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Microsoft’s Developer eco-system is arguably one of the best and probably lot more active than others out there. And the eco-system produces tons of multi-media content. But I always cringe when I don’t see an RSS Feed with Media Enclosures that users can readily subscribe and watch or download instantly. Its always left to somebody to help us out.
PDC 2010 web site is a nice Silverlight application. And absolutely no HTML fall back incase somebody doesn’t have a Silverlight plugin installed. And of course, no RSS Feed (yet) as usual.
Thanks a ton to Greg Duncan for providing a full list of Videos (with all formats available) and associated RSS Feeds that you can readily subscribe. Visit his blog post and access either the individual list or RSS Feeds of your favorite formats here.
If you want to watch those Videos on your iPad or iPhone, try MP4(low) format.
Active Player
If you don’t have a Media Player or Application that can consume those RSS Feeds and instantly playback, take a look at Active Player. Not only it help you subscribe to RSS Feeds, it also let you take notes, bookmark those videos or even create clips of those videos for sharing or review later. Here is a snapshot of the Active Player playing a Video from PDC2010 feed.
Active Feeds : Create an RSS Feed of your Favorite Videos
I built a small Google App Engine app, called Active Feeds recently to create your own RSS Feed from videos from anywhere on the web and share with the world. I quickly built a set of RSS Feeds for Videos available at ASP.NET to demonstrate. Next time, if you want to create an RSS Feed with your favorite Videos, check it out. The application needs lots of work to make it more user friendly but as of now is fully functional to use.
If you are tinkering on developing .NET Applications on Windows Mobile 7, here is a free eBook from Microsoft Press by Charles Petzold, that can get you started. The book is available in PDF and XPS formats.
Some more free e-Books for .NET Developers moving to VS 2010 here.
Just noticed that with Windows Live Essentials 2011 upgrade, Windows Live Writer also gets Ribbon style interface that became so famous and productive with MS Office applications.
If you have been using WLW for a while but haven’t used any MS Office applications that feature ribbon style interface, you are in for a big surprise and little bit of confusion.
If you are looking for all your Picture effects, they are split into two different sections: borders and effects. Click on Image to make these Picture tools/Format section visible.
Wow, its almost 20 years, since the first MS Office suite was released back in 1990 with three applications. Office 2010 is absolutely lot more visually pleasing and equally lot more productive now. Found this Advertisement that ran in Info World in the 19th November (1990) edition while reading on Wikipedia.
Source: Page 50, Info World, 19th November 1990 via Google Books
Of all software applications I worked on, MS Excel is still the application I love the most for its power, functionality and brutal simplicity. Outlook is still the most used application and its new feature Social connectors looks awesome.