Jeff Sandquist

In this show, John Papa and Pete Brown join Robert for a freewheeling discussion about building great apps. They cover a range of topics including your icon and tile, how you app looks in the Windows Store, how you display information in an app layout, gestures, design, and more. - Jeff Sandquist

You recently learned about Image Watch, a Visual Studio 2012 plug-in for visually debugging (watch window, locals, etc...) image processing code in C++. How does it work? What does the implementation look like (or how was it designed, how much modern C++ does it employ, how old is the code base, etc...). You can't talk about shared libraries in C++, ones that have been around for a while, without talking about exceptions. You either love them or hate them and the Image Watch developers have internal customers (devs inside Microsoft) that either love them or hate them... We geek out on that for a while, of course. Overall, if you want understand Image Watch more deeply and meet some C++ developers who work at Microsoft doing very innovative things (in Microsoft Research, specifically) with C++, then this is for you! Rock and roll. Big thanks to Wolf Kienzle and Matt Uyttendaele for riding tandem with the random with us. Tune in! [00:00] GoingNative(); // Charles and Eric Battalio... - Jeff Sandquist

Windows Store Weekly highlights 5 of the coolest apps in the Windows Store each week. In just 5 minutes you'll get to know what's new, what's hot and what you should be checking out in every app category out there. Please add your suggestions for awesome Windows 8 apps in the comments section. This week we take a look at: Cowboy Jed: Zombie Apocolypse - GAME FitBit  - HEALTH & FITNESS FlipToast - SOCIAL Windows 8: Official Magazine - LIFESTYLE Discourse - NEWS & WEATHER - Jeff Sandquist

In this video, Chris Risner announces the release of Android support for Windows Azure Mobile Services.  The SDK was built by Microsoft Open Technologies and the Mobile Services team completed portal integration and push notifications support.  To try Mobile Services for free, sign up for the Free Trial and www.windowsazure.com - you'll get 10 mobile services for free.   Android developers can use Windows Azure Mobile Services to: Accelerate mobile app development. Store data in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications in minutes. Add a scalable and secure backend to an Android application. Spend the time you save on configuring infrastructure to build an experience users will love. Follow @chrisrisner - Jeff Sandquist

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen review MCP exam 70-660 - MCTS Windows Internals. Resources: MCTS Windows Internals Windows Internals Books Kernrate Poolmon UMDH Timeline: [01:42] - Summary of the exam [03:00] - Windows Internals books [05:50] - Identifying Architectural Components [14:17] - Designing Solutions [21:34] - Monitoring Windows [29:25] - Analyzing User Mode [41:39] - Analyzing Kernel Mode [45:17] - Debugging Windows [48:32] - Good Luck! - Jeff Sandquist

Tomas Petricek, a PhD student at University of Cambridge focusing on programming models, teaches us about one of his favorite programming languages, F#. The main topic is programming data with F#. You'll learn about Type Providers and Tomas will show how you can easily call REST APIs from F# using type providers and how you can access WorldBank data, but with a slight twist. All the code will be fully translated to JavaScript and will run in any web browser. Tomas has provided a library of type providers you can use to experiment with what you learn here. - Jeff Sandquist

Abstract: Bart De Smet from the Reactive Extensions team joins Jerry Nixon for today’s episode as they discuss the importance of using Rx and LINQ in their Windows 8 apps. Tune in as they share some background info as well as best practices for .NET developers who want to streamline their code and push their data in real time to users. Next Steps: Step #1 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development Step #2 – Download Visual Studio Express for Windows 8 Step #3 – Start building your own Apps for Windows 8 Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes or RSS If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information: Websites: Getting started with Windows 8 Apps How to Sell Your Apps and Make Money in the Windows Store Attend a Windows 8 Developer Camp and Hackathon in your area! Blogs & Articles: Jerry Nixon’s Blog Learn more about Reactive Extensions Introduction to Rx Videos: Microsoft... - Jeff Sandquist

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week, Anthony vander Hoorn and Nik Molnar from the Glimpse team are on the show to announce the official launch of their awesome ASP.NET in-browser debugging tool known as Glimpse. One of the most popular open-source projects in the .NET community, Glimpse provides valuable run-time information about any ASP.NET site. Using Glimpse, developers can see live information about the requests, configuration, and behavior of their sites, without the need for third-party browser toolbars. Everything runs as a series of HTTP Handlers and Modules. If you're an ASP.NET developer who wants a better Glimpse into how your site is operating or you need a hand debugging your site as it runs, don't miss this show. Related Links: Get Glimpse Glimpse NuGet Packages Follow Nik Molnar Follow Anthony vander Hoorn Follow Brady Gaster Follow Cory Fowler - Jeff Sandquist

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including; [0:26] IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses, RELEASED - Download Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman) [2:00] Visual Studio 2012 Update Guide (Robert MacLean) [2:25] Visual Studio Extension Guide (Robert MacLean) [2:53] Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging (Wolf Kienzle), Image Debugging for Visual Studio (Rob Knies ), [Visual Studio Gallery] Image Watch [4:01] [Window Phone] Dev Center app [4:33] Windows Store App Example: Itinerary Hunter (Steven Hollidge) [5:05] LinqToWiki [Found Via LinqToWiki: A strongly typed library for accessing the Wikipedia API] [5:56] HTML5 forms introduction and new attributes (Richard Clark) [6:44] Service Bus Messaging Deep-Dive (Clemens Vasters) [7:33] Windows Store apps for Absolute Beginners with JavaScript (Bob Tabor, Dan Fernandez, Jaime Rodriguez, Golnaz) [8:26] Building Web... - Jeff Sandquist

Join Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire and Mars Edit on Mac and iOS to find out how to get started with Windows Azure Mobile Services. To get started and try Mobile Services for yourself, follow our getting started tutorial. More tutorials, samples and our reference guide on Mobile Services are available on the dev center at: http://www.windowsazure.com/mobile. Also, be sure to check out Brent's other videos on Mobile Services: Part 2 | Part 3 - Jeff Sandquist

In this episode Nick and Nate are joined by Matias Woloski from Auth0. Matias shows how Auth0 makes it easy for developers to add Single-Sign-On to their applications. Matias shows how Auth0 was built on Windows Azure and using NodeJS, Windows Azure Web Sites, and MongoDB through MongoLab. Matias also shows how they use Apache JMeter to run load testing on their application running in Windows Azure. Finnally, Matias gives us a tour of their build environment that uses Jenkins, GIthub, and HipChat. Links from this Episode: Auth0 ASP.NET Tutorial Screenshots (Dashboard, Mobile) Architecture diagram Node.js Azure Store Template Apache JMeter Apache JMeter Plugin for Step Load Auth0 Load Tests   Like Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShow Follow @woloski Follow @cloudnick Follow @ntotten - Jeff Sandquist

In this lesson Bob kicks off the series talking about the organization, required setup and goals of the lessons, and provides some motivation and guidance for getting started.   Download Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 http://www.microsoft.com/express   Windows Development Center http://dev.windows.com   Channel 9's HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners http://channel9.msdn.com/Series...   Channel 9's Javascript Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners http://channel9.msdn.com/Series...   Get a Developer License http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...   Windows 8 Camp in a Box http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...   Series' Source Code Download the entire series' source code - Jeff Sandquist

Before we dive too deeply into the lab instructions, we'll take a moment and understand more about how your HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript are used to create Windows Store apps, how they execute, and the different execution contexts—Internet Explorer versus WWAHosts.exe, what the differences are between the two, and much more. - Jeff Sandquist

In this lesson Bob takes the first steps towards building the Contoso Cookbook by creating and walking through a new Grid App Template project and modifying the project name displayed on the start page. - Jeff Sandquist

At [07:36] David Tesar meets with Drew McDaniel, Senior PM in Windows Azure. Drew quickly covers the scenarios in which we see customers using Windows Azure IaaS and then we dig in with demos of Windows Azure VMs, including creating gallery images with Windows Server and Linux. One important note to point out: when you run a Windows Server VM in Windows Azure, you don't need to pay for an additional license for Windows Server—it's included with your purchased Windows Azure compute hours. We more specifically cover: [09:33] Demo: Creating a new Virtual Machine from gallery image [16:07] Demo: Linux Images available through VMDepot [17:55] Demo: Connecting to a VM in Windows Azure and how this works with open endpoints. How do you connect to multiple VMs over RDP with a single public IP? [19:47] Demo: Tip on how to ensure you don't get charged for extra compute usage [21:20] What happens when you delete a running VM? Will it perform a graceful shutdown? [21:45] Demo: Tip on how to... - Jeff Sandquist

Image Watch is a new Visual Studio 2012 plug-in for debugging C++ image and video processing applications, for example photo or augmented reality apps. Image Watch provides a watch window that can display in-memory bitmaps during debugging, so you no longer need to litter your code with "save-this-intermediate-image-to-a-file" statements when tracking down bugs. The initial release has built-in support for OpenCV image types and can be extended for viewing user-defined image types as well. Here, Wolf Kienzle, Senior Research Developer, Interactive Visual Media group, Microsoft Research Redmond, explains and demos this excellent new tool for C++ developers building image, video or augmented reality apps. In effect, you can step into pixels. Excellent! - Jeff Sandquist

In this show, Robert is joined by Julie Lerman, the author of several highly acclaimed Entity Framework books. Julie shares a number of Entity Framework tips and tricks including: Overriding the DBContext SaveChanges method [02:00] EntityFramework Power Tools [19:00] Configuring 1:1 Relationships [27:00] How to Avoid Accidentally Adding Data [34:30] Debugging [47:15] While taping this, Robert's microphone malfunctioned. Fortunately, Julie's microphone picked him up. That is why his sound is not up to the normal quality and level. - Jeff Sandquist

Windows Store Weekly highlights 5 of the coolest apps in the Windows Store each week. In just 5 minutes you'll get to know what's new, what's hot and what you should be checking out in every app category out there. Please add your suggestions for awesome Windows 8 apps in the comments section. This week we take a look at: Rat on a Skateboard - GAME PhotoWhirl -  PHOTOGRAPHY Hulu Plus - TV & VIDEO Chimpact - GAME Fresh Paint - ENTERTAINMENT - Jeff Sandquist

Grab the popcorn and get ready to get in on the action. Chime in on these stores and whetever else you feel like ranting about: Hotel of the Future  The Outlook looks good Imagine Cup loves the ladies Crime Fighting Tech! - Jeff Sandquist

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer. This installment goes over the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) buffers in a kernel mode dump or live session. The ETW buffers can be extracted from the dump and viewed using the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). The buffers give you insight in to what has beem happening recently on the computer. We use these commands: !wmitrace.strdump !wmitrace.logsave 0xNN c:\example.etl !wmitrace.eventlogdump 0xNN !wmitrace.help Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 and Defrag Tools Episode #23 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbol and source code resolution. This episode shows how install the Windows Performance Toolkit. Timeline: [00:00] - Event... - Jeff Sandquist

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. This week, MVP Benjamin Soulier shows us an awesome demonstration using a Windows Azure Web Site, his Windows Phone, Windows Azure Access Control Service, and a bar code. Benjamin has invented a great way to perform authentication using ACS, and he's here in the studio to show us how it works. This is one of the coolest demonstrations we've seen on the show yet. You'll be scratching your head asking "now how did he do that?" We also have some welcome guests on the show - some MVPs we know from our communities. We'll introduce you to these guys, and to an east-coast event known as MADExpo, that some of the MVPs are involved in facilitating. Follow Benjamin Soulier Follow Brady Gaster Follow Cory Fowler - Jeff Sandquist

Make the most of your Windows Phone 8 and get in touch with your friends and family with just a single touch. Learn all about the very cool "Groups" feature...right now...in one minute. - Jeff Sandquist