You asked. We deliver. Meet the developers behind Channel 9 (and 8, 10, Edge and MicrosoftPDC.com). Mike Samspon, Erik Porter, Duncan Mackenzie and Nathan Heskew are the devs who built C9 V4. Unlike the older versions of Channel 9, V4 is a completely new codebase. Gone are the days of stitching together half-baked technologies (though, they did scale and Bryn and I deserve some credit for that! :)). EvNet, which is the codebase that powers all of our channels, was written from the ground up. How

Kirk Evans talks with William Oellermann about the Managed Services Engine (MSE). MSE is a solution built by Microsoft's SOA Solutions Team that facilitates enterprise SOA through service virtualization. MSE provides the ability to support versioning, abstraction, management, routing, and runtime policy enforcement for services. Everything you see in the video is available through the free CodePlex version, available at http://codeplex.com/servicesengine . In this video, William demonstrates how

Kirk Evans interviews Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna from Microsoft Consulting Services about a new offering called Service Oriented Modeling (SOM). This demo blew me away as it clearly demonstrates the power of DSLTools and the possibilities of truly integrating requirements with the development process. In this video, Hatay will demonstrate how a business analyst can fill out an InfoPath form, how an architecture group transforms those requirements into a technology-agnostic process model, and how that

In this epsiode of Communicating, Kirk Evans takes a break from interviewing and films while Eric Troup talks with Abdi Modaressi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. Eric and Abdi discuss the role of IMS and some of the research that Microsoft has worked with AT&T around converged services and delivering content to multiple devices and screens.

Kirk Evans talks with Joe DeCarlo, Architect at Turner Broadcasting and a Microsoft Certified Architect . Joe recently sat on the other side of the MCA process, participating in a review board for potential candidates and provides a unique perspective on the MCA program. Joe provides his usual unique perspective on topics such as progressing from being a developer to architect, the types of experience you will need for the MCA review process, and how the MCA board doesn't focus on Microsoft technologies

Kirk Evans talks with Hongwei Yan at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta about what Turner is doing with WCF and WS-Security. Hongwei is an Architect who has been working with WCF for about the past 3 years and has built some very interesting solutions.

Kirk Evans talks with Brian O'Neil, Solutions Architect at Turner Broadcasting. In this episode, Brian talks about the challenges that the media industry faces with storage and metadata, migrating from tape to digital, and how the investment in SOA is starting to pay off.

Josh Holmes and John Mullinax sits down with the folks behind www.Bidtopia.com at Microsoft’s Detroit launch event for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 to talk about how they went from being the biggest seller on eBay to one of the biggest eBay competitors in less than 30 days. Also, hear real life stories of disaster recovery, “startup style”, after a tornado wipes out their primary warehouse and office space, and learn the origin of the origami boulder .

In this episode of geekSpeak , Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right. Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with

Here's a very practical geekSpeak that's loaded with tips on how to incorporate LINQ into existing architectures and applications. Our guest Jim Wooley has a longtime background with databases, coming out of the Access and Foxpro world. He shares his insights about how the advent of LINQ brings with it a new paradigm for working with data. This geekSpeak will get you thinking about data access in different ways - about a functional approach that's less about iterative manipulation - plus how this