Software News and Events for Week 40/41- .NET, Dynamics and HoloLens

SDNCast 24

Last week Microsoft was in the Amsterdam RAI with their TechDays 2016. A two-day conference with lots of great sessions to learn a thing or two. Marcel Meijer, Fanie Reynders and I were there as well in the Experts Lounge to answer some questions from the community and to look at some sessions ourselves and learn. While we were around anyway, we decided that it would be a good idea to take some interviews with some of the speakers and record scenes from the venue just for entertainment purposes. You can go to http://www.sdncast.nl to watch the results of it. Keep in mind that as our audience is Dutch the recordings are also Dutch for the large part.

As we skipped the week of news and events, we covered this week the news and events for two weeks. Fanie couldn’t make it this week and he is also very busy preparing his sessions for next week at our Dutch .NET Meetup.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 24?
https://youtu.be/_jPmS0Bcl2M

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2, last week however we recorded at the TechDays so, if you want to be sure you better Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw or go to http://www.sdncast.nl to find out when our next broadcast is planned.

News of the week

Announcing #WINsiders4Good Give Month
https://insider.windows.com/Home/Give?wa=wsignin1.0

Announcing the preview of the Office 365 adoption content pack in Power BI
https://blogs.office.com/2016/10/10/announcing-the-preview-of-the-office-365-adoption-content-pack-in-power-bi/

Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog

Data Mining the 2016 Presidential Campaign Finance Data
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/10/10/data-mining-the-2016-presidential-campaign-finance-data/

Azure IoT Gateway SDK integrates support for Azure Functions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-gateway-sdk-integrates-support-for-azure-functions/

What’s new in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 for Universal Windows Developers
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/06/whats-new-in-visual-studio-15-preview-5-for-universal-windows-developers/

Code search and Exploratory Testing GA
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/10/10/code-search-and-exploratory-testing-ga/

Faster Visual Studio “15” Startup
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/10/faster-visual-studio-15-startup/

Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/05/announcing-visual-studio-15-preview-5/

Just released – Windows developer virtual machines – September 2016 build

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/30/just-released-windows-developer-virtual-machines-september-2016-build

.NET Framework Containers
https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/dotnet-framework/

Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.1
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/10/05/announcing-uwp-community-toolkit-1-1

Angular 2.1
https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Digital Transformation with Microsoft Dynamics 365

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/dynamics-365-first-look

Introducing the Microsoft HoloLens Commercial Suite

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us/commercial-suite

Events

Last week’s events

TechDays – October 4-5th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

The TechDays sessions have been recorded for the most part and are already available on Channel9:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2016-The-Netherlands

Our own recordings:

SDN Cast 22 – TechDays 2016 on location Special Edition:
SDNCast 22 Thunb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-Y9GhbUI4

SDN Cast 23 – TechDays 2016 on location Special Edition
SDNCast 23 Thumb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEubRoXHBe4

This week’s events

CodeUUR Worldrecord – October 14th
http://Codeuur.nl
Next week events

Dutch .NET Group – October 18th – Utrecht
ASP.NET Core & Xamarin: Gotta app ’em all
http://www.meetup.com/dutchdotnet/events/233731810/

We will be there in Utrecht again, Fanie is doing his session there with Gerald Versluis. We will broadcast the sessions live and try to record another SDN Cast on location. See you there!

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

Upcoming events

Windows 10 Event – New York – October 26
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/octoberevent

Xamarin Dev Days – Den Bosch – November 5
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-den-bosch

DevIntersection Europe 2016 – Haarlem – November 14-16
https://devintersectioneurope.com/#!

We will provide discount codes through the SDN newsletter!

Connect(); // 2016 // November 16-17
http://connectevent.microsoft.com/

Unity Connect – November 16-18 – Haarlem
https://www.unityconnect.com/2016

Xamarin Dev Days – Rotterdam – November 25
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-rotterdam

We hope you like watching our Dutch SDN Casts to catch up in a bit more than 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.

Don’t forget to subscribe our channel as with enough subscribers we get the option to create an easier to remember link instead of the complex URL we are forced in today for our channel! And if you haven’t heard, the 100th subscriber will get something in return!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw

We are still working on our SDN Cast website; this week you could see that we had our live SDN Cast embedded on the SDN Cast main page while running our show. Check it out but it is still work in progress! http://www.sdncast.nl

Software News and Events for Week 39 – WPF/XAML UI in PowerShell

SDNCast 21

It’s the Last week of September already and our twenty first SDN Cast week filled with announcements with one of the largest IT Pro events going on this week… Ignite! Just too many announcements to sum up but we will try to get some highlights here. Next to the announcements and events we also bring you two demos this week: Building a stub framework with .NET Core and providing great WPF/XAML User Interfaces within this ‘boring’ PowerShell environment. Did you know you can actually build graphical user interfaces while scripting your stuff in PowerShell?

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 21?
https://youtu.be/3gmZzfubZK0

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2, this week however a day early, if you want to be sure you better Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw or go to http://www.sdncast.nl to find out when our next broadcast is planned.

News of the week

· TypeScript 2.0 is now available!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2016/09/22/announcing-typescript-2-0/

· Introducing .NET Standard
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/

· Durandal 2.2.0 Release
http://eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com/durandal-2-2-0-release/

· Team Foundation Server “15” RC 2 available
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/09/26/team-foundation-server-15-rc-2-available/
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 15 RC2 is available and ready for production use

· Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface (Azure CLI) 2.0 Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-cli-2-preview/

· Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server now GA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-service-fabric-for-windows-server-now-ga/

· Announcing the public preview of Azure Monitor
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-monitor/

· Microsoft Azure Stack – Preview 2

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/

· Azure Networking announcements for Ignite 2016
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-networking-announcements-for-ignite-2016/

· Announcing Azure DNS General Availability
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-dns-general-availability/

· BIO-key’s Windows Hello fingerprint accessories now available at Microsoft Stores

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/28/bio-keys-windows-hello-fingerprint-accessories-now-available-at-microsoft-stores

Office Addin and Web Part Announcements

 

    • OneNote Online Add-In Support (GA)
    • SharePoint Framework Client side web parts (Preview)
    • Outlook for Mac Add-in Support (Preview – October)
    • Ribbon Extensibility in Outlook Mac (Preview – October)
    • First-Run Callouts in Word/Excel/PowerPoint (GA)
    • Word API 1.1/1.2 in Office Online (GA)
    • Excel API 1.3 in Win32/Online (Preview)
    • Mailbox API 1.4 in Outlook (Preview – October)
    • In-client store improvements (GA)
    • Deep Linking Support for Add-ins (Preview)
    • Admin Deployment (Updated Preview)

Microsoft Graph Announcements

    Support for hybrid environments
    Exchange 2016, mail, calendar, contacts (Preview)
    Webhooks support

Mail, Calendar and contacts entities (GA)
Onedrive Files and Folders (Preview)
SharePoint webhooks (Preview)

Microsoft Graph APIs

Excel (GA)
Outlook – Open Type Extensions (GA)
Outlook – Mailtips and Online meeting URL (Preview)
SharePoint – List and Libraries (Preview)
SharePoint – OneDrive/File Handlers (Preview)
AAD – Administrative Units, Identity Protection, Dynamic Groups (Preview)

Client Libraries

.NET (GA)
Android (GA)
Python (Preview)
Ruby (Preview)
JavaScript (Preview)
NodeJS (Preview)

There are a lot more announcements this week coming from Ignite, but we’ll leave it here for now. I’m sure we will get back on many of the subjects over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, you can watch all the Ignite videos at http://myIgnite.microsoft.com/videos

Events

Last week’s events

Quintor TechDays Preview 2 – September 20th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview2

How to practice TDD without shooting yourself in the foot – Dennis Doomen – September 20th – Rotterdam
http://blaakselectie.nl/overige-berichten/dinsdag-20-september-how-to-practice-tdd-without-shooting-yourself-the-foot-dennis-doomen

Quintor Introductie App development voor de Hololens – September 21th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

Azure App Services en Azure Functions – September 21th – Eindhoven
http://www.dotnetzuid.nl/Meeting/8/azure-app-services-en-azure-functions

Fixxup – September 22th – Utrecht
http://fixxup.nl

Fanie and I were there, it was a great evening to meet some of the other peers and learn some new stuff!

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

This week’s events

Microsoft Ignite – September 26-30th Atlanta
https://ignite.microsoft.com

Recorded sessions:
http://myIgnite.microsoft.com/videos
Next week events

TechDays – October 4-5th – RAI Amsterdam
http://www.techdays.nl/

We will be there, so if you want to talk with us come on over and have a chat!

Upcoming events

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

Dutch .NET Group – October 18th – Utrecht

ASP.NET Core & Xamarin: Gotta app ’em all

http://www.meetup.com/dutchdotnet/events/233731810/

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

DevIntersection Europe 2016 – Haarlem – November 14-16
https://devintersectioneurope.com/#!

We will provide discount codes through the SDN newsletter!

Unity Connect – 16-18 November – Haarlem
https://www.unityconnect.com/2016

 

Demo time

Fanie Reynders created an easy to use stub framework to use within your .NET Core projects to quickly test your application with some dummy information. The tool is available via Nuget and called Stubbr. Following the .NET Core demo Maarten showed us what most of us can’t imagine and that is building PowerShell scripts with an actual graphic designed User Interface implementing WPF/XAML. What you’ll see is that by extending the PowerShell script with additional XAML coding you can start building your own, nothing is too crazy, windows to interact with the end user but keep the power of scripting using PowerShell.

We hope you like watching our Dutch SDN Casts to catch up in a bit more than 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.

Don’t forget to subscribe our channel as with enough subscribers we get the option to create an easier to remember link instead of the complex URL we are forced in today for our channel! And if you haven’t heard, the 100th subscriber will get something in return!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw

We are still working on our SDN Cast website; this week you could see that we had our live SDN Cast embedded on the SDN Cast main page while running our show. Check it out but it is still work in progress! http://www.sdn.nl

Update: The title said Week 38, but it is actually Week 39 … time flies!