TWC9: AutoTune.NET, Portable Libraries, Facebook + Azure, SQLR2 BI,
TWC9: Coding4Fun, DevLabs projects, XAMLQuery, VS Achievements
Description
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:
- [00:32] Coding4Fun is now on Channel 9,including blog posts, articles, and projects, and friend of the show Greg Duncan will be a contributing blogger
- [01:45] Coding4Fun - Coding4Fun Windows Phone 7 Toolkit and the WindowsPhoneGeek Getting Started Guide
- [02:55] Rudi Grobler - Easily scan barcodes with a Windows Phone 7 using open source Silverlight port of ZXing barcode library
- [03:50] Prabu Arumugam - XAML Query CodePlex project - Like jQuery for XAML it simplifies traversing, finding, and updating XAML elements in a document/page, via Alvin Ashcraft
- [04:41] TPL Dataflow to coordinate asynchronous tasks (see Stephen Toub video), via Soma
- [05:58] Dryad (see Going Deep video) for writing data/compute intensive queries like image processing, and unrelateed to the D&D creature, via Soma
- [08:00] Sho, a fast/powerful tool for data analysis/visualization, via Soma
- [08:52] Data Developer Center - Reactive Extensions (Rx) has now graduated from Dev Labs
- [09:35] Server Core Team blog - .NET Framework 4.0 will be available as a Server Core installation option (Q1 of 2011), requires Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, via Bruce Kyle
- [10:08] Scott Guthrie - Web Farm Framework 2.0 (used to provision & manage a farm of web servers) isnow available for download
- [11:31] Scott Hanselman - Video of what's new in the Microsoft Web Platform
- [12:27] Malcolm Sheridan - How to create functions and helpers in WebMatrix
- [13:12] UBelly - Use EaselJs to build a picture gallery with HTML5 Canvas in 5 minutes
Picks of the week!
- [14:23] Dan's pick: Gorazd Breskvar - Visual Studio Achievements and we're building an add-in + service for this
- [15:56] Brian's pick: Brian Harry - MSDN Radio: Brian Harry discusses TFS Running on Azure
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The Discussion
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dtower *facepalm* Like a dryad would ever use a crossbow. I think you need to turn in your nerd cards.
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Dan @dtower: LOL, true, I was thinking of a Drider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drider, half drow elf, half spider, so what's the word I'm looking for...ah yes FAIL
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didi2bond I see very nice -
Rose @Dan:i like this
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aL_ sho looks pretty cool but i'd really like yo use those plots form c# too
i think i saw some samples for that thoughi think i have written a linq query with 30+ lines
its nested 4 levels deep too i think.. its in geny.codeplex.com wish i had some time to work on that :/ -
gbrayut Nothing better than getting up on a Monday morning and finding that my Silverlight ZXing port is featured on TWC9!
ACHIEVMENT UNLOCKED: Created noteworthy CodeProject
You guys just made my week
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Sam The time links "[04:41]" doesn't work :(
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Clint @Sam: fixed link, sorry about that.