Tag: This Week on Channel 9

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

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 2, 2010

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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.

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

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 25, 2010

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thisweekonchannel9 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.

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

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date August 16, 2010

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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.

Tags Channel 9, mobile, phone, This Week on Channel 9, TWC9, Video, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7, WP7

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

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date July 11, 2010

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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.

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

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date July 4, 2010

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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.

Tags Brian Keller, Channel 9, Dan Fernandez, This Week on Channel 9, Video