http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.pnghttp://channel9.msdn.com/tags/free/freehttp://channel9.msdn.com/tags/free/en-usSat, 11 Apr 2009 00:02:31 GMTSat, 11 Apr 2009 00:02:31 GMTEvNet (EvNet, Version=1.0.3608.3122, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)<img src="http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/3/5/8/4/6/4/ThisWeekC9Apr10_small_ch9.png" border="0" /><p>This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by special guest Charles Torre! This week we discuss<br /> <br /> - Channel 9 turns 5 Years old and Jamie builds some <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/464020-Birthday-wallpapers/">5-year anniversary wallpapers</a></p> <p>- Nic Fillingham’s Flickr photos from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicfill/sets/72157616349485347/">5-year anniversary cake</a></p> <p>- Where Dan, Brian and Charles were five years ago<br /> <br /> <strong>Developer News</strong><br /> - Download <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19">SQL Server 2008 SP1</a> </p> <p>- Velocity Team - <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity/archive/2009/04/08/announcing-velocity-ctp3.aspx">Velocity CTP3 now available</a>(<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD2&amp;displaylang=en">Download</a>)</p> <p>- Jesse Liberty – <a href="http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2009/04/06/videowicki-a-open-book-design-to-delivery-silverlight-3-project.aspx">VideoWiki Open Silverlight 3 Project</a><b></b></p> <p>- Jeroen Ritmeijer - <a href="http://www.muhimbi.com/blog/2009/04/displaying-ms-word-files-in-sharepoint.html">Integrating TextGlow (Silverlight Open XML viewer) into Sharepoint</a></p> <p>-  Yochay Kiriaty – Walkthrough of the <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers/archive/2009/04/03/windows-7-taskbar-net-sample-library-an-overview.aspx">Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library</a><br /> - Update to <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78&amp;displaylang=en">free Azure Services Training Kit</a> and <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/AzureManagementTools">Azure Services Management Tools</a></p> <p>- Mohammad Khosravi – <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/RangeFinder.aspx">CodeProject Range Finder app</a>, via <a href="http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/04/applying-distance-measuring-range.html">Greg Duncan</a></p> <p>- Jon Galloway - <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2009/04/09/troubleshooting-an-intermittent-net-high-cpu-problem.aspx">Troubleshooting an intermittent .NET High CPU problem</a></p> <p>- Bill Ramos - SQL Management Studio Tips <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/billramo/archive/2009/04/08/sql-server-management-studio-tips-part-1.aspx">Part 1</a> and <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/billramo/archive/2009/04/08/sql-server-management-studio-tips-part-2.aspx">Part 2</a></p> <p>- Adam Kinney – <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/SilverlightSpy/">Video demo of Silverlight Spy</a> to Visually Debug Silverlight applications</p> <p>- SourceGear - <a href="http://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/releases/3.3.0.html">DiffMerge available (free)</a></p> <p>- RedGate offers <a href="http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_profiler/boost_app_performance_ebook5.htm?utm_source=infoq&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_term=1506&amp;utm_content=boostappperf-ebook2&amp;utm_campaign=antsprofiler">Illustrated C# 2008 eBook</a> for free, via <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mapo/archive/2009/04/08/free-illustrated-c-2008-ebook.aspx">Stefano Mapelli</a><br /> <br /> <strong>Picks of the week</strong><br /> - Charles's pick of the week: <a href="http://srl.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/">Jonathan Shapiro</a>, creator of EROS and BitC projects, was hired by Microsoft<br /> - Brian’s pick of the week: Correction on features coming in XNA from <a href="http://klucher.com/">Michael Klucher</a></p> <p>-Dan’s pick of the week: Silverlight-based <a href="http://www.orkpad.com/nRoute/FutureDesktop/">Future Desktop in Silverlight</a> (<a href="http://www.orkpad.com/Blog/post/2009/04/02/Microsoft-2019-Vision-now-on-Silverlight-(with-Source-Code).aspx">blog post</a>, <a href="http://nroute.codeplex.com/">Codeplex project</a>), via Rishi Oberi</p><img src="http://channel9.msdn.com/464853/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0" height="1" width="1" alt="" />http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies/http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies/Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:31:00 GMThttp://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/3/5/8/4/6/4/ThisWeekC9Apr10_ch9.wmv49473http://channel9.msdn.com/464853/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0<p>This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by special guest Charles Torre! This week we discuss<br /> <br /> - Channel 9 turns 5 Years old and Jamie builds some <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/464020-Birthday-wallpapers/">5-year anniversary wallpapers</a></p> <p>- Nic Fillingham’s Flickr photos from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicfill/sets/72157616349485347/">5-year anniversary cake</a></p> <p>- Where Dan, Brian and Charles were five years ago<br /> <br /> <strong>Developer News</strong><br /> - Download <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19">SQL Server 2008 SP1</a> </p> <p>- Velocity Team - <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity/archive/2009/04/08/announcing-velocity-ctp3.aspx">Velocity CTP3 now available</a>(<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD2&amp;displaylang=en">Download</a>)</p> <p>- Jesse Liberty – <a href="http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2009/04/06/videowicki-a-open-book-design-to-delivery-silverlight-3-project.aspx">VideoWiki Open Silverlight 3 Project</a><b></b></p> <p>- Jeroen Ritmeijer - <a href="http://www.muhimbi.com/blog/2009/04/displaying-ms-word-files-in-sharepoint.html">Integrating TextGlow (Silverlight Open XML viewer) into Sharepoint</a></p> <p>- Yochay Kiriaty – Walkthrough of the <a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers/archive/2009/04/03/windows-7-taskbar-net-sample-library-an-overview.aspx">Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library</a></p>Dan Fernandez10http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-Charles-Torre-on-camera-C9-turns-5-and-lots-of-freebies/RSS/http://channel9.msdn.com/464853/Trackback.aspxAzure ServicesfreeSilverlightSQL Server 2008Windows 7<img src="http://channel9.msdn.com/Link/2b0b1567-0107-4783-a2c9-b6be7485a9c6/" border="0" /><a href="http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin">Karl Seguin</a> recently released a great free 79 page <a href="http://codebetter.com/files/folders/codebetter_downloads/entry179694.aspx">eBook for .NET developers</a> covering design patterns, unit testing, mock objects, memory management, object relational mapping, and more.  Get it while it's free!<img src="http://channel9.msdn.com/412179/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0" height="1" width="1" alt="" />http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Free-eBook-Foundations-of-Better-Programming/http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Free-eBook-Foundations-of-Better-Programming/Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:06:00 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Free-eBook-Foundations-of-Better-Programming/41767http://channel9.msdn.com/412179/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Karl Seguin recently released a great free 79 page eBook for .NET developers covering design patterns, unit testing, mock objects, memory management, object relational mapping, and more.  Get it while it's free!Dan Fernandez23http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Free-eBook-Foundations-of-Better-Programming/RSS/http://channel9.msdn.com/412179/Trackback.aspxbest practicesfreeNews