Monday, March 29, 2010
CodeCast #75: Ken Levy interviews Zain Naboulsi, developer evangelist (DE) for Microsoft based in Houston. Zain discusses his background before joining Microsoft, his various responsibilities as a DE for his part of Texas and Louisiana, and his various online activities including taking over Sara Ford’s VS Tip of the Day blog posting. Also discussed is the exciting news of Zain and Sara Ford collaborating on an upcoming new sequel to Sara’s Visual Studio Tips book. Some useful tips on the Visual Studio IDE and cool new features in the VS 2010 IDE, extension manager, and VS Gallery are also included in this fun and educating episode.
Guest
· Zain Naboulsi on Twitter: http://twitter.com/zainnab
· Zain Naboulsi’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab (VS Tip of the Day series)
Links
· Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
· Sara Ford’s Blog
· Book: Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford
· Visual Studio Tips eBook (iPhone/iPod/iPad)
· Visual Studio Tips (O’Reilly) (Safari, PDF, eBook)
· Houston TechFest – October 9, 2010
Length: 47:42
Direct download: CodeCast_075.mp3 - Size: 44MB
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Friday, March 19, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the three primary news and announcement details from MIX10 – Windows Phone 7 Series developer story, Silverlight 4, and Internet Explorer 9 (HTML5 and CSS3).
Links
· MIX10 session videos
· IE 9 test drive
· Windows Phone 7 developer center
· Windows Phone 7 development blog
· Silverlight 4 tools
· @MSDN on Twitter
Length: 01:06:56
Direct download: CodeCast_074.mp3 - Size: 61MB
-- Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast (codecast@code-magazine.com) - CommentsCategories: MIX10, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Internet Explorer, IE 9
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Michael Hale, a program manager on the F# team at Microsoft. Michael discusses what’s new in F# for both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010, various scenarios for functional programming with F#, integration of F# with C# and VB, F# with Silverlight, and the benefits for .NET developers of adding F# to their skill set.
Links
· F# Developer Center – http://fsharp.net
Length: 38:22
Direct download: CodeCast_073.mp3 - Size: 35MB
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Friday, March 12, 2010
In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy chats with Adrian Collier, a program manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio platform team. Adrian discusses the powerful new WPF based customizable start page in Visual Studio 2010. The conversation includes an overview of the new start page architecture, a new template for creating customized start pages, and scenarios of how customized start pages will enhance Visual Studio. Included is details on how using the Visual Studio SDK can extend the power of what start pages can do, how start pages can be packaged as VSIX extensions and posted on the Visual Studio Gallery and then downloaded and installed by developers via the new Extension Manager in VS 2010. Visit the Visual Studio team blog for more details about customizing the VS 2010 start page.
Links
· Visual Studio Team Blog
Length: 40:18
Direct download: CodeCast_072.mp3 - Size: 37MB
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