From: Channel 9 on Thu, Feb 10 2011 12:14 PM

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10. One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint’s t-shirt cannon project you may have read about. I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a network/IP...

From: Channel 9 on Tue, Feb 08 2011 4:46 PM

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with @anyware and @ritzy each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is a mix of thi...

From: Channel 9 on Fri, Feb 04 2011 10:36 PM

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 vote for sessions now [02...

From: Channel 9 on Thu, Feb 03 2011 1:50 PM

Sho is an interactive environment for data analysis and scientific computing that lets you seamlessly connect scripts (in IronPython) with compiled code (in .NET) to enable fast and flexible prototyping. The environment includes powerful and efficient libraries for linear algebra as well as data ...

From: Channel 9 on Wed, Feb 02 2011 1:50 PM

TPL Dataflow (TDF), System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow, builds upon the foundational layer for asynchronous and concurrent programming using Tasks provided in TPL in .NET 4. TDF is a complementary set of primitives to those delivered in TPL in .NET 4, addressing additional scenarios beyond those di...

From: Channel 9 on Thu, Jan 20 2011 2:55 PM

Dr. Ralf Lämmel returns for an exploration of folds, aka bananas. This is lecture 5 in his C9 Lecture series covering advanced functional programming topics. Welcome back, Ralf! We’re so happy to have you here!Why bananas, Ralf?Banana is functional programming slang for "fold"—an application of ...

From: Channel 9 on Wed, Jan 19 2011 9:05 PM

In this episode of Microsoft Campus Tours we take you behind the scenes of Channel 9. Check out our recording studio in building 20 and the Channel 9 office in building 24. Is this how you imagined it?

From: Channel 9 on Wed, Jan 12 2011 1:21 PM

We met James Browning, the CEO of Executive Caddie, at a Windows Phone 7 Firestarter event last Fall. James was extremely impressed by the features and potential of Windows Phone 7, and set off on moving his successful iPhone application to the new platform. Four months later, Executive Caddie h...

From: Channel 9 on Tue, Jan 11 2011 4:05 PM

Backstage at CES 2011 I bumped into some friends from The Office Blog. Jessica Reading gives us some insight into what we have to look forward to in 2011 and we meet a One Note wiz. Please excuse my audio on this one. I had a lav microphone clipped to my shirt and for some reason it wasn’t turned...

From: Channel 9 on Tue, Jan 11 2011 1:32 PM

David Ragones, Director of Marketing at NVIDIA, took Ben through their booth to show all of the amazing things that you can do with NVIDIA’s new GPU lineup while at CES. Not only did he show Ben the 3D video wall that was playing 500 Windows-only 3D games, but he also poured him a cold one off o...

From: Channel 9 on Sat, Jan 08 2011 5:40 AM

Ben the PC Guy walked us through some of the coolest PC’s in the Microsoft booth. There are so many to choose from with such different features, from high end laptops built for gaming or video editing to the incredible cut lines of the Samsung 9 Series to the futuristic dual-screened Acer ICONIA...

From: Channel 9 on Wed, Dec 22 2010 12:32 PM

The IE9 team have put together two HTML5 sites. The first is called Santa’s Workshop, a site that lets the speed of your browser define how many elves can help pack Santa's bag, and HTML5 Blizzard, which shows you how many snowflakes can be animated at 60FPS. The site uses CSS3, HTML5 canva...

From: Channel 9 on Wed, Dec 15 2010 5:11 PM

Larry Larsen and Microsoft Research General Manager Kevin Schofield take a tour of Building 99. In this video, the second of three parts, Michel Pahud walks us through some of his touch computing research projects.

From: Channel 9 on Mon, Dec 13 2010 3:12 PM

Laura and Paul are more excited than ever to disagree on the top stories from Microsoft this week. Some examples include:Zuckerberg & Gates give it away, give it away, give it away nowDevs & Stats, so happy togetherKinect is Winner Winner Chicken DinnerHalo Wars proves: You can’t fight the Fans

From: Channel 9 on Thu, Dec 09 2010 1:44 PM

This week on Silverlight TV, John introduces a brand-new Silverlight Training Series first announced at the Silverlight Firestarter. Created by John Papa and Silverlight MVPs Corey Schuman and Dan Wahlin, this eleven lab series includes hands-on labs and video walk-throughs by Corey and Dan, as ...

From: Channel 9 on Wed, Dec 08 2010 5:39 PM

Larry Larsen and Microsoft Research General Manager Kevin Schofield take a tour of Building 99. In this, the first of three parts, we check out one of the anechoic chambers used to create the technology behind Kinect.

From: Channel 9 on Tue, Dec 07 2010 12:41 PM

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at:Gaming Health Care Art Movies Shopping Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!

From: Channel 9 on Sat, Dec 04 2010 1:22 PM

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are reunited to discuss the week’s top developer news, including:[watch] Silverlight Firestarter – Newly announced features includes GPU Accelerated 3D, Immediate mode graphics, Trick play (play up to 2x speed), custom markup extensions, and out-of-browser f...

From: Channel 9 on Thu, Dec 02 2010 6:10 PM

Orleans is a Microsoft Research (MSR) project and managed (.NET) software framework for building client + cloud applications. As outlined in the recently released paper on the topic: Orleans defines an actor-like model of isolated grains that communicate through asynchronous messages and mana...

From: Channel 9 on Mon, Nov 29 2010 2:55 PM

Microsoft is full of oddities and little known answers to mysterious questions. The purpose of this series is to seek out those answers and offer them to you. Please comment with other questions you’d like to get answered! Watch other episodes of But Why?