Automatically create process diagrams in Visio from Excel data

The newest Visio feature, Data Visualizer, automatically converts Excel data into Visio process flows, giving you yet another way to create visually appealing diagrams.

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Humans-of-Microsoft: Edward Sproull

Let’s meet the man who inspired this show – “Humans of Microsoft”.
 
When I first come to know about Edward Sproull, I thought I must bring his story to more people, it is such an inspiring and positive story.
 
Ed Sproull was 27 when he woke in the hospital, disoriented and hung over. He felt a searing pain in his left leg, and suddenly the memory of the motorcycle accident came flooding back to him. He had been racing drunk when the brake line blew out, and he clipped his leg on an oncoming car. His upper leg had been fractured in 80 places, and his lower leg had been severed below the knee.
 
Losing a limb was a low point in Ed’s life, but he didn’t hit rock bottom until 10 years later, when he landed in prison on a six-year sentence for drug possession. As he lay on a prison cot that first night, using a toilet paper roll as a pillow, he wondered where his life went off the rails.
 
Ed couldn’t see a way out of this one; his future felt dim. That’s when he met the professor.
 
Let’s find out Ed’s journey from Prison to Microsoft.
 
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How to follow along with our #MicrosoftEDU event

Our #MicrosoftEDU event is taking place tomorrow, May 2, in New York City. We invite you to learn what’s next by watching the livestream of the event here. The event will begin at 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time / 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. If you’re a member of the press, you can watch the livestream here.

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Watch an easy guide to everything AI on ‘Explanimators,’ a new video series from Microsoft Story Labs

Who says that cartoons are for kids? Artificial intelligence (AI) kicks off the Microsoft Story Labs animated “Explanimators” series about big, important, cutting-edge areas of technology that remain mysterious (if not just plain confusing) to people who don’t have an engineering or computer science degree. While artificial intelligence is increasingly all around us, helping people do more, save time and work smarter – let’s be honest – it’s tricky to … Read more »

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Breaking the Breakpoint Blues with the Breakpoint Generator

Willy-P. Schaub, of ALM Ranger fame, blogged last week that the Breakpoint Generator is now open source. Contributors Jakob Ehn and Utkarsh Shigihalli powered though making this happen for this cool extension…

What? You’ve never heard of this Extension? Well w,e can’t have that!

Breakpoint Generator

Automatically generate breakpoints for all the public entry points in your solution.

This extension enables you to generate breakpoints (and TracePoints) for any public method in your application.  This quickly allows you to learn the execution flow of new code bases and add debug time logging to your applications without the need to modify the source code.

Some important things to note:

  • The tool only works with Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017
  • The tool only works with C# projects

Using the tool

Once you download and install the tool, a new menu item “Generate Breakpoints” will appear under the Debug menu.

You can then choose which projects, files, and methods to create breakpoints for.

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The tool will by default generate TracePoints but can be configured to use a different default message or create breakpoints instead.

More information can be found in the blog post announcing the tool.

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Make sure you check out the repo, ALM-Rangers/Breakpoint-Generator

Interested in seeing more of the awesome ALM Ranger stuff? Check out Willy’s post, Where can I find the Visual Studio ALM Ranger bits? Bookmark one URL!

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Last Week on Channel 9: April 24th – April 30, 2017

The Building for Build continues, the C9 team is preparing for live streaming Build and studio is booked with people preparing their own content for Build.

Yet Channel 9 content continues to flow. Here are a select 23 episodes, shows, B-rolls and more from last week here on Channel 9

Episode 148: What’s up with Docs with Den Delimarsky

We talk with Den Delimarsky about the new docs.microsoft.com. Programming languages used late at night. How to work your way into the job you want. And now you can start judging who lives and who dies from self-driving cars. …

Gustav Chatbot for Conference

ASK PAM is a unified multi-channel messaging web app which allow any Hospitality organizations to respond, support and engage with customers using popular messaging apps, SMS, websites and mobile apps. Today, customers expect to engage with companies using their preferred communication channels that will vary from one situation to another, and consistent, personalized, real-time conversation is not only saving customers time while improving their overall experience, it also increases loyalty and drive revenue to the company. …

2017 Digital Difference

Highlights from the Microsoft Digital Difference event in NYC on 4/26 where Microsoft customers showcase how they use the Microsoft Cloud to transform their business. …

Inventory and Store System – Part 5.2 (Finishing the Inventory & Buying Equipment)

In this episode, we are going to pick up where we left off by wrapping up the logic for displaying items in the players inventory. First, we will fill up the inventory slots with existing items that the player has, then we will populate their currency. After that, we’ll make it so that the player can buy items from the merchant by hooking up an onClick event via code. …

Best of Visual Studio 2017 Launch

Join us for the top highlights from the Visual Studio 2017 Launch including: “Inner Loop” and “Shift Left”, new 3rd party add-ins now included, and how Visual Studio 2017 can  provide features and insights to a developer earlier in a DevOps process …

ExpertsLive 2017 – OMS is your best friend

OMS (Operations Management Suite) – what is it, why you should you care and how easy it is. I’ll run though a brief presentation, then I will run through a series of demos where we will set it up from scratch and then have heaps of fun by breaking things to see the power or OMS and how quickly OMS reacts by receiving telemetry data to me doing nasty things to Windows. …

TWC9: Building Build Badges, NASA Space Apps Challenge, Visual Lexicon of LINQ and more

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Jeff Burtoft discuss the week’s top developer news, including; …

Azure Monitor Notifications

Duke Kamstra joins Scott Hanselman to demo the new Azure Monitor Notification features. Duke shows how you can receive alerts via SMS, email, or a WebHook when Azure is experiencing an incident or when something is logged to your Activity Logs. …

Microsoft’s FY17 Q3 Earnings B-Roll Package

This broadcast quality footage intended for broadcast journalists includes footage of Microsoft’s customers and partners at Hannover Messe 2017, footage of customer demos at Microsoft’s Digital Transformation event in New York, and Microsoft campus footage. …

Surface Dial, Microsoft Edge Updates, and more!

This week we’re showing off the Surface Dial and the things you can do with it! We’ve got tips to help you organize your browsing life with Microsoft Edge and we’re getting down with Fifty Shades Darker in the Windows Store. Topics covered in this week’s episode include: …

Episode 467: Matt Soucoup on What’s New in Xamarin

Matt Soucoup describes the most significant new features in Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms and how he uses them to build cross-platform mobile applications for his customers. …

All About DocumentDB

Cloud, Server, Tools is a live radio show by 3 guys who build and evangelize Microsoft products. Join Scott Klein and his co-hosts Scott Hunter and Brady Gaster as they talk about awesome Microsoft technology. This is a show by developers, for developers and your source for relevant news across Microsoft’s products and services including Visual Studio, SQL Server, and Azure. Chat with us live, ask us questions, and listen to the guys who build awesome Microsoft products! …

Rearchitecting Visual Studio 2017

In this episode, Robert is joined by Art Leonard, who explains how and why Visual Studio was rearchitected to support faster and more flexible installs. He discusses the Core Editor, breaking up the product into smaller parts, installing workloads, the ability to install multiple versions of Visual Studio (eg Pro and Enterprise) side-by-side, early access to new features with the Visual Studio Preview and more. …

Episode 22: Kimono Designer for SkiaSharp with Kevin Mullins

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Kevin Mullins, Senior Content Developer at Microsoft, who introduces us to SkiaSharp, a cross-platform 2D drawing library, and the brand new Kimono Designer to draw and export SkiaSharp and Kimono code immediately into their applications. Simply paint on a canvas, add layers, nest objects, and then export immediately into Visual Studio and all of your Xamarin and Windows applications. …

MSSQL Extension for VS Code

This week’s episode of Data Exposed welcomes Kevin Cunnane to the show to talk about the Big Data Partner Program. Pranav is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in the SQL Server tools team.

No slides and all demo (we love that!) as Kevin jumps right in to showcase the multi-OS tools that Kevin and his teams have been working on. Specifically, Kevin is in to show off the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Notice that Kevin is running VS Code on a Mac! How awesome is that! Today’s agenda is simple; Kevin shows off the awesome MSSQL extension and then he discusses how you can contribute to it! …

Tuesdays with Corey – DockerCon Announces

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team asks Taylor Brown from the Hyper-V team to stop by and talk about DockerCon. …

Exposing Hive!

In this episode #3, Justin Scott talks with Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Ashish Thapliyal about the some of the cool stuff going on within Hive, a popular tool used for querying unstructured data. …

Interview with Maria Naggaga, Program Manager on the .NET Team

In this episode, Golnaz sits down with the amazing Maria Naggaga, a Program Manager on the .NET team who loves to draw Afros at http://ladynaggaga.tumblr.com and help the younger dev generation use our platforms.

GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. …

Add Custom Menu Items

Today we are going to add a custom menu item to the Dial. Hands-on materials and samples can be found at GitHub here: https://github.com/DXSurfaceDial/Surface-Dial-Design-and-Development. …

Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells

In February we threw a big .NET birthday bash with Microsoft Alumni and product teams. We caught up with Chris Sells who is currently a Product Manager at Google, and before that a Program Manager at Microsoft. Chris has been part of the .NET developer community since the beginning and he tells us a few great stories in this fun interview.  …

B-roll: Hannover Messe 2017

Intended for broadcast journalists, this broadcast quality footage highlights Hannover Messe 2017. …

Episode 2: Germany – Interview with Dominick Baier

In episode 2 of the MVP Show we join MVP, Dominick Baier, in his hometown of Heidelberg, Germany. He has been a tremendous contributor to the technical community and an MVP for 10+ years, focusing on Visual Studio and development technologies. Together we discuss some of his passions, including identity and access control protocols. In this video we also have fun exploring the local highlights from a native point of view. We hope watching this is as fun for you, as we had making it. Any questions or comments? Please don’t hesitate to drop us a line below! Who knows, maybe you will be invited to an upcoming video shoot with Seth next! …

A tour of Microsoft Classroom

In this session we will take you on a tour of Microsoft Classroom to see how these features work. …

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