This week on C9: XNA updates, Win 7 Training, VS 2010, build your own arcade (Channel 9)

This week on C9: XNA updates, Win 7 Training, VS 2010, build your own arcade

Posted: Jun 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM

By: Dan Fernandez

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This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover the top developer news, including:

- XNA Game Studio 3.1 now available
- Howard Dierking - Extreme MSDN Magazine ASP.NET Makeover screencast series
- Peter Kellner - Compile LINQ to SQL to improve query performance (110 uncompiled vs 780 requests compiled), via Alvin Ashcraft
- Windows 7 RC Training Kit available for download
- Brian Peek - Coding4Fun Show - Physics Helper for Silverlight
- SQL Team - Free SQL Server tools and utilities that make your life a little easier, via Greg Duncan
- Rico Mariani - Why isn't there a 64-bit Visual Visual Studio?
- Joe Pruitt - PoshBing: Bing for PowerShell, via Jamie Thomson
- Phil Haack -ASP.NET MVC Installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and Roadmap
- Aaron Marten - What is the VSIX Project Template?
- Wintellect - Programming Differences between WPF and Silverlight, via Jaime Rodriguez
- XAML Improvements in Visual Studio 2010

Picks of the Week
- Brian's pick of the week - Compare Bing, Google, and Yahoo, without the brand and decide who has the best results using Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Blind Search
- Dan's pick of the week - Hanselcade - Home brew arcade system for geeks

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Thanks for the link for my PoshBing library guys. You commented on the lack of usages for such a library. While I agree, translating a string from a PowerShell console session is probably not the best use case, but using it as a conduit for other PowerShell related projects is viable. As an example, I wrote a Twitter bot in PowerShell that uses my PoshTweet PowerShell Twitter library along with my PoshBing project. This all runs in a console on my desktop but with it anyone can Twitter @askbing with a question and it will use PoshBing to query the Bing APIs for the relevant answer. Here's a post on the project along with details:

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/06/08/introducing-askbing-ndash-the-powershell-bing-twitter-proxy.aspx

Thanks again for the post, I really like your show.

-Joe

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rhm

Jun 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM

Can't get away from that damned Hanselcade anywhere. It'll be on Oprah next.
Dan

Jun 12, 2009 at 6:40 PM

Quick note on the VSIX comment that I made for having to manually install the code snippets for ASP.NET MVC. Quan To, from the extensibility team, corrected me in that while the VSI format (from VS 2005/2008) allowed you to package code snippets to easily share/install them, VSIX does not include this feature. They do plan to support it in Dev 11 though, it just got cut in terms of features for Dev 10.
udithait Microsoft® MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in XNA / DirectX .

Jun 15, 2009 at 7:47 AM

Its realy amazing that we can make avatar games with XNA.

This is my first XNA 3.1 avatar game protype.

http://uditha.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/my-first-xbox-live-avatar-game/
Bas It finds lightbulbs.

Jun 15, 2009 at 8:42 AM

It's neat that more and more of this stuff gets added to XNA. The only drawback I see is that now we'll have more games with those annoyingly happy avatars. Stop smiling and pointing your finger up in the air already!
joepruitt Joe

Jun 18, 2009 at 6:51 AM

Thanks for the link for my PoshBing library guys. You commented on the lack of usages for such a library. While I agree, translating a string from a PowerShell console session is probably not the best use case, but using it as a conduit for other PowerShell related projects is viable. As an example, I wrote a Twitter bot in PowerShell that uses my PoshTweet PowerShell Twitter library along with my PoshBing project. This all runs in a console on my desktop but with it anyone can Twitter @askbing with a question and it will use PoshBing to query the Bing APIs for the relevant answer. Here's a post on the project along with details:

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/06/08/introducing-askbing-ndash-the-powershell-bing-twitter-proxy.aspx

Thanks again for the post, I really like your show.

-Joe

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