This Week on Channel 9: Feb 8, 2008 Episode

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This is Episode #2 of*This Week on Channel 9*a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more.

 

This week we cover:

 

0. Changes to the show based on feedback, our name courtesy of Ian and ChadK, and*Benny Hill style set adjustments including more light!*(0 - 2:45)

1.*Microsoft and Yahoo:*What could it mean for developers*and Brian Shapiro's Coffeehouse thread (2:45 - 7:59)

2.* Windows Server 2008 Launches, Alex Hinrichs, Windows Server Project Manager talks about*Server Core, his favorite feature (7:59 - 9:32)

3. Under-Reported Windows Vista SP1 features for developers via Tim Sneath*including new kernel, and 3.0 SP1 red-bits (9:32 - 12:30)

4. Charles Torre's Lang.NET interview with Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, and Mads Torgerson*including Gilad's soundbyte on whether C++ is dead, and discussion of people loving to hate C++ (12:30 - 14:56)

5. Free Tool for LINQ: LINQPad by Joseph Albahari (14:56 - 15:40)

6. Guitar Matey: Building a 3D XNA Game by Dan Waters (video)found via Coding4Fun (15:40 -16:35)

7. CodeProject: Windows Forms Wizard Control with Visual Studio Designer support by Manish Kumar, found via Jason Haley's blog*(15:40 - 17:51)

8. Brian's Pick of the Week: MySpace adds WCF and Silverlight support for developers, via Michael Scherotter*(17:51 - 19:02)

9.* Dan's Pick of the Week: Screen-scraping function that converts HTML tables from a Web site into a DataSet, by Mark Smith*(19:02 - 20:30)

10. Wrapup, Superbowl predictions from last week, college insults, and a clip on Alex Hinrich's getting banana cake and a nice pen.

 

 

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