• Minute of Mango: Local Scout
  

  Take a minute out of your day to learn about all the killer new features on your Windows Phone. Trust me, you'll be glad you did

  
  
  
• C++ AMP: Yossi Levanoni - Architecture and Design
  

  C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in modern C++.
  
  You've been able to experiment with C++ AMP since the VS11 Developer Preview back in September 2011. We figured it was a good time to go C9 on the C++ AMP team. So, we did. Four interviews have been conducted that pretty thoroughly cover C++ AMP and the people who design, implement, and test it. C++ AMP is a great technology for native developers seeking to harness the power of the GPU using the language and tools they are already comfortable with. C++ AMP is also an open specification and we'll see other compiler vendors producing C++ AMP implementations for their target platforms soon—that's been the goal since Day 1.

  
  Continuing with our four part series, we meet one of the architects of C++ AMP, Yossi Levanoni. You've met him before on C9. In this conversation, we go deeper into the design of C++ AMP (including exploring what led to some of the design decisions) and, of course, Yossi draws diagrams on the whiteboard like all architects must! You'll learn quite a bit about how C++ AMP works and why. Thanks for spending time with us, Yossi, and I'm sorry for mangling your last name!
  
  See Part 1 - Daniel Moth - Overview

  
  
  
• Hot Apps: NFS Hot Pursuit, TextTwist 2, Cruise Control, Red Bull TV, FhotoRoom
  

  Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at:

  • NFS: Hot Pursuit
  • TextTwist 2
  • Cruise Control
  • Red Bull TV
  • FhotoRoom

  Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!

  
  
  
• GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu
  

  We're back! Sorry for the delay between episodes, but we were busy preparing and then putting on GoingNative 2012, a C++11 conference that you have hopefully heard about It was a blast! Such great speakers. Such great attendees. Huge thanks to all of you who made the journey to Redmond for two days, bringing with you so much IQ and C++ love. And to those who watched the show live online, thank you, too, of course! All sessions will always be available on-demand right here on C9. Watch at your leisure, but do watch/listen/learn!
  
  We were fortunate and honored to have Andrei Alexandrescu speaking and Walter Bright in attendance at GoingNative 2012. Walter and Andrei are the co-custodians of the D programming language. Walter invented D about 11 or 12 years ago. Andrei has been an unrelenting champion and contributor to D for a long time and is the author of the book The D Programming Language. When/why did Andrei get involved with D? We'll find out. We filmed a conversation with these two legends right after GoingNative 2012 ended.
  
  So, what is D? What makes it special?

  D is a modern native programming language (not really an evolution of C++ as the name might imply. C++11 is an evolution of C++... D is it's own thing. It's D.). D is imperative (with C-like syntax), statically-typed, object-oriented, dynamic-friendly (via static type inference), garbage collected (optional), shared-nothing by default (nice!), functional-friendly (you can write pure functions that are verifiably pure), polymorphic, generic, and COM-friendly, too. D is also a low-level systems programming language.
  
  D takes many powerful modern programming ideas and idioms and makes them easy to use while keeping things purely native. We love this! Too often we hear things like, "Well, if you go fully native then you loose productivity..." Whatever. D proves you can have your cake and eat it, too.
  
  Tune in. Meet Walter and Andrei (and D, if you're not familiar with it). Thanks for spending time with C9, Walter and Andrei! Keep pushing the native envelope. 

  "I want 1,000,000 users", says Andrei. Go D!
  
  Download D
  D Forums (written in D)
  Modern COM Programming in D

  
  Table of Contents:
  
  [00:00] GoingNative(); //Welcome back! Sorry for the delay. GoingNative 2012. D.
  [02:22] Charles has a conversation with Andrei Alexandrescu and Walter Bright about the D programming language
  [56:52] ~GoingNative(); //Charles and Diego talk about D and then destruct.

  
  
  
• Ping 132: Facebook app, Windows 8 app names, Touch Screen through clothes, Game rankings
  

  This week we are all very excited to be joined by Larry Larsen (of Defrag fame). Larry joined the Ping team to share his opinion and theories on these stories and more:

  Facebook app for Windows Phone  [02:38]

  Windows 8 app naming  [08:34]

  Capacitive touch screen through your pants    [05:38]

  Game Publisher rankings   [10:50]

  
  
  
• Minute of Mango: Custom Ringtones
  

  Take a minute out of your day to learn about all the killer new features on your Windows Phone. Trust me, you'll be glad you did

  
  
  
• C++ AMP: Daniel Moth - Overview
  

  C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in modern C++.
  
  You've been able to experiment with C++ AMP since the VS11 Developer Preview back in September 2011. We figured it was a good time to go C9 on the C++ AMP team. So, we did. Four interviews have been conducted that pretty thoroughly cover C++ AMP and the people who design, implement, and test it. C++ AMP is a great technology for native developers seeking to harness the power of the GPU using the language and tools they are already comfortable with. C++ AMP is also an open specification and we'll see other compiler vendors producing C++ AMP implementations for their target platforms soon—that's been the goal since Day 1.
  
  Here, we meet the legendary Daniel Moth. Daniel's actually been on C9 a few times and his technical screencasts are among the very best that have been produced for C9 (please make more, Daniel!!). Daniel is the C++ AMP program manager (PM).

  PMs are responsible for documenting the vision, building the execution plans to turn the vision into a real project, manage the project to completion, ship the result of the project and to attract and work with customers to help them understand what the product means for them and why it matters to their business. It's quite a job. Daniel is one part of a team of engineers that consists of program management (Daniel), architecture (Yossi Levanoni is one of the architects of AMP and you'll meet him (again) in one these interviews), development (you'll meet the AMP dev team soon, round-table style), and test (you'll meet the AMP test team soon, hallway-tour style).
  
  So, tell us what C++ AMP is and why it matters, Daniel. Give us some context and history. What's going on here? What's next?
  
  Tune in and meet the people behind the restrict(ion)s, kernels, etc. It's GPGPU time on C9. Enjoy.
  
  See Part 2 - Yossi Levanoni

  
  
  
• TWC9: Windows Store for Win8 Dev's, Faster IE, Cheaper Azure, New EF and more
  

  This week on Channel 9, Dan and Duncan discuss the week's top developer news, including:

  • [1:04] Windows Store for developers blog - Submitting your Windows 8 apps (Antoine Leblond, Jonathan Garrigues)
  • [2:49] Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance (Steven Sinofsky, Matt Kotsenas, Jatinder Mann, and Jason Weber )
  • [3:53] Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option (Steven Martin)
  • [6:37] How Understanding Assembly Language Helps Debug .NET Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)
  • [8:22] TFS Attacher For Windows Phone 7
  • [10:35] EF 4.3 Released, EF 4.3 Code-Based Migrations Walkthrough, EF 4.3 Automatic Migrations Walkthrough (ADO.NET Team)
  • [11:55] Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 5.0 Performance Improvements (ADO.NET Team)
  • [12:31] SignalR powered by [Windows Azure] Service Bus (Clemens Vasters), Streaming live results to a web site using MSMQ/Duplex WCF/SignalR/jQuery (Sacha Barber)
  • [15:36] VS Spell Check Extension - using Roslyn (gillyb) [Found via: Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: February 12, 2012]
  • [18:19] Going Native - Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys (Chandler Carruth)
  • [19:34] Let your [Windows Phone] apps sell themselves! (Arian Kulp )
  • [20:59] JustDecompile, What's New in JustDecompile for Q1 2012 [Found via debug mode…… - Telerik JustDecompile Announced]

  Picks of the Week!

  • Duncan's Pick of the Week! [22:33] Pet Companion Robot using RDS (Trevor Taylor), DarwinBot - The Pet Companion Robot (Video)
  • Dan's Pick of the Week! [24:23] Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska
  
  
  
• Interactive Panel: Ask Us Anything!
  

  To end the event, why not have all the speakers on stage to answer any questions you may have, ones that formed as your mind was bent over the last 48 hours. Here are some C++ titans in front of you - what are you going to ask them? What do you want to know? Ask the GoingNative 2012 speakers anything (within reason and subject to destruction by the moderator ). There should be lots to talk about. Don't be shy!
  
  This is an interactive panel. This means you, the attendee in the room or online, will be first class members of the conversation - you drive it. You ask the questions. The theme has been provided. Where do you want to take it? It's up to you.

  
  
  
• Developer Diaries: Mangesh Deshpande
  

  This is the first of a series of videos where we will follow developers as they take the steps to give their Windows Phone applications make-overs. Our first guinea pig is Mangesh Deshpande and he needed some design tips and tweaks to take his app, "Meal Nirvana" to the next level. He met with our design team and resident expert, Arturo Toledo and has begun the redesign work. We will check back with Mangesh every now and then to track his progress. Please feel free to make suggestions as this is meant to be interactive and he welcomes your tips and thoughts as well.

  The final application will be revealed in a new show we are launching called "Amp up your Apps". We will also be accepting nominations for apps of yours that you think could use a bit of a make-over.

  Enjoy!

   

  
  
  
• Defrag: Mem Cleaners, Syncing Favorites, Batch Image Resize
  

  Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com. We will also be checking comments for problems, but the email address will let us contact you if needed.

  Advance apologies for the audio quality, the error has since been corrected but too late to solve for this episode.

  [00:30] - Follow up question about memory cleaner.
  [02:36] - Network connectivity dropping in Windows 7.  
  [06:15] - Question about RAID setup.  [link]
  [11:50] - How do you sync favorites across PC's?
  [13:00] - Is there a log to know which file you just deleted?
  [15:30] - Process for batch resizing of images. [link]
  [19:00] - How to disable Tablet PC Input Panel. [link]
  [20:00] - Can VS perf be helped by installing on an SD card?
  [22:50] - Crowdsource Ask of the Week: Extracting file from archive with bad volumes.
  [26:53] - Silent install of a printer file.
  [28:33] - Required priv for making a text file in C:\.
  [29:09] - Pick of the Week: Sterling engine seen running on the desk. [link, link, link]

  
  
  

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