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On a very special This week on Channel 9, Brian, Clint, and DAn countdown the top 10 most impactful or game-shifting Microsoft developer announcements/technology of 2010. Our Top 10 Stories (select top 10 * from TWC9 where year = 2010)
[ #time=1m04s watch ] #9 - .NET Micro Framework and devices like the netduino get cheap ($35 USD) and powerful [ #time=2m55s watch ] #8 - The Channel 9 Live update launches with improved performance, reliability, and Channel 9 Live takes off hosting a number of execs and technology leaders like Joe Belfiore, Mark Russinovitch, Scott Guthrie, Bob Muglia, and more [ #time=3m59s watch ] #7 - Web development improvements like IIS Express, Web Matrix, Razor syntax/view engine [ #time=7m08s watch ] #6 - Microsoft open source contributions like nuget, CodePlex improvements like free Runtime Intelligence, Live Writer and support for Mercurial, and Microsoft contributing code to jQuery [ #time=9m40s watch ] #5 - PDC announcement by Anders Hejlsberg on how VB and C# will get deep language integration for simplified asynchronous programming, [ #time=11m08s watch ] #4 - Kinect revolutionized user interaction and made Minority Report a little closer to reality and Kinect hobbyist programmers are showing lots of interesting applications and uses for the Kinect sensor ( Dans pick ) [ #time=12m34s watch ] #3 - Windows & SQL Azure have incredible velocity when it comes to adding new features, including virtual machine support, elevated privileges, smaller instance size, IntelliTrace support and more [ #time=14m03s watch ] #2 - Windows Phone 7 shows that Microsoft is back in the game with arguably the best developer tools for phone development available ( Clints pick ) [ #time=15m04s watch ] #1 - HTML 5 & Internet Explorer 9 show not only the power of Web applications, but also how GPU acceleration of all elements of a Web page can lead to dramatic performance increases [ #time=16m09s watch ] And the #0 story for the year is - Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.which are arguably the most impactful change for developers in their day-to-day job this year. ( Brians pick ) Do you agree with our choices? What would you have added? Happy Holidays! Brian, Clint, and Dan <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:d5fbdfce807a47d19c979e5201867155
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[ #time=1m04s watch ] #9 - .NET Micro Framework and devices like the netduino get cheap ($35 USD) and powerful [ #time=2m55s watch ] #8 - The Channel 9 Live update launches with improved performance, reliability, and Channel 9 Live takes off hosting a number of execs and technology leaders like Joe Belfiore, Mark Russinovitch, Scott Guthrie, Bob Muglia, and more [ #time=3m59s watch ] #7 - Web development improvements like IIS Express, Web Matrix, Razor syntax/view engine [ #time=7m08s watch ] #6 - Microsoft open source contributions like nuget, CodePlex improvements like free Runtime Intelligence, Live Writer and support for Mercurial, and Microsoft contributing code to jQuery [ #time=9m40s watch ] #5 - PDC announcement by Anders Hejlsberg on how VB and C# will get deep language integration for simplified asynchronous programming, [ #time=11m08s watch ] #4 - Kinect revolutionized user interaction and made Minority Report a little closer to reality and Kinect hobbyist programmers are showing lots of interesting applications and uses for the Kinect sensor ( Dans pick ) [ #time=12m34s watch ] #3 - Windows & SQL Azure have incredible velocity when it comes to adding new features, including virtual machine support, elevated privileges, smaller instance size, IntelliTrace support and more [ #time=14m03s watch ] #2 - Windows Phone 7 shows that Microsoft is back in the game with arguably the best developer tools for phone development available ( Clints pick ) [ #time=15m04s watch ] #1 - HTML 5 & Internet Explorer 9 show not only the power of Web applications, but also how GPU acceleration of all elements of a Web page can lead to dramatic performance increases [ #time=16m09s watch ] And the #0 story for the year is - Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.which are arguably the most impactful change for developers in their day-to-day job this year. ( Brians pick ) Do you agree with our choices? What would you have added? Happy Holidays! Brian, Clint, and Dan <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:d5fbdfce807a47d19c979e5201867155
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