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New People experiences—designed to help you more easily manage and communicate with all your important contacts—are coming to Outlook for iOS and Android.
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The Mountain Dew Car Pack for Forza Horizon 3 arrives tomorrow! This month we’re featuring seven very special cars, including two legendary classics, one from Australia and the other, America. The 48-215, otherwise known as the 1951 Holden FX Sedan, was a post-war breakthrough for Australian car fans, featuring the roomy ruggedness that Aussies demanded. For Americans, the AMC Gremlin X was a response to the fuel crisis of the 1970s, resulting in a car whose distinctive shape has become the stuff of legend. For fans who want a bit more speed, this month’s pack features the GT version of… Continue reading Rev Your Engines with the Forza Horizon 3 Mountain Dew Car Pack
Of all the incredible honors he’s notched up in a stunningly successful career, there has always been one which has evaded the world’s best footballer. Until now that is… Today we’re incredibly excited to share with you that a certain Cristiano Ronaldo will be the face of FIFA 18, coming to Xbox One on September 29! Not long after he was named the world’s best footballer by FIFA in January, we went to Madrid to spend some quality time with Portugal and Real Madrid’s finest. We set him up in the famous EA Sports motion capture suit and meticulously recorded… Continue reading FIFA 18 Fueled by Cristiano Ronaldo, Coming September 29 to Xbox One
In this episode, Kaitlin sits down with Natallia Dzenisenka, a young Software Architect. Natallia shares her story and tells young people how to achieve professional successhttps://twitter.com/nata_dzenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/natalliadzenisenka/htt… Continue reading Interview with Natallia Dzenisenka | GALs
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder talk about the new features of Sysinternals ProcDump v9.0
Multiple Dumps per trigger in multiple Dump Sizes:
Kernel Dump Support:
Complete Thread Stack – Kernel & User
Debugging the Kernel Dump
!process -1 17
Debugging the User Dump
~*k !pde.deep
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Today’s Visual Studio Extension is a Public Preview framework of VS plugins and analyzers that is meant to help you fall into the pit of secure code success.
One of the things I found unique is how the rules are created…
DevSkim is a framework of IDE plugins and Language analyzers that provide inline security analysis in the dev environment as the developer writes code. It is designed to work with multiple IDEs (VS, VS Code, Sublime Text, etc.), and has a flexible rule model that supports multiple programming languages. The idea is to give the developer notification as they are introducing a security vulnerability in order to fix the issue at the point of introduction, and to help build awareness for the developer.
PUBLIC PREVIEW
DevSkim is currently in public preview. We’re looking forward to working with the community to improve both the scanning engines and rules over the next few months, and welcome your feedback and contributions! You can find us at https://github.com/Microsoft/DevSkim
Usage
As a developer codes DevSkim will flag certain security issues and call attention to them with errors or warnings (depending on a very generalized estimation of the severity). Mousing over the issue will show a description of the problem and how to address it, and a link to more information. For some issues, one or more safe alternatives are available in the lightbulb menu so that the issue can be fixed with a couple mouse clicks. For issues where the alternative has different parameters than the unsafe API that is called out, guidance for the parameters will be inserted in the form of <some guidance info> (example, when DevSkim turns gets() into fgets() it adds <size of firstparamname> to cue a user that they need to provide the size of the buffer).
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Programming Language Support
DevSkim takes an approach that is programming language agnostic. At this stage, it primarily finds issues via regular expression, so rules can be written for just about any programming language. Out of the box DevSkim can find dangerous crypto usage in most programming languages and has regular expressions for language specific issues for C/C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and a number of other languages. We are growing our built in ruleset regularly, but we have also tried to make it very easy for people to write their own rules. All it requires is a passable knowledge of regular expressions and json. Details can be found on our Github wiki
Rules in DevSkim are fairly simple, relative to other analysis engines. The detection logic is a regular expression (based on JavaScript/C# based RegEx syntax – there is a translation layer in the sublime plugin to translate capture groups and other discrepancies for its Python based engine), though long term there will also be support for JavaScript based lambdas for a bit more sophisticated detection logic. The overall rule is JSON, with the guidance, suggested fixes, etc. all present. Below is a sample rule, and following that is an explanation of each key/value pair. An ATOM based UI is in the works to make creating and editing rules a little more approachable, but once familiar with them it is fairly straight forward to simply add and edit the .json files directly.
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And of course, it’s open source, https://github.com/Microsoft/DevSkim
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The major theme of the past week seems to be Build. Yeah, that Build. Why? Because there’s just SO much content, that it’s easy to get lost in it. So we’ve been providing highlight and “revisits” to help you find that needle in the …
That said, there were also a ton a great posts, videos and episodes last week. Here’s just a select 31 of them…
We talk with Paul Thurrott about his thoughts on Microsoft. We solve part of the uppercase/lowercase mystery, and apparently Swag is an acronym.
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Microsoft’s Peter Han shows off the latest Windows consumer, commercial, education, and gaming devices announced by OEM partners at COMPUTEX 2017. From beautiful thin and light laptops, to ruggedized tablets, 2-in-1s, and powerful gaming rigs it’s clear that Windows users will have a ton of great devices to choose from in 2017. …
Microsoft’s Peter Han shows off the latest Windows Mixed Reality headset designs from ASUS, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, and HP during the Microsoft Keynote at Computex 2017. These headsets, coming to market this holiday, use Microsoft’s platform to enable a single and consistent user interface, standardized inputs, and a universal app platform for developers. …
This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week’s top developer news, including;
In this episode, chapter lead Jacob is joined by Peter Provost who is a Microsoft PM that is also a MultiGP chapter organizer in Colorado.
Let’s build the next generation of network drivers! We are building a new extension to WDF that should make you more productive as you write your NIC driver. In this first video session, we’ll show you how we’re joining the productivity of WDF with the networking expertise of NDIS.
This week’s Data Exposed show welcomes back Maxim Lukiyanov to kick off a 4-part series on Spark performance tuning with Spark 2.x. Maxim is a Senior PM on the big data HDInsight team and is in the studio today to present Part 1 of his 4-part series. …
Learn about the data governance capabilities of the Security & Compliance Center in Office 365 with Sr. PM, Nishan DeSilva. See the demonstration of data lifecycle tools available out of the box in Office365. …
Luxembourg-based startup TadaWeb is helping organizations better understand online information by cloning key processes and replaying them at the speed of a computer. Hear from founder Genna Elvin as she outlines the pitfalls of taking advice and the benefits of finding the right partners early on.
In this episode of Azure Friday, Olivier Martin joins Scott Hanselman for the second of a two-part series on hybrid networking in Azure, which is key to connecting existing customer infrastructure into an Azure Virtual Network (vNet). In this episode, Olivier explains ExpressRoute peerings and describes the process for getting an ExpressRoute circuit to work for you. …
During the Build conference, I caught up with my friend Brett Morrison. Brett is an entrepreneur, executive, and hands-on developer, who has been using Microsoft products and .NET throughout his career. He founded startups, such as Onestop and ememories, and also worked for SpaceX.
We hope you were able to attend the Microsoft Build 2017 Conference? Did you miss it? You’re in luck, watch “The Best of Microsoft Build 2017 Webcast”! Software continues to transform the world in remarkable ways and developers are at the center of it. We have a “special” on demand version of our Best of Microsoft Build webcast where we have taken the best rated content, announcements and solutions, and consolidated into them into one hour live session Check it out today.
This Week on Windows we’re helping you get your groove on with a sweet new offer, we talk about Mixer, Microsoft’s new streaming service, plus we’re showcasing some of the sick new devices announced at Computex! Specific topics covered on this week’s episode include:…
In this talk, I will discuss how to relax design constraints in quantum information processing in two distinct ways. First, I discuss using principled approaches to statistical inference to make more efficient use of data gathered from quantum devices. Second, I discuss how to use efficient heuristics for experiment design to achieve practical control in modern experimental systems. Together, these approaches provide a practical path forward to more challenging and exciting experimental quantum computing tasks.
We have Clint Rutkas and Michael Crump, Technical Product Managers at Microsoft that look after the Universal Windows Platform….
Static verification of performance properties of programs is an important problem that has attracted a lot of research. However, most existing tools infer best-effort upper bounds and hope that they match users expectations. In this talk, I will present a system for specifying and verifying resources usage bounds of functional programs that use data types, higher-order functions and memoization…..
Rio 2016 shattered streaming records in the sports category, with over 3 billion minutes streamed. More than one-third of those who streamed the Games did so from connected TV devices.
Azure made this scale and reach possible. Microsoft goal was to deliver more channels and content in real time across all devices in a high-definition, glitch-free livestream experience. And this goal was did just that – and with zero downtime in all 19 days of the event as Olympics history was made. Azure’s records for the Rio games include:…
In this episode, Robert is joined by Steve Jones and special guest host Scott Klein to discuss database DevOps. Steve shows how you can use the Redgate Data Tools (ReadyRoll Core, SQL Prompt Core and SQL Search) that are included in Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 to extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development. …
Anthony Borton provides an overview of the Test Case Explorer v2 extension, and walks through how you can use it. The extension was created by Mathias Olausson and Mattias Skold. It enable users to manage their test cases and clone test plans and suites. …
Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. Today, we take a a look at the brand new IDE, Visual Studio for Mac. Everything you love from Visual Studio in a powerful native macOS IDE enabling developers to create beautiful native mobile clients for iOS, Android, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS with Xamarin and amazing backends powered by .NET Core and ASP.NET from one IDE. There is a ton packed into Visual Studio for Mac, so let’s walk through getting started!….
This is first Xamarin Online Training Session with MVP Yiğit Özaksüt. Topic is Introduction to Xamarin.
Learn how to use access token to invoke protected ASP.NET web services from Xamarin Forms.
On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, James Chambers unpacks the highlights from Microsoft Build 2017. The importance of AI and Machine Learning for developers is discussed. James shares his interest in using software for humanitarian efforts….
Robust Choice Cloud Solution Inc. is a startup company with a great portfolio of projects in several areas like: Meeting and Decision Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence for Emergencies, Sustainability Decision Support Tool and so on. One of their solutions offers, Cityplus.io, automates disaster recover resource obtainment to support affected citizens….
GoodbyeWorld Games is the Los Angeles-based studio behind “Close Your,” a first-person interactive short story. In the game, you live an entire life from birth to death and make decisions big and small that shape the outcome of that life. The catch is that each scene lasts only as long as you can keep your eyes open. The game uses your webcam to track your eyes in real life, so every time you blink, you skip forward: could be five seconds or five years. Life literally flashes before your eyes as you try desperately to hold onto each fleeting moment….
Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team recaps some of the cool technologies and announcements recently discussed at Microsoft Build. In this episode Corey talks (and Demos) the coolness of our new M-Series machines with hyper-threading and nested virtualization. …
For the next couple months we’re going to revisit Build 2017, each post focusing on different aspects and technologies presented. Not every session will be listed, just a select set, hopefully enough to wet your appetite. All the on-demand sessions can be found and the Channel 9 Build event site.
This post highlights a select set of sessions from the many (134!) pre-recorded sessions …
Bob Waltenspiel and Dave Phillips discuss the networking events, podcasting, studio management, and training that make up the IT in the D project, which occupies their spare time….
We talk with Vikas Bhatia and Shawn Henry about smarter device connectivity using project Rome. This is definitely the most pun we’ve had in a long time….
Topics on this episode:….
This video introduces Modern Backup Storage with Azure Backup Server on Windows Server 2016
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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! The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind – June 6… Continue reading Next Week on Xbox: Upcoming Games, June 5 – 11
