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Angus Logan from the Windows Live team shares his thoughts on the evolution of Windows Live and Windows Live services, social networking, Live Mesh, and what it all means for developers.

Catherine Heller interviews Charles Teague on Windows Live Writer, a free and extensible desktop blogging applicatoin that can work with practically every blogging service available. Charles discusses the Windows Live Writer SDK which includes a managed API for extending Live Writer. He demonstrates the Polaroid Picture Plug-in and also shows how to build a "Hello World" plug-in in Visual Studio. You can find more information including SDK updates on the Windows Live Writer blog.

I caught up with Amanda Silver to discuss new for 2008 features like LINQ, XML Literals, using LINQ to target LINQ for .NET Framework 2.0. Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of dynamic typing in Visual Basic, runtime changes in edit-and-continue,  how to make changes in pseudo-run mode, the challenges in adding IntelliSense for dynamic typing, and improving native/Pinvoke calls for .NET developers. Amanda also reveals her toughest feature cut that the team had to make for the VB 2008 release.

On a very special This Week on Channel 9, Jeff Sandquist joins Dan and Brian in studio to discuss CNN's special Bill Gates slideshow narrated by Bill himself (0 - 2:00) Newsweek's update of the infamous New Mexico Microsoft company photo 30 years later (2:00 - 3:30) Jeff shares how Charles Torre got Chicken Pox after his BillG interview and retells the backstory of the first Bill Gates interview (3:30 - 6:10) Clip from Charles interviews Bill Gates on his transition (6:10 - 8:00) Clip from Bill Gates looking back video (8 - 9:24) BillG's other achievement, redefining Cribs (9:24 - 12:45) Jeff Sandquist recounts the backstory for when Channel 9 was there to break the news of Bill's transition and his history at Microsoft (12:45 - 20:15) Clip from 'softies sharing their favorite BillG stories (20:15 - 23:15) 10 Tools I replaced with VSTS, 10 Tools I still use with VSTS by Mohammed Ashraful Alam (23:15 - 25:00) CodeProject article: WPF version of PicLens by Sascha Barber and Marlon Grech (25:00 - 25:40) CTP of Microsoft (Classic) ASP SQL Injection Analyzer via Greg Duncan (25:40 - 26:45) Entity Framework: vote of no confidence and a response from Tim Mallalieu from the EF team (26:45 - 29:20) Free eBook: Karl Seguin: Foundations of Programming, Building Better Software (29:20 - 30:20) Derik Whittaker: Dimecasts.NET, 10 minutes or less on a developer topic via Rhonda Tipton (30:20 - 31:00) Dan's Pick of the Week: If Programming Languages were Futurama characters via dzone (31:00 - 32:00) Brian's Pick of the Week: 9-part series on VSTS Rosario by Willy-Peter Schaub (32:00 - end)  

To remember Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft, we asked Larry Osterman, Bill Hill, Joan Hoshino, and Soma Somasegar to share their favorite Bill Gates stories.

User Group Television (UGTV pronounced YOU GEE TEE VEE) is a monthly video show dedicated to bringing informative programming to User Groups worldwide while providing Microsoft the ability to introduce up and coming information to user group communities as well as highlight our engagement with them. Today's show includes more bad jokes from our anchors, interviews with UG leaders, a recap of April’s MVP Summit and an interview with INETA. (INETA’s mission is to offer assistance and resources to community groups that promote and educate their membership in Microsoft's .NET technologies).  And…the crème de la creme – introducing a new segment coming to UGTV. UGTV is hosted by Michelle Fleming Toure and Alan le Marquand. Got Feedback?  Email ugtvplan@microsoft.com.  Got Ideas?  Email ugtvidea@microsoft.com

Bill Gates has been at the helm of Microsoft for the entire existence of Microsoft. It's the only place he's worked and he's getting ready to step down from his day to day responsibilities in his office on the Redmond campus. Bill's employment future will be centered around running his philanthropic enterprise, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill is fundamentally shifting his focus from achieving his dream of "a PC in every home" to helping realize the vision of "healthy people in every country". He talks about how each one of us can help make this dream come true by donation of time, expertise and, of course, money. Charles caught up with Bill to discuss his transition from full time at Microsoft to full time at his global philanthropic foundation (he will still be involved with major decisions given that he will retain his post as the Chairman of Microsoft and his email address will still be functional ). Questions addressed in this conversation include: What's on Bill's mind as he prepares to step away from his full time responsibilities at Microsoft? What was his rationale for making the decision? What was behind his decision to put Ray Ozzie in the role of Microsoft Chief Software Architect? What does a CSA actually do? Why is Microsoft so focused on competing with Google and is search as important as we think? What's top of mind for Bill that Developers who target our platform should pay attention to now and in the next decade? How can Microsoft become more agile given the complexity that arises from so much asynchronous innovation spanning disparate product units? Why does Windows still matter in an Internet world? Enjoy. This is a good one. Thank you again, Bill, for your support of C9 over the years, the incredible innovation you brought to market and the incredible generosity of your foundation.

Josh Holmes  caught up with Miguel de Icaza at Boston Remix 2007 (yes that was a while back but it's still a great interview!). Miguel talks about Mono, Moonlight  and how it all came around.

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover: Updates to Live Mesh  Improve Desktop Search performance by downloading Windows Search 4.0 Lots of updates to Popfly Game Creator from Adam Nathan The IE team sends Mozilla a congratulations cake (via Ars Technica) Update your Silverlight.js file for Firefox 3 (via Tim Heuer) DeepEarth: Virtual Earth + Deep Zoom (via Jamie Thomson) Ariel Stallings from Microspotting designs cool I am the empire t-shirts Video clip of Richard Sprague demoing Response Point and discussing how they used research to build voice grammars Sourceforge Community Awards will include Codeplex projects Soma discusses the Secure Development Lifecycle and how Microsoft uses it internally Golf Course powered by Virtual Earth 3D (via Mark Brown) Video clip of Tiger Electronics AMP robot Brian's Pick of the Week: James Devlin: Building a Real-world Poker bot with C++ (via Avi Pilosof) Dan's Pick of the Week: Walt Mossberg reviews GoGo: In-flight Wifi which will be coming to Virgin and American After the end, Dan, Brian, and Laura Foy unwind at TechEd  

One of the benefits of being in Orlando for TechEd is that after being at conference all day, you can relax and unwind by hitting an amusement park with our new BFF, Laura Foy, from the Channel 10 team. Here's a quick compilation of us unwinding after the last day at TechEd Developers Conference.

Ben Brauer and Richard Sprague from Microsoft Research show off Response Point, a new Microsoft technology that makes it easy for small businesses to setup a professional phone system using voice over IP, speech recognition (using the Speech Server voice recognition engine), inbox voice mail, and more, all at a fraction of the cost. As mentioned in the demo, you can actually call Richard's Response Point phone number and try it out yourself!

March Networks is a leading provider of video management,network and video platforms and video analytics solutions for loss prevention and risk management for retail solutions. In addition to that March Networks also provides business intelligence solution from data mining applications, forrisk and performance management to improve ROI. Suresh Sreedharan, ISV Architect Evangelist sites down with John Pysher, Product manager and Andy Grimes, Director of Engineering to talk about their implementation of the BI solution and their future plans for expansion of the solution.

Sanjay Jain, ISV Architect Evangelist, speaks with Jesper Kehlet, Co-owner and VP Business Development & Technology of Metaphor Software, to discuss his experience of adopting Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Platform to provide various solutions (Backpack 2008, FUNDamentals 2008, FUNDraiser 2008, SmartBoardAX) for Government, Education, Not For Profit, Distribution & Manufacturing industries.

Lisa Feigenbaum demos the new IDE enhancements for Visual Basic including contextual IntelliSense, keyword support, and XML literals which enable you to embed VB expressions in XML.

In this C9 Byte, Alex Turner walks through how the C# language has evolved between version 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 for working with data structures. If you don't know Alex, he's the guy that got Anders Hejlsberg to pay him $202 when he was an intern.