TWC9: September 2nd 2011
Play TWC9 September 9th 2011
Description
- [0:41] The Big List of What’s New or Improved in Silverlight 5
- [1:47] Silverlight 5 RC–Low Latency Sound Effects, Silverlight 5 RC–TrickPlay and Media Remote Controls, Silverlight 5 RC–MarkupExtensions and DataContextChanged, Silverlight 5 RC–Platform Invocation
- [2:21] Calculating when the 1000th XKCD will appear
- [3:56] Windows Phone Mango Jump Start Workshop Now On Video
- [4:52] Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools
- [6:01] Channel 9 Highlight: Hawaii interns XAPfest 2011 & XAPFest 2011 Sizzle Reel
- [8:56] NET 4, do you know the new features? - Top 10 Least Known Features & .NET 4, do you know the new features? - Top 10 most useful features
- [10:40] Are you using Workflow Foundation? And Azure? Then you need the CTP of the Activity Pack
- [14:04] Synchronize and Auto-Update your Visual Studio Extensions now with ExtensionSync 0.2.0
- [16:20] How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces?
- [19:06] Channel 9 Highlight: Cloud Cover Show Episode 58 - Exploring the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android
- [19:57] Channel 9 Highlight: Tech·Ed Australia 2011
Picks of the Week!
- Brian's Pick of the Week! [21:45] Bringing Hyper-V to "Windows 8"
- Nic's Pick of the Week! [24:01] BUILD
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The Discussion
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dentaku I'm assuming XAP stands for XAML Application Package.
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aL_ the mdl guys found some very interesting references to appx and immersive apps inside the silverlight5 mscorelib, but im guessing you cant comment on that
build is only three days away but it cant come soon enough 
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Richard.Hein @dentaku: Probably but the Silverlight FAQ says it's just a Silverlight Application Package. From what I can tell, the X doesn't officially stand for anything.
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Richard.Hein "How many ways can you slice a URL and name the pieces?" sounds very useful. Thanks! I am working on a related problem.
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dentaku Yup. I seem to remember hearing that when it first came out now that you mention it.
The x makes it stand out and it makes it sound allot like .zip which is what a .xap is anyway.10 hours ago,Richard.Hein wrote
@dentaku: Probably but the Silverlight FAQ says it's just a Silverlight Application Package. From what I can tell, the X doesn't officially stand for anything.
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cbae 13 hours ago,Richard.Hein wrote
@dentaku: Probably but the Silverlight FAQ says it's just a Silverlight Application Package. From what I can tell, the X doesn't officially stand for anything.
It stands for the same thing as the "S" in "Harry S Truman".
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exoteric Little known fact perhaps. Tantek used to work for Microsoft and has helped draft W3C specifications.
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DeathByVisualStudio Nic said:
You had life all over your hands, the essences of life...
You know what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom really should be left out of the show.
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Latish Sehgal Thanks for the shoutout to ExtensionSync guys! You pronounced my name just fine :).
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Bas @Richard.Hein: Now that I think of it, I never did find out what the X in .aspx stands for.
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Michael_Crump @Bas, From what I have heard it stands for Extension.
@CH9: It may help to feature my Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Demos. I found that several small demos are easier for developers to digest. http://geekswithblogs.net/mbcrump/archive/2011/05/11/michaelrsquos-ldquomega-collection-of-silverlight-5-betardquo-demos.aspx
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briankel @DeathByVisualStudio:Big deal, so I make shrimp in my bedroom. I don't see anything unusual about that.