• Windows Live: Breakdown of Windows Live Essentials: Photo Gallery and Live Sync, including key features like Photo Fuse, Facial Recognition, tagging & search, better importing & more
• Windows Azure - Windows Azure CDN Pricing Announced
• Channel 9 Live at TechEd North America – Bob Muglia, Mark Russinovich, Jason Zander, Mark Minasi, Tony Scott, Jeffrey Snover
• Jeff Wilcox: Silverlight Unit Testing for Windows Phone
• AgUnit – Silverlight Unit testing with ReSharper
• Jesse Liberty – Code Rush versus ReSharper 
• Brian Peek: The future of the Wiimote Library including the extension model Taiko Drum and DJ Hero support coming
• Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx – Cloud Cover episode that shows how to swingify a song using Azure, Python and the Echo Nest API
• Tim Heuer – Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight

Picks of the week:

• Clint’s pick: Phil Haack - Copy & Paste works over Remote Desktop (and Live Mesh)
• Dan’s pick: GivingAPresentation – Extensible App on CodePlex to clean up your desktop, close Messenger, and more, via Blake Handler

Join us immediately following the keynotes on June 7th and June 8th for a full day of interviews, panels, demos and discussions where you control the content.

We have an amazing lineup of speakers and presenters across the two days including Microsoft Server & Tools President Bob Muglia, Microsoft CIO Tony Scott, Corporate Vice President Windows Server Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President Visual Studio Jason Zander, Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover and many more.

Channel 9 Live is 100% unscripted and so we rely on our viewers to tweet in their questions and comments in real time for our guests to address live on the air.

To be a part of the conversation send a tweet with your question or comment and include
@ch9live somewhere in the body of the message so that we can find it.

To watch the Tech.Ed keynotes and Channel 9 Live coverage head to http://www.msteched.com on June 7th & 8th at the following times:

(All times Central Daylight Time – as we’ll be in New Orleans)

Monday June 7th 2010
9:00AM – 10:30AM: Tech.Ed Day 1 Keynote
10:30AM – 5:00PM: Channel 9 Live Day 1 Coverage

Tuesday June 8th 2010
9:45AM – 11:15AM: Tech.Ed Day 2 Business Intelligence Keynote
11:15AM – 5:00PM: Channel 9 Live Day 2 Coverage

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Full Schedule (Subject to change)

Day 1: June 7th 2010
(All times Central Daylight Time)

10:30 AM: Keynote After Party. Join Charles Torre, Adam Carter and David Tesar as they answer your questions and recap the Tech.Ed Keynote.

11:00 AM: Talking Windows Server. Ward Ralston and Justin Graham with Adam Carter

11:30 AM: Cloud Cover Live! David Aiken and Ryan Dunn plus Special Guests

12:00 PM: Office & Unified Communications in 2010+. Jamie Stark and John Durant with David Tesar

12:30 PM – 1:30PM: Lunch Break – Go Grab a Sandwich

1:30 PM: Tony Scott, Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer with David Tesar

2:00 PM: Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President Visual Studio with Dan Fernandez

2:30 PM: SQL Server; Beyond Relational Data. Michael Rys with Charles Torre  

3:00 PM: Ask Mark Minasi Anything…. Live! with Joey Snow

3:30 PM: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about BPOS. Tom Keane, Sean O’Connor and Dan Kershaw with Adam Carter

4:00 PM: WM_IN Panel. Kate Gregory, Karen Forster, Lisa Feigenbaum and Jennifer Ritzinger discuss women in technology

4:30 PM: Client Development: Now and in the Future. Tim Huckaby, Patrick Hynds, Paul Sheriff and Richard Campbell

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Day 2: June 8th 2010
(All times Central Daylight Time)

11:15 AM: Deployment in the real world. Chris Jackson, Jeremy Chapman and Rhonda Layfield with Adam Carter

12:00 PM: Developing for Windows Phone 7. Brandon Watson with Dan Fernandez

12:30 PM – 1:30PM: Lunch Break – Go Grab a Sandwich

1:30 PM: Bob Muglia, President Server & Tools with Adam Carter

2:00 PM: Bill Laing, Corporate Vice President Windows Server with Joey Snow

2:30 PM: Ask Mark Russinovich Anything…. Live! with Charles Torre

3:00 PM: Talking Security. Mark Russinovich, Andy Malone and Special Guest with David Tesar

3:30 PM: Languages Panel. Eric Lippert, Luke Hoban and Mads Torgersen with Charles Torre

4:00 PM: PowerShell. Jeffrey Snover, Don Jones and Sean Kearney with David Tesar

4:30 PM: This Week On Channel 9 (Live). Dan Fernandez and (OMG it’s) Brian Keller with special guest Larry Larsen and his secret project.

• Windows Server AppFabric is available
• Scott Guthrie – RTM of Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 and WCF RIA Services
• Sam Gentile – C# 4/BCL 4 What’s New Series – A series of short posts on new language and framework features 
• Michael Leonard – How to create a great online project template
• Charles Torre – Bart de Smet on Rx – Observations on IQbservable – the Dual of IQueryable and Dan trys to explain Rx to Brian
• Michael Washington – Simple Silverlight 4 Example using oData and Rx Extensions
• Windows Home Server codenamed “Vail” overview and lots of new features for Home Server
• Windows Azure Application Guidance (RC)
• Ayende Rahein - RavenDB – A semi-structured database with LINQ
• Finding Memory Leaks in WPF-Based Apps (includes samples and workarounds), via Rob Relyea

Picks of the week

• Dan’s pick: Ohan Oda’s Coding4Fun article on the GoblinXNA engine for Augmented Reality and the must-watch video demo
• Brian’s pick: Jumplist Extender adds Windows 7 jumplists to programs which don’t have them

• Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Launch
• Donovan Follette: Office 2010 Developer Training on Channel 9
• Paul Stubbs: SharePoint 2010 Developer Training on Channel 9
• Blake Handler: Ultimate list of free Microsoft Office 2010 Software & Resources
• Source Analysis blog: New version of StyleCop (4.4) is now available, includes support for C# 4.0
• Free download: CodeRush XPress for Visual Studio 2010 for C# & VB (C# video, VB video), via Greg Duncan
• Scott Guthrie – jQuery Templates & Data Logging
• Tina Summerford – Video interview of Corrinne Yu, Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team
• Aaron Stebner – Command line install/repair/uninstall for the .NET Framework 4
• Jaime Rodriguez – Windows Phone FAQ
• Jon Galloway – ASP.NET MVC Music Store – MVC 2 Sample Application + 80 page tutorial
• Update from last week: Justin Etheredge – Bundler is now Squishit
• CodePlex: Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot Controls

Picks of the week:
- Dan’s pick: CodePlex adds Runtime Intelligence so that you can understand what features are being used in your application
- Brian’s pick: Outlook 2010’s Clean Up Folder feature

• 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.

• Laura Foy – Charlie Kindel on the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Refresh
• Time Heuer – Installing the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Refresh (including a PowerShell script if you get authenticode issues with signed assemblies)
• Larry Larsen – Windows Live Wave 4 Messenger Preview
• Ori Amiga – Messenger Connect - A new, unreleased set of APIs for user profile, social graph, status updates, and more, via Dare Obasanjo
• Pete Brown – Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: Async programming, Dispatchers, Timers, and more
• Dan Fernandez – Stop capitalizing Microsoft products and technology incorrectly
• Andy Beaulieu – Using the free edition of Babel Obfuscator with Silverlight 
• Scott Guthrie – Studiostyles.info – Provides a way to easily discover and share Visual Studio color schemes
• Damien Guard – Creating RSS feeds in ASP.NET MVC,via dotnetkicks
• Speckyboy – 30 Pure CSS Alternatives to JavaScript

Picks of the week:
- Brian’s pick: TFS 2010 Power Tools now available, via Greg Duncan
- Dan’s pick: Auto-Update your wallpaper with Flickr images using your location with Arian Kulp’s Coding4Fun app – Geo-location and Flickr

• Scott Guthrie – Silverlight 4 RTM
• John Papa – Overview of Silverlight 4 Technical Whitepaper
• New version of Silverlight Toolkit available
• Roger Doherty – SQL Server 2008 R2 Overview
• Grigori Melnik - Enterprise Library 5.0 is now available 
• Chris Sells – Understand the performance implications of IEnumerable vs IQueryable
• Scott Guthrie – New syntax to automatically HTML Encode Output in ASP.NET 4.0, the “:” operator 
• Elegant Code – Eliminating Comments: The Road to Clarity – Clint and Dan think not all code comments are bad
• Jon Galloway – Louis DeJardin on SparkView Engine
• Charles Torre – Docs for Facebook: Making your Documents Social
• MSDN – C# Language Specification 4.0
• Laura Foy – John Harris presents SketchFlow in 90 seconds

Picks of the week

• Dan’s pick: Dotnetrocks roadshow is coming to a city near you
• Clint’s pick: Building the Coding4Fun Cannon

• Channel 9 Live at Visual Studio 2010/Silverlight 4 Launch
• Scott Guthrie – VB 2010 Love Fest -Auto-Implemented Properties, Collection Initializers, Line Continuation support
• Pete Brown – Encoding/Decoding strings with the .NET 4 Client Profile
• MSDN – Collect Usage Performance & Stability Information with the Dotfuscator version included in Visual Studio (tutorial, video), via Greg Duncan
• Patrick Smacchia – Windows Programming: The “it works on my machine” syndrome
• Kevin Moore – XAML Bag of Tricks updated
• Gunnar Peipman – Donut caching using dynamically loaded controls
• Laurent Bugnion – MMVM Light Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
• Blake Handler – Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Software & Resources
• Tina Wood – History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story Part 1 & Part 2
• Tina Wood – CliffyB of Epic Games on Channel 9 – Answering questions from Niners
• Scott Hanselman – How to setup your site to use the AutoPageResize browser extension

Picks of the week

• Dan’s pick: Steve Marx – Letting the Internet Choose My Wallpaper
• Clint’s pick: Coding4Fun – Randall Mass – Paint With Light

Epic Games also just finished up the Make Something Unreal contest, where the winner received a free Unreal Engine license. Epic creates games for both the PC and the 360, and Cliff talks about the differences between them as well as giving his opinion about his hands-on experience with Natal. I also asked some questions from C9 forum members Cream Filling 512, and Dan, to name just a few.