At this time (version 2 Beta 1), in the life of Silverlight there is no 64-bit support. I'm not certain if or when 64-bit support will appear, but I don't think Vista 64-bit users should go without Silverlight. And the good news is they don't have to. In most cases, running Silverlight applic…
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Reading the release notes for Dojo 1.0, I found a line item that said "dojox.gfx now includes Silverlight support". For those in the know this was actually added back in v0.9, but it was a new to me and I've been wanting to give it a test drive since I read about it. From the Dojo docs …
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Robby Ingebretsen stopped by on Halloween last week to not only discuss the holiday of tricks and treats but also the interesting story behind designers, developers and integrators. Robby has done a lot of thinking and work in this space, especially since joining Identity Mine where…
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The EvNet dev team has updated the Channel 9 beta and you can tell they've put in a lot of work and they're excited about their work. Duncan's post about the beta even includes a video which involves a homage to HALO 3 using 9 guys. Unfortunately here at the DevCamp the bandwidth is a bi…
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Let this day, or more accurately late last night, be known as the day of inline streaming media freedom for Channel 9. No longer is the streaming media restricted to a Windows and IE combination. Now if you open up a video page in Firefox, you are not restricted to the little butto…
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I just posted a video on Channel 9 of my interview with Mike Sampson, the tallest member of the EvNet dev team. Other than collecting LEGOs and adding them to his desk collection, he also spends a lot of time in the media pipeline for the EvNet sites which include Channel 8, 9 and 10 and MIX…
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I had the opportunity to interview one of the interesting people I met at the SilverlightDevCamp in San Francisco this weekend (full DevCamp recap here). Tyler Ballance works for Slide.com, the group behind popular Facebook Apps like FunWall and Top Friends. He knows a lot about Mono, Pyth…
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Rory and I filmed a very serious video covering my two and a half years on the Channel 9 team. We delve into such topics as wakeboards, triceratops and great-grand bosses. The door in which I use to exit is not just a regular door. First its metaphorical, second its a revol…
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A few days ago Duncan added support for embedding Soapbox videos into a post in the Channel 9 forums using this simple BBCode style tag: [soapbox video="(soapbox video id)"] Very nice and simple. And as he mentions in his next post, I bugged him about adding a tag for Silverlight Streaming App…
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Today I posted two screencasts, created by Jaime Rodriguez, on Channel 9. Its a short two part series which provides an overview of "Cider", the WPF Designer surface, included in the recently launched Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. In the first video, I was really impressed with the contro…
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In a recent Channel 9 video, Charles interviews Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin about Flotzam. Take a spoonful of Twitter, add some Flickr and a dash of Facebook, optionally flavoring to you own taste with custom RSS support and you have an application that doubles as a screensaver flowing…
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Part of taking on this new role has involved a lot of research. I'm consuming large amounts of inbound data from multiple blogs and search feeds, primarily focused on Silverlight. I'm happy to see there is a lot of talk about Silverlight and RIAs in general, as well as plenty of people w…
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Official Job Listing on the career site Well its not exactly my old job, Duncan has taken over the dev lead role (Congrats to Duncan), but it does include a lot of the client and UI work I was handling. I like the skill set description they used: We are looking for someone who lives and breat…
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Two years ago on this very date of June 20th, I started my first day here at Microsoft. It was an exciting day, it was just new employee orientation, but it was my first job in a technical company with more than 20 employees. I was hired on to become the newest web developer on the coole…
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Enjoying the featured video seat today on Channel 9, is an interview with Brian Beckman on simulating realistic physics in a real-time situation. Most likely if you are using physics like this it would be for a video game, although an OS that used real-time physics would be very interes…
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Earlier this year, I made a conscious effort to give my blog an overall theme to base my posts on. The concept of the "Devigner" is what I was going to go after, but due to the lack posts about this concept, its obvious that didn't work out. I still believe the idea is interesting, …
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There is something really nice about the combination of KEXP, Cruise Control and the late night. I normally listen to music of my own, but when I'm ready for a surprise I listen to KEXP almost exclusively. They are a unique station with music you won't find on most stations. And regularl…
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Mike Harsh pointed out I didn't share the source for the HALO themed player for Scott Guthrie's appearance in Red vs Blue. Extremely embarrassed and questioning my ability to be a "sample guy", I've posted the source. Are you happy now? I'm feeling better about it already.…
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Rory just posted the first video from Microsoft Research's TechFest on Channel 9. This is very cool, while toiling away on the Ch9 beta I can listen to what's going on at the TechFest. Interesting data visualization application in this video (I want FastDash). Looking forward …
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"Can you make a HALO themed player for the next Red vs. Blue video? It has Scott Guthrie in it and he talks about ASP.Net to the Red team." "Scott Guthrie in Red vs. Blue? Nice. Sure, I don't have that much time but I can put something together." /me grabs code from SleekVideoPlaye…
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I don't plan on filling my blog with whiteboard art, but this one is timely and I fill the need to promote the latest video on Channel 9.
We were playing in the lounge. Playing until someone got hurt...…
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So while waiting for this WPF/E holiday, I had the opportunity, to use and learn about WPF/E. This sample of shown to the left is the current WPF/E media player for Channel 9. So I started down the route of creating the best media player ever but once I got beyond som…
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9 am this morning, I eagerly updated the Channel 9 site with all of the WPF/E goods we had gathered for the CTP. We've got two video interviews conducted by Ernie Booth and Laurence "Great time to start at Microsoft" Moroney, one with Joe Stegman covering an overview of what "WPF/E" is and how…
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Duncan wrote an article entitled And Along Came 10...* that talks about at a high-level how we started the codebase behind on10.net and the next version of Channel 9 some of the architectural decisions behind the scenes. This project, which has encompassed this whole year, has been a very…
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This is more a note to myself as most of those who care have already seen, but last Thursday we posted preview screenshots for the new look of Channel 9. A major portion of the work was devoted to a debate we had going on between Flat vs. Threaded view of forums. And now to finish…
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Sampy just posted the video he took of our team while we were posting the last update to 10. We were a bit giddy at getting this update at the door and I think that comes through in the video :)…
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Last week we updated the Microsoft 10 site. Jeff talks about it here, mainly covering the fact that the code update was written to prepare for the conversion of Channel 9 and reach the goal of one code base running on multiple sites. We've simplified the architecture down to four major c…
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Well this is fun, just running around planting Oxite blogs. David Shadle (designer of the famous Channel 9 guy) who runs next.design.now has ben patiently waiting for me to provide a better setup for him for a while. Previous to this update I was actually hand-editing his …
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I just noticed that the new documentation for developing Sidebar gadgets on Windows Vista RC1 is up and live on MSDN - Object Model Reference Dev Overview. I'm looking forward to working on some gadgets for Channel 9 and 10. A mini application using simple languages like JavaScript and H…
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ComingZune.com is interesting site refering to Zune which is something new from Microsoft. The Niners seemed a bit turned off by the site in this thread. I don't think its really that bad, and I dig the music by Regina Spektor and I don't think it was trying to hard to …
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An artifact found on Jesse's whiteboard during the late nights of work on the 10 update.This is fun stuff and an idea I plan to run with a bit more :)…
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Sabot on Channel9 asked the question Why doesn't the USA get football? Its fun to read the variety of different posts on why football/soccer is not very popular here in the US. Answers ranging from "why should we?" and "its boring" to "yes, I do get …
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A tech preview of Microsoft Robotics Studio was released this week, you can find an accompying Channel 9 video here. This is very exciting and a lot of my co-workers have acquired robot-building fever, but one of my favorite releases was the Microsoft Robotic Finger found on the Robotics Dev C…
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This was already announced on Channel 9, but I'm happy to announce the future arrival of Sampy on our team! Sampy has been a member of Channel 9 since near the beginning (elected as a moderator, even) and will be coming from the VB team. Here's him retelling the story of rec…
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The "In the Office" show has recently appeared on Channel 9 which is described as:This series highlights the new capabilities of Office 2007 for developers. Each week you can expect a short, high-impact Screencast that walks you through a cool new topic and shows how to do it from a develo…
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We've added a new section to the playground called Virtual Labs Express. The description from the page reads:These are 30-minute hands-on overviews of some of your favorite Microsoft products and developer tools. Try them out online now - no need to download full trial versions or ded…
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This is very cool. emkaydubu, a member of the 10 community who's been working on entries for the Custom PC contest asked for a copy of the 10 logo in eps format to work with for creating new designs. I passed it along and in return I get this nice email including new icons for 1…
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I watched this video straight through, full command of my attention. On Channel 9, Micheal Wallent tells the history of WPF and provides interesting information on its current incarnation and where its heading. I had actually heard a little of this at MIX06 during the Mix Chat at the&nbs…
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