CodeChat 068 – A Broad View of Machine Learning | CodeChat

Rick Barraza (@rickbarraza) works in the AI space at Microsoft, and is particularly good at communicating the concepts of the seemingly (and actually) complex world of machine learning.In this interview, Rick clarifies the terms machine learning (ML), … Continue reading CodeChat 068 – A Broad View of Machine Learning | CodeChat

New business apps in Office 365 Business Premium help you run and grow your small business

To make Office 365 more valuable for small businesses, we are announcing the preview of three new applications—Connections, Listings and Invoicing. We’re also introducing a Business center and adding MileIQ for Business Premium subscribers.

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Heritage plus technology: Fruit of the Loom weaves Microsoft 365 Enterprise into its workplace

“We looked at other collaboration tools, but we chose Office 365 and now are enhancing our cloud-based productivity tools with a move to Microsoft 365 Enterprise. It answers the enterprise-level challenges that we face around security and compliance, while fostering increased mobility, creativity and collaboration using content and data that contain intellectual property.” —Read more about Fruit of the Loom’s move to Microsoft 365, empowering employees to foster a new culture of work.

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Microsoft puts partners at the center of $4.5 trillion transformation opportunity

As we kick off Microsoft Inspire in Washington, D.C., the world is on the cusp of major technology disruption – and that brings major opportunity. Digital transformation is a wave of business innovation fueled by cloud technologies like the Internet of Things, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and data. Driving our customers’ businesses forward through digital…

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Visual Studio 2017 Refactoring Essentials

Refactoring Essentials, one of our favorite, favorite refactoring and analyzer extensions now (well, as of a few months ago) a Visual Studio 2017 extension and is also available from NuGet, which makes it SO much easier in using it with your automated builds.

If this is our favorite (favorite), then we must have covered it a few times in the past? Oh yeah…

Refactoring Essentials for Visual Studio 2017

The premier free Visual Studio 2017 extension for C# and VB.NET refactorings, including code best practice analyzers to improve your projects. It includes a Roslyn-based code converter (C# to VB).

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What? You don’t know what this thing is? A picture is worth 252 refactorings and analyzers…

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Last Week on Channel 9: July 3rd – July 9th, 2017

Here’s a select 19 shows, posts, videos and episodes from last week, here on Channel 9 (Funny that, give the post title… 😉

Lab: Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Streaming Analytics and Event Hubs

Why not try out the solution to this presentation yourself? Lab instructions are below, if you get stuck, watch the video for answers about the lab. This lab can also be found at: …

TWC9: 7++ 4 C++, UWP Community Toolkit v1.5, EditorConfig Reference, Dream.Build.Play 2017…

This week on Channel 9, Vlad and Nikola discuss the week’s top developer news, including;

Spark Performance Tuning – Part 3

This week’s Data Exposed show welcomes back Maxim Lukiyanov to talk more about 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 3 of his 4-part series….

Video Abstract: Project InnerEye – Assistive AI for Cancer Treatment

Project InnerEye is a new AI product targeted at improving the productivity of oncologists, radiologists and surgeons when working with radiological images. The project’s main focus is in the treatment of tumors and monitoring the progression of cancer in temporal studies. InnerEye builds upon many years…

Using Narrator and Dev Mode

Screen readers are often used by people with blindness or low vision to navigate apps. Use Narrator to test the screen reading experience of your app. Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (build 1607), we introduced a new developer mode in Narrator. When developer mode is enabled, …

Episode 103: Travis CI with Richel Bilderbeek

Episode 103 of CppCast is live! In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Richel Bilderbeek to talk about the benefits of using Travis CI for C++ developers and the role of C++ in theoretical biology….

New Azure Container Registry Features (June 2017)
Seth interviews Steve Lasker, Program Manager for the Azure Container Registry about some new features now available including; Azure Active Directory individual identity, Web Hooks and repository delete capabilities….
Announcing Azure Service Health

Announcing the new personalized service health experience in Azure management portal. Azure Service Health, available in preview, provides guidance and support when issues in Azure services affect you….

Azure Mobile App Overview

Michael Flanakin joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure mobile app keeps you connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. Check status, metrics, and important metadata or get the latest service health and metric alerts. The app is there when you need it and helps you resolve common issues and perform simple tasks when away from a computer….

Microsoft E3 Gaming and Device Announcement Walk Through

Microsoft announces new game titles for PC and also shows off a bevy of newly announced gaming devices at E3.

[00:20] – E3 game announcements…

LibraryInstaller with Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen show the code for a new Visual Studio feature that makes it easy to add client side libraries to your projects….

Episode 479: Nancy Gaines on Productivity
Author and consultant Nancy Gaines describes ways that you can increase your productivity at work and at home….
Welcome to MVA

Beth and Christina from the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) team walk you through mva.microsoft.com and explain what it’s all about….

Create an Azure Data Factory Instance

There a variety of methods that can be used to create an instance of an Azure Data Factory, this blog explores how you can create an ADF instance using the Azure Portal, PowerShell and Azure Resource Manager templates….

Snack Pack 15: Upgrading to Xamarin.Forms to .NET Standard

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 look at how to manage and upgrade your Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms based applications to target .NET Standard. We also see how to install existing PCL based NuGets into that library….

X++ Chain Of Command

This video introduces a new powerful extension capability in X++:  Chain of Command.

X++ is the programming language of Microsoft Dynamics AX / Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations / Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation Business Edition….

Access and Understanding in the Classroom: How Deaf Children Learn (or not)

For more than 100 years, investigators have taken a keen interest in language and cognition of deaf learners. In many ways, their research has played a central role in arriving at our current understanding of how deaf children learn and, indirectly, in prescribing educational methods deemed appropriate for them. Despite hundreds of studies and a new “methode du jour” every few years…

We are back! In this episode, Steve Carroll talks with Will Buik about our new MinGW experience in Visual Studio, as we continue to work to enable different types of C++ development scenarios in the IDE….

Tools for Xamarin developers

This videos shows some of the most useful tools for mobile developers:

Sketch & Zeplin…

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Start Your Summer with Deals from Xbox

The summer’s heating up and Xbox is offering deals on games, accessories and consoles! For $249, you can explore the world of Minecraft with the Xbox One S Minecraft Favorites bundle (500GB), featuring full game downloads of Minecraft for Xbox One and Windows 10, plus 13 fabulous, community-favorite content packs. Or for $279, experience the dawn of all-out war with the Xbox One S Battlefield 1 Bundle (500GB). Discover a world at war through an adventure-filled campaign, or join in epic multiplayer battles with up to 64 players on Xbox Live. If you’re buying a console, you can get two… Continue reading Start Your Summer with Deals from Xbox