Update: Found him and have started exchanging emails I received an email yesterday from someone named Christian Gross on Visual Studio Express and open source applications. I tried to write him back and unfortunately the gmail address he gave me bounced...

We' just announced WebMatrix , a new, simple IDE to build and customize Web sites. As someone who believes we need to provide a better offering for beginners and non-professional developers, WebMatrix, and specifically, the Razor syntax is a huge leap...

I see book authors, editors, bloggers, press, team members, and occasionally even a VP misspell our products, technologies, and features that I thought I would build and maintain a list of the correct capitalization and spelling of the most commonly misspelled...

Yes, it’s Valentine’s day on Channel 9, time to have some more fun. Kudos to Laura Foy as this is her brain-child and of course Nic Fillingham and Larry Larsenfor some great cameo roles!

Check out Laura Foy’s “ Bug Killer ”, a Channel 9 Halloween special.  

I'm the last person to blog about this, but we've launched the Visual Studio documentary on Channel 9. I've embedded the videos below, Part 1 Part 2 We're also doing the full length interviews with all of the participants that will be posted over the...

  Hey folks,   Visual Studio Express Editions are now live and available for download!     Express Versions The Visual Studio Express family is unchanged from 2008 as it comes in four flavors Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Visual...

With a little over a month to go before Microsoft’s biggest and best developer event, I wanted to pick out which PDC sessions look super interesting ( to me ) this year: Dan’s picks Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp (Mark Russinovich, Arun Kishan...

While it’s sad that Popfly is going away, it’s cool that the Popfly team put out (an unsupported) tool, Popfly Game Downloader, that enables you to download and run Popfly games offline. - Step-by-Step instructions on Coding4Fun - Project on MSDN Code...

After much ado, we finally launched TweetCraft , one of our new Coding4Fun applications. Shout-outs to the other members of the TweetCraft team - Gabor Ratky, Mike Sampson and Lincoln Anderson for building a kick-ass v1. TweetCraft Overview ...

Hey folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for the world to download and here's your cheat sheet of links you'll want to know about Download: Visual Studio Team System Beta 1, Web installer , VSTS Beta 1 ISO , .NET Framework 4.0 Beta...

Today we announced TwitterDrive, a free, open source application that will revolutionize cloud storage and cloud applications as we know it. Here is an interview with the TweetDrive creator, Brian Peek with the full details. What is it? TweetDrive...

  Available now on Amazon.com for $26 (34% off!)   Our Coding4Fun book , Coding4Fun 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and More officially released to the world last week. Unlike your typical .NET development...

With PDC just about a week over, it's about time I finally got around to blogging about it. Here's the random list Windows Azure : Ray Ozzie launched Windows Azure and Microsoft's Cloud Strategy (video here). Charles on Channel 9 did a bunch of videos...

As Sara mentioned in the CodePlex blog, we're having a CodePlex meetup at PDC on Wednesday from 1:30 - 2:30pm where volunteers will be able to show off their Codeplex projects and you'll be able to check out demos of new CodePlex features and give the...

Since I'm a Visual Studio fanboy, I love hearing about the future of Visual Studio, now officially named Visual Studio 2010.  While the team is taking a measured approach to disclosure, something they haven't done in VS 2005/2008, I did get the scoop...

Today we officially announced that PDC is the first time Microsoft will be discussing Windows 7 in-depth. The big announcements are that: Steve Sinofsky will keynote on Tuesday at PDC There are 21 sessions on Windows 7 at PDC on everything from kernel...

Congrats to the Popfly team for moving Popfly Game Creator from alpha to Beta and adding a bunch of handy features. For the full rundown, check out the Popfly Team Blog . Here's a few of my favorite features Inserting images into a game Alpha (before...

Scott Hanselman recently blogged about "Ninjas on fire" as a way to describe being overwhelmed at work, here's a snippet from his post on the origin: Jesse asked me how I was doing yesterday and I replied "Ninjas on fire, man." Four...

For World of Warcraft developers looking to build AddOns, a BETA version of AddOn Studio is now available! Here's an interview and demo with Attila Kisko and Gabor Ratky on AddOn Studio. Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft...

Hey folks, if you've built some cool project, the Non-Pro team wants to hear from you! Send them an email !    

Kudos to the Popfly team for adding new features in their July update. My favorite features are the pre-loading of assets which will pre-load images, audio, video before a game starts so it doesn't lag out and the High Score service. The full list of...

Woohoo! From Joystiq , Bioware has officially spilled the beans that they are building a MMO based on the Knights of the Old Republic game. The first KOTOR game was amazing, clearly one of the best Xbox games ever and an amazing twist at the end...in...

Yes, it's Bill's last day, here's a collection of videos for your viewing pleasure: Channel 9: Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future Channel 9: This Week on Channel 9 with Jeff Sandquist and Bill Gates stories Channel 9: 'Softies share their Bill...

Margaret Rouse from the Overheard blog calls me out for dying my hair blonde: I’m a big Dan Fernandez fan — but I had a hard time watching this video because I kept thinking “why did you bleach your hair?” Now Margaret has nice...