital de conteúdo
Internet Information Server (IIS) para distribuição de trailers e filmes para os clientes Saraiva pela Internet
SQL Server como base de dados dos filmes
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) para interface rica na aplicação
Silverlight para exibição dos trailers no site de eCommerce Saraiva
Windows Media Player para aplicação lite

Para referências adicionais sobre o projeto, as tecnologias e vídeo com depoimento da Saraiva, acesse este post.

NewsCast Brasil - Nr.2 TechEd 2009 Brasil

Markus Christen MS — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:40:00 GMT

Assista está edição do Newscast Brasil para conhecer as novidades sobre o TechEd Brasil que está oficialmente anunciado para acontecer no final de Agosto em São Paulo.

Entrevistamos o Fabio Hara, especialista em infraestrutura da Microsoft Brasil que está diretamente envolvido na organização do evento e que falou sobre a experiência que ele teve atendendo o TechEd dos Estados Unidos, a importância dessa visita para o TechEd Brasil, o que podemos esperar tecnicamente do evento, além de uma dica especial para os profissionais em infraestrutura.

Para mais informações visitem o blog do Hara: http://fabiohara.spaces.live.com/blog/

Obrigado e até mais,

J.P Clementi:
http://www.jpclementi.com/

Daniel Ferreira:
http://blogs.msdn.com/Danielsf

UNPLUGGED Silverlight 3 Line of Business with RIA Services May Preview

Nigel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:55:00 GMT

I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike, Nathan and I have been on.

I also mentioned that I would be making a screen cast and sharing the source code from the Silverlight 3 Line of Business demo that I delivered. The demo that I presented was based on Scott Morrison’s two sessions from Tech.Ed North America.

Watch a video of my session using Smooth Streaming.

The source code for these presentations is available below:

I also updated my presentation to cover the May release of RIA Services from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RiaServices (this site also includes tutorials and white papers).

Blog post http://tr.im/silverlight3LOB

NewsCast Brasil - Nr.1

Markus Christen MS — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:01:00 GMT

NewsCast Nr.1 - Novidades do Portal MSDN

Novidades no mundo das tecnologias Microsoft junto com J.P Clementi e Daniel Ferreira da Microsoft.

J.P Clementi:
http://www.jpclementi.com/

Daniel Ferreira:
http://blogs.msdn.com/Danielsf

Abraço

Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7

Nigel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:15:00 GMT

This MSDN UNPLUGGED session shares principles, practices, patterns and tools announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, October 2008.

Presented by http://tr.im/MarkCarroll and http://tr.im/MikeZeff

Using computers in the cloud can make a great deal of sense. Instead of provisioning part or all of your infrastructure you can instead exploit Internet-accessible servers and let others worry about keeping systems up to scratch. But why just stop at the cloud? Some applications may have their code and data both operating in the cloud, others may run inside an organisation storing data in the cloud or relying on other cloud infrastructure services. Applications that run on desktops and mobile devices can use services in the cloud to synchronise information across many systems or in other ways. Whatever approach makes sense exploiting and extending the cloud’s capabilities can open up new choices for applications hosting, storage and interoperability.

WomenBuild with LEGO at MSDN Developer Conferences

Laura Foy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:56:00 GMT

Asli Bilgin sits down with Stephen Forte, chief strategy officer of Telerik, to discuss the excitement revolving around the upcoming MSDN Developer Conferences. They are particularly enthused about WomenBuild Lego Seriousplay- an event within the conference that combines personal interaction and networking with the use of LEGO bricks as a conceptual modeling tool, part of the LEGO Serious Play Program. Watch this clip to find out more and learn how you can participate and REGISTER NOW!

Enterprise Library 4.1 - Eine Einführung

Dariusz Parys — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:08:00 GMT

Dieser MSDN Webcast gibt eine praktische Einführung in die Enterprise Library 4.1. Ein Beispielprojekt wird um die Funktionalitäten Logging, Exception Handling, Policy Injection und Validation erweitert.

MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience and Search Really Works :)

Charles — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:58:50 GMT

MSDN and TechNet have been re-skinned and re-built from the ground up to offer developers and IT Pros a better experience across the board. Much of the work that the team did was based on your feedback. MSDN/TechNet are now on the same codebase and it's more performant, more scalable, and, frankly better to look at :). Oh, and search actually works as you'd expect/hope! Right on!

Great work, MSDN team!

I sat down with Al Valvano, Group Manager and Dan Ledrick, Senior Lead PM to talk about the new incarnations of our developer and IT Pro technical resources.

Enjoy.

MSDN Social Platform: Social Bookmarking, User Profile, Enhanced Forums

Charles — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:39:37 GMT

MSDN has been the de facto place on the web to find all things Microsoft platform developer related. It's not always been perfect, but certainly most Microsoft platform focused developers require MSDN to complete their missions and to learn about new possibilities based on the latest platform innovations. The MSDN team has been hard at work creating some interesting community features with the primary goal of enabling MSDN users to add significant value to their peers via forums, wikis and other social constructs. New on this list of communityware on MSDN is Social Bookmarking and enhanced user Profile. I caught up with some of the folks behind this work to chat about the What, How and Why...

Meet Chris Slemp, PM Profile, Taylor Parsons, Lead PM Social Bookmarking, Brent Serbus, PM Forums and Bryan Thomas, Dev Lead Social Bookmarking.

MSDN Video 2008

Elisa García — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:12:00 GMT

MSDN Video 2008 es una iniciativa de MSDN España con la que puedes aprender las últimas tecnologías de .NET aplicadas a un desarrollo real de una implementación ficticia de un videoclub.

Su funcionalidad, aunque básica, es muy común con otras aplicaciones empresariales:

Gestión de usuarios (socios, administradores) y permisos.
Gestión de artículos (catálogo de películas)
Gestión de lógica de negocio (stocks, ventas y alquileres)

Utiliza las últimas tecnologías aplicadas de forma integrada en la misma solución:

LINQ: acceso a datos y la creación de entidades.
Windows Communication Foundation: exposición de los servicios.
ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, Silverlight: creación del sitio web del videoclub.
Windows Forms 3.5: herramienta de administración para gerentes de tienda.
Windows Presentation Foundation: cajero automático en tiendas.

En este video, presentamos un paseo por la funcionalidad de la aplicación.

Puedes encontrar la aplicación completa en Desarrolla Con MSDN.

April Reagan: The Future of MSDN Help

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:53:36 GMT

In this interview, you'll hear April Reagan's (blog) thoughts on the future of the MSDN Library (local help), an often ignored, but critical feature for many developers. April also talks about her ThinkWeek paper that Bill Gates commented on, talks about the two big priorities for the next release and asks C9'ers for feedback on their thoughts for how to modernize local help.

VB/C# Developer Centers "Re-launched"

Beth Massi — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:18:04 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to call out a couple new "facelifts" we've done to the Visual Basic and C# Developer Centers. Take a look at the new home page layouts directed at helping you find the best and featured content.

On the VB Dev Center we've got way more dynamic content with the addition of aggregated blogs posts from the VB team as well as MVPs and of course CodePlex.

We're continually improving the sites so check back often and please let me know what you think!

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

MSDN Wiki Projects - #4 (last) - Internationalization [MSDN Wiki Projects - #4 (last) - Internationalization]

Rory — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:14:28 GMT

This is the final video in the MSDN Wiki interview series. In this segment, I talked with Fabrice and Molly about the MSDN Internationalization Wiki.

I love language - the living ones, the dead ones, the spoken ones, the ones nobody speaks anymore, C# - and I had a lot of questions in my head about how The MSDN Wiki people were going to accomplish the insanely difficult task of translating select bits of the MSDN library into Portuguese.

English, unless you're a native speaker, will probably never make total sense to you (and doesn't even make total sense to those of us born speaking it), while Portuguese, although not the sloppy mashup of languages English is, is still very complicated.

So, how do you take a bunch of English and translate it into a bunch of Portuguese?

Fabrice and team are accomplishing this mountainous task with a combination of some awesome MSR produced software and an army of contributors from around the world.

This video also marks the end of my first real attempt at splitting up one long video into a few smaller parts. Did you like it? Did it work for you? Aside from the sloppy edit points (something I know to look for now), is there anything about this approach that bothers you? I was thinking it would have been nice to have posted the parts over a longer period of time, hopping between a couple other "chunked" videos - there'd be more variety that way.

What do you think? We're listening, yo......

The Series:

- Video #1: How and Why

- Video #3: Internationalization

in reply to MSDN Wiki Projects - #4 (last) - Internationalization

MSDN Wiki Projects - #3 - A Huge Responsibility [MSDN Wiki Projects - #3 - A Huge Responsibility]

Rory — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:44:26 GMT

When you're in charge of something so large, so easily modified by the public, and so potentially impactful, how do you actually do it?

Accuracy, relevance, usefulness, language, abuse, and more - these are just a few things that might keep you up at night if you're one of the people overseeing a corporate wiki.

At Channel 9, for example, we're on a pretty long leash. The freedom we enjoy in content creation and community activities is astonishing. Along with that freedom, though, comes a lot of responsibility. Anytime we put content online or interact with customers, there's the possibility of really blowing it. Fortunately, we actually do all right, but the concern is always there. It's natural. It has to be.

The situation is even more interesting for wikis. Where Charles and I have control over the content we produce, a wiki takes a lot of the control away from the site owners.

So, what do you do? How do you even begin to think through all the things that could go wrong? What kind of editorial oversight is there? How do you choose what's to be documented? How do other people at Microsoft feel? What legal concerns are there? What's the hardest part about getting a wiki up and running here?

When you aren't responsible for a project like this, it's easy to forget just how much risk is in place, as well as how many technical and editorial issues there are.

This is the third part of the interview, and we tried to address some of these issues. The deeper we went, the more interested and impressed I was. I loved learning about Fabrice and Molly's jobs. There are so many angles to this Microsoft wiki stuff that I would have been happy to have talked to them for many hours more.

Such a unique and delightful challenge...

The Series:

- Video #1: How and Why

- Video #3: Internationalization

in reply to MSDN Wiki Projects - #3 - A Huge Responsibility

MSDN Wiki Projects - #2 - How and Why [MSDN Wiki Projects - #2 - How and Why]

Rory — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:40:38 GMT

[Note: Looks like I made a couple small mistakes while chunking the original interview up into smaller pieces. While it looked like they were ending at exactly the right time, it appears each video has an extra second or two of talking that I meant to cut off. The result is that the video stops right in the middle of a comment by Fabrice that's actually for the next video in the series. Simply put, there's nothing missing, and Fabrice will get to finish his comment in the next video - apologies :| ]

Whatever warm cuddly advances are made by large corporations toward community efforts and transparency, there are still serious and valid concerns about the ramifications of letting civilians produce content.

This is part two of the series on the MSDN dev and internationalization wikis.

In this one, we talk about some of the work Fabrice and team had to do to push these projects through, get them approved, and implemented.

Don't know about you people, but I look at community involvement as being a great thing for everybody. However, I'm not the one who has to take responsibility for opening up a site to modifications from the general public. When we see these projects, it's easy to forget the kind of risks that are being taken on behalf of the employees who drive the efforts.

This interview reminded me of what those risks can be...

The Series:

- Video #1: How and Why

- Video #3: Internationalization

in reply to MSDN Wiki Projects - #2 - How and Why

MSDN Wiki Projects - #1 - Saying Hello

Rory — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:50:31 GMT

This short video is the first of a four part series in which I sat down with Fabrice Fonck and Molly Bostic to talk about the MSDN DevWiki project.

As usual, I walked in thinking I already had a good grasp on the subject, but quickly found out that things were much more complex than I ever would have thought.

For example, do you have any idea how many user interface elements there are in Visual Studio? How many words there are in the documentation?

I had a figure in my head - just a wild guess based on what seemed realistic to me.

I was off by several decimal points.

Like many other web devs, I've done a lot of internationalization work, but nothing like this.

That same complexity is the reason it was decided to kick off some wikis for MSDN. One for general documentation (look for "Community Content" mixed in with the normal stuff), and the other for internationalizaion (Portuguese).

The task itself is amazing, and that doesn't even account for all the planning around infrastructure. It's hard enough documenting a large product - now imagine doing it in a bunch of different languages.

This video is the introduction to the topic, and the next three drill down into specifics.

If you feel like you have a little too much on your plate at work, then watch this series. You'll feel much better :)

Also, if you're working on something as big (or bigger), say something about it in the comments. ......

The Series:

- Video #1: How and Why

- Video #3: Internationalization

Anand Iyer - Life in the Field, Racism in the Tech Industry, and More...

Rory — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:43:39 GMT

Anand Iyer is an old friend of mine. We met on the MSDN Events team.

We did not, however work together all that much. The MSDN Events team is distributed, with different employees living in different states.

When I was still there, I was living in Portland and being managed by a guy who lives in Kentucky who reported to a guy who lives in Texas who reported to a guy who lived in Redmond.

Yeah. It was pretty crazy.

The job itself was nuts, too, and Anand and I spent most of this video just talking about life as MSDN Events Presenters - having to fly around, constantly wake up in different time zones, get used to adjusting your watch, presenting in cities that were so high up that there wasn't even any stinkin' oxygen, and so on.

This video, then, is a conversation between Anand and me. We talk about many things, but, mostly, we're just happy to see each other. It was the first time in months, and it's obvious. I missed him very much - he's a good guy and a fabulous presenter.

Finally, this video covers a lot of ground, but one thing we cover that is especially important is racism in the tech industry. Anand was born in Bombay, and he's taken a lot of flak for his heritage. I remember how this resulted in some reprehensible situations.

I wanted everybdy to know that the racism in the tech industry - and there is much more than anybody's willing to own up to - actually affects people. I thought that, if you all saw first hand that it hits people like Anand, then maybe you'd think a little deeper about what it is you're upset about.

That's all.

Daniel Fernandez (and others) -- Coding for Fun

Charles — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:29:25 GMT

Is coding a chore for you? Well, MSDN’s new Coding for Fun site will change all of that! Come and see some fun ways to have fun with software.

Check out the Coding4Fun Website. Also, be sure to download and install your favorite flavor of Express!

Sara Williams - Will MSDN hide any bugs?

The Channel 9 Team — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:36:11 GMT

Now that MSDN has a Product Feedback Center where developers can report, and look up bugs they've found in Visual Studio 2005, we wondered if there were any bugs that would be pulled out of the database. Turns out there are some scenarios in which that'd happen, and Sara talks about those.

Sara Williams - What makes for a good bug report?

The Channel 9 Team — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:51:25 GMT

Sara Williams, head of MSDN, talks about how to write a great bug report. MSDN, earlier this week, turned on the MSDN Product Feedback Center, which is where you can report (and look up) bugs in the next version of Visual Studio.

Sara Williams - Demo of new MSDN Product Feedback Center

scobleizer — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:59:09 GMT

One of the questions we often get is "how can I know whether or not Microsoft is listening to my Visual Studio 2005 bug reports?"

Thanks to MSDN's new Product Feedback Center you can search through existing bug reports, report new bugs, and also track what Microsoft does with those bug reports. By the way, the team's code-name for this center was "Ladybug."

Here Sara Williams, product unit manager of MSDN, demonstrates the new feedback center.

Please do give us your feedback about the feedback center.

Chris Sells - How do you become an MSDN author?

The Channel 9 Team — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:39:11 GMT

Chris Sells, program manager at MSDN and the guy who runs the Longhorn Developer Center on MSDN, talks about how you too can write for MSDN.

Chris Sells -- Tour of MSDN

The Channel 9 Team — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:29:01 GMT

Chris Sells, an MSDN program manager who runs the Longhorn Developer Center, takes us on a tour of MSDN's offices. You too can jump into one of Sara Williams' meetings, walk down the hall and learn all sorts of interesting things that people at MSDN are working on. Even jump into a meeting with MVPs. Some other things that Chris does? He blogs and keeps a site about the interviewing process here at Microsoft.

Chris Sells - Is it really true that you're working on a Longhorn version of Solitaire?

The Channel 9 Team — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:03:11 GMT

Chris Sells, program manager on MSDN (he's the guy who runs the MSDN/Longhorn developer center) talks about how he's reworking Solitaire for Longhorn.

Solitaire is, he says, the most used Windows application.

Coming over the next week on Channel9 we'll talk more with Chris and get a tour of MSDN too.