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TWC9: ASP.NET Fix, Xamalot, Must-Have Tools for MVC Developers and More

Joey deVilla — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:03:02 +0000

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Featured on the latest edition of This Week on Channel 9, the summary of the most interesting videos and news on Microsoft’s Channel 9 site:

And the hosts’ picks of the week:

Dan’s pick: Nic and Tina host an XNA Q&A
Clint’s pick: Colin Miller at Maker Faire showing off .NET Micro Framework

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

TWC9: VB for WP7, ASP.NET Vulnerability, WCF Services, String Formatting Cheat Sheet and More!

Joey deVilla — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:20:42 +0000

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Featured on the latest edition of This Week on Channel 9, the summary of the most interesting videos and news on Microsoft’s Channel 9 site:

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

TWC9: Lots of Windows Phone 7 Stuff, SQL Cop, WCF for Large Data

Joey deVilla — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:20:39 +0000

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Here’s what’s up on the latest edition of This Week on Channel 9, the summary of the most interesting videos and news on Microsoft’s Channel 9 site:

Creating High Performance Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone: A white paper covering how to get the most out of your Silverlight-based WP7 apps.
Compiled Experience’s Windows Phone 7 Tutorials. Apps Amuck is a site that covers building 31 little applications for the iPhone; Compiled Experience author Nigel Sampson does the same for WP7.
An easy way to skin the Silverlight Toolkit Charting controls to work on Windows Phone 7 by David Anson.
Windows Phone Pivot and Panorama controls
“Tilt" content control for Windows Phone 7
How to configure WCF services to accept large data
SQL Cop – think FXCop for your database, it looks at bad table design, fragmented indexes, issues with data types and more.
HTML 5 IntelliSense in Visual Studio
How to Use Unity Container with ASP.NET MVC
Versioning issues with C# 4 optional parameters
Visual Studio LightSwitch – Beyond the Basics

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

TWC9: WebMatrix, Razor, Debug MSBuild Files and Beer-Fetching Robots

Joey deVilla — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:43:34 +0000

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Another week, another This Week on Channel 9 (TWC9), Microsoft’s regular webcast showing the past week’s highlight on Channel 9, where Microsofties talk about what they’re working on or what they’re thinking, unfiltered by the marketing or PR departments. Regular co-host Dan Fernandez is joined this week by Larry Larsen as they talk about:

WebMatrix, as presented by Simon Calvert and Scott Hunter
Scott Guthrie’s detailed tutorial on WebMatrix Beta (skip down to part about creating a site with custom code)
WebMatrix Samples and eBook
How the Razor parser works, as explained by Andrew Nurse
Silverlight Media Framework 2.0 released
Setting up and configuring AppFabric memory cache in 10 minutes
Removing dead tracks from iTunes using C#
SharpKeys, the open source keyboard remapper
PowerGUI: Add IntelliSense support for PowerShell using this Visual Studio Extension, via Greg Duncan
How you can configure VS to debug MSBuild files: Part 1 and Part 2

The co-hosts’ picks of the week are:

Larry’s pick: Building “God’s Own Machine”, a computer that scores 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index
Dan’s pick: A robot that can fetch and even open beers

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

TWC9: IIS Express, SQL Compact, Silverlight Pivot Viewer, Zip Support in System.IO, .NET on a Bike and More!

Joey deVilla — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:31:01 +0000

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Once again, it’s time for another installment of This Week on Channel 9 (or TWC9 for short), Microsoft’s regular video webcast featuring Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller, who provide entertaining and informative coverage of the news of the week for the .NET developer community.

In this episode, Dan and Brian cover:

IIS Express: A mix between the simplicity of the Visual Studio built-in Web development server and full IIS
SQL Compact Edition 4: A lightweight database for Web sites that can be XCopy installed
Silverlight Pivot Viewer: Now Available!
The MSDN site gets redesigned
XAML Formatting: For the first time in a long time, Dan and Brian agree (and so do I): you should break every attribute onto its own line for readability
WPF Inspector & Snoop: Two handy tools for WPF development
The .NET Micro Framework Team puts .NET Micro Framework on a bicycle
The BCL Team proposes adding .zip file support to System.IO. Give them feedback on their API!
JSON Data Visualizer: A Code Project project to see visualize results from JSON services like Facebook
PEX for Fun: use PEX to automatically solve puzzles
Phone7 Action Pack: Open source set of utilities for Windows Phone 7 development

The episode also features Dan’s and Brian’s picks of the week:

Dan had two picks this week:
- The Archivist: An application that lets you save and store Tweets over time for later analysis, tracking, review, whatever! And it’s open source!
- Pivot for Netflix instant view movies: Steve Marx has an overview of how it was made
Brian’s pick: Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine with Sample Data & Hands-on Labs

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

TWC9: 100th Episode, Featuring VS2010 RC Tips, WPF and Bonus Footage

Joey deVilla — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:45:19 +0000

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This Week on Channel 9, or TWC9 for short, is a weekly digest show hosted by Microsoft’s Dan Fernandez and Brian Keller covering the developer community news they find most interesting after sifting through hundreds of blogs, videos and announcements. It’s aimed primarily at .NET developers, but if you have any geeky tendencies at all, chances are they’ll cover something that appeals to you!

This week’s episode is their 100th, and in it, they cover:

Topic	What it is or why it’s interesting
Second patch for IntelliSense crashes in the Visual Studio 2010 RC	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.)	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	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)	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	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.	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	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	Free hands-on tutorials featuring Silverlight, DeepZoom, SketchFlow, and more…
Roundup of WPF Documentation Samples	Some good stuff in here; Snoop = “Firebug for WPF”, Inkscape = vector graphics editor…
Write code to enter the NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge	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.
Some (not all) MSR TechFest 2010 content is public and online	It’s Microsoft Research’s science fair, and they’ve got some pretty cool stuff this year.
Telling the Visual Studio 2010 testing story with Deep Zoom, and SpeakFlow as a new non-linear presentation medium based on Deep Zoom.	It’s an interesting application of Deep Zoom.
After the credits, some 100th episode bonus materials	Because you’re just dying to know.

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

TWC9: MIX10, Tweets from Your TiVO, Touch UI Gesture Icons and More

Joey deVilla — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:00:00 +0000

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In this week’s episode, they cover the following topics, summarized in the handy-dandy table below:

Topic	What it is or why it’s interesting
Mike Swanson’s MIX10 Recap	MIX10 is going to be big this year, especially with Windows Phone 7.
Coding4Fun: Tweevo, a free, open source application to have your TiVo tweet what you’re recording	It’s nice to know what your TiVo is doing while you’re at work.
LINQ to SQL Profiler	It lets you see the SQL being generated by your LINQ queries.
Silverlight 4’s TCP Sockets Video	It’s part of Mike Taulty’s 8-part series on networking with Silverlight.
S. Somasegar’s Key Software Development Trends (I covered it in this article)	It’s interesting to see what Microsoft’s brain trust sees as important, and it’s also good to see testing treated as a first-class citizen.
Gesturecons, a set of free icons to describe touch gestures	For touch interactions, a picture is worth a thousand words.
System.Uri	For URIs, you really should be using System.Uri instead of strings.
Code Project: How to Automate Software Using WPF UI Automation	An underused but incredibly handy feature that lets you automate testing an application’s UI.
Mercurial Integration with Visual Studio	A step-by-step guide to using CodePlex’s Mercurial integration inside Visual Studio.
How to Use Selenium and NUnit Together	Selenium’s a good, free option for web app testing.
60 .NET Libraries Every Developer Should Know	What, you’d rather not know?
Silverlight Augmented Reality Toolkit	Dude! Augmented reality!

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

Slice of Life from PDC, Part 2: Channel 9 Guy Meets Accordion Guy

Joey deVilla — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:59:00 +0000

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