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)

Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-New-Features-in-Silverlight-5-VB-for-WP7-Okapi-and-Movember

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