TWC9: VS2010 SP1 Beta, Native Extensions for Silverlight, EF Code First
Description
On a very special This week on Channel 9, Brian, Clint, and DAn countdown the top 10 most impactful or game-shifting Microsoft developer announcements/technology of 2010.
Our Top 10 Stories (select top 10 * from TWC9 where year = 2010)
- [watch] #9 - .NET Micro Framework and devices like the netduino get cheap ($35 USD) and powerful
- [watch] #8 - The Channel 9 Live update launches with improved performance, reliability, and Channel 9 Live takes off hosting a number of execs and technology leaders like Joe Belfiore, Mark Russinovitch, Scott Guthrie, Bob Muglia, and more
- [watch] #7 - Web development improvements like IIS Express, Web Matrix, Razor syntax/view engine
- [watch] #6 - Microsoft open source contributions like nuget, CodePlex improvements like free Runtime Intelligence, Live Writer and support for Mercurial, and Microsoft contributing code to jQuery
- [watch] #5 - PDC announcement by Anders Hejlsberg on how VB and C# will get deep language integration for simplified asynchronous programming,
- [watch] #4 - Kinect revolutionized user interaction and made Minority Report a little closer to reality and Kinect hobbyist programmers are showing lots of interesting applications and uses for the Kinect sensor (Dan's pick)
- [watch] #3 - Windows & SQL Azure have incredible velocity when it comes to adding new features, including virtual machine support, elevated privileges, smaller instance size, IntelliTrace support and more
- [watch] #2 - Windows Phone 7 shows that Microsoft is back in the game with arguably the best developer tools for phone development available (Clint's pick)
- [watch] #1 - HTML 5 & Internet Explorer 9 show not only the power of Web applications, but also how GPU acceleration of all elements of a Web page can lead to dramatic performance increases
- [watch] And the #0 story for the year is - Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.which are arguably the most impactful change for developers in their day-to-day job this year. (Brian's pick)
Do you agree with our choices? What would you have added?
Happy Holidays!
Brian, Clint, and Dan
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The Discussion
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felix9 Happy Holidays Guys !
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aL_ i'd place kinect a little higher, but thats just me
anyhooo, merry xmas and a happy new year to all
http://noms.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/12/19/funny-food-photos-bacon-up-your-christmas-tree/
[tried to post the image directly image but i cant for some reason]
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sentientBot do we need to log in to Live to view Channel 9? wtf?
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Bas I enjoyed that Brian was drinking throughout. Happy holidays!
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gduncan411 Happy Holiday's guys and thank you and the whole team for a great past year...!
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Dan Happy Holidays everyone
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Dan 16 hours ago, aL_ wrote
i'd place kinect a little higher, but thats just me
anyhooo, merry xmas and a happy new year to all
http://noms.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/12/19/funny-food-photos-bacon-up-your-christmas-tree/
[tried to post the image directly image but i cant for some reason]
We debated this one quite a bit, primarily because the list was what was the top stories for developers, and since we haven't released an officially-supported API for Kinect, only XDK developers have full access to their developer libraries. That being said, the open source libraries like nKinect are getting better and like I said on the show, it was my pick of the year
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aL_ 4 hours ago, Dan wrote
We debated this one quite a bit, primarily because the list was what was the top stories for developers, and since we haven't released an officially-supported API for Kinect, only XDK developers have full access to their developer libraries. That being said, the open source libraries like nKinect are getting better and like I said on the show, it was my pick of the year that is true
hopefully we'll get som official drivers soon, but then again, i also think we should get app support for the xbox and ability to deploy our own homebrew apps to winphone [and xbox] for free..oh well, i can dream
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Clint @sentientBot: the site should log you in automatically if you've already have in the past but you can use the entire site without logging in.
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IrvTheRobot Hey are you guys taking a break?
I hope so you deserve it. But it does make me sad, I really need my 'This Week On Channel 9" fix!
Happy New Year!!