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August 19, 2016

Software News and Events for Week 33

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 27^th
https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days
https://ti.to/xamarin/dev-days-amsterdam

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

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

LevelUp Mobile 2016 – September 22^nd, 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 14^th, 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

August 11, 2016

Software News and events for week 32

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/

August 5, 2016

Software News and events for week 31

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