PDC09

Visual Studio 2010 is a fairly important release of the developer tool of choice for writing Windows applications. One of the important advancements in the new update is how it enables developers and architects to better visualize the assets and dependencies through UML (Unified Modeling…

In this article, Brian Peek describes his PDC 2009 project, an XNA game named MindBlaster which uses a Nintendo Wii Remote in conjunction with MindSet brain-wave sensing headset from Neurosky. IntroductionBack in July of 2009 I learned of Neurosky's MindSet device via Engadget.com.  The…

If you are developing multi-threaded applications, there is a possibility that you may be having concurrency problems, and these problems can be difficult to reproduce and identify.At PDC09, Madan Musuvathi and Sebastian Burckhardt showed off some tools (“Cuzz” and “FeatherLite”) that Microsoft…

Nic Fillingham joins @anyware and @ritzy this week to talk about Channel 9 Live at MIX10.  A few months ago at the PDC event, the Channel 9 team made history, broadcasting live from the show floor for almost the entire event, and they’ll do it again at MIX.  But you don’t have to…

Brian Peek picked up a PDC Laptop on eBay and found that the latest accelerometer driver (v1.00.00.16) wasn't correctly closing handles, resulting in his machine having 5 million handles open. So he did what any self-respecting Niner would do, he disassembled the code and created a fix. If you…

In case you haven’t realized it, the new trend in computer chip technology is multi-core. This is where most of the speed improvements moving forward will come from on our computers. To take full advantage of this however it is necessary to design your applications using Parallel Programming…

The upcoming release of Sharepoint 2010 will provide features and capabilities which will allow it to directly support Silverlight development and controls. At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where he showed off many of these features, and walked the audience through the process of how to…

While at PDC09, I met up with Tor Langlo and Robby Ingebretsen who had just built a really cool closet configuration application using WPF and 3D. Think about going to a high-end home store, where the consultant sits down with you and helps configure a walk-in or other type of closet for your…

Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Day 3 Welcome. Mike Swanson, Dennis Angilletta and Jennifer Ritzinger with Nic Fillingham.Recorded Live, November 19th 2009 at 10:30AM (PST)Click here for full schedule

Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3