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CodeCast Episode 62: GiveCamp with Chris KoenigIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Koenig, a developer evangelist for Microsoft in the Dallas, Texas offices. This is an in-depth discussion about the history, status, and roadmap for GiveCamp events in various cities. GiveCamp was an idea hatched by Chris a few years ago, and now there are many GiveCamp events organized around the country with expansion plans this year. GiveCamp is a weekend long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. Some events focus on a specific technology like Microsoft .NET using Visual Studio or Expression Web. But using other technologies is often a possibility such as using Graffiti, Sitefinity, DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Joomla, mojoPortal, Drupal, etc. The custom software created at GiveCamp could be a new website, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, Facebook page, a rich client or even a mobile application..This episode of CodeCast is educational for any developers or organizers considering volunteering to participate in and benefit from an upcoming GiveCamp event.Guest ·         Chris Koenig - Blog: http://chriskoenig.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChrisKoenig Links ·         GiveCamp: http://givecamp.org ·         @GiveCamp: http://twitter.com/GiveCamp Length: 62:15 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 61: RIA Services with Silverlight and moreIn this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Microsoft RIA Services. RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Microsoft describes RIA Services as simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.Links ·         WCF RIA Services home on Silverlight.net ·         Brad Abrams : What is .NET RIA Services? ·         WCF RIA Services Code Gallery ·         WCF RIA Services Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Length: 64:27 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 60: Visual Studio 2010 editor with Chris GrangerIn this episode of CodeCast, KenLevy interviews Chris Granger, program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft, working on the new VS IDE editor (WPF based). Chris goes in-depth on the new VS 2010 editor including many of the cool features native to the editor as well as under-the-hood extensions architecture using the Visual Studio SDK. With the new managed editor API extensions and WPF/XAML based UI, a new generation of source code editing capabilities will evolve with VS 2010.Links ·         MSDN Library - What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor ·         Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio ·         Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com ·         Visual Studio Team Blog  - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio ·         VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor ·         Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010 ·         VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx ·         VS 2010 editor samples on CodePlex - http://editorsamples.codeplex.com Length: 31:39 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 59: VS 2010 SDK and Extension Manager with Quan ToIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To, senior program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft. This is a follow-up discussion enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK for creating free and product based extensions. Also discussed is the new Extension Manager in VS 2010 for browsing (via WPF UI) and installing free VS extensions hosted on visualstudiogallery.com.Guests ·         Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto Links ·         Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio ·         Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com ·         Visual Studio Team Blog  - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio ·         VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor ·         Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010 ·         VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx Length: 26:46 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 58: msdn.com content and strategy with Kerby KuykendallIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kerby Kuykendall who is the lead site manager for msdn.com at Microsoft. The discussion includes recent msdn.com developer center UI updates, the latest msdn.com content/nav taxonomy, differences between msdn.com dev centers, strategy of pre-sales (microsoft.com) vs. post-sales (msdn.com) vs. beta/CTP sites vs Channel 9 vs asp.net/silverlight.net. Tips like viewing lite version of MSDN Library content, aggregated and community content, plans for updating msdn.com dev centers, where/how Silverlight is used, and what some roadmap details for msdn.com.Guest ·         Kerby Kuykendall - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/kerby_kuykendall, Twitter: http://twitter.com/kerbyk Links ·         http://msdn.com   Length: 46:03 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 57: Expression for Silverlight and WPFIn this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss a short re-cap of the recent DevConnections and PDF conferences, and talk in depth about using Expression with Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight development, including the upcoming update to Expression for Silverlight 4.Links ·         Microsoft Expression – http://microsoft.com/expression ·         Microsoft PDC videos online -  http://microsoftpdc.com/videos Length: 54:26 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 56: Videos on msdn.com with Jeremy KelleyIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the msdn.com team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of videos (How-Do-I videos, screencasts, etc) hosted on msdn.com dev centers and TechNet sites, how they relate to Channel 9 videos that also use Silverlight, various formats, and roadmap plans for 2010 with videos on msdn.com.Guest ·         Jeremy Kelley – Blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/JeremyKelley, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fizzlenik   Links ·         http://msdn.com ·         TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com Length: 42:04 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 55: TechEd Europe 2009 Review and Silverlight 4In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Gary Short summarize TechEd Europe 2009, and discuss in depth the recent announcements of upcoming features included in Silverlight 4 and new scenarios it will open up for developers. Some of the new features coming in Silverlight 4 include extended out of browser functionality, offline DRM, elevated trust applications, group policy file support, UAC client support, COM access, ActiveX support, DLL access, file access APIs, cross-domain, and web browser HTML control with plug-ins. The discussion on Silverlight 4 segment starts at minute marker 15:22.Links ·         Silverlight 4 Beta - http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta ·         TechEd Europe 2009 - http://www.microsoft.com/europe/TechEd Length: 35:43 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 54: PDC 2009 ReviewIn this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss the various Microsoft news and announcements from PDC 2009. Videos of conference keynotes and sessions are online at http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos.Links ·         Microsoft PDC - http://microsoftpdc.com Length: 44:27 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])

CodeCast Episode 53: UML, VS 2010, .NET 4.0 with Kevin McNeishIn this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kevin McNeish on the topics of using UML for both team and individual .NET developers, as well as many key highlights of what’s new in Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and .NET Framework 4.0 (including new support for UML).Guest ·         Kevin McNeish - http://oakleafsd.com   Links ·         Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio Length: 54:54 Posted @ 11:00 PM by CodeCast ([email protected])