This Week on Channel 9: Feb 8, 2008 Episode

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Feb 8th @ 9:32 AM

This is Episode #2 of This Week on Channel 9 a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more.

This week we cover:

0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name courtesy of Ian and ChadK, and Benny Hill style set adjustments including more light! (0 - 2:45)
1. Microsoft and Yahoo: What could it mean for developers and Brian Shapiro's Coffeehouse thread (2:45 - 7:59)
2. Windows Server 2008 Launches, Alex Hinrichs, Windows Server Project Manager talks about Server Core, his favorite feature (7:59 - 9:32)
3. Under-Reported Windows Vista SP1 features for developers via Tim Sneath including new kernel, and 3.0 SP1 red-bits (9:32 - 12:30)
4. Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview with Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, and Mads Torgerson including Gilad's soundbyte on whether C++ is dead, and discussion of people loving to hate C++ (12:30 - 14:56)
5. Free Tool for LINQ: LINQPad by Joseph Albahari (14:56 - 15:40)
6. Guitar Matey: Building a 3D XNA Game by Dan Waters (video)found via Coding4Fun (15:40 -16:35)
7. CodeProject: Windows Forms Wizard Control with Visual Studio Designer support by Manish Kumar, found via Jason Haley's blog (15:40 - 17:51)
8. Brian's Pick of the Week: MySpace adds WCF and Silverlight support for developers, via Michael Scherotter (17:51 - 19:02)
9. Dan's Pick of the Week: Screen-scraping function that converts HTML tables from a Web site into a DataSet, by Mark Smith (19:02 - 20:30)
10. Wrapup, Superbowl predictions from last week, college insults, and a clip on Alex Hinrich's getting banana cake and a nice pen.

Tags: MS Personalities, Programming, Windows Server, Windows Vista SP1, WPF

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Chadk

Damn, that C9 dude sure did look heavy! Expressionless

TommyCarlier

Great show: short, to the point, funny, with great content.

vesuvius

Succinct and necessary. If you guys polish this up, this will really go places. After a busy week one can get the salient details, and your nuggets are excellent (missed Linqpad and the Vista/Sneath stuff - so onto that now).

Well Done!

Charles

Excellent! Smiley

RE: Big 9 Guys. Back in the day, we had them made as part of an internal C9 "marketing" campaign. The idea was to put them in random locations around campus to evoke curiosity from passers-by. Never happened, but it was a good idea. Glad to see them being put to good use!

C

irascian

Great second show guys.

Love the title graphics and the way Dan and Brian balance each other out.

Most of all I like the fact it's not much more than 20 minutes long.

Dan

Thanks everyone for the feedback, our goal is to keep it to ~20 minutes every week going forward Big Smile

dentaku

The show looks like it was shot in widescreen but it plays back in a regular shaped player window so everything's all stretched vertically.

briankel

dentaku wrote:

The show looks like it was shot in widescreen but it plays back in a regular shaped player window so everything's all stretched vertically.

Whaddaya mean? We're just really tall! Wink

You observed correctly. We had a setting on the camera wrong that we didn't notice until after the shoot. Sorry about that. We'll try to look out for it in the future.

And to echo what Dan said, thanks for all of the positive encouragement! We enjoy doing this so as long as you enjoy watching it we'll keep filming. Big Smile

Brian

briankel

Oh and one more thing we already noticed, the font size on some of the slides is too small. We're going to work on that in the future, but in the meantime if you view the download version it seems to work best.

Did I mention that we have zero budget and that I do all of our editing? It's a learning curve! Smiley

Brian