TWC9: New Features in Silverlight 5, VB for WP7, Okapi, and Movember

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are reunited to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

[watch] Silverlight Firestarter – Newly announced features includes GPU Accelerated 3D, Immediate mode graphics, Trick play (play up to 2x speed), custom markup extensions, and out-of-browser features like P/Invoke and multi-window support
[watch] Silverlight Firestarter keynote - Databinding Debugging – You can add breakpoints into XAML and see exactly what path and data is being used for data binding
[watch] Silverlight Firestarter keynote – Two cool demos include the 3D mesh model and the Crescent BI tool coming soon from the SQL Server team
[watch] Tim Heuer – Tim gives a full rundown of all of the features coming in Silverlight 5
[watch] Tim Heuer – Coded UI tests for Siverlight, available in MSDN Feature Pack 2
[watch] Windows Azure – Lots of new features in the Azure 1.3 SDK, includes VM Role (beta), Full IIS support, Elevated privileges, diagnostics, and more
[watch] CodePlex – BCL Extensions project provides handy extension methods to common types (collections, strings, etc), via Frans Bouma
[watch] Coding4Fun – Pedro Lamas – A basic Currency Converter application that’s currently in the marketplace
[watch] VisitMix - Thomas Lewis – Okapi – HTML 5 template & code to build your own endless mural
[watch] ..NET Curry - Paging in ASP.NET using jTemplate, jQuery and JSON
[watch] Gunnar Piepman - CodePlex now supports LiveWriter, via Greg Duncan
[watch] LINQExtender v3 – Update to the library to help developers build LINQ providers
[watch] Jason Zander – Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 RTW

Picks of the week!

[watch] Brian Keller – Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2, a free for MSDN subscribers tool which includes a lot of new features like coded UI tests
[watch] Dan Fernandez – Microsoft’s participation in Movember, including a disturbing photoshopped photo by Larry Larsen and a video of Microsoft participants in Movember (click here to donate for Dan)

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marsh

Dec 04, 2010 at 11:09AM

Wow! THanks Microsoft for participating in Movember. Here's a quick video
you will like for <ovember called "Grow a Muzzy-PHOTO version"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmEo6xmaWDo
Chhers, Marsh from up north
AdamSpeight2008 The Bandito Coder

Dec 04, 2010 at 3:17PM

With the green screen I thought you might have done a tribute Leslie Neilsen, a la Police Squad.
This Week on Channel 9 in Color,
Starring Dan Fernandez
Also starring Brain Keller
and Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln
Tonight's Special guest star Charles Torres
Tonight's Episode: The Rotten Apple.

Background the classic Frank Drebin car journey.
Or fool with the TrickPlay Users, one talks faster the other slower. And the end do the false ending where everyone freezes except for one.
Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Dec 04, 2010 at 3:47PM

Hey, trick play! I had no idea that'd be in there. I've been waiting for this feature on Channel 9 since... being on Channel 9. I always download the videos and play them at 1.4x speed, this'd allow me to just use the Silverlight player right away.

Also maybe *cough* this *cough* *cough* can be reopened at some point.
Also: Dan should grow that mustache again for the next C9 Halloween video, because man that looked terrifying.
Stilgar

Dec 04, 2010 at 4:50PM

"HTML5 is dead" hahahahaha
Can't stop laughing:)
LarryRay

Dec 04, 2010 at 11:13PM

HTML5 is dead.
LOL. Just f***ing kill H5, MSFT. God I hate those JS junk apps. Make it happen.
Joe Chung

Dec 05, 2010 at 3:46AM

Like the "junk app" that let you post here telling Microsoft to kill HTML 5? Did you not notice that you were on a Web site?
CKurt while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

Dec 05, 2010 at 3:51AM

Welcome back Brian!

As promested, the interview from TechEd Europe is now up at http://blog.callemin.be/?p=460 (for all interviews) or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYP5Ls-IF6w&feature=player_embedded for just yours.
Thanks again for taking the time to sit down and talk with me! And great show!
Dan

Dec 05, 2010 at 12:23PM

@AdamSpeight2008: Man, we should have you write a script for us, that'd be hilarious!
Dan

Dec 05, 2010 at 1:25PM

@Bas: We'll definitely add it to Channel 9 once SL 5 officially releases.
cbae

Dec 10, 2010 at 8:49AM

VS Feature Pack 2 isn't available for MAPDD subscribers.
AdamSpeight2008 The Bandito Coder

Dec 10, 2010 at 12:13PM

Another thing you can do with the green screen is displaying what just recorded as the background. Then you get that cool and trippy effect of the infinite tunnel.

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