This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover: - The XNA Team discusses the upcoming release Xbox LIVE Community Games where developers can make money selling games through Xbox LIVE community arcade (0 - 1:25) - Windows Home Server releases Power Pack 1 which includes a number of improvements including fixing the data-loss bug. (1:25 - 2:37) - Caligari's TrueSpace 3D Modeling tools are now available to download for free. You can even export to DirectX or use a converter to convert the models into XAML 3D for WPF. Check out the training videos for more info. (2:38 - 4:32) - Last week's call for people to vote up the BabySmash feature resulted in a 588% increase and has made adding an MMO to BabySmash the #1 feature request! (4:32 - 5:15) - The Popfly team's July update includes lots of new features including game asset pre-loading, a high-score service and more. (5:15 - 7:10) - Effectize: 25 ASP.NET Performance Tuning Resources via DZone (7:10 - 7:54) - Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 released, found via Greg Duncan (7:54 - 9:10) - Clint Rutkas's To Do App is featured in Lifehacker (9:10 - 10:12) - .NetMap Codeplex project adds easy and cool visualizations for social networks into Excel (10:12 - 11:40) - How to use Microsoft's .NET Framework Cleanup Utility - When uninstalling fails. (11:40 - 12:50) - 90% of XP users love Windows "Mojave" (which is really just Windows Vista), Steve Clayton shows off a preview of the new ad campaign imagery and mock Folgers crystals campaign by Saturday Night Live (12:50 - 15:05) - Video clip from Beth Massi with the Visual Basic Design Team talking about their favorite VB features (15:05 - 16:17) - Give your feedback on new, unreleased Visual Studio 10 features like Call Hierarchy or Searching/Navigating symbols (16:17 - 17:25) - Brian's Pick of the Week: Video clip of Brian's "High Tech Hiking" video showing Virtual Earth 3D controlled by an Xbox controller (17:25 - 19:50) - Dan provides some helpful Spanish phrases for Brian's trip to Patagonia (19:50 - 21:18) - Dan's Pick of the Week: Crayon Cannon a Popfly/Silverlight game built by Adam Nathan (21:18 - 22:56)
