This Week on Channel 9, Brian Keller is joined by Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger to cover this week's news, including: - What's the deal with the new Windows ads with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld? (0:36 - 1:10) - Windows Movie Maker joins Windows Live, adds Soapbox/YouTube uploading via LiveSide (1:10 - 2:20) - Windows Live Photo Gallery to add facial recognition to tag people in photos via LiveSide (2:20 - 4:23) - New Zune Software update adds ability to purchase songs via FM tuner, and channels

.NET Reflector, by Lutz Roeder, must be one of the most useful tools I have when developing .NET code. Usually it is the first thing I install right after Visual Studio not even waiting until I need it because I know I will. So the big news is that Red Gate, makers of the Ants profiler and lots of other tools, are taking over from Lutz Roeder and will continue developing .NET Reflector. Interesting move and I hope this means a bright future for the .NET Reflector. Read more about this here . Enjoy!

It is available from the subscriptions download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx Get it while it is hot Enjoy!

Steve Lasker just announced that SQL Server Compact 3.5 service pack 1 is released, read his announcement here . They added support for the entity framework, great stuff. And another neat feature is native 64 bits support. No longer do you need to target X86 and use WoW [:0]. Great if you are using my SQL Server Compact Workflow Persistence Service . Enjoy!

Afgelopen jaar hebben we het eerste CodeCamp in Nederland georganiseerd en dat was een groot succes. De meeste deelnemers vroegen om meer, sommige zelfs om een CodeCamp per kwartaal of een heel weekend lang. Nou hebben we dat laatste nog niet gedaan maar we zijn wel aan de slag gegaan om een nieuw CodeCamp te organiseren. Als datum hebben we zaterdag 6 september gekozen. Gelukkig waren Microsoft en Class-a behulpzaam en kunnen we, net als vorig jaar, weer in het Microsoft Innovation Center in Barneveld

Marc Schweigert shows you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. To download the source code visit: http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/18/screencast-saving-virtual-earth-polygons-to-sql-server-2008.aspx

Marc Schweigert builds off of the concepts shown in his previous screencast and shows you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. To learn more about the GeoRSS utility library, visit: http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop/archive/2008/07/01/simple-georss-utility-library-released.aspx A big thanks to Eugenio Pace for letting me use it as part of my sample! To download the source code

I caught up with Amanda Silver to discuss new for 2008 features like LINQ, XML Literals, using LINQ to target LINQ for .NET Framework 2.0. Amanda shares her thoughts on the future of dynamic typing in Visual Basic, runtime changes in edit-and-continue, how to make changes in pseudo-run mode, the challenges in adding IntelliSense for dynamic typing, and improving native/Pinvoke calls for .NET developers. Amanda also reveals her toughest feature cut that the team had to make for the VB 2008 release

Jennifer Marsman completes the code refactoring by utilizing LINQ to retrieve data. She demonstrates using LINQ to query against objects, XML, typed datasets, and SQL.

Här fortsätter jag med min Screencast och visar hur jag kan använda XML som mappnings-struktur istället för de attribut som kan dekorera mina entitets-klasser.