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The Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 2 is now available for download! Rob Relyea joins us to give a refresher on what the Kinect SDK can do, and what's new for Beta 2. There are a number of under-the-hood improvements including faster and more accurate skeletal tracking, support for x64, and support for…

Now that the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta 1 Refresh is live, we had a chance to talk to Rob Relyea a Principal Program Manager Lead on the Kinect for Windows SDK team to talk about what changed in the Beta 1 Refresh. If you're on Twitter, make sure to follow the KinectSDKTeam for more information.

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool aimed at building data-driven applications, like an inventory system or a basic customer relationship management system incredibly easy. LightSwitch automatically generates the user interface in Silverlight for a data source and, with no code, you can…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: PDC10 - Oct 28-29, live from the Redmond campus, 1,000 people, $1,000 to attend, (register here). If you can't attend, we'll be streaming the event live! We'll also be doing some fun stuff for Niners who will…

WebMatrix is a new lightweight tool, server, database and Web programming framework. The goal is to provide an easy on-ramp to building Web applications and to provide tools to easily create and customize pre-built applications like WordPress, Umbraco CMS and more. WebMatrix Beta: More…

Lane McCullough from Dell shows off the performance improvements of hardware acceleration that Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 has over Firefox in the Asteroid Belt Canvas tag sample. Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3 Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

David Ragones from NVIDIA shows off the 10x+ performance improvement between a hardware accelerated Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 and Chrome 5 using the Potato Gun demo. Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3 Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

Dave Hoff from AMD shows off AMD-based notebooks and the power of hardware acceleration with Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3. Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3 Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

Debbie Lee from ASUS discusses ASUS hardware that supports Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3. Download Internet Explorer 9 PP3 Try the Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive site

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint Rutkas where we discuss the week's top developer news, including:- Channel 9 Live at PDC - Three days of live streams with big names including Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia, Scott Guthrie, and many more. - Microsoft PressPass - Microsoft acquires Teamprise…