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I had a chance to spend a few minutes with some of the Kinect team's key members. Most of what they are working on is under lock and key, but it was nice to chat with them for a little bit and get a little insight into the Kinect. Link Removed Link Removed

We've started a new Show on Channel 9 and it's the result of a conversation I had with Erik Meijer just after the Link Removed Erik told me that he wanted to go around the company and meet everyday devs—the folks who first and foremost spend their time at work designing and writing code. The...

Ralf Herbrich is the man behind the TrueSkill ranking system used in Halo and elsewhere. He is also the director of Fuse Labs in the UK and stops by our studio to talk about how TrueSkill was invented and where it's going in the future. Link Removed Link Removed

Scott is in Redmond this week and talks to Jeff Derstadt, the Lead Developer on Entity Framework Code First (or, as Scott says, EF Magic Unicorn). What's the deal with this new feature in Entity Framework? What about the bad rap that EF got back in the day? What's new in EF4 and how does EF Code...

This Week on Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Clint Rutkas to discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:35] Somasegar: Link Removed including VS 2010 Service Pack 1, TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack, Load Test Feature Pack, and LightSwitch Beta 2 [01:01] Jason...

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The world's smallest man Khagendra Thapa Magar has had a run in with police in Australia, who wanted to know why he was not travelling in a child's booster seat. At just 67cm high and weighing 5kg, Khagendra is around the size of a six-month-old baby. While on a trip to Oz to raise...

Well, it's been almost 13 years since we have last seen Duke Nukem but he is finally hitting store shelves on May 3rd. I have a chat with Gearbox co-founder Brian Martel about what took so long, the technology behind the game and what we have to look forward to. Link Removed Link Removed

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: [00:26] Channel 9 - Voting for the Niney Awards is now open, so vote for This Week on Channel 9! [02:20] MIX11 - Voting for MIX11 sessions closes at 12PM Midnight PST on Feb 4, 2011 so Link Removed [02:57]...

Ever wonder what goes into making Silverlight? This week on Silverlight TV, we go behind the scenes with some folks who are responsible for testing and getting the Silverlight bits out to the public. Andy Rivas, Program Manager on Silverlight, shares what he does and how the bits get "baked" and...

Coming later this year.. In this video, one of the devs announces a "special" feature exclusive to PS3. Quick updates via Steam integration AND If you purchase it on PS3, you get a free copy for Steam on PC. Portal 2 will be available on PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Just be back from TechEd Europe, where I had a couple good C++ Sessions in my Track. One thing people frequently asked us is what is Microsoft's Commitment to native C++ Developers? So I decided for to make a short interview with Ale Contenti Principal Development Manager in the C++ Team. Ale...

Link Removedfrom The Office Team and host of Link Removed and Link Removed sits down with Michael Affronti, the creator of The Outlook Social Connector. He talks about the development process, how it came to be and where it's going. Link Removed Link Removed

The Channel 9 team will be broadcasting live, unscripted and 100% interactive from the Microsoft Redmond Campus for Link Removed. Join us immediately following the keynote on Thursday, October 28th (at approx. 11AM Pacific Standard Time) and again on Friday (from 9:00AM PST) for two full days...

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...

Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a film starring Cameron Diaz. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship,a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. In her...

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...

Join Link Removed as he stops by Link Removed office to chat about NuPack - the new open source packaging technology for ASP.NET developers. In this interview James gets an exclusive look at the new way to quickly get features added into your web applications. Phil demos and discusses the...

Several times each year Microsoft's board of directors get together and talk, and several times per year I wonder what they actually do, what they talk about, and how they operate. I got a chance to sit down with board memberLink Removed to talk about these things as well as his background as a...