TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server
TWC9: Email on Azure, Zork in C#, Ford Sync AppLink, and more
Description
This week on Channel 9 Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including:
- Gunnar Piepman - ASP.NET MVC: Using jQuery context menu with tables
- Steve Marx: A sample app that shows how to Send and Receive email in Windows Azure
- Mashable.com - Chris Treadaway discusses how to calculate the valuation of location-based services like foursquare and how they aren't worth the hype. Plus they enable sites like Please Rob Me.
- Scott Hanselman - Extending NerdDinner: Adding MEF and plugins to ASP.NET MVC
- Damian Karzon - Two part series on using the DropBox API with RestSharp to authenticate, list, add and delete files (Part 1 and Part 2)
- Jason Zander: Windows 7 Phone Tip calculator example and designing for Portrait & Landscape mode
- Frotz.NET: Z-machine part of C# that enables you to play Zork!, via Greg Duncan
- TechCrunch: Soluto: "Anti-frustration" software that crowd-sources PC issues and speeds up startup times, won TechCrunch Disrupt, and it's written using WPF
- Windows Azure Blog: WordPress plugin to use Windows Azure Storage for images, file downloads, etc
Picks of the week
- Clint's pick: Ford Sync AppLink will enable you to build voice UI apps that can write information to the in-vehicle touchscreen or via voice. Clint & Dan discuss having a speed trap app
- Dan's pick: Rene Schulte - How to write pixel shaders for Silverlight and WPF with HLSL shows off some cool effects (live demo)
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The Discussion
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CKurt About the Live Mesh reference during the show. Live Mesh is dead and the new Windows Live Sync is here to replace it (build on same technology): http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/29/wave-4-windows-live-sync-a-first-look.aspx
So why promote DropBox? Live Sync should have a same API as Live Mesh, as you said, the API really makes the difference. Although it seems microsoft made a crusual mistake with Live Sync, it seems there is a 2 GB limit and it is not integrated into the real Skydrive. This would mean you can't use Office Web Apps to edit documents online...
We will have to wait and see i guess...
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Clint That is a community run site, not MSFT. Last I checked we haven't announced anything.
Plus DropBox provides a lot of cool things. Such as up to 100gigs of space. yes for a price, but 100gig of space!
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CKurt Well, no it's not announced
YET 
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jamiet Live Sync (or, more accurately, Windows Live) won't have the same API as Live Mesh. Similar, but not the same.
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jasuk1970 I'm a user of dropbox. The way it works is they provide a client for Windows/OSX/Linux which monitors a "Dropbox" directory. When you add/change/delete a file in that directory tree it will be synced with your dropbox account and any other subscriber you have to your account. Not only that, for the Free user it keeps a history of file changes for 30 days so you can un-delete something or get back changes you lost by accident. For the pro users you can make this permanent history.
I have a client for my iPhone and iPad as well (Taking photo's via iPhone and your pictures can instantly appear on your subscribed machines.)
I currently have 50gb of storage with them and share some folders with friends and colleagues, makes things so much easier especially as one uses Linux and another uses a Mac.
Jas (Using Windows 7
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Psychlist1972 For folks interested in Frotz.net, I'll have an interview with the author up here in a couple weeks.