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Jillian Venters is a technical editor for ASP.NET within the developer division, editing documentation for Visual Web Developer to ensure all text and copy is clear and concise.  With a diverse background in games and music engineering, Jillian is another fantastic example of how you can have a happy and successful career at Microsoft without being a hard-core programmer or developer.  But, even more interesting (at least for Ritzy) is that Jillian is a full-fledged Goth.  What’s a Goth, you ask?  Goth has roots back to the 1700’s, the current incarnation is an off-shoot of the punk and new wave movement that includes influences from Victorian mourning clothing, so good they’re bad horror movies, Dracula and more.  Guess what else?  Goths aren’t just disgruntled teens trying to upset mom and dad!  Lots of adults are Goths (there’s a formal group of them at Microsoft), and as Jillian describes one of the best ways to think about Goth is that it is an aesthetic preference which finds beauty in unconventional things.    Wanna know more?  Check out her etiquette and advice blog site, Gothic Charm School.  Not only that, but Jillian is writing a book coming out next year on the Goth movement! (Good gig for an editor, eh?  It should be well written.)  It takes all types, and Microsoft proudly accepts them all.  Enjoy!

On a very special This Week on Channel 9, Jeff Sandquist joins Dan and Brian in studio to discuss CNN's special Bill Gates slideshow narrated by Bill himself (0 - 2:00) Newsweek's update of the infamous New Mexico Microsoft company photo 30 years later (2:00 - 3:30) Jeff shares how Charles Torre got Chicken Pox after his BillG interview and retells the backstory of the first Bill Gates interview (3:30 - 6:10) Clip from Charles interviews Bill Gates on his transition (6:10 - 8:00) Clip from Bill Gates looking back video (8 - 9:24) BillG's other achievement, redefining Cribs (9:24 - 12:45) Jeff Sandquist recounts the backstory for when Channel 9 was there to break the news of Bill's transition and his history at Microsoft (12:45 - 20:15) Clip from 'softies sharing their favorite BillG stories (20:15 - 23:15) 10 Tools I replaced with VSTS, 10 Tools I still use with VSTS by Mohammed Ashraful Alam (23:15 - 25:00) CodeProject article: WPF version of PicLens by Sascha Barber and Marlon Grech (25:00 - 25:40) CTP of Microsoft (Classic) ASP SQL Injection Analyzer via Greg Duncan (25:40 - 26:45) Entity Framework: vote of no confidence and a response from Tim Mallalieu from the EF team (26:45 - 29:20) Free eBook: Karl Seguin: Foundations of Programming, Building Better Software (29:20 - 30:20) Derik Whittaker: Dimecasts.NET, 10 minutes or less on a developer topic via Rhonda Tipton (30:20 - 31:00) Dan's Pick of the Week: If Programming Languages were Futurama characters via dzone (31:00 - 32:00) Brian's Pick of the Week: 9-part series on VSTS Rosario by Willy-Peter Schaub (32:00 - end)  

To remember Bill Gates's last day at Microsoft, we asked Larry Osterman, Bill Hill, Joan Hoshino, and Soma Somasegar to share their favorite Bill Gates stories.

Betsy Hjort, principal program manager, turns the camera on Jennifer watch it all the way through to see Charles get schooled by Betsy! It’s worth the entire 37 minutes, we promise. Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

I was able to visit Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta to see an old friend, Don Browning, and we were lucky enough to bring along Peter Provost to talk about agile methodologies, processes, and tools.  Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

In this week's episode, Brian, Dan, and Clint finish off our Mix spectacular with clips from:- Clint interviewing Miguel De Icaza including what Karate Kid Part I can teach students (0:50)- Chris Auld demonstrating an IIS module that dynamically combines resources (css, images, javascript, etc) resulting in 400% perf  improvements, all with no code changes (2:57)- John Sagiovanni showing of Zumobi, a free, extensible Windows Mobile app that connects your favorite services (6:57)- Scott Hanselman and Clint Rutkas talking about Clint's segway skateboard and how Scott helped Clint redesign his other application for extensibility (12:33)- 3rd Place Show Off Contest -  Wii Data Visualizations and Multipoint by Veracity Solutions (19:18)- 2nd Place Show Off Contest -  Realtime Physics in Silverlight by Bill Reiss, Andy Beaulieu, and Jeff Weber (21:43)- 1st Place Show Off Contest - Crayon Physics Deluxe by Kloonigames (24:47) - Scott Hanselman does Jerry Seinfield and William Shatner/Captain Kirk imitations (27:45) Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Mary Jo Foley has spent two decades watching and reporting on everything Microsoft. We thought it would be fun to turn the tables on Mary and find out who she is and why she does what she does. We caught up with her at Lang.NET 2008. Special guest Don Box joins us for the first part of the interview. As always, he adds humor and energy to the conversation. Enjoy. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Watch a recap of the top news and events going on at Mix '08 from Dan, Brian, and our cameraman Clint Rutkas.This week's show includes:1. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 highlights including Offline support for IE 8, and Activities2. How NBC plans to revolutionize video using Silverlight for the Olympics3. Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin and Steven Forte give their impressions on the Ray Ozzie/Scott Guthrie keynote4. Our favorite moments Guy Kawasaki's interview with Steve Ballmer including Steve playing with Guy's Macbook Air and a shout-out to WEB DEVELOPERS! 5. Chris Auld showing off a prototype of an Open XML document viewer built in Silverlight6. Tim Heuer and Jason Mauer show off their mobile crib as they start their Code Trip7. Outtakes of RDs imitating each other including Scott Hanselman doing Billy Hollis, Billy Hollis doing an impression of Scott Hanselman, Carl Franklin doing Billy Hollis, Billy Hollis doing Billy Hollis, Carl Franklin doing Scott Hanselman and of course Scott Hanselman doing Scott Hanselman. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Tim, Jason, and a few other folks are travelling all over the West coast meeting with customers, partners and of course, coding. Here you'll get a tour of their rolling crib and learn what The Code Trip is all about. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

This is Episode #1 of insert.name.here , a weekly recap show of our favorite things for developers including Channel9 videos, samples, bloggers, news, and much more.This week we cover   MSDN Code Gallery went Live (found on Greg Duncan's Cool Thing of the Day blog) Jason Olsen's App Compat C9 Video  Pavel Bansky's Tetris on the .NET Micro Framework C# Future Focus: Dynamic Lookup Joel Spolsky on SQL Server 2008 Reset and Phil Factor on Microsoft doing their homework Dan interviewing April Reagan on MSDN Help Shawn Burke's Tip on disabling optimiziations when debugging reference source code. Dan with Scott Guthrie on IIS7 hosters for Mix Dan and Scott Guthrie on Windows, Web, and RIA and talking about how he built the asp:calendar control Brian and Dan mock each other's hair and how he poked Dan's wife on Facebook. Facebook releases JavaScript APIs using Nikhil Kothari's Script# Library CodeProject: Eric Williams HTML Editor control article Josh Holmes Code to Live Video: What Richard Hale Shaw finds exciting in C# 3.0 Joel Pobar's MSDN Magazine Article: Create Your own Language Compiler, Lawrence Pit's OOK # .NET Second Life replacing their scripting runtime for LSL with Mono and future .NET languages coming. Brian's Pick of the week: Nic Fillingham's Custom Rockband Drum Kit at CES  Dan Pick of the week: Greg Dolley's port of Quake 3 from C to C++/CLI It Came from the internets: What every Microsoft employee does on a conference call  Recap: email us at bestshow.nospam@microsoft.com and send us your name requests Brian's Superbowl predictions   Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

In the second part of this two-part interview, Scott discusses how this year's Mix (http://visitmix.com/2008/) is going to be even larger than last year's, covering everything from Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support, and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0. You'll also hear Scott talk about the different needs of developers and designers with Expression, how he personally wrote the asp:Calendar control, the unique challenges in building controls and how XAML enables unmatched control composability. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

In keeping with what has become a holiday tradition here on Channel 9 he have Chris Anderson, Don Box and now Amanda Silver singing you a special holiday song. You can compile along with them by grabbing the source project for this video.   From all of us at Channel 9, we would like to wish you and your family a Very Beautiful holiday season!  For even more holiday cheer, please check out episodes I, II,III and IV.'VS-indentingModule VB    Dim myvar As Integer?() = {3 * 3}    Sub Main()        For Each i In myvar            Console.Write( Hello VB )            With i                Console.Write(.Value)            End With REM a language so true            If i IsNot Nothing Then               Console.WriteLine()            End If REM             Console.Write( some xml /some )        Next    End SubEnd Module'Lyrical-indentingModule VB : Dim myvar As _Integer?() = {3 * 3}Sub Main() : For Each i In myvarConsole.Write( Hello VB )With i : Console.Write(.Value)End With REM a language so true If i IsNot Nothing ThenConsole.WriteLine() : End If REM Console.Write( some xml /some )Next : End Sub : End Module Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Some of the brains behind MIX08 went for drinks and discussion with me to talk about what’s new, what’s hot and what’s not about the upcoming consumer web conference happening once again in Vegas at the Venetian hotel on March 5-7, 2008. Why is Steve Ballmer keynoting? What’s the scoop with Guy Kawasaki? Do we really care about designers or is it a developer world? Will Microsoft have anything new to say? What’s the scoop with Silverlight? What's the difference between MIX and PDC (and TechED for that matter)? Who should attend MIX? Why? Be a fly on the wall and watch the conversation with the MIX team (forgive the lighting . . . it’s a little dark . . . we were in a real bar after all on a dark, rainy Seattle night). Then go and register at http://visitmix.com/2008 and take Thomas Lewis up on his offer for a free drink in Vegas! Enjoy. Lot's of candid info about MIX in this one. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Functional programming is increasing in popularity these days given the inherent problems with shared mutable state that is rife in the imperative world. As we march on to a world of multi and many-core chipsets, software engineering must evolve to better equip software engineers with the tools to exploit the vast power of multiple core processors as it won't come for free as it did in the recent past which was predictably based on Moore's law.Of course, learning new ways to think about programming semantics and code patterns are not always straight forward. For example, most imperative programmers (which include most of us who build software for a living...) are somewhat perplexed by the notion of functions as first class data structures that can be combined to create powerful and composable systems. Languages like Haskell are pure functional languages and require programmers to think in a different way, often in a precise mathematical fashion where composing and chaining functions is the Way . Dr. Brian Beckman, a Channel 9 celebrity, astrophysicist and senior software engineer thought it would be a very good idea to address the complexity of monads in an easy to understand way: a technical conversation at the whiteboard with yours truly for Channel 9. This video interview is the result of Brian's idea that he can in fact remove the fear of monads from anybody who pays attention to his explanation. Of course, you can't just cover monads in a vacuum (category theory is not really addressed here) so the context is functional programming (Brian covers functions and composable functional structures (function chains) and of course monoids and then monads).Tune in. There's a lot to learn here and only Brian can make monads easy to understand for the rest of us!Happy Thanksgiving to all the US Niners out there.Enjoy. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Sara Ford is a Visual Studio program manager in the Developer Division’s Customer Product Lifecycle group and her job is fascinating which she describes in the first part of this interview, but you must listen to her incredible story about Hurricane Katrina and her little hometown of Waveland, Mississippi. Katrina deeply impacted Sara’s family, friends and interestingly enough . . . her blog. How does technology factor into a natural disaster and how can it be used to help after a community is entirely wiped out? Sara has lots of idea. Watch and learn. Hi res download file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Several weeks back James Vastbinder was able to coax Jack Gudenkauf into doing an interview on .NET 3.5 targeted at ISVs.  Jack is an Architect on the Base Class Library team and tasked to work with Microsoft’s ISV Partners.  In this interview: Jack talks about the BCL team and how they work within the larger Server and Tools business unit. An inside view of the new Add-In Model in 3.5, (Its Jack's baby and he's rightly proud). The Process ISV should mentally walk through when moving to managed code. Tools and utilities used by the CLR team.Technorati Tags: JackG, CLR, .NET3.5, BCL, Add-Ins, Jvast, Microsoft Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

I recently got the chance to sit down with Brian Beckman, physicist, programmer and Channel 9 celebrity, to learn about the history of computing. As you know, Brian is a great teacher. This lesson focuses on the evolution of computing devices and delves into some of the not-so-obvious uses of hand-held programmable calculators in the not-so-distant past. Did you know that the 1975 Apollo Soyuz international space mission incorporated a programmable calculator, the HP-65, to calculate precise course corrections for the rendezvous and linking of Apollo and Soyuz space crafts? A calculator!! Indeed, programmable calculators are the predecessors of today's computers. But what came before the hand-held computing titans of the 70s? What was the first computer? Brian has quite a collection of computing devices in his office, some of which, as expected, predate digital devices. We get a look at these and learn about their place in history. Of course, Brian is a software developer with uncanny capability for designing accurate simulations (remember the Forza math interview?) so he decided to write an innovative application that simulates the HP-97, precisely. Brian works on the Data Programmability team (SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework, etc) so he implemented the HP-97's programmability and storage in ADO.NET and SQL. Brian will be producing a C9 Screencast to dig into what he did, so look for this showing up soon!As always, it was a pleasure to converse with Brian and learn about how computers got to where they are today. It's a long interview, so get comfortable, relax, and learn from a master. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Bill Hill is one of the Niners' favorite Microsoft personalities. He is also a legend around Microsoft and within the typography community. Bill spends most of his time thinking about how to make reading on a screen the best possible experience for human readers. We wanted to find out what's on Bill's mind these days so we thought we'd have a chat with Bill and Lake Bill on crystal clear day was the perfect setting for learning about Bill's passion for enabling digital democracy. What's digital democracy? Well, watch and listen to find out. Bill has even written up a Declaration of Digital Independence. Tune in. Bill Hill is on Channel 9 again! Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

I finally got a chance to sit down and talk to Patrick Dussud, one of the CLR founders and chief architect of the .NET Garbage Collector, or GC, as developers call it. I wanted to learn about what a GC is, how it works, why it does what it does, how it will evolve, Patrick's history in the industry, and, of course, get some Niner GC questions answered by the master of GC himself. I'd say all of this was accomplished and then some. Patrick is a Distinguised Engineer and has been working on automatic object lifetime management systems for many years (that's one way to think about a GC - automatic object lifetime manager). Ever wonder what happens to running .NET code when a garbage collection occurs? Why did Patrick decide to allow programmers to invoke a garbage collection programmatically? How does the GC accurately keep track of all objects lifetime states and determine what lives and what dies when it's time to pick up the garbage?If you're curious about the history of the CLR's GC, how it works, why it's designed the way it is, how it will evolve and want to meet the man behind it all, well, this interview is for you! Sit back, relax, grab some popcorn and learn.Enjoy! Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

If you write code on Windows or like to know what goes on under the hood in Windows, then you've no doubt heard of Mark Russinovich. He's an OS kernel expert and a co-founder of Winternals; a company that produced must-have operating system and development utilities for Windows (Winternals is now a Microsoft subsidiary as we purchased them in July, 2006. Yay!). Mark is now a Technical Fellow in Windows and is a member of the Windows Core Architecture team (you met some of the other big brains on the CoreArch team last year). Here we talk frankly about Mark's history, his coming to Microsoft, Windows security, what the CoreArch team does, what his role is, etc. Tune in. Download the Video Watch the Video

Corporate Vice President of Global Foundation Services, Debra Chrapaty, is in charge of a worldwide team that runs the foundation servers for Microsoft’s data centers, networks, infrastructure and server architecture as part of our software + services strategy. Charles and Jennifer, in their on-going WM_IN Technology journey, talk to this energetic, dynamic, smart woman who fulfilled her childhood dream of being on the cover of Information Week (read geek). She used to be the CTO for the National Basketball Association (NBA) . . . and that’s just the beginning of where this successful woman gets interesting. Check it! Download the Video Watch the Video

 Mike Calligaro came to Microsoft thirteen years ago to help build a supercomputer. But, two days before his arrival, the project evaporated, leaving Mike on the payroll but without a position.   This isn't an unheard of situation for new hires, but Mike's story, detailing all the different projects he worked on throughout the years, is just fantastic.   We get to hear about his work on the Sega Dreamcast, an early attempt at providing video-on-demand in the home (in 1994!), and the best explanation ever given as to what a device driver is and how they work.   I'm hoping to visit Mike again. I found him through some posts he wrote for the Windows Mobile blog. I found him to be thoughtful and interesting - he was the same in person. One of those hidden gems at the company.   He has more stories to tell, and I hope to get him to divulge more of his past for the camera. People like Mike impress me because of their ability to approach many different disciplines with great success.   This video, I feel, only scratches the surface... Download the Video Watch the Video

This episode features the co-inventor of COM, software architect, Tony Williams. In his eighteen years at Microsoft, Tony has worked on the Windows team, in Microsoft Research, and on Office. His contributions benefit not just Microsoft's applications, but the fundamental way that all Windows applications are written. Tony has been an unwavering champion of componentized application development. Today (8/06) Tony is driving the design of a new component framework which will be used in Office 12.  This interview is hosted by software architect, Keith Kaplan. Download the Video Watch the Video

This is Behind the Code’s pilot episode with Core File Services architect, Mark Zbikowski. Mark began his career at Microsoft in 1981, working on DOS 1.0 as a designer, coder and liaison with IBM. His quarter century long career has included significant involvement in OS/2, Cairo’s Object File System (OFS), and the NT File System (NTFS). In addition, he has been a key player in all of Microsoft’s File System work. Former Microsoft software architect Pat Helland interviews Mark about the early days at Microsoft, his passion for product development and the challenges of producing software. Watch the Video Download the Video