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Channel 9 Live at MIX10 – Who, What, Why, When and How!?

Nic Fillingham — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:59:00 GMT

MIX 2010 kicks off next week at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. It’s not too late to register (if you can find a hotel room) but for those of you unable to attend the conference in person make sure you tune into Channel 9 Live for non-stop live coverage.

Full details below:

What
Channel 9 Live is a live and interactive broadcast of interviews with executives, VIP’s, industry luminaries, technology experts, session presenters, mad scientists and everyone in between. If you have a question for folks like Scott Guthrie, Joe Belfiore, Bill Buxton and Dean Hachamovich send them through to us and we'll ask on your behalf, live on the air. It's the next best thing to being there in person.

When
Immediately following the keynotes, Channel 9 Live will be broadcasting from:
• Monday March 15th: 10:30AM - 5:30PM (PST)
• Tuesday March 16th: 10:30AM - 5:30PM (PST)

How to Watch
Visit http://live.visitmix.com – Channel 9 Live will automatically start streaming from within the MIX player at the conclusion of the keynotes each day. (Silverlight required)

How to participate
Send us your questions via Twitter (@ch9live) or post your question in the Channel 9 Coffeehouse and we’ll do our best to get them in front of the right person.

(Tentative) Schedule
Please note that dates and times may change - check back often for updates

Day 1, March 15th, 2010
10:30AM (immediately following the keynote) to 5:30PM

Title: MIX10 Day 1 Keynote After Party
Recapping the announcements and answering all your questions from the MIX10 Day 1 Keynote
Time: 10:30AM – 11:30AM
Who: John Papa, Adam Kinney, Loke Uei Tan and Nic Fillingham
Ask questions about: MIX10 Day 1 Keynote announcements

Title: The Windows Phone Developer Story
Who: Charlie Kindel
Time: 11:30AM
Ask questions about: Developing on the Windows Phone 7 Series, End-to-End App Development

Title: Super-Secret Coding4Fun Keynote Project
Who: Clint Rutkas and Dan Fernandez
Time: 12:00PM
Ask questions about: Secret stuff from the keynote

Title: Designing the Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Albert Shum
Time: 12:30PM
Ask questions about: Designing the Windows Phone 7 Series, Designing for Mobile Experiences, The right and left brain of Design

Title: Developing Games with XNA on Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Michael Klucher and Shawn Hargreaves
Time: 1:00PM
Ask questions about: XNA, Game Development for Windows Phone

1:30PM to 2:30PM - Lunch Break.
We’ll be streaming extended demo footage from the Day 1 keynote.

Title: The Gu on all things Silverlight
Who: Scott Guthrie
Time: 2:30PM
Ask questions about: Anything and everything Silverlight, Visual Studio and The Gu; The Man, The Myth,... The Legend!

Title: Welcome to Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Joe Belfiore
Time: 3:00PM
Ask questions about: Hardware, UI, Marketplace, Apps, Ecosystem

Title: Secret Audience Participation Session!
Time: 3:30PM

Title: UI Design with Expression Blend for the Windows Phone 7 Series
Who: Christian Schormann
Time: 4:00PM
Ask questions about: Expression Blend, Mobile UI Design

Title: Silverlight on the Desktop (TBC)
Who: TBC
Time: 4:30PM
Ask questions about: Silverlight

Title: This Week on Channel 9 - MIX10 Day 1 Wrap Up Edition
Who: Adam Kinney, John Papa, Jeff Sandquist and Dan Fernandez
Time: 5:00PM
Ask questions about: all the questions that didn’t get answered from day 1

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Day 2, March 16th, 2010
10:30AM (immediately following the keynote) to 5:30PM

Title: MIX10 Day 2 Keynote After Party
Recapping the announcements and answering your questions from the MIX10 Day 2 Keynote
Time: 10:30AM – 11:30AM
Who: Scott Hanselman, Giorgio Sardo, Adam Kinney and Nic Fillingham
Ask questions about: MIX10 Day 2 Key Note announcements

Title: The Impact of Great User Experience
Who: Bill Buxton
Time: 11:30AM
Ask questions about: User Experience, Design and Traditional Birch Bark Canoes

Title: Intersection of Design & Development
Who: Scott Guthrie & Bill Buxton (together)
Time: 12:00PM
Ask questions about: Cats and dogs living together :)

Title: Data, Data Everywhere
Who: Doug Purdy & Moe Khorsravy
Time: 12:30PM
Ask questions about: Dallas, Azure, SQL Azure + Secret stuff from the keynote

Title: Internet Explorer 9
Who: Dean Hachamovich
Title: 1:00PM
Ask questions about: The future of IE + Secret stuff from the keynote

1:30PM to 2:30PM - Lunch Break.
We’ll be streaming extended demo footage from the Day 2 keynote.

Title: Creating Pivot Collections
Who: Matt Jubelirer and Brett Brewer
Time: 2:30PM
Ask questions about: All things Pivot

Title: Expert to Expert Live (with Charles Torre) - JQuery
Who: Erik Meijer and John Resig
Time: 3:00PM
Ask questions about: JQuery, Javascript + Secret stuff from the keynote

Title: Secret Audience Participation Session
Time: 3:30PM

Title: 8 Petabytes, 25 million Viewers & Six Servers; Delivering the Winter Olympics in HD and Living to Tell the Tale
Who: Eric Schmidt and Jason Suess
Time: 4:00PM
Ask questions about: Silverlight video, adaptive smooth streaming, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Title: Browser Graphics, Web Standards and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
Who: Doug Schepers, Patrick Dengler, Ted Johnson with Joshua Allen
Time: 4:30PM
Ask questions about: Web Standards, Browser Graphics, Scalable Vector Graphics

Title: This Week on Channel 9 - MIX10 Day 2 Wrap Up Edition
Who: Adam Kinney, John Papa, Jeff Sandquist and Dan Fernandez
Time: 5:00PM
Ask questions about: all the questions that didn’t get answered from day 2

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All details are subject to change so keep checking back for updates.

Thanks and we hope you enjoy the show!

If you have any questions please let us know.

Cloud Cover Episode 4 - CDN

Ryan Dunn — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:23:00 GMT

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 how to use the CDN capabilities to move blob resources closer to your users
Get the latest news on MIX and Azure Firestarter Events
Discover a trick to fix the "Path too Long" error

Show Links:

Azure Firestarter
MIX10 Windows Azure Platform Sessions (here, here)
RSSBus for Windows Azure
CDN Sample (of Ryan)
Fixing the Path Too Long

GDC 2010: XNA Game Studio 4.0

tina10 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:37:00 GMT

I wrap up GDC 2010 with an interview with Shawn Hargreaves about XNA Game Studio 4.0. I think Microsoft picked a perfect event to show off XNA Game Studio 4.0. With XNA 3.1 developers were able build games that ran on the Zune, Xbox 360 and Windows PC's, but 4.0 is going to include the Windows Phone 7 series. Here is some info below on some of our other GDC 2010 content. Don't forget to watch Channel 9 during MIX10 to get all of your Windows Phone 7 information.

Power Gig: Rise of the Six String
Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect 2, Lego Harry Potter
Microsoft Phone 7 with Xbox Live

GDC 2010: Alpha Protocol, Lego Harry Potter, DLC for Mass Effect 2

tina10 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:20:00 GMT

Although GDC is really about the game makers and developers there a few titles being shown off. Alpha Protocol is being referred to as a Modern Day Espionage RGP and has about 30 hours of gameplay, but you will most likely want to play this game more than once. Lego Harry Potter is being developed by TT games and you play with more than 140 characters. And there will be a DLC released soon for Mass Effect 2 from our friends at BIOWARE and that will be coming out in April. Here a look at those three upcoming Xbox 360 games and more.

For other GDC 2010 content be sure to check out our Power Gig: Rise of the Six String and Windows Phone 7 video.

endpoint.tv - WF4 in the Real World - Microsoft CRM

Ron Jacobs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:08:00 GMT

Microsoft CRM is a customer relationship management product. As with the application of most products discussed in this space, everybody wants to do things differently and so customization is required. Giving people source code for customization, however, is typically a very bad idea.

In this episode, Steve Kaplan, Gonzalo Ruiz, and Nirav Shah from the Microsoft CRM team join me to discuss how they are moving from .NET 3.5 Workflow to .NET 4 workflow, the lessons learned from this transition, and the great results they have so far.

Internet Explorer 8 Security Tips

Larry Larsen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:50:00 GMT

Pete LePage works as a PM on the Internet Explorer team working with developer security. He stopped by the studio today to give us some tips as surfers, as well as a few tips for developers, on some of the things that can help prevent security threats. In 2008 a study showed that about 70% of attacks on web sites were from cross-site scripting. Pete goes through three security topics that every developer should know about. They include tips for cross-site scripting defenses, HTML sanitization, and JSON sanitization. You can find out more about these tips here.

Other URLs mentioned
Microsoft Anti-Virus: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Internet Explorer Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/default.aspx
Internet Explorer information for the IT Pro
http://www.technet.com/ie

GDC 2010: Windows Phone 7 and Xbox Live functionality

tina10 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:00 GMT

Windows Phone 7, XNA and the game hub are all the talk here at GDC 2010. I had a chance to sit down with Michael Klucher and find out more about the gaming experience it will provide and what's in store for developers. Beyond playing Xbox Live games you will also be able to see your gamer avatar, achievements and gamer profile.

If you would like to learn more about GDC and want a first look at Power Gig: Rise of the Six String's gaming controller. Check out our first GDC video.

Brian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Some Beckman History, and Life in the Universe

Charles — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:04:00 GMT

It's been far too long since we've chatted with the great Brian Beckman, an astrophysicist, software architect, and Channel 9 icon. Some of you may know him as the wizard who appears out of thin air whenever the word Monad is said three times in succession. :->

A few weeks ago, Erik Meijer sent an email to Brian with a link to some videos about the use of analog computers in the US Navy in the 1950s. This got Brian thinking and reflecting about his past. Turns out Brian's father was a famous Hollywood actor who also produced training movies for the US Navy. Well, I was added on to the email thread and we taped the conversation in this video a few days later.

It's always a pleasure to embark on an unscripted chat with Dr. Beckman. There are always great nuggets of wisdom and insight around every corner. Here, you'll learn about some of Brian's personal history, some insights on analog computing, and even some discussion on the Drake equation, N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL, which attempts to formalize the probability of intelligent life in the universe.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy.

GDC 2010 - first look at Power Gig: Rise of the Six String's Gaming Controller

tina10 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:03:00 GMT

I'm in San Francisco for GDC 2010 this week and will be bringing you a few different stories from here. Later on today I will be publishing a Windows Phone 7 interview with Michael Klucher about The Xbox Live game hub. Yesterday I was invited to what was only called "An Unannounced Music Title". I was skeptical but went and was incredibly excited when I left. SEVEN45 Studios out of Boston have created a new game for the Xbox 360 called Power Gig: Rise of the Six String and here's a look at the future of gaming peripherals. Although we weren't allowed to show the game footage because it's under NDA until a later date it really is all about the Electric Guitar.

Silverlight TV 13: MVVM Light Toolkit

John Papa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Silverlight MVP Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss using MVVM with Silverlight. Laurent and John discuss their experiences with MVVM and how Laurent's experiences inspired him to create his MVVM Light Toolkit. If you have been meaning to get into MVVM or you feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, definitely watch this episode and check out the MVVM Light Toolkit.

Follow @SilverlightTV on Twitter for the latest updates.

Laurent's Blog

TechFest 2010: Microsoft ICE - Image Composite Editor

Laura Foy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:57:00 GMT

Today I'd like to introduce you to another piece of new technology from Microsoft Research Labs – Image Composite Editor (ICE) with Multi-Image Fusion. In the current version of ICE, it provides advanced features for panoramic stitching such as choosing the stitch’s orientation, custom projection, and selecting a 360 stitch’s mid-point, and this tool also integrates nicely as a plug-in into Windows Live Photo Gallery. Here we’ll show you some of the upcoming new features in ICE such as:

Structured Panoramas
Stitching Panoramas from Video
Sharp Panoramas from Blurry Videos
Creating Photographs from Videos
Multi-Image Denoising and Sharpening using Lucky Imaging

Techfest 2010: Mobile Surface

Larry Larsen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:25:00 GMT

Every year at TechFest, Microsoft employees (and a few invited guests) get to take a look at some of the projects out of Microsoft Research. These aren't finished products--you'll see a lot of exposed wires and tape--and in fact, they may never become completed products at all, but each project shows what we're thinking--and maybe where we're going.

This year I met with a team from MSR Asia who have constructed what they hope will eventually be a pico-projector portable computer, and in this project you can see inspiration from Microsoft Surface and Second Light. The possibility I like best about this is the ability to touch your games while still seeing what is there. Additionally, if you use physical controls on apps, such as knobs, you can actually paint labels on the controls themselves.

E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport - Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems

Charles — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:06:00 GMT

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -Leslie Lamport.

Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist and mathematician best known for his work with distributed systems. In fact, Dr. Lamport’s research contributions laid the foundations for the theory of distributed systems. He currently works in Microsoft Research where most of his time is spent developing formal semantics (with mathematical logic) for specifying and reasoning about algorithms.

Here, Dr. Erik Meijer, computer scientist and programming language/library designer, sits down with Dr. Lamport to discuss several aspects of Dr. Lamport's body of work in computer science.

Dr. Lamport's TLA, the Temporal Logic of Actions, is a logic for specifying and reasoning about concurrent and reactive systems. TLA+ is the latest incarnation of this formal specification toolset.

Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood!

Laura Foy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:17:00 GMT

You asked for it, so you got it! This week we have special co-host, Tina Wood bringing all the scoop that 'Softies wanna know about.

TechFest recap
Ballmer Tweets!
Xbox & Facebook
Microsoft & Android..BFF's

endpoint.tv - Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:35:00 GMT

Last week we saw the release of Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 and came up with some interesting issues related to setting it up. We posted a great endpoint.tv episode, in which I talked through the setup experiences with Byron Tardif, and to follow up I added some blog posts.

In this episode of endpoint.tv we look at

How to install AppFabric with the Web Platform Installer
How to uninstall AppFabric
How to reference the AppFabric Cache client libraries from Visual Studio 2010

The Access Show: How the Microsoft Legal Department Uses Access 2010 Web Databases

tina10 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:44:00 GMT

Meet Malori! Malori is a paralegal in Microsoft's legal department. She manages patent applications and assigns them out to attorneys and portfolio managers as well as other paralegals. Malori was looking for a way to make her team more efficient by presenting all of the information they needed in a single web page or application. Our team jumped in and made an Access Services solution, which allows her to manage all the data and provide custom views to her teammates. Today this web database is used by over 80 attorneys working on different cases at Microsoft.

In today’s episode, Malori shares her experience with Access Services and how it has helped her be more efficient.

Learn more about Access 2010 on the team blog.

Big Brains and Video Games - An interview with MSNBC.com's science editor Alan Boyle

tina10 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:07:00 GMT

Alan Boyle is MSNBC.com's science editor. He has been with MSNBC since 1996 and won awards from the National Academies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Association of Science Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Space Frontier Foundation and the Pirelli Relativity Challenge. One of his recent articles Big Brains for Video Games got our attention so I sat down with Alan to discuss the article, the study it was based on and whether or not I have a new excuse when I lose on Xbox Live. For more on Alan definitely check out cosmic log.

TWC9: 100th Episode! WPF, VS2010 RC tips, Bonus Footage

Brian Keller — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:45:00 GMT

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

Second patch for IntelliSense crashes in the Visual Studio 2010 RC
·Interesting because: 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.)
·Interesting because: 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
·Interesting because: 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)
·Interesting because: 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
·Interesting because: 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.
·Interesting because: 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
·Interesting because: 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
·Interesting because: Free hands-on tutorials featuring Silverlight, DeepZoom, SketchFlow, and more…

Roundup of WPF Documentation Samples
·Interesting because: One-stop shopping for all of your WPF sample needs.

4 free open-source WPF utilities
·Interesting because: Some good stuff in here; Snoop = “Firebug for WPF”, Inkscape = vector graphics editor…

Write code to enter the NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
·Interesting because: 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.

Picks of the week!

Dan's pick: Some (not all) MSR TechFest 2010 content is public and online

Brian’s pick: Telling the Visual Studio 2010 testing story with DeepZoom, and SpeakFlow as a new non-linear presentation medium based on DeepZoom.

And after the credits… special 100^th episode bonus materials…

Your Rx.NET Prescription Has Been Refilled

Jeffrey van Gogh — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:10:00 GMT

Today, we released a new version of Reactive Extensions for .NET.

This new version is a good reason to end the long video silence on C9. Here, Wes, Bart, and Jeff discuss the various changes in this release, why it took so long, and what we have been doing these last couple of months.

Rx can be downloaded from the DevLabs project page.

A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum; Microsoft's UX Gurus

Nic Fillingham — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:44:00 GMT

With less than one week to go until MIX10, I sit down with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher for Microsoft Research and Albert Shum, Director of Mobile Experience Design for Windows Phone 7 Series to talk about creating compelling user experiences, how developers and designers can work together in harmony and random Canadian trivia.

Microsoft Research: Tools to Help Resolve Concurrency Problems

Robert Hess — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:02:00 GMT

If you are developing multi-threaded applications, there is a possibility that you may be having concurrency problems, and these problems can be difficult to reproduce and identify.

At PDC09, Madan Musuvathi and Sebastian Burckhardt showed off some tools (“Cuzz” and “FeatherLite”) that Microsoft Research is currently working on that may one day assist developers in addressing concurrency issues they may be having in their application. I’ve invited them to join me today to talk with us about some of the issues involved with tracking down concurrency problems, as well as how each tool works.

If you’d like more information about the tools they are working on, you may want to check out their PDC09 session, which is available here:

PDC09 Seminar:
Concurrency Fuzzing & Data Races

You can also find more details about what Madan and Sebastian are doing in Microsoft Research on the Microsoft Research Website:

Cloud Cover Episode 3 - Worker Role Endpoints

Ryan Dunn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:00 GMT

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

In this episode:

Learn how to host other web servers in Worker Roles.
Hear about some new tools for working with SQL Azure.
Find out how to calculate the size of your database and objects in SQL Azure.

Show Links:

CloudHarmony Cloud Storage Shootout
LinqPad for SQL Azure
SQL Azure ASP.NET Provider Scripts
Incarnate Avatar Service
Using Other Web Servers on Windows Azure
Calculating the Size of Your SQL Azure Database

Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause

Charles — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:13:00 GMT

Over thousands of years, language has evolved in order to provide mankind a mechanism for making it easier to communicate with one another. Today, the world is filled with a wide variety of languages, some of which are radically different from one another, while others bear striking similarities. In addition to improving interpersonal communications, however, languages have evolved to facilitate the transfer of information, instructions, and intent between people and machines.

Understanding, designing, and evangelizing many of these languages, and democratizing the programming methodologies within them, is Erik Meijer. Erik is a legendary figure in the programming language design community and one of Niner Nation's favorite personalities. Today, tune in and meet the man behind the code; some of Erik's fascinating personal and professional histories may well surprise you. The great Robert Hess moderates this latest edition of Behind the Code.

Enjoy.

PS: Erik will be speaking at MIX10!

endpoint.tv - Announcing Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:43:00 GMT

Today I'm happy to announce that Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is now available. In this episode, Byron Tardiff the setup program manager from the AppFabric team, will walk us through two ways you can install Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 which works with Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4 RC.

For more on how you can install and test out Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 check out my blog.

Countdown to MIX10: Drinking Las Vegas

Larry Larsen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:41:00 GMT

Sure, sure. MIX is mostly all about the great keynotes, sessions, networking, and all the awesome content that is going to make your brain hurt in a good way, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go out for a good time while you’re in Sin City! On this, our last Countdown to MIX10 show, @anyware and @ritzy get advice from THE cocktail evangelist, Robert Hess, who tells us where to find a mean cocktail in Vegas. If we’re not at the conference, you might find us bellied up to a bar somewhere, and if you do, maybe your next round will be on us. See ya in Vegas!

This is our last show for MIX! Thanks all for your tremendous help!!!