interviews

Jeff Wilcox is a developer on the Silverlight team. He spends a lot of his time (~80%) coding in C++. Strange? Of course not... Silverlight is a portable managed runtime and C++ (C with classes in this case) is what enables Silverlight portability. Of course, Jeff also spends a significant...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In an unprescedented move, Captain James Kirk has fired his respected Chief Engineer 'Scotty' for making, what he called, “a backwards and technologically inferior device.” The device in question that Kirk was referring to was the flip open communicator that he and away team members use to...

NOTE: The main title should have read: ...and The World, .... had a minor brain cramp on that. I encourage any and all who are interested to check out this man's website. I heard a radio interview with him on 8-4-2010 and even though he's now 87 years in maturity, he is extremely lucid and...