Stephen Walther from the ASP.NET Team joins James Senior to discuss an announcement: Microsoft is about to make the first contributions to the jQuery open source project! In the past 6 months, we’ve been busy working on three features: Templating, Data-Linking and Globalization. This video show demos of the contributions in action and how/when they will be available for developers to use.

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Explore the latest Windows Server release via a quick-paced demo-oriented survey of features with a focus on performance, Web, management, and other server solution scenarios. Learn about developing applications for “many-core” scale, using efficient “trigger-started” services, integrate solutions with the File Classification Infrastructure, and designing Web Platform extensions.

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Scott Guthrie discusses Microsoft’s relationship with Agile. Learn what Microsoft is doing to enable developers to adopt an agile strategy.

Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. In this video you will learn how to use the Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to develop using combinations of Java, Ruby and PHP in addition to the standard Microsoft languages, and how Microsoft’s commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform and the use of claims-based identity supports heterogeneous identity systems.

Microsoft’s open source forge CodePlex has just turned 3 years old and passed the auspicious milestone of 10,000 active projects (actually 11,025 at time of filming). We thought this would be a good time to sit down with Sara Ford – Agile Program Manager for CodePlex – and recap on the past three years, CodePlex’s current feature set and what’s in store for the future.