It can be handy to create custom RSS feeds for the Zune so that it is easy to download and watch selected videos. You can watch these videos either on your PC, or on the Zune itself. Here is a custom feed I created that contains all the new C# 4.0 language and IDE How Do I Videos , plus a selection of...

A number of interesting sample applications have been released for C#, VB and C++ developers over the last few months. These include C# Sample code for building Peer 2 Peer applications on Vista A C# toolkit for developing Facebook applications C# interfaces for web services from Digg, YouTube, Amazon...

I use one of the Beta 2 VPC's regularly, and so I was interested to learn that it will expire prematurely on November 1, 2007. This is not Orcas itself that will expire, but the entire OS. If you have any projects or data that you are keeping on one of these virtual machines, you should move it right...

Kathleen McGrath and the folks who create the documentation for Visual Studio are running a survey to get feedback from users. Here is your chance to comment on the various types of online documentation provided by Visual Studio. Several different types of content are covered in the survey, including...

Just a quick note to let you know that the LINQ Samples code has been updated. The only change is to add the LINQ to Entities code back into the SampleQueries example. If you open up SampleQueries, you will see a new item called 101 LINQ to Entities samples . SampleQueries has six sections, each with...

Here is a short 7 minute video to serve as an introduction to the Samples that are included with the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP . The samples that shipped with the CTP needed to be updated. As a result, its best if you don't pull them from the CTP help file, instead, download them from my blog . This...

Here are a set of updated samples for the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP . These samples replace all the LINQ and LINQ to XML samples that shipped with the March CTP. This is a first cut on updating the samples. More updates may follow. Please report any problems you have with these samples by posting...

The February CTP (aka as the March CTP) is now available for download as a regular install and as a virtual PC . Here is a video that serves as an introduction to the CTP. FebCtp Video: Stream it FebCtp Video: Download Video Text overview from the install page. Please check out the samples Update page...

I've become the default manager for the samples that ship with the various Orcas CTP's and upcoming betas. As a result, I'm going to start a new category here on my blog where I can share information about these samples. It is quite likely that we will need to post updates to the Orcas samples during...