Month: August 2017

This is week five of the Forza Motorsport 7 Garage and we’re bringing a huge list of cars to the game – cars that represent a worldwide sample of automotive excellence, with a particular focus on the best cars coming out of Europe. When curating this list of cars to reveal, we pondered the following question: what defines the “soul” of a European car? Some might point to quality, exemplified in cars like the Audi RS 4. Others will point to timeless design – think of the BMW 2002 or the Renault Alpine A110 as prime examples. What about incredible… Continue reading Defining the Soul of a Racecar in the Forza Motorsport 7 Garage→

This week’s episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Ashish Thapliyal to the show. Ashish is a Senior PM on the HDInsight team and is in the studio today to discuss monitoring HDInsight for the enterprise with the Operations Management Suite.Topics in to… Continue reading Enterprise HDInsight Monitoring with Operations Management Suite | Data Exposed→

This is the seventh of an eight part series where Robert is joined by Phil Japikse to discuss design patterns. A design pattern is a best practice you can use in your code to solve a common problem.  In this episode, Phil demonstrates the Adapter and Façade patterns. The Adapter pattern allows the interface of an existing class to be used as another interface. The Façade pattern enables an object to provide a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.

Episodes in this series:

• Command/Memento patterns
• Strategy pattern
• Template Method pattern
• Observer/Publish-Subscribe patterns
• Singleton pattern
• Factory patterns
• Adapter/Facade patterns (this episode)
• Decorator pattern (to be published 8/17)

Resources

• Sample code
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software book
• Head First Design Patterns book

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Hi everyone! We’d like to welcome you to Microsoft’s Redmond Campus on August 31 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. for our annual Pre-PAX ID@Xbox Open House! If you’re planning to join us, please RSVP to this Eventbrite invite to ensure we have you registered. You can play more than 50 awesome new games from amazing independent developers from all over the world, including seeing some of the very first games running on Xbox One X and Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets! We’ll also have a nice selection of first-party games from Microsoft Studios on hand too! And of course, we’ll… Continue reading Register Now for the Fourth Annual ID@Xbox Pre-PAX Open House→

As customers continue to look for faster, more efficient ways to run their workloads, Cycle Computing’s depth and expertise around massively scalable applications make them a great fit to join our Microsoft team.

The post Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing to accelerate Big Computing in the cloud appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

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Editor’s note: The following post was written by Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP Doug Finke as part of our Technical Tuesday series. Albert Duan of the MVP Award Blog Technical Committee served as the technical reviewer for this piece. You finished your PowerShell script, it pulls data from your database, and you want to make… Continue reading Rapidly deploy Serverless Azure Functions using PowerShell→

In this video, Sean McBreen gives us a quick tutorial on how to build Visual Studio Code extensions.  To learn more about Visual Studio Code check out the following links:Visual Studio Code Roadmap How to build Visual Studio Code extensions. Continue reading Building Visual Studio Code Extensions with Sean McBreen | Code Conversations→

Matt Nielson joins Donovan Brown to show off a preview of App Service Domain, which gives you a first-class experience in the Azure portal to create and manage domains that will be hosted on Azure DNS for your Azure services such as Web Apps, Traffic M… Continue reading App Service Domains | Azure Friday→