TWC9: New Features in Silverlight 5, VB for WP7, Okapi, and Movember

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 features like P/Invoke and multi-window support [watch] Silverlight Firestarter keynote - Databinding Debugging – You can add breakpoints into XAML and see exactly what path and data is being used for data binding [watch] Silverlight Firestarter keynote – Two cool demos include the 3D mesh model and the Crescent BI tool coming soon from the SQL Server team [watch] Tim Heuer – Tim gives a full rundown of all of the features coming in Silverlight 5[watch] Tim Heuer – Coded UI tests for Siverlight, available in MSDN Feature Pack 2 [watch] Windows Azure – Lots of new features in the Azure 1.3 SDK, includes VM Role (beta), Full IIS support, Elevated privileges, diagnostics, and more [watch] CodePlex – BCL Extensions project provides handy extension methods to common types (collections, strings, etc), via Frans Bouma [watch] Coding4Fun – Pedro Lamas – A basic Currency Converter application that’s currently in the marketplace [watch] VisitMix - Thomas Lewis – Okapi – HTML 5 template & code to build your own endless mural [watch] ..NET Curry - Paging in ASP.NET using jTemplate, jQuery and JSON [watch] Gunnar Piepman - CodePlex now supports LiveWriter, via Greg Duncan [watch] LINQExtender v3 – Update to the library to help developers build LINQ providers [watch] Jason Zander – Visual Basic for Windows Phone 7 RTW Picks of the week![watch] Brian Keller – Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2, a free for MSDN subscribers tool which includes a lot of new features like coded UI tests [watch] Dan Fernandez – Microsoft’s participation in Movember, including a disturbing photoshopped photo by Larry Larsen and a video of Microsoft participants in Movember (click here to donate for Dan)

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