Thursday, October 21, 2010
CodeCast Episode 93: Xamalot.com - Free XAML Resources for WPF and Silverlight

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger, Gary Short, and Ken Levy discuss the new Xamalot.com website created by Markus and EPS Software. Xamalot.com is a provider of free clipart and other XAML resources (and most art is also available in other formats, such as PNG or SVG). The first 15 minutes of this show includes news about Windows Phone 7 and pre-PDC event discussions.

Links

·         http://xamalot.com

·         http://twitter.com/xamalot

·         http://facebook.com/xamalot

·         Channel 9: TWC9 - ASP.NET Fix, Xamalot, MVC tools Embed PPT

·         PDC videos: http://player.microsoftpdc.com

Length: 47:44

Direct download: CodeCast_093.mp3 - Size: 44MB

Categories: Xamalot, Silverlight, WPF, PDC

Thursday, December 10, 2009
CodeCast Episode 57: Expression for Silverlight and WPF

In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss a short re-cap of the recent DevConnections and PDF conferences, and talk in depth about using Expression with Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight development, including the upcoming update to Expression for Silverlight 4.

Links

·         Microsoft Expression – http://microsoft.com/expression

·         Microsoft PDC videos online -  http://microsoftpdc.com/videos

Length: 54:26

Direct download: CodeCast_057.mp3 - Size: 50MB

Categories: Expression, Silverlight, WPF, Visual Studio, PDC 2009, DevConnections 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009
CodeCast Episode 47: WPF and Silverlight with Walt Ritscher

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Walt Ritscher discussing WPF, Silverlight, Expression Blend, Surface, and other related topics.

Guest

·         Walt Ritscher - Blog: http://blog.waltritscher.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/WaltRitscher

Links

·         Shazzam - http://shazzam-tool.com

·         Programming WPF

·         Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .Net 3.5

·         Pro WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 3.0

·         Expression Blend

·         Microsoft WPF and Windows Forms Site

Length: 55:17

Direct download: CodeCast_047.mp3 - Size: 51MB

Categories: WPF, Silverlight, Expression, Surface

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, April 30, 2009
CodeCast Episode 19: Windows Mobile Dev Community with Constanze Roman

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss event news (including DevTeach), tech news (Oracle/Sun merger), and an in-depth chat about WPF and Silverlight. The interview for this show includes Ken Levy chatting with Constanze Roman, community PM for the Windows Mobile DevX team, discussing content and community for Windows Mobile developers.

Topics

·         Constance Roman (@ 35:18) – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/croman, Twitter: http://twitter.com/stanzikratel

Links

·         Windows Mobile Developer Portal – http://developer.windowsmobile.com

·         Windows Mobile Dev Center – http://msdn.com/windowsmobile

·         Windows Mobile Dev Team on Twitter: http://twitter.com/wmdev

·         DevTeach – http://devteach.com (June 8-12, Vancouver CA)

Length: 49:45

Direct download: CodeCast_019.mp3 - Size: 46MB

Categories: Windows Mobile, WPF, Silverlight

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, December 18, 2008
CodeCast Episode 7: Twitter, F#, WPF, Surface

In episode 7, co-hosts Markus Egger and Gary Short join Ken Levy discussion news, programming languages increasing in usage such as F#, and using Twitter within a business environment. This episode interview iclues Markus Egger interviewing Tim Huckaby from VS DevConnections 2008 discussing WPF and the Microsoft Surface.

Interview

·         Tim Huckaby (@ 29:27): Tim Huckaby

News and gadget links

·         F# - http://msdn.com/fsharp

·         Twitter

Book Links

• Foundations of F# on Amazon.com

Length: 39:59

Direct download: CodeCast_007.mp3 - Size: 37MB

Categories: F#, WPF, Surface, Twitter, DevConnections 2008, DevConnections