Wednesday, July 27, 2011
CodeCast Episode 109: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with Beth Massi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy talks with Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion and manager for LightSwitch, Visual Studio based business applications, and Visual Basic developers. In this special episode, Beth discusses the official release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with the latest news and resources including availability, pricing, optionally deploying to Azure, extensibility model, and the growing ecosystem with vendors plus the Visual Studio Gallery.

Guest

·         Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi

Links

·         LightSwitch Developer Center - http://msdn.com/lightswitch

·         LightSwitch Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/lightswitch  

·         LightSwitch 2011 on Microsoft Store

Length: 32:56

Direct download: CodeCast_109.mp3 - Size: 30MB

Categories: LightSwitch, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Gallery, VSX

Thursday, December 17, 2009
CodeCast Episode 60: Visual Studio 2010 editor with Chris Granger

In this episode of CodeCast, KenLevy interviews Chris Granger, program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft, working on the new VS IDE editor (WPF based). Chris goes in-depth on the new VS 2010 editor including many of the cool features native to the editor as well as under-the-hood extensions architecture using the Visual Studio SDK. With the new managed editor API extensions and WPF/XAML based UI, a new generation of source code editing capabilities will evolve with VS 2010.

Links

·         MSDN Library - What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

·         Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio

·         Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com

·         Visual Studio Team Blog  - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio

·         VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor

·         Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010

·         VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx

·         VS 2010 editor samples on CodePlex - http://editorsamples.codeplex.com

Length: 31:39

Direct download: CodeCast_060.mp3 - Size: 30MB

Categories: Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio editor, Visual Studio SDK, VSX

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
CodeCast Episode 59: VS 2010 SDK and Extension Manager with Quan To

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To, senior program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft. This is a follow-up discussion enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK for creating free and product based extensions. Also discussed is the new Extension Manager in VS 2010 for browsing (via WPF UI) and installing free VS extensions hosted on visualstudiogallery.com.

Guests

·         Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto

Links

·         Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio

·         Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com

·         Visual Studio Team Blog  - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio

·         VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor

·         Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010

Length: 26:46

Direct download: CodeCast_059.mp3 - Size: 25MB

Categories: Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio SDK, Visual Studio Gallery, Extension Manager, VSX

Thursday, June 18, 2009
CodeCast Episode 27: Extensible Start Page in Visual Studio 2010 with Noah Coad

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Noah Coad who is a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team. Noah is working on bringing various VS IDE UI components into WPF for VS 2010, and discusses his efforts on the new Visual Studio 2010 IDE including the cool new customizable and extensible WPF/XAML based Start Page.

Guests

·         Noah Coad - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc, Twitter: http://twitter.com/noahcoad

Links

·         Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Start Page Customization

Length: 12:45

Direct download: CodeCast_027.mp3 - Size: 12MB

Categories: , XAML, WPF, VSX, Visual Studio

Thursday, May 21, 2009
CodeCast Episode 23: VS 2010 Extension Manager and Visual Studio Gallery

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To and Anthony Cangialosi of the Visual Studio Platform team at Microsoft. The discussion goes into new details about the Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2010 and the enhancements to the Visual Studio Gallery (http://visualstudiogallery.com) to allow hosting extensions online allowing them to be installed from within the VS IDE. Also discussed, enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio SDK for creating free and product based extensions.

Guests

·         Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto

·         Anthony Cangialosi – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/acangialosi, Twitter: http://twitter.com/acangialosi

Links

·         Visual Studio Gallery – http://visualstudiogallery.com

·         VSX Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam

·         VSX on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSX

Length: 34:49

Direct download: CodeCast_023.mp3 - Size: 32MB

Categories: Visual Studio Gallery, VSX, Visual Studio

Thursday, January 08, 2009
CodeCast Episode 9: 2008 Year in Review

Our special 2008 year in review episode with hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger, joined by special guest co-host Rick Strahl of West Wind Technologies.

Topics

·         Visual Studio (@ 2:37)

·         Languages (@ 6:28)

·         SQL Server (@ 10:15)

·         Windows (@ 12:57)

·         WPF/Silverlight (@ 18:10)

·         SOA/WCF (@ 24:56)

·         IIS/ASP.NET (@ 29:55)

·         VSX (@ 36:07)

·         Tablet/Touch/Surface (@ 40:20)

·         Mobile (@ 43:07)

·         Browsers (@ 51:14)

·         Social Networking/Media and Web 2.0 (@ 59:02)

·         The "one big thing" in 2008 discussion (@ 1:05:57)

·         Our 2009 new year's resolutions for business discussion (@ 1:08:24)

Links

·         CoDe Magazine – http://codemag.com

Length: 1:12:52

Direct download: CodeCast_009.mp3 - Size: 67MB

Categories: Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows, WPF, Silverlight, IIS, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, VSX, Surface, Tablet PC, NUI, iPhone, iPod, Windows Mobile, CODE Magazine

Thursday, November 27, 2008
CodeCast Episode 5: VSX, VSIP, Aggiorno, DBI-Tech Controls

This 5^th episode of CodeCast includes host Ken Levy with a new segment on news and gadgets, and three interviews all related to VSX and VSIP (Visual Studio Extensibility and Visual Studio Industry Partners). Interviews are with Microsoft and with two different Microsoft partners who are VSIP members. Missing from this show are co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short who where both at various conferences and other travel.

Interviews

·         Terry Clancy (@ 9:19) http://msdn.com/vsx, http://msdn.com/vsip,  http://visualstudiogallery.com/

·         Federico Zoufaly (@ 18:44): Aggiorno

·         Alan Sheed (@ 25:00): DBI-Technologies

News and Gadget links

·         Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

·         Live Search SDK, http://dev.live.com

·         Windows Live Agents 5.1

·         Microsoft .NET Services SDK

·         Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview

·         Microsoft Surface Data Sheet

·         Microsoft Store

·         Safari Books Online

·         Microsoft Downloads

·         Microsoft Download (Silverlight beta version)

·         Zune Client 3.1

·         Zune Pass

There is no exit music from a community band in this episode but we will include more in random future episodes as it becomes available to us. We are working on improvements to the audio recordings both in studio and with interviews. These interviews were all recording at PDC, and we have improved our recording techniques since then for interviews. We will try to keep each show at around 30 minutes each like this one. episode 7 we should be out of what we might consider CodeCast beta mode. J

Length: 30:27

Direct download: CodeCast_005.mp3 - Size: 28MB

Categories: VSX, VSIP, Azure, Surface, Microsoft Store, Safari, Zune