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The Concurrency Runtime: Fine Grained Parallelism for C++ from Channel 9 October 08, 2008
We've spent a fair amount of time on Channel 9 discussing concurrency and parallelism with various people. In particular, the folks who are writing the Parallel Computing Platform. Everything we've talked about up to this point has been targeted at .NET developers. After watching all the videos on T...
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Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 1 from Channel 9 October 09, 2008
Bill Hill - the man, the myth, the legend is back on Channel 9! Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger and I got a chance to catch up with Bill on his latest work... While many people know Bill from his work on True Type and his passion for improving screen readability, Bill is now working on improving...
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Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design from Channel 9 October 06, 2008
This is the second year I've been lucky enough to take part in the cross-platform software engineering conference JAOO. Like last year, I was very fortunate to get to sit down with a few key players in the programming languages design field and watch several technical presentations that span the i...
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WPF Effects Library Demo from Channel 9 October 04, 2008
After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and Transitions. Cue the music... Downl...
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WPF Effects Library Demo from Channel 9 October 04, 2008
After shooting the WPF Effects Library interview with David Teitlebaum and realizing we didn't show all of the effects and any of the transitions, we put together this short video. Very little dialogue here to distract from the beauty of the Effects and Transitions. Cue the music... Downl...
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WPF Effects Library from Channel 9 October 04, 2008
WPF 3.5 SP1 offers killer graphic capabilities that were demonstrated in the last video with David Teitlebaum. In this video, David has dropped by to help us announce the WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library. The library includes 23 Effects and 26 Transitions and is available with source code at...
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Manual Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 October 02, 2008
Naysawn Naderi takes us through manual testing in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Naysawn shows off how the manual testing capabilities allow not only for better authoring and execution of manual tests, but can also be a tool to help automate portions of manual tests as well. Finally, Naysawn shows ...
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Better Software Quality with Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 October 02, 2008
I sat down with James Whittaker, software testing pundit and principal architect for Visual Studio Team System's testing capabilities, to learn more about the software quality tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. The last time we saw James he wasn't allowed to say anything about this part...
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PDC 2008 is coming… and I can’t wait! from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 is hitting the Los Angeles scene late October (27-30) and we got our best ad-agency guys and gals together to figure out how best to get the word out. Why? Well, PDC is the place where Developers and Architects can network with their peers, get t...
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A first look at Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2010 from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
Visual Studio Team System Web Access has become an increasingly popular way for people to access Team Foundation Server. In this interview we meet Hakan Eskici who demonstrates some of the upcoming features his team is working on for Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2010. This "Humanized Screen...
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Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup and Administration from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
Team Foundation Server 2010 will be getting some major overhauls to the setup and administration experience. In this interview, Ed Holloway, senior program manager for Team Foundation Server, talks about the changes his team is making. By the end of this interview, Ed will have completely deployed a...
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Brian Harry: Team Foundation Server 2010 from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
Brian Harry, technical fellow at Microsoft, has pretty much become synonymous with Team Foundation Server. He not only leads the Team Foundation Server team in Raleigh, North Carolina, he also has the most widely read blog about what's going on with Team Foundation Server. But even Brian hasn't ...
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Update on Team Foundation Server Migration and Synchronization from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
Unlike the other videos in today's series this one doesn't focus specifically on Team Foundation Server 2010. But since I was "in the neighborhood" I dropped by Doug Neumann's office to catch up on the latest tools and samples available for people wishing to migrate to or synchronize with Team Foun...
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An early look at Team Foundation Build 2010 with Jim Lamb from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
In addition to being one of the nicest guys I know, Jim Lamb also knows a thing or two about build automation. Jim is the program manager responsible for the Team Build capability of Team Foundation Server. Team Build was one of the biggest areas of improvement for Team Foundation Server 2008, but ...
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Branching and Merging Visualization with Team Foundation Server 2010 from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
Is your source control branching out of control? How much time have you wasted trying to discover which branches your code changes have been merged into? What are the code-level differences between your main, test, and production branches? Branch visualizations to the rescue! Matthew Mitrik, program...
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Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management with Mario Rodriguez from Channel 9 October 03, 2008
A single Team Foundation Server 2008 instance can support thousands of developers working on hundreds of projects. But what if you need even more than that? How do you drive increased uptime and availability of your server to keep your developers productive? Team Foundation Server can already scale...
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Achieving Business Alignment with Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 October 01, 2008
"Business Alignment" is one of the key themes for the upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2010 release. But what does that mean, exactly? We sat down with Lori Lamkin, product unit manager for Team Foundation Server, and Stephanie Saad, group program manager, to find out. In this interview Lori and S...
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Agile Planning Templates in Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 October 01, 2008
Stephanie Saad shows us a quick demonstration of how Visual Studio Team System 2010 will enable teams to be more agile. In this demonstration she shows the new Agile planning worksheet for Excel which can be used to easily balance resources, manage your backlog, and generate ad hoc reports....
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Enterprise Project Management with Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 October 01, 2008
Ameya Bhatawdekar, a program manager for Team Foundation Server, took a few minutes to take us through the end-to-end storyboards for how Team Foundation Server 2010 will integrate with Microsoft Project Server to enable true enterprise-wide collaboration. Note that this is not a demo of working sof...
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Get Hired @ Microsoft, Episode 2: Partner with your Recruiter from Channel 9 October 01, 2008
After sending us your killer resume, a recruiter contacts you about a job at Microsoft. What’s next? In part two of “Get Hired at Microsoft,” Staffing Consultant Theresa de la Osa and Server & Tools Program Manager (and new employee) Tharika Chandrasekhar share what to expect, how to prepare...
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IE 8: Compatibility and Versioning from Channel 9 October 02, 2008
As software evolves so to does the need for the newer software to remain compatible with older versions. In the case of IE the notion of backwards compatibility is quite daunting and of supreme importance to the IE team. Consider the millions of web pages that were written to run successfully in old...
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Norman Guadagno: Announcing Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 September 29, 2008
Norman Guadagno, the Director of Product Management for Visual Studio Team System shares the key enhancements coming in the next version of Visual Studio, officially named Visual Studio 2010. In this video, you'll hear Norman discuss new features in Team Architect including new visual designers a...
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Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9! from Channel 9 September 29, 2008
The week of September 29th is Visual Studio Team System 2010 week on Channel 9! We'll have 20 videos going live this week featuring interviews with the Visual Studio Team System product team including several screencast demonstrations of the latest bits. Stay tuned to http://channel9.msdn.com/Visua...
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WCF and AIF in Dynamics 2009: Chatting with Michael Merz from Channel 9 September 29, 2008
In this video I’m back on the Advanta campus chatting with Michael Merz, Program Manager for Application Integration Framework (AIF) on the Dynamics AX team. AIF is a standards-based framework that allows you to publish and consume web services. It’s used primarily in integration scenarios whe...
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"Top-down" design with Visual Studio Team System 2010 from Channel 9 September 30, 2008
"Top-down" design is an approach that the Visual Studio Architect team is enabling with their upcoming release, Visual Studio Team System 2010. In this "humanized screencast" we asked Mark Groves, senior program manager, to show us a demonstration of the new UML designers the team is building and h...
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"Bottom-up" Design with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architect from Channel 9 September 30, 2008
Suhail Dutta, a program manager on the Visual Studio Team System Architect team, gives us a demonstration of the "bottom-up" design approach which will be possible with the Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architect product. With "bottom-up" design, you can quickly reverse engineer an existing code b...
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Cameron Skinner: Visual Studio Team System 2010 - Architecture from Channel 9 September 30, 2008
Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager, gives us an overview of the new architecture tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Cameron tells us what types of designers his team is building, about the decision to support UML, and how this relates to "Oslo" and their modeling strategy....
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3D View Controls for WPF from Channel 9 September 27, 2008
3D functionality is becoming a more popular component in UI technologies and has been greatly improved in WPF 3.5 SP1. Upon hearing this some people (Niners even) are known to question "what is it good for?" My first answer is that the British Turning Pages application just wouldn't be the same w...
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Get Hired @ Microsoft, Episode 1: Write a Killer Resume from Channel 9 September 24, 2008
Step 1 for landing a job at Microsoft? Send us your resume! Lisa Olson - Microsoft Staffing Consultant, JobsBlogger, and Aggie computer science grad – shows you how to apply for your dream job and shares 10 simple resume tips to grab a Microsoft recruiter’s attention. Hint: Don’t just...
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Planet Technologies – Award Winning Systems Integrator from Channel 9 September 24, 2008
Planet Technologies, an international IT consulting and services company, has been awarded the Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year for 2008, the fourth straight year they have received this. How do they do it? As a company with a 100% focus on the deployment, architecture and integration of ...
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A peek inside the p&p Team Room from Channel 9 September 24, 2008
You have heard about the facility at p&p and how it’s built for agile teams. Now get a view inside one of the team rooms at p&p. In this video, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy and Ade Miller gives you a walkthrough a team room and shows off the various features of it such as writable walls, configurable work ...
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Countdown to PDC2008: Extending the Data Platform to the Cloud from Channel 9 September 22, 2008
Dave Campbell, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and SQL Server guru, talks about what his group has been working on and what they will be unveiling at the PDC. Dave is giving a session on data-driven applications that go from the device to the cloud, and the all important reduction in provisioning frict...
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CoroWare Technologies: Mobile Robotics Integrator from Channel 9 September 18, 2008
CoroWare Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of CoroWare, Inc. (CROE.OB), is a systems and mobile robotics integrator. They’ve recently been awarded Microsoft Certified Gold Partner status. CoroWare has made their mark on Microsoft platforms through developing software and solutions for mo...
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WPF Pixel Shader Parts from Channel 9 September 19, 2008
Nikola Mihaylov came by the studio to explain what a WPF Pixel Shader really is and the code involved and making one. He has a great post on his blog explaining how to get started with Pixel Shaders along with a custom VS project template to make it even easier. In his demonstration Nikola shows ...
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ESRI: Green Computing from Channel 9 September 16, 2008
ESRI, a Global ISV partner, is pushing the envelope on technology adoption and environmental issues. In this interview, I talk with Senior Product Managers Rob Elkins and John Baleja about technology advancements, development needs and what the Microsoft partnership means to ESRI. Through...
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