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TWC9: Windows 8, C++ Amp, NuGet, Mouse Mischief and more

Channel 9 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:58:48 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Duncan discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:39] Mark your calendar: We are hosting a Windows 8 Consumer Preview event on Feb 29 in Barcelona! [1:52] C++ AMP Open Specification (S.Somasegar) [4:08] C# to C++ – A Somewhat Short Guide (Michael B. McLaughlin) [5:40] One ASP.NET Sneak Peek: Elegant Web Forms and Snowballs in Hell (Scott Hanselman) [7:11] 10 myths holding HTML5 back (Martin Beeby) [9:11] Beta of Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone released (Adalberto Foresti), Beta release of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Windows Phone ( Lee Stott) [Found Via: Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone ] [10:27] Extension...(read more)

Episode 70 - Windows Azure Demos with Steve Marx

Channel 9 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:00 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow . In this episode, we are very sad to bid Steve Marx farewell as he looks for new challenges outside of Microsoft. Fortunately, we're able to share some of his best moments on the Cloud Cover show and review some of the best demos he's built over the years. http://devoxx.cloudapp.net/ http://netflixpivot.cloudapp.net/ http://ssplayer.cloudapp.net/ http://www.twoenglishes.com/ http://www.flatterist.com/ In the news: Get Started with Node.js + Windows Azure: Resources Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.2 Released Welcome to Wordament on Windows Azure You can stay in touch with Steve Marx...(read more)

Peter Heldens - Creating Scripts with TouchDevelop

Channel 9 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:19:22 GMT

Peter Heldens , a manager at Microsoft University in the Netherlands, recently visited the touchdevelop team in Redmond, WA. Peter wrote My Online Meetings, the popular script that allows users to join a conference call in a single script using touchdevelop. Great to meet you, Peter! Take a look at the 'My Online Meetings ' script for touchdevelop. The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA. Read More......(read more)

Hot Apps: Krashlander, NFL Pro '12, MixTapes, Weave, Network Dashboard

Channel 9 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:52:36 GMT

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at 5 of teh winning apps from the "Your APP here" monthly contest: KrashLander NFL Pro '12 MixTapes Weave Network Dashboard Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks! Read More......(read more)

Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File

Channel 9 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:57:07 GMT

Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 ( see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com . We will also be checking comments for problems, but the email address will let us contact you if needed. [01:40] - Using D2D with Windows 7 on restore. [04:36] - Closed laptop during updates, now PC hangs. [07:38] - Are RAM cleaners helpful or unneeded? [09:37] - Silverlight in a nutshell. [mentioned link ] [12:26] - Getting the full path for a given file. [13:35] - Can you change the icon for a TaskBar pinned site. [17:47] Read...(read more)

TWC9: 4 Years of TWC9, Kinect SDK, C++, & more

Channel 9 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:47:06 GMT

On our four year anniversary of This Week on Channel 9, we wanted to give a special thank you to all of our viewers for supporting and watching us over the years. Amusingly, our first show aired Feb 1, 2008 without a name and Niners Ian & ChadK suggesting the name This Week on Channel 9. Thank you all, we wouldn't be here without you. Production Note : We know the audio is a little rough/overdriven in places and we're going to try to see if there's anything we can do post-production to fix it. Sorry about that! To celebrate this week, Martin Woodward joins us to recap the week's news, including: [0:32] TWC9's 4th Anniversary! First TWC9 Show in 2008, Brian Keller and Dan Fernandez: Name this Show! [2:33] Kinect For Windows...(read more)

Episode 69 - SQL Azure Federations with George Huey

Channel 9 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:58:19 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow . In this episode, Wade is joined by George Huey — Principal Architect Evangelist for Microsoft — to discuss how to scale-out with SQL Azure Federations. George is the author and creator of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard and the SQL Azure Federation Data Migration Wizard . In the news: Career vNext 8 Essential Best Practices in Windows Azure Blob Storage Using Windows Azure Access Control Service from a Node Express App How Much Overcapacity Are You Running with Today? Read More......(read more)

Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners

Channel 9 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:31:19 GMT

This week we spoke to Jean-Christophe Cimitere, @jccim , the man responsible for the Windows Phone Developer Partner Program. JC's been hard at work putting together some useful new resources for Windows Phone developers, such as our Partner page on the App Hub, (available at http://create.msdn.com/en-us/resources/partners ). He also works very closely with each of partners to ensure they're about to bring you the most compelling middle tier solutions possible. One of JC's partners is a company called Telerik, that produces a series of third party controls for Windows Phone that can radically accelerate your development cycles. JC recently sat down with one of their developers and we've got that chat recorded here for you as...(read more)

GoingNative 2012: Now Streaming Live!

Channel 9 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:29:03 GMT

Watch live! GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour, globally live-streamed technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true capabilities of the underlying machine: C++ developers. Distinguished speakers include the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup , C++ Standards Committee Chair, Herb Sutter , C++ template and big compute master, Andrei Alexandrescu , STL master Stephan T. Lavavej , LLVM/Clang developer Chandler Carruth , distributed and parallel computing expert Hans Boehm , and C++ library design expert and ISO committee member Andrew Sutton . "C++11 feels like a new language" says C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup, who will keynote the...(read more)

Visual Studio Toolbox: Web Essentials and CSSCop

Channel 9 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:25:05 GMT

In this episode, Mads Kristensen returns to show extensions he wrote to make Web development easier. Mads shows us what's new in the Image Optimizer and how the Web Essentials extension provides a number of features that help you write Web apps faster. He also previews a new extension: CSSCop, which is FXCop for stylesheets. Demos: Image Optimizer starts around 5:00 Web Essentials starts around 9:00 CSSCop starts around 33:45 If you missed Mads first appearance on this show, check out Episode 10 and watch Mads show the Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Read More......(read more)

[Special Edition] It's Kinect day! The Kinect For Windows SDK v1 is out!

Channel 9 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:46:24 GMT

As everyone reading this blog, and those in the Kinect for Windows space, knows today is a big day. From what was a cool peripheral for the XBox 360 last year, the Kinect for Windows SDK and now dedicated Kinect for Windows hardware device, has taken the world by storm. In the last year we've seen some simply amazing ideas and projects, many highlighted here in the Kinect for Windows Gallery, from health to education, to music expression to simply just fun. And that was all with beta software and a device meant for a gaming console. With a fully supported, allowed for use in commercial products, dedicated device and updated SDK, today the world changes again. Welcome to the Kinect for Windows SDK v1! Kinect for Windows is now Available!...(read more)

YOW 2012 Keynotes and Session Videos Now Available

Channel 9 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:50:04 GMT

You met some of the YOW 2012 speakers recently on C9 . Now you can watch their presentations. Start with Simon's and Damian's keynotes. Kudos to Eventer for supplying the media. http://yowaustralia.com.au/general/speakers.html C Read More......(read more)

Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where's MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party

Channel 9 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:36:12 GMT

It's another week of highlights and rumors, scandals and success stories! It's Ping! Laura and Paul cover all this and more: Xbox LIVE for all? Nix on MIX? Peace out Points Paul knows how to PARTY (SQL server style) Read More......(read more)

Day 2 Keynote - Herb Sutter: C++11, VC++11 and Beyond

Channel 9 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:31:00 GMT

This talk will cover: Which key features in C++11 will most change the way you write code: the features that directly affect C++ style, coding idioms, and the guidance in pre-C++11 books and articles that most needs to be updated. Specific guidance on each of those key features: how each one changes your code; tips on using it well; and a pitfall or two to avoid (and how). Status update on C++11 adoption: how compilers, books, and programmers are doing, plus a few updates and projections. What's next for C++: what's top of mind for the near future of Standard C++, and why? Read More......(read more)

TWC9: SQL Server 2012, Windows Phone, Async, Azure, HTML5 and more

Channel 9 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:59:18 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: [0:30] SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event, March 7th [1:17] Free Windows Phone Training (Peter Kuhn [aka Mister Goodcat]), http://www.goodcat-trainings.net [2:05] 8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Phone 7 Development (Doug Rathbone) [3:05] MetroSky - A Complete SkyDrive Sample for Windows Phone (Ilija Injac) [3:49] Hanselminutes on 9 - The Eddie Robotics Platform with Kinect (Scott Hanselman) [4:38] Advanced APM Consumption in Async Methods (Stephen Toub) [6:42] Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie) [8:14] Memory Game Tutorial: Create a Game in Blend using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS , Blend Tutorial Part 1: Design Your First Metro Style App...(read more)