Opinions, tips, and news orbiting Microsoft
Redgate Data Tools are now included in Visual Studio 2017, allowing you to extend DevOps processes you already have in place for the application to SQL and Azure SQL databases too. In this demo and Q&A session, you’ll see Redgate Data Tools in acti… Continue reading Introducing Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2017 Launch
Seven new cars arrive in Forza Horizon 3 tomorrow, March 7 with the release of the Duracell Car Pack. Whether you’re looking to test the upper limits of speed in the king of Camaros with the 2017 ZL1 or you want to add a cherished Aussie collector piece to your garage with the 1992 Falcon GT, this car pack has a diverse mix that’s sure to please fans of every stripe. The Duracell Car Pack is the final pack included in the Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass, which is available for separate purchase or as part of the Forza Horizon… Continue reading The Duracell Car Pack Rolls into Forza Horizon 3 Tomorrow
Deutsche Börse Group, the leading stock exchange in Germany and one of the largest exchange organizations worldwide, impressed with Microsoft’s regulatory compliance support, adopts Office 365. —Read Ron Markezich’s announcement.
The post Moving to the cloud with confidence—Deutsche Börse Group chooses Office 365 appeared first on Office Blogs.
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Carol Nichols, a web developer, shares why her current language of choice is Rust. See why this new systems programming language that provides memory safety, static typing, no null pointers, a package manager, and Windows support is exciting and innovative. Some links:
Enjoy!!
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In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder is joined by Jeffrey Tippet from the Windows Networking team to talk about how to debug networking problems in NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) using the !ndiskd debugger extension in WinDbg.Res… Continue reading Defrag Tools #175 – Debugging the Network Stack | Defrag Tools
Tomorrow is the big day for Visual Studio 2017. And not only do we get our hands on the bits, there’s a two day launch event as well! Keynotes, technical sessions with the Visual Studio engineers and a full day of training too!
“We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 2017 will be available for download on Tuesday, March 7, 2017! Join us online for a two-day virtual event celebrating 20 years of Visual Studio and our latest release.
On March 7, watch our live stream with Julia Liuson, Brian Harry, Miguel de Icaza, and Scott Hanselman as they share the newest innovations in Visual Studio, .NET, Xamarin, Azure, and more. After the keynote, Microsoft engineers will lead interactive technical demo sessions to help you get the most out of Visual Studio 2017 and the rest of our tools and platform.
On March 8, we’ll help you get productive even faster by hosting a full day of live interactive trainings. Make sure to Save the Date for both days and sign up for the March 8 training now.
“Excited about the online Visual Studio Launch on March 7? Come back on March 8, and dive even deeper! Get free and in-depth interactive training, covering both application and web development topics. Learn from some of our best instructors, coming together from Xamarin University, Microsoft Virtual Academy, LinkedIn Learning, Treehouse, MVPs, and Microsoft engineering product teams.
Find out what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 for Android, iOS, and Windows developers. Get an introduction to new capabilities in the Xamarin platform, and then explore Xamarin Inspector, workbooks, and Xamarin Test Recorder. Plus, get the details on Windows Desktop Bridge, XAML enhancements for Windows 10 UWP apps, and how to expand your mobile apps with Microsoft Graph. Be sure to tune in!
Application Developers:
- 8–9am “Building native iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C# with Visual Studio”
- 9–10am “Visualize and debug your live application with Xamarin Inspector and Workbooks”
- 10–11am “Analyze and optimize your mobile application with the Visual Studio and Xamarin Profilers”
- 11am–12pm “Create and deploy automated UI tests with Xamarin Test Recorder”
- 12–1pm “Bring your PC software to the Windows Store with the Desktop Bridge”
- 1–2pm “Enhance the UX in your Windows 10 app using new effects, animation, and controls from XAML and the Visual Layer”
- 2–3pm “Building organization apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and the web using Microsoft Graph”
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“Excited about the online Visual Studio Launch on March 7? Come back on March 8, and dive even deeper! Get free and in-depth interactive training, covering both application and web development topics. Learn from some of our best instructors, coming together from Xamarin University, Microsoft Virtual Academy, LinkedIn Learning, Treehouse, MVPs, and Microsoft engineering product teams.
Find out what’s new in Visual Studio 2017 for web developers. Get an introduction to the latest in the IDE, and then explore topics like ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, Angular 2.x development, Microsoft Bots Framework, extending Microsoft Teams, DevOps with Azure (CI/CD), and Entity Framework, along with how to add DocumentBD NoSQL database to your next web project. Be sure to tune in!
- 8–9am “What’s new for developers in Visual Studio 2017”
- 9–10am “Getting Started with ASP.NET Core in Visual Studio 2017”
- 10–11am “Exploring and migrating to TypeScript”
- 11am–12pm “Building web apps powered by Angular 2.x using Visual Studio 2017”
- 12–1pm “Create awesome bots, connectors, and tabs in Microsoft Teams”
- 1–2pm “DevOps from the Azure Portal”
- 2–3pm “Top 10 Entity Framework features every developer should know”
- 3–4pm “Getting started with DocumentDB, plus demos with .NET & Node.js”
While this is supposed to be about stuff that happened last week, the big news is tomorrow’s Visual Studio 2017 Launch event. Make sure you check it out at https://launch.visualstudio.com.
In the mean time, here’s just a few of the videos, shows, posts and episodes from last week here on Channel 9
This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host David Catuhe discuss the week’s top developer news, including; ;;;
Learn how to make an extension that runs scripts in the context of specified webpages.
These scripts, known as content scripts, have the added ability to use a subset of extension APIs and communicate with background scripts. To learn more, go to http://aka.ms/EdgeContentScript. …
Jay Schmelzer and Richard Campbell discuss the latest testing techniques available with Microsoft tooling, including using continuous integration to rapidly deploy multiple instances of your application into Azure so that you can parallelize your testing and shorten development cycle times. There are also awesome tools for doing mobile application and web testing on a huge array of devices! …
Episode 87 of CppCast is live! In this episode Rob and Jason return from their break to catch up on the news. …
This video will show you how to create simple Xamarin Forms application connected with Microsoft Cognitive Services Computer Vision API. …
Lenovo recently walked us through their latest devices that are, or are about to hit market in 2017. Watch this video to get an in depth walk through from Lenovo on the Yoga 910, X1 Carbon, MIIX 720 detachable and the new Lenovo Legion gaming lineup. …
Phillip Carter takes us on a tour of F#, following the plan of the Tour of F# doc topic. …
In this episode of Azure Friday, Steve Lindsay – Senior Technical Evangelist for the Azure Developer Experience team, talks with Scott Hanselman and shares the techniques and tools he uses to interface with DocumentDB through REST. Steve makes available his example REST clients written in Postman(js), C#, nodes.js, Native Swift and Java. …
Software developers rely on many different media to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with others.
Recently, social tools have dramatically changed the landscape of software engineering, challenging the old-fashioned stereotype of the solitary and selfish developer.
In particular, we see the rise of the “social developer” with a participatory culture of software development forming, whereby developers want to engage with, learn from, and co-create software with others. …
I will present work that leverages user behavioral data to build personalized applications, which I call “behavior-powered systems”. Two applications use online user interactions: 1) WebGazer uses interaction data made on any website to continuously calibrate a webcam-based eye tracker, so that users can manipulate any web page solely by looking. 2) ….
This Week on Windows: This Week on Windows: we’re all about the new Xbox NASCAR app, importing your favorites from other browsers into Microsoft Edge, and Anime Month comes to a close with some great deals! …
Kim Tripp and Richard Campbell chat about the latest around SQL Server 2016 – including some awesome upgrade paths from older versions of SQL Server, all the way back to 2005! Kim also explores the advantages of the latest version of SQL Server, including new data types, fast storage and retrieval options and more. Kim leads the content planning for …
In this episode, we’ll continue our project by building out the store user interface for our player to interact with. We’ll go over the foundation needed to work with the UI system in Unity, including examining the Rect Transform and components such as; Canvas, Canvas Scaler, Image, Text and more. …
Robert Green and Richard Campbell talk about some of the cool new features coming in Visual Studio 2017. Some of Robert’s favorites include the ability to rapidly build and deploy onto Azure – built right into Visual Studio! You can see Robert Green on stage at DEVintersection May 21 – 24 in Orlando…
..This week, James is joined by friend of the show Michael Stonis, Xamarin MVP and Development Lead & President at Eight Bot, who shows us a different way of development with Reactive Extensions (Rx) and ReactiveUI for Xamarin. ReactiveUI is a MVVM framework that integrates with the Reactive Extensions for .NET to create elegant, testable User Interfaces that run on any mobile or desktop platform. Michael walks us through the awesome support for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac, and Xamarin.Forms applications. …
Join Bradley Bartz, Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Matt McSpirit, Evangelist, as they discuss what it means to bring Azure Services on-premises with Microsoft Azure Stack …
This week Martin and Martin look at the WebAudio API and how it can be used to generate Audio in a browser and it’s potential to be used to create visualisations. …
Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team is solo this week – showing off the new preview functionality of Azure Network Watcher. …
Hendrick Motorsports, which fields several prominent NASCAR teams, worked with Microsoft to expand the capabilities of its race crew chiefs with a cross-platform mobile app that can help them keep track of crucial race details. This web app follows over 1,100 tasks to complete a car as well as information for the crew chief from past race events so they can build that same car and add in what they learned from the last race. …
We talk with Bill Berry about insane Broadway tech, invisible IoT, and the IoT Gateway SDK. Amazon hires a Microsoft of people. And a monitor that automatically turns off when it detects Wi-Fi. …
Donovan Brown and Richard Campbell discuss DevOps – the practice of bringing teams together to build better software. Donovan talks about the evolving set of tools that Microsoft makes to help the DevOps practice in your organization. Meet Donovan and learn more about DevOps at the DEVintersection conference …
A couple weeks ago we got together with the Microsoft Alumni Network and threw a big .NET 15th birthday bash with former .NET team members & rock stars. We caught up with Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management for .NET, to share his excitement on past, present and future of .NET. Great times! …
Golnaz hung out with Roslyn’s Program Manager and member of the C#/VB team, Kasey Uhlenhuth!
This Kentucky gal talks about her interests within the industry, her aspirations outside of tech, and where you can see her talk next! …
Hi everyone! I’m really excited to be recapping our “Top 5 Office 365 Groups Insights” from our conversation with Microsoft’s Christophe Fiessinger, Senior Program Manager for Office 365 Groups, that we posted last week. Check out the full video here in case you missed it! …
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Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover the best games coming soon to Xbox One. Every week, the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console, and Xbox Wire will be here to let you know when you can play every new release hitting Xbox One. Whether you’re a fan of shooting, racing, or adventuring, there’s sure to be something for you to enjoy. So, without further delay, let’s preview the new games coming soon with Next Week on Xbox! Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands – March 7… Continue reading Next Week on Xbox: Upcoming Games, March 6 – 12
