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This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by special guest host Sara Ford to discuss the week's top developer news, including:…[more ]

Today’s guest is DJ Cole from the Access development team. DJ is the architect and primary developer of SharePoint connectivity performance improvements. He dropped by to talk about how Access 2010 connects to SharePoint and the work to improve client side performance.

As with most performance work, beauty is in the eye of the user. When users work against a server on the other side of the world, performance makes a difference. After all, data only travels as fast as the speed of light. O…[more ]

F# is Microsoft's first functional programming language to be included as one of Visual Studio's official set of languages. F# is a succinct, efficient, expressive functional/object-oriented programming language under joint development by Microsoft Developer Division and Microsoft Research. During the course of [more ]

Brian Peek picked up a PDC Laptop on eBay and found that the latest accelerometer driver (v1.00.00.16) wasn't correctly closing handles, resulting in his machine having 5 million handles open. So he did what any self-respecting Niner would do, he disassembled the code and created a fix. If you happen to have a PDC Laptop, you can download the application and the source code here. Additionally, you can find more details and code samples on Brian's blog. Keep in mind the suggested way to obtain drivers is through Windows Update, so your mileage may vary, caveat emptor, etc.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Kodu being available on the PC. If you'd like to find out more about using Kodu, or if you know a young potential dev who needs help getting ramped up, the Microsoft Research Blog has posted some tutorials on using Kodu. Tutorial #1 covers Basic Navigation, tutorial #2 covers the Edit Mode Tools, #3 goes over the features on the Load Level menu, and tutorial #4 goes over the Main Menu Options.

Silverlight MVP John Stockton of Ascentium appears on the show to explain how to create a custom preloader (sometimes called a splash screen) for Silverlight applications. He shows how to create a custom preloading animation and progress indicator while a Silverlight application loads. He also discusses what you can and cannot do when creating a preloader since the preloader runs using script and XAML prior to the Silverlight application being fully loaded. Lots of code in this episode!…[more ]

Do you think when the MIX event comes to a close that we close up shop and go away for a year until the next conference? No way. Meet Thomas Lewis (or TommyLee as some of us like to call him), manager of the MIX Online team. Folks like Thomas and his band of designers and developers keep the conversation going by writing strongly voiced editorial pieces about t…[more ]