TWC9: AutoTune.NET, Portable Libraries, Facebook + Azure, SQLR2 BI, (Channel 9)

TWC9: AutoTune.NET, Portable Libraries, Facebook + Azure, SQLR2 BI,

Posted: Jan 21, 2011 at 10:35 PM

By: Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez

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

[01:56s] Don Burnett - Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook enables you to build Facebook applications using Windows Azure
[02:34s] Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Push Notification Server Side Helper Library enables you to send push notifications to a Windows phone (ex: tile, toast)
[03:33s] ASP.NET Site - 8-part series on getting started programming Entity Framework
[04:33s] Steve Sanderson - Walkthrough of using the MvcScaffolding project
[05:40s] Dmitry Lyalin - Screencast on the start-to-end story of building TwiT.tv for Windows Phone 7
[06:15s] Visual Studio Gallery - Portable Library Tools - Easily share code between apps that target different platforms (.NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Phone or XNA), via Greg Duncan
[07:39s] Scott MItchell - HTML parsing with the HTML Agility Pack, via Greg Duncan
[09:08s] Code Project - Dylan Morley, Secure Delete .NET, A .NET GUI for sdelete, a TechNet application to securely delete a file
[10:49s] Jamie Thomson - Query VS projects using T-SQL

Picks of the week!

[14:06s] Dan's pick: Coding4Fun - Mark Heath, Autotune.NET a library that auto-tunes audio files
[15:00s] Brian's pick: Brian Harry shows off Urban Turtle for Scrum and TFS

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OK -- fun awkward pauses aside, YES, the Portable Library Tools would be incredibly useful. And YES YES YES this functionality needs to come standard as part of Visual Studio! It is also very closely related to a talk given at this past PDC by Shawn Burke entitled "3-Screen Coding".

At my job, we have a custom framework library that we are trying to make work for:
- An ASP.NET web service
- A Silverlight app
- A (gasp!) .NET Compact app for rugged data collection devices that will never ever run Windows Phone 7, but rather Windows Mobile 5/6.x/Windows Embedded Handheld!

Having a tool that could enable us to easily build common library components for all these environments would be beyond useful for teams that do development across many types of platforms and devices. I really hope Shawn Burke and the guys making the Portable Library Tools are talking because their goals are very closely aligned.

PS: Of course, .NET Compact and smartphone development first needs to be supported by VS2010 *at all*!! Get going on that, Microsoft!

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dentaku

Jan 22, 2011 at 7:38 AM

This is what Brian and Dan sound like autotuned in C Major. http://www.box.net/shared/m3hr35mmr6
Brian has a more steady voice and is less prone to fits of exuberance so he doesn't autotune as well
For autotune to work you need to stretch out every word as if you where singing cheezy R&B.
gduncan411 It's amazing what a professional photographer can do...

Jan 22, 2011 at 7:56 AM

It's a 2-fer week...
Thanks as always for the shoutouts guys.
Dan

Jan 22, 2011 at 8:27 AM

@dentaku:That's awesome, thanks
@gduncan411: Thank you for always finding great stuff
dentaku

Jan 22, 2011 at 9:01 AM

Just for fun I messed with the same sample using a vocoder this time. Now you guys are all robot-ized.
http://www.box.net/shared/gyyihnn4yu
compupc1

Jan 22, 2011 at 10:12 AM

OK -- fun awkward pauses aside, YES, the Portable Library Tools would be incredibly useful. And YES YES YES this functionality needs to come standard as part of Visual Studio! It is also very closely related to a talk given at this past PDC by Shawn Burke entitled "3-Screen Coding".
At my job, we have a custom framework library that we are trying to make work for:
- An ASP.NET web service
- A Silverlight app
- A (gasp!) .NET Compact app for rugged data collection devices that will never ever run Windows Phone 7, but rather Windows Mobile 5/6.x/Windows Embedded Handheld!
Having a tool that could enable us to easily build common library components for all these environments would be beyond useful for teams that do development across many types of platforms and devices. I really hope Shawn Burke and the guys making the Portable Library Tools are talking because their goals are very closely aligned.
PS: Of course, .NET Compact and smartphone development first needs to be supported by VS2010 *at all*!! Get going on that, Microsoft!
HeavensRevenge Know Thyself

Jan 22, 2011 at 10:45 AM

I can't believe how much I love those time markers of content links to skip to in the video
dentaku

Jan 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM

I didn't notice that feature.
That's perfect!
1 hour ago, HeavensRevenge wrote
I can't believe how much I love those time markers of content links to skip to in the video
Dan

Jan 22, 2011 at 12:22 PM

@compupc1:Agree, the thing Brian and I were going back and forth on before the show is implementation, b/c we could see a lot of ways to do this that could be bad or bring up subtle bugs (to make a library work in SL that doesn't have a .NET fx library, you could do some hackery to take the file and burn it into your code, but that breaks bug fixes, versioning, etc), but I do agree it's needed and VS support is critical so that everything would be automated. We ran into this with the Facebook .NET SDK, and it was nowhere near as elegant as what *could* be.
Dan

Jan 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM

@HeavensRevenge:Thanks, you can also build your own [video URL] + #time=03m04s like the link below which jumps you to 3 minutes 4 seconds.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-AutoTuneNET-Portable-Libraries-Facebook--Azure-SQLR2-BI#time=03m04s

Feel free to nudge other Channel 9 contributors to do this more
Dan

Jan 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM

@dentaku:Thanks for noticing, we've had these since Rev9 shipped, but for TWC9, we used "watch" links, but just yesterday we were in a review with Scott Guthrie and he suggested we think of something a bit more obvious, hence the time markers. If you have other suggestions on how to make this more obvious, let me know
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Jan 23, 2011 at 5:20 AM

@Dan

Dan, the above link doesn't work. Nothing happened.

Do timestamps only work when in the same post as the video?
rhm

Jan 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM

oooh, how long has Channel9 been watchable on an iPad? Finally I can watching This Week On Channel9 during my sit-down bathroom time!
Dan

Jan 23, 2011 at 4:18 PM

@Minh:Well it's technically a side-effect that we didn't want videos to auto-start, so if you follow that link and then play the video, you'll notice the start-time jumps to that point.
Dan

Jan 23, 2011 at 4:18 PM

@rhm:Since we added HTML 5 support
Minh WOOH! WOOH!

Jan 24, 2011 at 4:33 AM

@Dan The thing is... if I click on the timestamp links in the original thread post, it'll work.
If I click on the link you created a few posts above, either nothing happens, or the video starts (it does start) from the beginning.
Dylan Morley

Jan 24, 2011 at 8:49 AM

Thanks for the mention
briankel

Jan 26, 2011 at 4:33 PM

Ha! I don't know if I should be disappointed or happy that I can't be auto-tuned well. Thanks for doing this, @dentaku!

Brian has a more steady voice and is less prone to fits of exuberance so he doesn't autotune as well
For autotune to work you need to stretch out every word as if you where singing cheezy R&B.
DavidMKean

Jan 26, 2011 at 4:44 PM

compupc1: I'd love to get in contact with you to talk about your scenarios - give me a shout, david DOT kean AT microsoft dot com.

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