TWC9: Building on Build and more... | This Week On Channel 9

[Brian Keller, Greg]

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Mark discuss the weeks top developer news, including;

• [00:28] InRelease Acquisition is complete (Brian Harry)
• [01:50] Announcing TouchDevelop v3.0 for Windows Phone 8: unified experience, new language features, NFC, speech and tile APIs (Nikolai Tillmann)
• [03:31] RIA Services is Getting Open-Sourced (Jeff Handley)
• [04:14] What’s New for Developers in Windows 8.1 (Jeff Prosise), Windows 8.1 Preview: New APIs and features for developers
• [05:23] Windows 8 vs Windows 8.1 (Koen Zwikstra) [Found Via: API diff report for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Preview]
• [05:53] Windows 8.1 app samples
• [06:35] 50 Apps by Christmas: SilverKeys - Porting a Silverlight App to a Windows Store App (Jason Roberts)
• [08:17] 25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET: the Eagle has landed! (Michaela Murray), http://www.red-gate.com/25secrets
• [09:24] Windows Phone 8 Development for Absolute Beginners (Larry Lieberman )
• [10:47] HERE launchers are here
• [11:56] Channel 9 Highlight: Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client (Jeff Koch)
• [12:56] Immutable isn’t just for parallel code (JaredPar)

Picks of the Week!

• Brians Pick of the Week:[14:26] 30 Years of Hello, World (Jeremy Likness)
• Marks Pick of the Week:[15:48] LINQ to ASCII Art (Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya)

Production Note: Yep, you caught him... Brian misspoke about the author of [04:14] What’s New for Developers in Windows 8.1. He really meant to say Jeff Prosise...

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