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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team goes ROGUE and decides to cut Rick out of the creation process in order to record his own #AzureTwC on the new AzureCLI tooling.Post any questions, topic ideas … Continue reading Tuesdays with Corey – more AzureCLI 2.0 Goodness | Tuesdays With Corey
After more than three years in development, from the first weekend prototype to this fully featured game, it’s my great pleasure to finally announce Lightfield for Xbox One. I admit, the “no limits” headline might seem a bit bold, but let me explain how this idea of no limits or no boundaries permeated the whole project from its start until now. Our story begins on a weekend three to four years ago, working on an idea inspired by the game Slipstream 5000 from 1995. We wanted to try a flying/racing crossover and quickly arrived at a prototype where you could… Continue reading Lightfield’s “No Limits” Racing is Coming Soon to Xbox One
Martin and Martin look at the Web Notification API to send notifications to your users via your browser. Continue reading Web Notification API | Web Hack Wednesday
Hear from the real Gene Kim. “Among other things, I’m the author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win and The Visible Ops Handbook, a researcher, and founder and former CTO of Tripwire. I am passionate about IT operations, security and compliance, and how IT organizations successfully transform from “good to great.”
Gene and Microsoft Regional Director, Steve Thair will talk about all things DevOps.
Continue reading DevOps: to Culture and Beyond | MVP Led TechDays Online February 2017
We’ve covered the UWP Community Toolkit before, UWP++ with UWP Community Toolkit 1.1 and Do you UWP? Then you’ll want this…, but this update it pretty special…
“The UWP Community Toolkit continues to grow at a rapid speed thanks to the ideas and contributions from the community. Over the last period, over 82 percent of the contributions came from the developer community (59 contributors). Thank you!
Today, we are happy to announce the largest update to the toolkit since the launch a few months ago!
You can get started following these steps, or preview the latest features by installing the UWP Community Toolkit Sample App from the Windows Store.
As a reminder, the toolkit can be used in any app (across PC, Xbox One, Mobile, HoloLens and Surface Hub devices) targeting Windows 10 November Update (10.0.10586) or above. The few features that rely on newer OS updates are clearly marked in the documentation and in the Sample App.
Here’s just a summary of what’s new in Version 1.3:
- Controls. Several new controls were added in this release, including some very popular requests from the community:
- WrapPanel. Positions child elements in sequential position from left to right or top to bottom, breaking content to the next line.
- TextboxMask and TextBoxRegex (attached properties). Allows setting common or custom masks (like telephone numbers) for input.
- SurfaceDialTextboxHelper (attached property). Extends any Textbox control to be controlled directly from a Surface Dial.
- MarkdownTextBlock. Embeds and renders in real-time markdown syntax.
- TileControl. Enables repeatable tile content.
- ScrollHeader. Builds upon FadeHeader and enables Quick Return, Sticky and Fade behaviors.
- Expander. Provides an extendable container to show/hide any content by clicking the header.
- AdvancedCollectionView: Builds upon CollectionView and easily sorts and filters collections before displaying them.
- Loading control. Shows an animation with some content when the user should wait in some tasks of the app.
- Services
- OneDrive service. Roam user files through the new OneDrive service with a simplified API model (similar to StorageFolder). The new service makes it easy to authenticate OneDrive users and more in the same consistent way you have come to expect from the toolkit services.
- Microsoft Translator Service. Translate text in 60 languages supported by Microsoft Translator Services. The free tier supports up to 2 million requests per month.
- We’ve added support for geographical metadata to tweets.
- Animations
- Light. Add light effects to your page or controls to draw user attention.
- Reorder grid animations (attached property). Add smooth animations when resizing a grid view.
- ParallaxService. Allows to create a parallax effect for items contained within an element that scrolls like a ScrollViewer or ListView.
- Notifications
- New toast features. Allows group toasts notifications (only available on Creator Update).
- Accessibility. With the support of the community, we started the journey to add accessibility capabilities to all the controls in the toolkit. You can track progress here.
- Sample App
- The Sample App now has embedded documentation (using the new Markdown control).
- The Sample App provide pointers to a few external OSS resources, for example, the newly released Windows SDK for Google Analytics.
- It is now available for preview on Xbox One.
- UserVoice
- The community can now submit and vote for new features on UserVoice.
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You may well have heard of Quantum Computing, a computing paradigm based on the rather weird world of quantum mechanics where a Qubit can be 1 and 0 at the same time. While it promises an enormous step change in the speed of some types of currently intractable calculations, including those that underpin our current information security technologies, it has always been 10-15 years away. But what is the current status of Quantum Computing research? Who are the players in the hardware and software of quantum? What will the killer applications really be? And is it still 10-15 years away?
In this session we will be talking to Ilyas Khan about these questions. Ilyas is the Founder and CEO of Cambridge Quantum Computing (“CQC”). Headquartered in Cambridge and with a presence in London and the USA, CQC is the world’s leading independent quantum algorithm developer and also has a strong focus on AI. Prior to establishing CQC, Ilyas was the founding partner in Accelerate Cambridge, the University of Cambridge Judge Business school’s highly successful accelerator programme. Ilyas is also the Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation and a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. He is a regular and extensive writer, commentator and speaker on topics relating to quantum computing, computational complexity and free will in the context of quantum information, and has a long standing interest in the philosophy of mathematics. He is a Life Member of the American Mathematical Society.
This session will give you insight into what Quantum Computing really is, what it promises to deliver, and views on when it might be a reality.
Continue reading An Introduction to Quantum Computing | MVP Led TechDays Online February 2017
“28 years, professor…” Though it may not have really been 28 years since Halo Wars, eight years is certainly a long time to wait and it feels surreal to say this: Halo Wars 2 is launching worldwide today on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! On behalf of the Strategy Games team inside 343 Industries, we’re incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work on Halo Wars 2 and for the patience of fans who waited so long to get their “ALL UNITS” on again. We want to thank our partners at Creative Assembly for their deep respect to the Halo… Continue reading Halo Wars 2 Launches Worldwide on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC
Severity Rating: CriticalRevision Note: V1.0 (February 21, 2017): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player when installed on all supported editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Serv… Continue reading MS17-005 – Critical: Security Update for Adobe Flash Player (4010250) – Version: 1.0
