Month: July 2017

Welcome to another edition of Next Week on Xbox, our weekly feature that covers all the new and upcoming games coming soon to Xbox One. This week has quite the variety of titles, like the return of Jesse and the gang in Minecraft: Story Mode Season Two, the stylish Serial Cleaner and the dystopian adventure Black The Fall — you can see the full list of titles below. Like every week, Xbox Wire will be here to let you know when you can play these exciting new games on Xbox One. So, without further delay, let’s look at what’s coming… Continue reading Next Week on Xbox: New Games July 10 to 16→

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

• [00:20] Channel 9: subscribe to show feature!
• [01:01] 7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017
• [02:26] Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.5 [Nikola Metulev]
• [03:58] EditorConfig Reference for C# Developers [Kent Boogaart]
• [05:35] Debugging the BotBuilder SDK
• [07:11] Building And Debugging The dotnet new Templating Engine In Visual Studio [Chad Ramos]
• [08:26] Design patterns for microservices [Mike Wasson]

Picks of the Week!

• Nikola Pick of the Week:[10:00] A programmer turned Wikipedia into a classic text adventure [Sam Machkovech -> Kevan Davis]
• Vlad Pick of the Week:[11:33] Dream.Build.Play 2017

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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all of the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you can feast your eyes on our weekly video show below. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox! Halo Summer Celebration: 4K, Backward Compatibility, Epic Events & More Summer is officially upon us! As the temperature… Continue reading This Week on Xbox: July 7, 2017→

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.Topics in toda… Continue reading Spark Performance Tuning – Part 3 | Data Exposed→

When I was growing up, arcade games were everywhere. Pizzerias, bowling alleys…  even convenience stores usually had a cabinet or two. Street Fighter II, TMNT, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and on and on. Every try mattered, and even if you died or lost, you always knew you’d have another chance, as long as you had one more quarter to spare. These games were designed to be hard (they had to make money somehow), but they were also accessible. You could take turns or play with or against friends and still have a great time. A lot of the time, I’d… Continue reading Creating a Community of Heroes in Next Up Hero, Coming to Xbox One in 2018→

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 N… Continue reading Using Narrator and Dev Mode→

Send Recurring Tweets Using Microsoft Flow Robert Crane has a degree in electrical engineering as well as Masters of Business Administration. He is a Certified SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Professional. Robert has over 20 years of IT experience, including working on Wall St in New York. He is the Principal at the Computer Information Agency… Continue reading Happy July! Here Is This Week’s Friday Five→

It may be a shortened week due to the U.S. holiday, but there’s still a fair amount going on at Microsoft. Join us for this edition of Weekend Reading where we run down the week’s top news. There are few issues more important than health. Meet those exploring new frontiers of collecting and analyzing health…

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