TWC9: IE 9 PP3, Windows Live Essentials Beta, God's Own Machine

EDN Admin · Jun 27, 2010

[Broken External Image]:http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/0/3/7/7/5/5/TWC9June25_85_ch9.pngThis week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the weeks top developer news, including:

IE Blog:*Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 is now available (download) and includes improved support for HTML 5
IE Test Drive:*IETestDrive.com adds new HTML 5 examples, including*Canvas Pad,*a page that hosts interactive*and editable examples of using the Canvas tag
IE 9 PP3 also adds a*Performance API thats built into the browser for developers to better understand performance bottlenecks
Windows Live blog:*Windows Live Essentials Beta is now available (download), including*Live Sync and Photo Fuse
Scott Hanselman and Pete Brown:*How to build a Developer rig that scores 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index (aka Gods Own Machine)*
John Papa: How to use*Duplex Communication with WCF & Silverlight to build a chat application
Visual Studio Blog:*With the Productivity Power Tools, the Add Reference dialog is not only faster, but also searchable
Surface Blog: Code sample on using Bluetooth with a Surface
Eric Nelson -*Windows Azure from the Trenches free PDF eBook, via Greg Duncan

Picks of the week!

Brians pick: Rory Primrose who shows how to add custom types in*TFS Build 2010 Build Definition Editor with the help of Reflector
Dans pick: Rudi Groblers cool Windows Phone app, 7mc-gofer,*that enables you to control your Windows Media Center including music, TV, photos and videos