Month: November 2016

“NGA HR manages the payroll data of hundreds of thousands of employees around the world every year, so we take data security very seriously. We can assure all customers that Office 365 meets our internal compliance mandate and European data privacy standards.” —Read more from Russell Sheldon, CIO, SVP for HR consulting, application services and global technology for NGA Human Resources.

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This week on Channel 9, Petri Tapio Wilhelmsen and guest host Joris Brauns discuss the week’s top developer news, including;

• [00:17] Follow @jorisbrauns
• [02:21] New Look for Channel 9
• [02:42] Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
• [03:45] Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group [Chris Sells]
• [04:26] Connect(); On Demand
• [04:51] MSDN Magazine – Connect(); Special Issue
• [05:12] The expanding Visual Studio family of products [Julia Liuson]
• [06:26] Visual Studio 2017 Productivity Guide
• [06:53] Announcing .NET Core 1.1 [Rich Lander]
• [07:49] Windows Application Driver for PC integrates with Appium [Yosef Durr]
• [08:03] Choose Azure, like OpenAI did, to power your compute intensive workloads and add intelligent interactions to all your apps Nicole Herskowitz]
• [08:58] Celebrating 15 Years of Xbox [Will Tuttle]

Picks of the Week!

• Joris’ Pick of the Week:[09:52] Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.2 [David Catuhe]
• Petri’s Pick of the Week:[10:50] Vuforia 6.1 with HoloLens Support [Adam Kerin]

Admin Note: No show next (i.e. this) week, see you in December!

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Since the conclusion of the original Halo Wars seven years ago, we’ve followed the Master Chief on his numerous adventures, relived the harrowing tale of Noble Team, witnessed the rise of the Prometheans and watched as Cortana take on a new mantle. All the while the UNSC Spirit of Fire and her crew remained both literally and figuratively in stasis. Now, after years of planning, development and community support, we’ll soon rejoin that fabled crew on their next adventure in Halo Wars 2. To learn more about the game’s journey from concept to near-release, we spoke with members of the… Continue reading From Concept to Release, the Journey of Halo Wars 2→

In this brief overview, we present some of the new productivity features to come for Microsoft .NET in Visual Studio 2017, including improvements in debugging, unit testing, live code analysis, and IntelliSense. Continue reading .NET Productivity Improvements | Connect(); // 2016→

Are you using Excel Services for SharePoint to enable BI in your organization? —Read on to learn what’s new with SharePoint Server 2016 BI.

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Read how Marshall and Megan Dostal manage their personal finances with Excel.

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Starting Wednesday, November 23 at 12:01am EST to Sunday, November 27 at 11:59pm EST, Xbox Live Gold members can download and play The Elder Scrolls Online for free this holiday weekend! Adventure across the land of Tamriel, embark on epic quests, and experience the world of The Elder Scrolls Online for free as an Xbox Live Gold member. On November 23, visit The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited product page on the Xbox Store to download the game to your console (it’s about 80GB, so make sure you have enough space on your hard drive). Once complete, you can begin… Continue reading Play The Elder Scrolls Online for Free This Weekend With Xbox Live Gold→

On today’s Microsoft Mechanics, community manager Anna Chu gives a lightning tour of the Microsoft Tech Community, the single place where experts in the community can share, collaborate and learn about products and services across Microsoft.

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