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Ping 52: Nic Fillingham, Windows Phone 7, XNA and Channel 9 Live

Laura Foy — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:53:00 GMT

This week we welcomed special guest host, Nic Fillingham, who not only runs Channel 9 LIVE at MIX 2010 but also brings us these stories:

and Just For Fun: New Dork Music Video

Windows Phone 7 Keynote Announcements from MIX 10

Laura Foy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:14:00 GMT

MIX 2010 is finally here and all of the info about developing on Windows Phone 7 Series is available to you. Here, Charlie Kindel gives us a recap of all the announcements made in todays keynote. Take a listen and then make sure to head HERE to get the bits and start building apps.
The Windows Phone Developer Tools package contains a toolset that will be familiar to Visual Studio developers for Windows Phone 7 development, including a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator integrated into Visual Studio so you can see your app in action and debug it as you would with any other VS project. Also included are Silverlight and the XNA Game Studio. Expression Blend for Windows Phone, which brings Blend’s immersive Silverlight designer-focused environment to building immersive mobile experiences, is also available for download today from the link above.

Silverlight TV 14: Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight

John Papa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:30:00 GMT

We're here at MIX10 where Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and Silverlight just became the best match since peanut butter and chocolate! Mike Harsh, Program Manager for the Silverlight team working on WP7, joins John Papa to demonstrate the WP7 device and the tooling used to create applications for it. Mike covers the phone, how to write a Silverlight app for it, how to run that app in the emulator, and how to deploy it to the phone. The simplicity of this demo is how easy it truly is to take your Silverlight skills and apply them to WP7 devices.

Silverlight TV 15: Announcing Silverlight 4 RC

John Papa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:30:00 GMT

John and Adam follow up the MIX10 keynote announcement of Silverlight 4 RC by discussing what is new and what materials have been released on the Channel 9 learning center website. They cover their picks for some of the most impactful features in Silverlight 4 RC and review the concept behind the new two-day Building Business Applications course (check out the course via this link).

You can also check out the 60+ page whitepaper that covers the full feature list of all the new features in Silverlight 4 online (or you can download it).

Pete Blois on Windows Phone 7 in Blend 4 and Rooler

Pete Brown — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:39:00 GMT

In February, while up on campus for the MVP summit, I snuck over to the Expression side of building 41 and met with Pete Blois.

Pete Blois is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Expression Blend team. He's responsible for tooling for Silverlight, WPF, and now Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Series.

Blend 4 supports not only Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone, it now includes multi-targeting support for the .NET framework 3.5sp1 and 4, Silverlight 3 and 4, and Silverlight for Windows Phone, just like Visual Studio 2010. In this video, Pete goes into some detail about how they have accomplished multi targeting in Blend 4.

Pete also talks about Rooler, the screen measurement and sampling tool he created for designers and developers. Written in WPF, this has become one of my go-to tools whenever I'm working with an existing design.

Finally, we get into the new Blend tooling for Windows Phone Series 7 development. As expected, the Expression team delivers with an awesome design and development experience for a new platform.

Bruger Test Automation med Visual Studio 2010

martinesmann — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:11:00 GMT

af Jakob Leander, Avanade.
Webcast forklarer, hvorfor det er så interessant at automatisere processer omkring bruger-test. Endvidere vises, med udgangspunkt i en simpel applikation, en end to end demo på, hvordan det kan gøres i praksis.

Refereret materiale

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286725(VS.100).aspx

Links til presenter og firma
Presenter: http://www.avanade.com/_n/people/expert_detail.aspx?expertid=172

Firma: www.avanade.dk

MSDN Radio Special – Niklas Gustafsson om Axum

Dag König — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:04:00 GMT

Niklas Gustafsson, en svensk som bott länge i USA, jobbar med ett mycket spännande inkubationsprojekt på Microsoft med namnet Axum.

Axum är ett nytt programmeringsspråk som skall underlätta att skapa program som kan exekvera olika delar parallellt.

Det blir naturligtvis en diskussion om Axum men också om parallellprogrammering mer generellt.

Jeff Handley on WCF RIA Services for Silverlight 4

Pete Brown — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:29:00 GMT

In February I popped on over to building 42 and met with my friend, Jeff Handley, who works on the WCF RIA Services team. Jeff talked about what it's like to work on RIA Services, sharing with the community, and openness at Microsoft. Then we chatted a bit about framework development vs. application development and what it means to put something out to the public in released bits.

Jeff and I also talked about what it's like to come back to an office full of popcorn, as well as some tidbits regarding some RIA Services and validation changes coming up as RIA Services takes on INotifyDataErrorInfo vs. the old exception-based validation approach.

Jeff's Blog
Follow Jeff on twitter at @jeffhandley
Pete's Site and Blog
Follow Pete on twitter at @pete_brown
The WCF RIA Services page on Silverlight.net

Henry Sowizral on Refacing C++ with WPF in Expression Design

Pete Brown — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:31:00 GMT

While on campus for the MVP Summit in February, I had a chance to visit Henry Sowizral over in building 41. Henry Sowizral is a Principal Architect in Microsoft Expression, and he and his team did something really cool: they converted an existing C/C++/MFC application to have a WPF front-end, while still leveraging all that existing code.

If you have legacy code and are considering porting the UI to .NET, pick up some pointers from Henry.

Once you've finished, check out Henry's presentation deck on how the team converted the Expression Design UI to WPF.

See more WPF at Pete's site and blog http://10rem.net
Follow Pete on twitter at @pete_brown

MSDN Webcast: Migrating Your HPC Applications to the Windows Platform (Level 300)

Wenming Ye — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:02:00 GMT

The latest version of Windows HPC Server offers the signature advantages of a Windows operating system such as ease of use, advanced professional development tools, and unparalleled binary compatibility. However, the migration of applications to a Windows platform can be a learning experience for a typical high-performance computing (HPC) developer with a strong UNIX background. In this webcast, we discuss the anatomy of a typical HPC application and the general porting process. We explain how to use cross-platform development tools such as Cygwin, CMake, Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA), and the migration API reference guide. We also provide an update on the status of OSS solver and I/O libraries. Powerpoint Presentation

LM Webcast: Windows HPC V3 (or Windows HPC Server 2008 R2) Diagnostics Extensibility

Wenming Ye — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:02:00 GMT

When working with an HPC cluster- including thousands of machines and many different hardware components and software packages- errors and failures are unavoidable. As a result, most HPC administrators spend a large majority of their time on diagnostics. Windows HPC Server 2008, the current version, offers 16 built-in system tests and a GUI and scripting interface to run tests, receive and clear alerts, view results and preserve result history. In the latest release, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, this diagnostics platform is becoming extensible: administrators and partners can create custom diagnostic tests to run in the same way as the built-in tests. This allows cluster administrators to troubleshoot more easily the custom and non-Microsoft software or hardware added to their HPC cluster.

This session will cover:

- What you can do with the extensible diagnostics framework

- How to create a custom diagnostic test, add it to WPHC, run it and view results

- How to aggregate test results for a large scale cluster so that administrator can easily spot the outliers

- Ideas for tests to help validating or troubleshooting ISV apps

MSDN Webcast: Taking Scientific Computing Mainstream with Windows Client & Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (Level 200)

Wenming Ye — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:01:00 GMT

The Windows operating systems are well known for binary compatibility, and this extends to high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In this webcast, we explain how on Windows the same Message Passing Interface (MPI) executable can run on a workstation or across a large cluster without having to recompile, making development, testing, and supporting of HPC software easier and lowering the barrier of entry for HPC application users. Learn how to take advantage of this capability with popular open-source code such as WRF, NAMD, GROMACS, VisIt, ParaView, HDF5, and PETSc, giving you the ability to deploy and popularize your scientific software as widely as possible. Powerpoint resentation link

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

Connected Show Podcast: The One About The News

Brian Johnson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:00 GMT

In this episode Peter and Dmitry run solo to discuss the latest ‘buzz’ around the web, Jon Skeet jokes, marriage and other “developer” topics. Eventually the duo also covers hard news such as CodePlex updates, Visual Studio 2010 RC, Azure Platform updates, Moonlight and much more.

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.

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Sjöfartsverket – Använder Silverlight för att hålla koll på de svenska vattennivåerna

Dag König — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:00 GMT

Teknik: Silverlight 3, Bing Maps, Team Foundation Server
Sjöfartsverket har ett antal mätstationer i Sverige som mäter vind, vattenstånd och strömmar. Dessa vill man att allmänheten ska kunna se via webben och få dess mätdata snyggt presenterat i realtid. Sjöfartsverket ville även utvärdera om Silverlight är något att satsa på i den egna IT avdelningen. Mätvärdena lagras centralt och exponeras i en WebService för åtkomst till ett antal applikationer (bland annat SMHI).
Sogeti utvecklade en Silverlight Web applikation som hämtar data från en WebService och presenterar mätstationer på en karta (Bing Maps) med zoom. Varje mätstation visar dess mättyper, vind, vatten och strömmätning. Mätresultatet presenteras i en graf som uppdateras varje minut.

Läs mer här
I Dag König's följande blogginlägg finns några skärmdumpar på applikationen. (Tyvärr fick hade vi inte möjlighet att göra den video som vi nämde i intervjun.)

Kontakt: Mikael Renz, Sjöfartsverket, Daniel Sonebrand, Sogeti; Dag König, Microsoft

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

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.

How to Parallelize Your Application - Part 2 Theads v Tasks

bruceky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:23:00 GMT

In Part 2 of this series, ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle, explores the differences between Threads and System.Threading.Tasks in .NET 4.

In this three part series, see how you can use new features in .NET Framework 4 to take advantage of multi-core processors.

In Part 1 of the series, we show why you care about multiple processors and how it can effect the performance in your application.
In Part 2 we compare the new Tasks feature in .NET with Threads.
In Part 3 we show three ways of using the parallel features to enable your application for multi-core processors.

For more information and to see the code used in the video, see How to Get Started with Multi-Core: Parallel Processing You Can Use.

See also, Justin Etheredge's posting .NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks for detail look at how to use Tasks in your applications.

To find out how to use Task asynchronously for operations such as file IO and accessing Web Services, see how Jeffrey Richter uses his AsychEnumerator with Task in his blog posting, Using .NET 4.0 Tasks with the AsyncEnumerator or see it in action at Jeffrey Richter and his AsyncEnumerator on Channel 9.

Other parallel computing resources:

Microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2.aspx
MSDN Concurrency Dev-Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/concurrency
Dev-Team Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam

http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/labels/ParallelComputing.html

For up to date information for developers and ISVs, see US ISV Developer Community Blog

How to Parallelize Your Application - Part 3 Using Tasks

bruceky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT

In Part 3 of this series, ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle, explores three ways of using the parallel library features in .NET 4, System.Threading.Tasks, in your application.

Using System.Threading.Tasks.Task class library
Using Parallel For, ForEach, and Invoke
Using Parallel LINQ to Objects

In this three part series, see how you can use new features in .NET Framework 4 to take advantage of multi-core processors.

In Part 1 of the series, we show why you care about multiple processors and how it can effect the performance in your application.
In Part 2 we compare the new features in .NET with Threads.
In Part 3 we show three ways of using the parallel features to enable your application for multi-core processors.

For more information and to see the code used in the video, see How to Get Started with Multi-Core: Parallel Processing You Can Use.

Other parallel computing resources:

Microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2.aspx
MSDN Concurrency Dev-Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/concurrency
Dev-Team Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam

http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/labels/ParallelComputing.html

For up to date information for developers and ISVs, see US ISV Developer Community Blog

How to Parallelize Your Application - Part 1 Why Do It?

bruceky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:00 GMT

In Part 1 of this series, ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle, explores the rationale for your applications to embrace multi-core technologies offered on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

In this three part series, see how you can use new features in .NET Framework 4 to take advantage of multi-core processors.

In Part 1 of the series, we show why you care about multiple processors and how it can effect the performance in your application.
In Part 2 we compare the new features in .NET with Threads.
In Part 3 we show three ways of using the parallel features to enable your application for multi-core processors.

For more information and to see the code used in the video, see How to Get Started with Multi-Core: Parallel Processing You Can Use.

Other parallel computing resources:

Microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2.aspx
MSDN Concurrency Dev-Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/concurrency
Dev-Team Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam

http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/labels/ParallelComputing.html

For up to date information for developers and ISVs, see US ISV Developer Community Blog

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.