Orchard will create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers. Additionally, we seek to create partnerships with existing application authors to help them achieve their goals. Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the CodePlex Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the OSI. The intended…[more ]

Ken Schwaber, co-inventor of Scrum, and Sam Guckenheimer, Group Product Planner for Visual Studio discuss the Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program around VS 2010. PSD includes a unique and intensive five-day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using Visual Studio 2010, the Scrum framework, and modern software engineering practices. Ken and Sam talk about how Scrum.org and Microsoft…[more ]

Mike Harsh comes back to Silverlight TV to show John how easy it is to develop a real world application for Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7) using Silverlight. Within a matter of minutes Mike has a functional twitter application for WP7 developed and running that makes cross domain calls. He demonstrates how to design the interface using the designer and tools in Visual Studio and writes the event handlers to hook into a Twitter API. The key point of this demo is how easy it is to develop for WP7 with Silverlight. [more ]

We drop in on graphics enginering legend Ted Johnson and IE dev platform PM John Hrvatin to discuss what we learned in Dean's office just moments before: hardware accelerated HTML5.[more ]

Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview![more ]

Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview![more ]

Get your hands on the IE9 developer platform preview!…[more ]

While at MIX10, John catches up with Jesse Liberty and Tim Heuer to discuss their favorite features in Silverlight 4. They call out their features and give their reasons why they are impressed with them. Jesse and Tim discuss their impressions of the huge impact of the announcements at MIX with John including the big announcement from the Day 1 keynote that you can development for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight.[more ]

This week we welcomed special guest host, Nic Fillingham, who not only runs Channel 9 LIVE at MIX 2010 but also brings us these stories:

• Flash On Windows Phone 7
• GeoSense for Windows- go get it!
• XNA Games for Windows Phone 7
• Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

and Just For Fun:  New Dork Music Video