Month: September 2017

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

• [00:43] Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017
• [01:18] The Ultimate List of C# Tools: IDEs, Profilers, Automation Tools, and More [Angela Stringfellow]
• [01:56] Ignite
• [02:11] Microsoft Tech Summit is back – register for a free event near you!
• [02:35] Save time using new developer tools for Microsoft Teams
• [03:42] Get a look behind the curtain at Artificial Intelligence [Matthew Calder]
• [04:38] .NET Core vs .NET Framework: How to Pick a .NET Runtime for an Application [Angela Stringfellow]
• [05:26] Devs Use ARKit to Make an iPhone Motion Controller for HoloLens [Ben Lang] (via Developer marries HoloLens and ARKit, produces terrifying child)
• [06:42] Azure Tips and Tricks Part 15 – Underlying Software in Azure Cloud Shell, Complete list of Azure Tips and Tricks [Michael Crump]

Picks of the Week!

• Christina’s Pick of the Week:[07:20] Anime-Style Illustrations Created In Microsoft Excel [Brian Ashcraft]
• Seth’s Pick of the Week:[08:46] An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich [Mark Russinovich, Seth Juarez]

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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all 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 above. Be sure to come back every Friday to find out what’s happening This Week on Xbox!   Continue reading This Week on Xbox: September 15, 2017→

Thanks everyone for attending and asking some fantastic questions. We strive to answer all questions and be transparent with both what we are building and why we are building them. Kevin’s next Windows Community Standup will be on October 10th, 2017 at Windows Developer Day! Kevin showed off how .NET Standard 2.0 works in a […] Continue reading Thanks for attending September’s Windows Community Standup→

Here at WeirdBeard we’re excited to finally bring our block stacking party game Tricky Towers to Xbox! For those of you unfamiliar with Tricky Towers, imagine stacking blocks but with physics, magic spells, multiple competitive game modes and multiplayer. You’re building towers as high as you can, trying to fit blocks below a laser beam… or in a new single-player mode exclusively for Xbox, you’ll be trying to build a tower fast enough to escape the ever climbing water! Other game modes include Race, where the first person to build a tower tall enough to cross the finishing line will… Continue reading Tricky Towers Now on Xbox One with Exclusive Single-Player Mode→

In this episode of On.NET, we have a special guest, Beth Massi, who provides us with her insight around .NET Conf 2017 and what to expect – there will be a few surprises so please definitely tune in.

• [00:20] Overview of .NET Conf by Beth, discussion around concurrent tracks with 40+ sessions over 3 days
• [00:39] Day 1 keynote live stream from DEVIntersection Europe in Stockholm, Sweden, with Scott Hunter, Miguel de Icaza, and Mads Torgersen in front of a live audience
• [00:59] Days 2 & 3 streaming concurrent tracks through MVA & Channel 9
• [01:25] .NET Core 2.0 release, .NET Standard,
• [01:40] Scott will discuss new features of ASP.NET Core, the .NET Core CLI, new features in Visual Studio for building Web and Container based applications, Azure diagnostics features, Azure functions
• [02:03] Miguel will walk through Visual Studio for Mac – he has a few surprises, it will be quite entertaining
• [02:34] Mads will show us Visual Studio productivity, like interloop, debugging, code refactoring, C# 7.1, C# 7.2, and a preview of C# 8.0
• [02:51] We have a couple of announcements – please tune in for details!
• [03:21] The history of .NET Conf: For the community, by the community, including a whole day of community speakers from all over on day 2: Red Hat, Google, PeachPie author, Bleacher Report author, not just Microsoft talking heads
• [05:22] Day 3 ‘.NET Fundamentals’ Track Overview: It’s all about the basics, getting started with .NET, C#, programming. We have Bob Tabor, who is a really great trainer joining us
• [05:47] Day 3 ‘Learn Web and Mobile’ Track overview: It’s all about getting started with web and mobile – we have a great set of content there run by our partner, Xamarin University
• [06:13] Scott Hanselman will be emceeing the community tracks
• [06:39] We’re also running local events worldwide in various 65+ cities near you, starting on the 19^th running through the end of October, so you can watch the livestream with others, (or alone in your pajamas if you prefer), some are Hands On Labs, we’re providing a huge ‘event in a box’ kind of thing
• [07:12] Thank you to our MVPs and our influencers in the community
• [07:22] .NETConf website quick tour
• [08:47] Thank you to our sponsors! Many are part of the steering group for the .NET Foundation. Shout out to Samsung who we’re bringing in to do a session on TV apps with .NET
• [09:28] How to get tickets to see the conference live in Sweden at DEVintersectionEurope
• [10:35] Key differences in this years’ conference versus in years past: the concurrent tracks being livestreamed, coupled with the keynote being delivered from half way around the world, are all new
• [12:45] Shout out to the v-team, people from the .NET team themselves, people in marketing, people in the studios, people in the community: Richard Campbell, MVPs, Javier Lozano. Being able to pull of these workstreams could not have happened without all of their help. The professionalism of the teams has really been awesome.

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Since the advent of consoles, developers have asked for ways to create games for one platform that you could run anywhere. With the release of the Expanded Resources feature in the Windows Fall Creators Update, we are taking the industry closer to that goal than it has ever been before. Now, developers will automatically have access to […] Continue reading More Resources for Universal Windows Platform Games with Fall Xbox One Update→

Hey, I’m Gabriel, the sole creator of Jettomero. I’ve been working on this game for over two years and I’m so excited to be launching on Xbox One today. Jettomero has been a strange game evolving very organically throughout the development process. It has drawn from a variety of influences to form what I believe is a unique and engaging experience. Developing the game by myself was a lot of work but it let me carefully craft all aspects of the game into a consistent aesthetic and let me take creative risks that otherwise would not have been possible. The… Continue reading Charming Gigantic Robot Game Jettomero Available Now on Xbox One→

Dushyant Gill joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Health. When issues in Azure services affect your business-critical resources, Azure Service Health notifies you and your teams, helps you understand the impacts of the issue, and keeps yo… Continue reading Azure Service Health | Azure Friday→