TWC9: Snowpocalypse, VS Achievements, 101 Async samples, & more
Description
This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including:
- [1:12] Visual Studio Achievements, Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta, Visual Studio Achievements FAQ (C9Team), Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone Beta - build 01012012 update (Den Delimarsky)
- [2:40] 101 Async Samples (Joe Mayo), http://www.wischik.com/lu/AsyncSilverlight/AsyncSamples.html [Found via Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew, Dew Drop – January 13, 2012 (#1,241)]
- [4:12] Use the power of Azure to create your own raytracer (David Catuhe) [Found via: MSDN Malaysia - Create Your Own Raytracer By Using Azure]
- [5:16] Event Flashback: ALM Summit 2011 - Scott Guthrie: Azure Unplugged
- [6:11] UIMap Toolbox (Rasmus Selsmark)
- [6:54] WPF 4.5: Observable Collection Cross-Thread Change Notification, WPF 4.5 Cross-Thread Collection Synchronization Redux (Pete Brown)
- [8:21] 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides (Jon Galloway) [Found via: Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew - Dew Drop – January 18, 2012 (#1,245)]
- [10:09] January 17th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander) [Found via: The Morning Brew - The Morning Brew #1024]
Picks of the Week!
- Brian's Pick of the Week! [12:39] Case Study: Using Windows Azure to create MicroFinance, http://labs.mandogroup.com (Sarah Lamb, Gary Pretty)
- Dan's Pick of the Week! [13:43] Abusing the Microsoft Research's Touch Mouse Sensor API SDK with a Console-based Heat-map (Scott Hanselman)
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The Discussion
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The link to Jon Galloway's 10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance and Overrides, is very much appreciated.
-Josh
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Thanks for the shoutout! One pretty surprising clarification - all the tips except 3 (IIS config) and 9 (config transforms) go all the way back to ASP.NET 2.0, some even earlier.
Say hi to the tauntauns for me. I agree, they are not hotels.
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Say hi to the tauntauns for me. I agree, they are not hotels.
Ha! You just made me laugh out loud in a meeting. I love it.
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Thanks for your shout of our Mando MicroFinance guest post by Gary Pretty! He was stoked to hear about your mention!
The next post in the series is now up on the UK MSDN Site here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukmsdn/archive/2012/01/25/creating-a-usable-and-engaging-front-end-user-experience.aspx