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This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by guest host Scott Hanselman to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [watch] Silverlight Firestarter online event - See Link Removed [watch] P&P - Prism 4.0 Now Available (Link Removed | What's new) [watch] Facebook - Facebook Link Removed...

The following link will only work for browsers that support HTML5 and Flash. Currently, the only browser not in beta that supports this is Google Chrome. The test will not work with some browsers. What is HTML5? Hypertext Markup Language 5 is the next version of the HTML (web standard). Some...

Chris Sells takes us on a small tour (two offices and a few hallways) in one of the Data Framework and Modeling Group's buildings (interesting - the same building the C9 team launched C9 from 6+ years ago: Building 18). The goal here is to get a sense of what's new in Entity Framework 4 and...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including: Gil Fink - Using the Link Removed, via Alvin Ashcraft ( Watch ) Mike Swanson - Mix Online - Link Removed ( Watch ) Andy Beaulieu - Link Removeds and see Ian Walker's post for more tips ( Watch ) Steve Marx...

This week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Clint to discuss the week's top developer news, including: Scott Hanselman - NuPack Package Management for .NET used to easily add and update libraries and packages (Watch) Bil Sismer - Amusing take on Package Management (Watch) James Senior - WebCamps...

In this episode of Web Camps TV, James is joined by Erik Porter, PM on the ASP.NET team. Erik is responsible for the Helpers that go into the WebMatrix tool. You can think of Helpers as shortcuts used to build apps more quickly, and these shortcuts are broken into two different types: UI Helpers...

You probably already know that the final version of Windows Phone Developer Tools wasshipped today! In celebration, we decided to walk through the corridors of Studio F (where most of the devs, PMs, and testers are), and talk with a few of the people who are behind this great release of Windows...

Link RemovedWelcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. Joining us once again is the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership between the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft...

Link RemovedThis week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: Windows Phone Blog - Terry Myerson - Windows Phone 7 RTM'd Dave Anson - Link Removed assembly enables WPF-style layout transformations in WP7 Indy from Oz - Windows Phone 7 Listbox...

how would i draw a semi-transparent rectangle with code for use with Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Taskbar.TaskbarManager.Instance.SetOverlayIcon? thanks

For all of you .NET developers out there be prepared to be absolutely stunned! This is an amazing new Microsoft technology to be in Beta soon. This will change the way us developers interact with different data sources and design applications. This is the fastest RAD (Rapid Application...

1) Develop a simple forms application( add one button and implement its button click handler with the following code) 2) System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\\Test\\Example.txt"); 3) Create the text file in the above specified path. 4) Now run the windows form application and invoke the button...

Using the GetRandomRgn function in windows does not work on Windows 7. The forms borders stay visible. The following code on XP clears the entire window including borders and enables you to draw on the entire window area. The code on Windows 7 clears only the client area and enables you to...

Issue with Windows 7 32/64 bit and Windows 2008 R2 environments Hi Friends, I am facing issue when I am trying of open OSK.EXE (On-Screen Keyboard) through ShellExecute() in both Windows 7 32/64 bit and Windows 2008 R2 environments. OSK is not getting popped up after executing the command. My...

Make sure you physically disconnect the internet when rebooting after an update!!: A friend of mine was doing some work in the Windows 7 OS and came across something unexpected... QUOTE Basically after digging through the coding & cleaning it up, i found another phone home, but this one only...

SOFTWARE BEHEMOTH Microsoft has lifted the kimono on a prototype of an experimental programming language for creating interactive infographics, data visualizations and computational art. Dubbed "Vedea" after a river in Romania, the language has come out of the Volish research labs in Cambridge...

Hi, I have this code: // AllocTest.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. // #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { if ( ! SetProcessWorkingSetSize( GetCurrentProcess(), 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1.2, 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1.2 ) ) {...

I am trying to create a Device Stage for my cell phone that is not supported. I only want basic features but would love free space and battery information if possible. I have followed tutorials and everything I can find from Microsoft as well as an old tutorial I found online but I am unable to...

It's frustrating to me that clicking on a taskbar item does exactly the same thing as hovering over it for a second. I argue that clicking should be more functional. Does anybody know how to code a little program that will open all windows of a particular program when clicking on that...

I'm using Visual Basic Express and trying to store code, templates etc on a folder on Windows Home Server. It appears that a "//server/...." URL is 'not trusted' by vb.net. I don't seem to be able to access any of the quoted .NET Access/Security tools from Windows 7 beta. Any ideas?