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
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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
.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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-Y9GhbUI4
SDN Cast 23 – TechDays 2016 on location Special Edition
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.
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