Allard and Bach moving on… 
Netflix & Microsoft
Judge your Hohm
2.7 million gamers play Halo Beta

• Second IE9 Developer Preview, with lots of performance improvements and updates on standards support including HTML 5
• CloudPoll – Sample Windows Azure application for Facebook
• Bing adds Windows PowerShell Cmdlets visual search, via Larry Larsen
• Unity 2.0 now available for Desktop/Web & Silverlight
• Coding4Fun – Dan Waters – Generating Sound Waves with C# Wave Oscillators
• Secrets of SQL Server: Performance Tuning 5-hour virtual event, via Greg Duncan
• Scott Hanselman – Help Viewer Power Tool Beta – a standalone tool that brings a simple experience, like the previous Help Viewer
• Max Adams – How do I video on using the Sync Framework Powerpack for SQL Azure to sync a local database to SQL Azure
• Miguel de Icaza – What if the CLI was natively embedded in a browser (the way JavaScript is)
• Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Phone Application Lifecycle describes how you publish apps through the marketplace 
• Tim Heuer – Cool Silverlight Themes
• Luke Lowrey – CSS Tools for ASP.NET including Blueprint CSS and Bundler, which now includes support for LESS a way to build logic into CSS files

Picks of the week:

• Dan’s pick: Video of Mech warfare at RoboGames
• Brian’s pick: Brian’s new book, Professional Application Lifecycle Management

To win a copy of Brian’s book:
To win an autographed copy of Brian’s book, be the first person to post a comment with the right answer to this question:

Update: We have a winner! Mohammad Jalloul correctly guessed “Rosario.” Read more about the selection of this code name here.

Luis Cabrera-Cordon from the Microsoft Surface team joined me to show us some of these controls including a building a Hello World app with ScatterView. More information including where to download the toolkit can be found at www.Surface.com.

Last week we saw the release of Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 and came up with some interesting issues related to setting it up. We posted a great endpoint.tv episode, in which I talked through the setup experiences with Byron Tardif, and to follow up I added some blog posts.

In this episode of endpoint.tv we look at

1. How to install AppFabric with the Web Platform Installer
2. How to uninstall AppFabric
3. How to reference the AppFabric Cache client libraries from Visual Studio 2010

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

Second patch for IntelliSense crashes in the Visual Studio 2010 RC
·Interesting because: The RC is the last public build prior to RTM. It’s pretty rock solid, but users of touch displays, tablet PCs, screen reader software, and potentially some others as well may need these patches.

Enabling Silverlight 4 with the Visual Studio 2010 RC (NOTE: This is an unsupported hack.)
·Interesting because: The RC of Visual Studio 2010 did not support Silverlight 4. This support is “coming” but no timeline yet. In the meantime, you can try this hack.

Getting Silverlight 3 to build with Team Build 2010 by Martin Hinshelwood
·Interesting because: If your projects use Silverlight 3 and you use Team Build on a 64-bit server, you’ll need this. But it’s also a good look at debugging a Team Build 2010 workflow.

What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 (ALM | The rest)
·Interesting because: There is a LOT of new stuff in this release. Blink and you’ll miss something. These documents do a pretty thorough job of documenting the goodness.

Beta of FireFox testing package for Visual Studio 2010 is now available
·Interesting because: Visual Studio 2010’s testing framework is extensible and will provide support for additional target platforms via add-ins from Microsoft and 3^rd parties.

Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop via Greg Duncan.
·Interesting because: The Visual Studio 2010 IDE makes heavy use of WPF. If you RDP into a development workstation, or build applications in WPF, this post is a must-read.

Configuring VS2010 with SourceGear’s diffmerge
·Interesting because: The diff / merge tool that ships with Visual Studio is fairly dated, but it’s easy to swap in your favorite tool in its place. This one is free, and comes highly recommended.

Expression Studio 3.0 Tutorials from Paolo Barone
·Interesting because: Free hands-on tutorials featuring Silverlight, DeepZoom, SketchFlow, and more…

Roundup of WPF Documentation Samples
·Interesting because: One-stop shopping for all of your WPF sample needs.

4 free open-source WPF utilities
·Interesting because: Some good stuff in here; Snoop = “Firebug for WPF”, Inkscape = vector graphics editor…

Write code to enter the NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
·Interesting because: There are dozens of coding competitions out there at any given time, but we thought this one was really cool – you can either build a “mechanical Turk” game or an image recognition application. And c’mon… it’s Mars! That should be reason enough.

Picks of the week!

Dan’s pick: Some (not all) MSR TechFest 2010 content is public and online

Brian’s pick: Telling the Visual Studio 2010 testing story with DeepZoom, and SpeakFlow as a new non-linear presentation medium based on DeepZoom.

And after the credits… special 100^th episode bonus materials…

For more on how you can install and test out Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 check out my blog.

Instructions for downloading HOLs and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines

Kathleen McGrath
Developer Division User Education
http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen

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

• Mike Swanson – MIX 10 Recap
  • Interesting because: MIX10 is going to be BIG this year and Mike discusses everything going on with the event 
• Coding4Fun – Brian Peek – Tweevo (download) – A free, open source application to have your Tivo Tweet what you’re recording
  • Interesting because: This is cool if you’re a Tivo user and want to know what your Tivo is doing while you’re busy at work
• Ayende Rahien – LINQ to SQL Profiler released, enables you to see which LINQ statement created a query
  • Interesting because: It shows the SQL being generated by your LINQ queries
• Mike Taulty – Silverlight 4 TCP Sockets video
  •  Interesting because: Mike has an 8 part series on networking with Silverlight
• Somasegar - Key Software Development Trends
  • Interesting because: Brian makes the point that testing is now a 1st class citizen 
• Adam Kinney - Ryan Lee creates Gesturecons, a set of free icons to describe touch gestures
  •  Interesting because: For touch interaction, a picture is worth a thousand words, and they look cool
• System.Net team – FAQ on System.Uri, via Greg Duncan
  • Interesting because: You should really use System.Uri instead of strings where you can
• Code Project – How to automate software using WPF UI Automation
  • Interesting because: It’s an underused, yet incredibly handy feature that lets you automate manual tests of an application  
• Mercurial Integration with Visual Studio on CodePlex, via DotNetKicks
  • Interesting because: It’s a visual step-by-step tutorial on how to use CodePlex’s Mercurial integration inside of Visual Studio
• Automated Tester: How to use Selenium and NUnit together
  • Interesting because: Selenium is a good, free option for Web testing and Brian compares it to Visual Studio’s Web testing tools
• Web Distortion – 60 .NET libraries every developer should know
  • Interesting because: It’s always interesting to find new and useful APIs

Picks of the week!

This video references several important URL’s. Those URL’s, as well as some other handy links for the RC, are as follows:
- Download instructions for all files in this video
- Upgrading from TFS 2010 Beta 2 to TFS 2010 RC
- Team Foundation Server 2010 Installation Guide
- Compatibility hotfix for Team Explorer 2008 connecting to Team Foundation Server 2010 (beta 2 bits also work with RC)
- RC home on MSDN
- Michael Rigler on changes to the testing features
- Scott Guthrie on the release candidate (important note for Silverlight 4 developers)
- Fix for IntelliSense crashes
- Silverlight 3 and 4 Developer Runtime Fix
- Information on “Go Live” license
- MSDN Forums
- Visual Studio Connect site (report bugs / suggestions)
- Team Foundation Server 2010 Deployment Guidance
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course

With LinkedIn you’ll be able to see the statuses and photos of colleagues, and any changes they make to their contact information will be synced to Outlook so it’s always current. You can also add new people to LinkedIn right from Outlook. You can get started by downloading the Office 2010 Beta, then downloading Outlook Social Connector, and then heading over to LinkedIn to download this connector.

Keep track of the latest Office news by watching the Office blog, or follow the Office twitter @Office2010. You can follow Dev at @DevBala, or follow me @LarryLa.