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TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing

channel9 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:26:00 +0000

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

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

Cloud Cover Episode 14 – Diagnostics

channel9 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn about the Diagnostics capabilities in Windows Azure.
Discover how to remotely configure each instance's Diagnostics configuration.
Listen as we discuss debugging versus monitoring along with which techniques to use in Windows Azure.

Show Links:

Programming Windows Azure
Developing and Deploying with SQL Azure whitepaper
Windows Azure Architecture Guidance, Part 1
Announcing Windows Azure CDN Pricing
Web Role Crash Dumps

TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server

channel9 — Sat, 22 May 2010 17:21:00 +0000

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back in the studio talking about the week’s top developer news, including:

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

Ping 58: Gates & Cloud Computing, Bing for Mobile, Microsoft concept Phone

channel9 — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:04:00 +0000

We got a ton of great feedback and suggestions last week- please keep them coming! Here’s the low-down for what ‘Softies were talking about this week.

New type of Cloud Computing?
Bing for Mobile
Microsoft Concept Phone
Office 2010 Launch

TWC9: Office & SharePoint 2010, Runtime Intelligence, and Windows Phone controls

channel9 — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:33:00 +0000

This Week on Channel9, Brian and Dan are live from the Visual Studio 2010 launch party to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

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

Nintex Harnesses Enhanced Features for Developers in SharePoint 2010

channel9 — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:55:00 +0000

Over the past several months, we’ve shared several introductory features about new assets for developers in SharePoint 2010. As Microsoft launches Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 to businesses this week, we now bring you a real-world example of how developers can harness and capitalize upon the enhancements of the new version. This video features an interview with Mike Fitzmaurice, vice president of product technology at Nintex. Through a demo of Nintex solutions in action, Mike provides an overview of how Nintex is working with SharePoint 2010 and leveraging its capabilities. He also provides helpful tips and best practices for developers who are digging into the new, improved platform.

Ping 57: IE9, Alan Wake, Silverlight, Spindex, MMS

channel9 — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:52:00 +0000

This week Paul and Laura reviewed the most buzz worthy stories in Microsoft news- exciting stuff like:

Take IE9 for a test drive!
Alan Wake & SilverLight
Spindex is here
Perez Hilton Web Slice
Paul goes to MMS
Spike and Hammer

And More!

TWC9: IE9 Dev Preview, Sync SQL to SQL Azure, & useful CSS tools for ASP.NET

channel9 — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:08:00 +0000

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

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:

What was the original code name for the application lifecycle management capabilities which shipped in Visual Studio 2010?

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

Ping 56: Mouse Mischief, Social Media Clock, Windows Embedded 7, Ballmer loves Natal

channel9 — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:05:00 +0000

After a tiny hiatus we are back and better than ever. The show is jam-packed this week so let’s get right to it:

Mouse Mischief: The Multi Point Mice Game!
Windows Embedded 7 The Social Media Clock
Ballmer LOVES Natal
Live Action Trailer for HALO

TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Refresh, Messenger Wave 4 Preview

channel9 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:39:00 +0000

This week on Channel 9, Brian returns from his European tour and there is much rejoicing with Dan as they discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

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