Software News and Events for Week 34

SDN Cast

Another webcast (Dutch) with tech-news and this time a Docker and HoloLens Demo. This is week 34 and here is the news we discussed in our SDN Cast. The latest news on software development with both serious and light news items.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 16?
https://youtu.be/ILQd9Saol9s

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News of the week

Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/08/22/visual-studio-15-preview-4

What’s new in C# 7.0
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0

Why are we open sourcing our extensions?
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalmrangers/2016/08/17/why-are-we-open-sourcing-our-extensions
https://github.com/ALM-Rangers/Countdown-Widget-Extension

GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2.0 is now available
https://github.com/blog/2232-github-extension-for-visual-studio-2-0-is-now-available

Google Stops Chrome Browser Apps (Except for Chrome OS)

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html

Microsoft Edge and Continuum: Your desktop browser on Mobile
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/08/24/microsoft-edge-continuum

The Dick Moffat Technique
https://dmoffat.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/how-to-really-publish-excel-data-to-power-bi

Power BI Desktop Augustus Feature Summary

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-feature-summary

No More Ransomware

https://www.nomoreransom.org/

Fun: Xbox onesie
https://majornelson.com/2016/08/25/xbox-onesie-giveaway/?linkId=28048492

Events

This week’s events

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam- Augustus 27th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

Next week events

Announcing the “App Dev on Xbox” – august 30 live event

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/23/announcing-the-app-dev-on-xbox-live-event

SDN event September 2nd – Zeist


Our second Dutch SDN Event for 2016 with special guest Roy Janssen with his company
Semper IT showing the HoloLens for you to see with your own eyes what the device looks like and what it can do. In a special presentation Roy will show you what you can do with it. There is still room for registration for the event in Zeist (NL) so don’t miss it and register here:

http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Upcoming events

Fixxup – September 22nd
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14th

http://Codeuur.nl

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-21
http://net.developerdays.pl/

Demo context:

This week in our Dutch webcast two demos, the HoloLens Teaser and a Docker Intro. We asked Roy Janssen to give us a quick intro of what we can expect in his sessions at the SDN Event next week September 2nd and we also did a Docker Demo as a follow up of one of our earlier SDN Casts where we discussed the Docker Conference a couple of weeks ago.

HoloLens

This week a HoloLens Teaser to warm us up for next week’s event we organized: SDN Event op 2 september. Roy is showing us what you can do with the HoloLens and is showing what Augmented Reality is all about. Next week in the SDN Event session he will deep dive into the HoloLens in a special session giving an overview of the options you have to develop for the HoloLens by showing use of the tools and applications available. His company can be found at his website http://semper-IT.nl.

Docker

A couple of weeks ago we discussed the Docker Conference in our Events section. As promised back then, this week we finally demoed in our 16th Dutch SDN Cast Docker for Windows to show you how quick and easy it is to set up a running Docker environment on your Windows machine and use some of the images available on http://hub.docker.com.

We hope you like watching our Dutch SDN Casts to catch up in about an hour on the topics that are hot for this week and hear the latest news and see the great demo’s on technology and software development that you can apply in your real world scenarios.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw

Software News and Events for Week 33

SDN Cast

Another week of webcasts and tech news. This is week 33 and here is the news we discussed in our Dutch SDN Cast covering the latest news on software development and side information related to that for this moment in time.

Where is our Dutch SDN Cast to be found?
https://youtu.be/rOK-XKuV5OY

Subscribe to the channel if you understand Dutch and don’t want to miss another episode of our cast!

News of the week

Google is killing off Hangouts on Air in September
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/15/12490666/google-hangouts-on-air-september-youtube-live

Hangouts On Air moving from Google+ to YouTube Live
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083786

Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/17/introducing-the-uwp-community-toolkit
https://github.com/Microsoft/UWPCommunityToolkit

Announcing NuGet 3.5 RC
http://blog.nuget.org

Introducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/15/introducing-the-net-framework-monthly-rollup

Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/08/15/fewer-visual-studio-sign-in-prompts

Announcing HTTP/2 support for all customers with Azure CDN from Akamai
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-http-2-support-for-all-customers-with-azure-cdn-from-akamai

Customer segmentation and push notifications: a new Windows Dev Center Insider Program feature
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/17/customer-segmentation-and-push-notifications-a-new-windows-dev-center-insider-program-feature

Project Spark ended this week
http://forums.projectspark.com/yaf_postst214854.aspx

PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powershell-is-open-sourced-and-is-available-on-linux

Events

Events Last Week

Visual Studio Live 8-12 Augustus – Redmond
https://vslive.com/events/redmond-2016/home.aspx

Recordings are to be found on Channel9
https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio-Live-Redmond-2016

Upcoming Events

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Augustus 27th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

SDN event – September 2nd – Zeist, The Netherlands
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Fixxup – 22 September – Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://fixxup.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22nd, The Netherlands
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

TechBash – September 28-30 – Pennsylvania, USA
http://techbash.com
CodeUUR World record – October 14th, The Netherlands
http://Codeuur.nl

Demo context:

In the SDN Cast Demo we tried to get an old .NET Forms application to be ported to .NET Core by switching out the backend using Entity Framework Core and existing databases. This didn’t go all that smooth but got it to work in the end showing the principle of how to get your hands on it and show what kind of issues you can run into doing this.

Here is a link we used to get us in the right direction:
Entity Framework Core – Existing Database
https://docs.efproject.net/en/latest/platforms/aspnetcore/existing-db.html

Software News and events for week 32

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This week I collected the news for our SDN Cast again so here is the news for week 32 as we discussed in our Dutch SDN Cast Channel. A weekly informal webcast where we discuss the news, events and everything to know on what is going on in software land.

This week the news and events and demo by Fanie Reynders on his Open Source WebAPI proxy project he is converting to .NET Core..

Where is the webcast to be found?
https://youtu.be/79Sl2I-6o8E

News of the Week

TFS “15” RC1 is available
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/08/08/tfs-15-rc1-is-available

I Can Has .NET Core
https://icanhasdot.net

What I missed while I was relaxing this summer
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/08/05/what-i-missed-while-i-was-relaxing-this-summer

August 2016 evaluation Windows developer virtual machines
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/08/august-2016-evaluation-windows-developer-virtual-machines

Get a Windows 10 development environment
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

What’s new for Windows 10 IoT Core – The Anniversary Update
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Docs/WhatsNew

Microsoft Azure Stack: Upcoming Technical Preview and other updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/microsoft-azure-stack-upcoming-technical-preview-and-other-updates-3/

Microsoft acquires Beam interactive livestreaming service
http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/08/11/microsoft-acquires-beam-interactive-livestreaming-service

Preview: iOS Simulator (For Windows) update 3
https://releases.xamarin.com/preview-ios-simulator-for-windows-update-3

Events

Events Last Week

NDC Sydney
http://ndcsydney.com
https://vimeo.com/ndcconferences

Events of this Week

Visual Studio Live August 8-12 – Redmond
https://vslive.com/events/redmond-2016/home.aspx
Live on Channel9 now!
https://channel9.msdn.com/

Upcoming

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam 27 Augustus
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

SDN event September 2- Zeist
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

October 14 – CodeUUR Worldrecord
http://Codeuur.nl

Tip of the week:
A mix of Gist and Roslyn
http://gistlyn.com/

Software News and events for week 31

SDN Cast

Every week I collect the news for our webcast. I thought it was a good idea to also share the news here on my blog: The news for week 31 as we discussed in our Dutch SDN Cast Channel. A weekly informal webcast where we discuss the news, events and everything to know on what is going on in software land.

This week the news and events and as special guest we invited Dick Moffat to discuss and demo the latest tech on Power BI. This part obviously is English, where our webcast usually is Dutch.

Where is the webcast to be found?
https://youtu.be/PFKAdZqPYNM

News of the Week

Windows 10 Anniversary Edition Released
Microsoft announces Windows 10 anniversary update available Aug. 2
https://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/28/microsoft-announces-windows-10-anniversary-update-available-aug-2

How to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/08/02/how-to-get-the-windows-10-anniversary-update

Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK Now Available! Windows Store Open for Submissions
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/02/windows-10-anniversary-update-sdk-14393

Stack Overflow Documentation for Microsoft Developers
https://docs.microsoft.com/teamblog/stackoverflow-documentation-for-microsoft-developers

Botness 2016 Videos Available
http://fuse.microsoft.com/botness/botness-2016/

Unity 5.4 is out – here’s what’s in it
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/07/28/unity-5-4-is-out-heres-whats-in-it/
https://store.unity.com/download

Microsoft expanding in Middenmeer (The Netherlands) with two additional datacenters speeding up development
http://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/stadstreek/schagen/article28340696.ece/Microsoft-breidt-in-Middenmeer-met-twee-extra-datacenters-versneld-uit_ (Dutch)

HoloLens Development Edition Updates
https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/08/02/hololens-development-edition-updates-2

Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/02/announcing-net-framework-4-6-2

Xbox One S 2TB Launch Edition is Available Now
http://news.xbox.com/2016/08/02/xbox-one-s-2tb-available-now

API’s for #AzureAD Identity Protection are now available in the Microsoft Graph!
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/08/02/apis-for-azuread-identity-protection-are-now-available-in-the-microsoft-graph

Docker for Mac and Windows is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
https://blog.docker.com/2016/07/docker-for-mac-and-windows-production-ready

Announcing the general availability of the Microsoft Excel API to expand the power of Office 365
https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/03/announcing-the-general-availability-of-the-microsoft-excel-api-to-expand-the-power-of-office-365

.NET Standard Library Support for Xamarin
https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-library-support-for-xamarin

Events

Events van vorige Week

Fixxup 28 juli
http://fixxup.nl/#event_28072016

Events van de Week

NDC Sydney
http://ndcsydney.com/

Upcoming Events

Visual Studio Live 8-12 Augustus – Redmond
https://vslive.com/events/redmond-2016/home.aspx

Xamarin Dev Days Amsterdam 27 Augustus
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

SDN event 2 september – Zeist
http://www.sdn.nl

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – 22 september
https://www.afas.events/portal-events/levelup2016?_anta_mlayout=Single

14 oktober CodeUUR Worldrecord
http://Codeuur.nl

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