TWC9: WebMatrix, Razor, Debug MSBuild Files and Beer-Fetching Robots

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Another week, another This Week on Channel 9 (TWC9), Microsoft’s regular webcast showing the past week’s highlight on Channel 9, where Microsofties talk about what they’re working on or what they’re thinking, unfiltered by the marketing or PR departments. Regular co-host Dan Fernandez is joined this week by Larry Larsen as they talk about:

• WebMatrix, as presented by Simon Calvert and Scott Hunter
• Scott Guthrie’s detailed tutorial on WebMatrix Beta (skip down to part about creating a site with custom code)
• WebMatrix Samples and eBook
• How the Razor parser works, as explained by Andrew Nurse
• Silverlight Media Framework 2.0 released
• Setting up and configuring AppFabric memory cache in 10 minutes
• Removing dead tracks from iTunes using C#
• SharpKeys, the open source keyboard remapper
• PowerGUI: Add IntelliSense support for PowerShell using this Visual Studio Extension, via Greg Duncan
• How you can configure VS to debug MSBuild files: Part 1 and Part 2

The co-hosts’ picks of the week are:

• Larry's pick: Building “God’s Own Machine”, a computer that scores 7.9 on the Windows Experience Index
• Dan's pick: A robot that can fetch and even open beers

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.