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SDN Cast 29 Week 47 News and Events – Happy Holidays, Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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Traditionally from a US point of view one of the main sources for news and information on Software Development is shutting down. It is the week in the United States where everybody is moving home to celebrate their annual day of Thanksgiving to eat turkey and much more than that. No one is releasing any news in this week or even the week after (we did find a few exceptions as you can see in the news overview below). The day after Thanksgiving retail stores start their big day of sales called Black Friday, who hasn’t seen the videos where large groups of people all run into the stores falling over each other and steal products from other customers baskets? Following Black Friday there is Cyber Monday, originally meant to do the same as Black Friday but now for online retail stores. Both days did merge a bit and we see a whole week of online offers on great discounts. What did you buy today?

Even though it’s quiet this week we did find some interesting news items and discussed it at our SDN Cast this week. The number of events is dropping around this time, Connect(); by Microsoft was about the one big closing event. The videos are currently available on Channel9 if you want to watch them.

Where can you find the 29th edition of our Dutch SDN Cast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36S3hboRi0U

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss a single episode. Usually we are broadcasting live on Thursday evening 8PM GMT+1 in the winter but it might change depending on how things go that week. If you want to be sure you better subscribe to our channel on YouTube or go to http://www.sdncast.nl to discover when our next show will be planned. It will show you when the next show is starting.

News of the week

New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online – November 2016
https://dev.office.com/blogs/new-sharepoint-csom-version-released-for-Office-365-november-2016
The future of SharePoint development
https://dev.office.com/blogs/pnp-core-team-on-the-future-of-sharepoint-development

MVP Hackathon 2016: Cool Projects from Microsoft MVPs
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/11/22/mvp-hackathon-2016/

Calling European game developers, enter the Indie Games Contest by December 31
https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/11/calling-european-game-developers-enter-the-indie-games-contest-by-december-31.html

Android N Encryption

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-n-encryption/

MSDN Magazine – Connect(); 2016
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/connect16mag.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/msdn-magazine-issues.aspx

Xbox One Game Streaming Coming to Windows 10 PCs with Oculus Rift on Dec. 12

http://news.xbox.com/2016/11/22/xbox-one-game-streaming-coming-windows-10-pcs-oculus-rift

Microsoft’s x86 on ARM64 emulation: A Windows 10 ‘Redstone 3’ Fall 2017 feature
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-x86-on-arm64-emulation-a-windows-10-redstone-3-fall-2017-deliverable

Black Friday
http://www.xbox.com/nl-NL/promotions/sales/black-friday/xbox-one-games
https://store.playstation.com/#!/nl-nl/black-friday/cid=STORE-MSF75508-BFMWD2016
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Friday
https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Monday

Events

Events Last Week

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

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

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

Events this week

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

Events Next Week

No events next week

Upcoming events

ASP.Net Core & Xamarin – App development end to end
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aspnet-core-xamarin-app-development-end-to-end-tickets-29122676710

VS Live 360 – December 5-9 – Orlando, USA
https://live360events.com/events/orlando-2016/home.aspx

SDN Event – December 9 – Zeist, NL

Soon we will bring you another SDN Event. You can now register using the SDN website for another great day filled with sessions and interesting information:
https://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/9-december-2016

Elastichsearch on .NET workshop
http://www.dotned.nl/dotned-bijeenkomst/elastichsearch-on-net-workshop/?id=120

Build in May 2017?

Ignite 2017 – September 25-29 – Orlando
https://ignite.microsoft.com/

We hope you like to watch our Dutch SDN Casts to keep up with the news in about an hour a week. You hear what is new and get fun demos on technology and Software Development that you can use in your daily job.

Don’t forget to Subscribe to our channel as we can get a better URL to remember our channel if we reach the number of subscribers needed to add this and make your and our lives a bit easier! And if you haven’t heard if you are the number 100 Subscriber you get something in return! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw?sub_confirmation=1

We are still working on our SDN Cast site, but while doing so we were able to stream the big Connect event live from our website through an embedded web stream on our main SDN Cast page. Go to the website and check when our next broadcast will be!
http://www.sdncast.nl

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

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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

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

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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!

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Software News and Events for Week 38 – JSON Web Tokens + more

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Another day on Wednesday, Thursday was again not an option for this week as we are facilitating a user group event on Thursday. A relative long list of news items and events and Fanie took on the JWT demo for this week. JSON Web Tokens, an open industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 20?
https://youtu.be/Of0yfODGlqc

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

Angular, version 2: proprioception-reinforcement
http://angularjs.blogspot.se/2016/09/angular2-final.html

Changes to Visual Studio “15” Setup
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2016/09/15/changes-to-visual-studio-15-setup/

Unlimited free ‘roaming’ in Europa
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-3111_en.htm

HoloLens Experience "Destination: Mars" now open at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2016/09/19/hololens-experience-destination-mars-now-open-at-kennedy-space-center-visitor-complex
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/things-to-do/destination-mars.aspx

Microsoft Azure Germany
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/germany/
Microsoft Azure Germany now available via first-of-its-kind cloud for Europe
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-germany-now-available-via-first-of-its-kind-cloud-for-europe/

Microsoft delivers version 1 of ‘Bletchley’ Azure blockchain as a service middleware
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delivers-version-1-of-bletchley-azure-blockchain-as-a-service-middleware/
Blockchain – Ethereum Private Consortium Network
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/ethereum-consortium-blockchain-network/

Google Allo Smart Messaging
https://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2016/09/google-allo-smarter-messaging-app.html

MacOS Sierra released
http://www.apple.com/nl/macos/sierra/

Android Studio 2.2
http://android-developers.blogspot.nl/2016/09/android-studio-2-2.html

TFVC Support in Preview for Team Services Plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/09/18/tfvc-support-in-preview-for-team-services-plugin-for-intellij-and-android-studio/

Microsoft Band App vs Microsoft Health
https://www.microsoft.com/Microsoft-Band/en-us

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt752379.aspx

Preview: iOS Simulator (For Windows) update 4
https://releases.xamarin.com/preview-ios-simulator-for-windows-update-4

Announcing the DotNetCompilerPlatform 1.0.2 release
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/09/20/announcing-the-dotnetcompilerplatform-1-0-2-release/

Java Language Support for Visual Studio Code has landed
http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/19/java-language-support-for-visual-studio-code-has-landed/
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redhat.java

Events

Last week’s events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12th!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Emerging Tech Virtual Summit – September 12th
https://t.co/QbiLdly8uN

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Node.js Interactive Europe – September 15-18 2016
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive-europe

This 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

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

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

Upcoming events

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

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

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

Dutch .NET Group – October 18th – Utrecht

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

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

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

Demo time

Fanie Reynders this week demo’ed JWT. This is short for JSON Web Tokens, an open industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties. It shows us how to handle the exchange of tokens in a .NET Core application. A complex subject that for most people is hard to get but by going into the details we presented a complete running example explaining how to use tokens for authentication using JWT technologies.

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 also are working on our SDN Cast website, you can check that out right now but it is still work in progress! http://www.sdncast.nl

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Software News and Events for Week 37 – Electron and more

SDN Cast

This week again a day early on Wednesday, Thursday wasn’t an option this week due to other obligations. We still found a number of interesting news facts to discuss and demos on Electron, .NET Core, WordPerfect, Azure Portal and more. A full episode this week, and a sneak preview at our new SDN Cast website: www.sdncast.nl filled with our mainly Dutch SDN Casts.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 19?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2FRS2OnnGg

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 !

News of the week

Dot.net Core 1.01
https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windows

Service Fabric on Linux support available this month
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/service-fabric-on-linux-support-available-this-month/

Major Updates: iOS 10, Android Nougat, and Other Tasty Bits
https://blog.xamarin.com/major-updates-ios-10-android-nougat-and-other-tasty-bits/

Apps built using the Desktop Bridge now available in the Windows Store!
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/14/apps-built-using-the-desktop-bridge-now-available-in-the-windows-store

Bring your existing apps and games to the Windows Store with the Desktop Bridge
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop

iOS10 Released yesterday
https://maartenvanstam.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/apple-wwdc-2016-overview-ios/
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios-10/

Microsoft is “dedicated to mobile,” Dona Sarkar says
http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-is-dedicated-to-mobile-dona-sarkar-says
http://www.winbeta.org/news/here-comes-the-latest-windows-10-insider-build-get-ready

ActionGram now available in Store
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/actiongram/9nblggh5ftmt

Blocking out-of-date Flash ActiveX controls on IE11
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/09/13/blocking-out-of-date-flash

Events

Last week’s events

IFA

http://b2b.ifa-berlin.com
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/01/innovative-devices-from-microsoft-partners-bring-windows-10-experiences-to-life

Centric Tech Event 2016 – September 7th – CineMec Ede
https://www.evensi.nl/centric-tech-event-2016-bezoek-de-microsoft-update-van-het/184045528

AmsterdamJS – The Comeback Edition – September 8- Amsterdam
https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamJS/events/233107619/

This week’s events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12th!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Emerging Tech Virtual Summit – September 12th
https://t.co/QbiLdly8uN

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Node.js Interactive Europe – September 15-18 2016
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/node-interactive-europe

Next week 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

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

Upcoming events

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

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

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

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

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

Demo time

Fanie Reynders this week demo’ed Azure Portal, showing many new options in Azure Portal. Maarten van Stam was updating .NET Core (www.dot.net) 1.0.1 live on the show and shows the new trend, developing JavaScript Desktop applications using Electron (http://electron.atom.io). It’s cross platform to build Desktop Applications. Many large applications already have been in the open already and a good example for that is Microsoft Visual Studio Code. This runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. In the meantime, Marcel Meijer surprised us with a WordPerfect demo. The underwater screen is back from where it came from. So watch the show for a great impression, but you need to speak Dutch ;-).

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

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Software News and Events for Week 36 – Windows Wedding Day?

SDN Cast

A day early, today we recorded our Dutch SDN Cast live from our own home locations. Last week we recorded our SDN Cast on location at venue Hotel Oud London in Zeist to introduce our quarterly SDN Event. As usual we discussed the news and events for this week and tried to hook into the Apple Event while we were casting our show.

Just before going live I updated my broadcasting PC to Microsoft Anniversary and due to having a Dutch system I was redirected to an information page explaining I was eligible to install “Microsoft Wedding day” and my machine was ready to install “Microsoft Birthday” edition. An example of how machine translations messed up … The upside is that it was fun to read providing a good laugh. I won’t laugh too loud though as I probably make similar mistakes translating Dutch to English resulting in Denglisch J. Obviously it is not easy to translate Anniversary into the Dutch equivalent.

For my Dutch readers, here is the info provided:

Microsoft Trouwdag

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 18?
https://youtu.be/Rpv3ZrmM8OY

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 !

News of the week

Announcing a Microsoft .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2016/09/01/announcing-an-ongoing-microsoft-net-core-and-asp-net-core-bug-bounty

The Web Clipper Goes Open-Source
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/onenotedev/2016/08/31/the-web-clipper-goes-open-source

Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure, Second Edition
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/09/01/free-ebook-microsoft-azure-essentials-fundamentals-of-azure-second-edition/

10k Apart – Inspiring the Web with Just 10k
https://a-k-apart.com/

New Dev Center Capabilities
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/08/29/new-dev-center-capabilities

Official Docker Images by Microsoft
https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/

Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and Linux now available
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2016/08/30/microsoft-data-science-virtual-machine-for-windows-and-linux-now-available

Desktop App Converter Preview (Project Centennial)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53614

Xamarin.Forms now has a Mac front-end on GitHub
https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/773234995473244160/photo/1

Xamarin.Android 7.0 Now With More Nougat
We’re excited to announce that we have published Xamarin.Android support for Android 7.0 for both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio.
https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-android-7-0-now-with-more-nougat

Apple Event

This week we have tough competition with our SDN Cast. At the same time of our Cast there was the Apple Event announcing a new Apple Watch, the iPhone 7, wireless earbuds. Every now and then we picked up some pricing or news items from the Apple show. We are not forgetting that a large part of Software Development is targeting Apple devices so it has our attention!
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/
https://youtu.be/_OMFCLQztMg

New version Wordperfect
Yes, after all this years, from being the largest text editor to a minor player today they still exist. And now there was a new version announced. Old times are back again! Do you remember what F7 will do?

http://www.wordperfect.com/en

Events

Last week’s events

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

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

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

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This week’s events

IFA
http://b2b.ifa-berlin.com

Look at all the cute machines they all announced around IFA
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/01/innovative-devices-from-microsoft-partners-bring-windows-10-experiences-to-life

Centric Tech Event 2016 – September 7th – CineMec Ede
https://www.evensi.nl/centric-tech-event-2016-bezoek-de-microsoft-update-van-het/184045528

AmsterdamJS – The Comeback Edition – September 8th – Amsterdam
https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamJS/events/233107619/

Next week events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12th!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Emerging Tech Virtual Summit – September 12th
https://t.co/QbiLdly8uN

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

Upcoming 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

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

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

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

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

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

Demo time

Fanie Reynders gave a short intro on Code Connect and Alive, tooling to enhance your Visual Studio experience and showing what the guys were doing just before going over to Microsoft. Let’s wait and see how acquiring Code Connect will turn out in the near future.

http://blog.comealive.io/Code-Connect-Joins-Microsoft/

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 to 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

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Software News and Events for Week 35

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This week we recorded our Dutch SDN Cast live on location at venue Hotel Oud London in Zeist as intro for our quarterly SDN Event. As usual we discuss the news and events for this week but today also a short intro on the speakers at our SDN event.

It is our first on venue recording so we had no clue to what to bring and how to get this to work. I’ll promise, next recordings will slowly get better once we know how to get our gear functioning properly J.

Where can you find the Dutch SDN Cast edition 17?
https://youtu.be/yEJ1IWgKmhU

Subscribe to our channel so you won’t miss our broadcast. Usually we broadcast live every Thursday evening 20:00 GMT+2 (may vary) but to make sure you best Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oE_YPB4AJVQSInC-yy3pw !

News of the week

Paid extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2016/08/30/paid-extension-in-the-visual-studio-marketplace/

Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 now available as a partner delivered cloud service

https://blogs.windows.com/business/2016/09/01/windows-10-enterprise-e3-and-e5-now-available-as-a-partner-delivered-cloud-service

Announcing MSTest V2 Framework support for .NET Core 1.0 RTM
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/09/01/announcing-mstest-v2-framework-support-for-net-core-1-0-rtm/

Events

Last week’s events

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

This week’s 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
http://www.sdn.nl/EVENTS/2-september-2016

Next week events

Centric Tech Event 2016 – September 7th – CineMec Ede
https://www.evensi.nl/centric-tech-event-2016-bezoek-de-microsoft-update-van-het/184045528

AmsterdamJS – The Comeback Edition – September 8th – Amsterdam
https://www.meetup.com/AmsterdamJS/events/233107619/

Upcoming events

TechDays Online—Starting September 12!
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/08/24/techdays-online-starting-september-12/

Hands-on Azure Service Fabric
http://www.meetup.com/Dutch-Azure-Meetup/events/231591196/

Quintor TechDays Preview 1 – September 14th – Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/techdays-preview1/

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 21st- Amersfoort
https://www.quintor.nl/event/introductie-app-development-hololens/

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

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

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

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

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

.NET Developer Days – Central / East Europe – October 19-20th
http://net.developerdays.pl/

SDN Event

September 2nd we had our latest SDN Event in Zeist, with all kind of topics software development related with great speakers. For a full list of our events schedule take a look at:

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

There is a list with all the abstracts giving you an impression of what it was all about.

We recorded a couple of our sessions (again, we are in the learning process to get our sessions recorded so we started by recording just a few to ‘test drive’)

Recordings:

Build Intelligent Bots with IoT on Azure by Fanie Reynders
https://youtu.be/WmxOSXqC7S4

[Dutch Recording] Continuous Delivery and DevOps – The Microsoft Way by Hassan Fadili
https://youtu.be/0x5c4o5ywWk

[Dutch Recording] Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery for Your Xamarin App by Gerald Versluis
https://youtu.be/4G-jvq0zTuw

HoloLens

Roy Janssen offered to show us the HoloLens to all the attendees at the SDN Event on top of an introduction session in the first session slots to give an impression what you can do with it and how to work with a HoloLens to create your own applications. Over the day everyone had the chance to try the HoloLens and personally experience what it feels like. His company can be found at his website http://semper-IT.nl.

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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.

Don’t forget to subscribe to 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!
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SDN Conference September 2015

Friday September 11th we are organizing another Dutch SDN Event for 2015 in The Netherlands. With four full tracks of sessions hosted in Zeist in the Achmea Conference Center on:

Microsoft Band – Roy Jansen

Microservices – Dennis van der Stelt

Reverse Engineering and security analyses – Michiel van der Sluis

DevOps and ALM – Hassan Fadili

A special ‘track’, a couple of sessions, on PowerShell with Claus Nielsen from Denmark and Eric Tummers

Cross Platform Development – Klaas Polinder

Extensibility with Chrome apps – Fanie Reynders

Windows Azure SQL Databases – Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski

OWIN – Dennis Doomen

SQL Server Source Control in the Cloud Era  – Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski

Distributed Systems principles – Dennis van der Stelt

Azure Websites – Eelco Koster

TIdTCPClient – Herbert Schrama

REST Web Services with XML – Bob Swart

and last but not least Stephen Ball talking about:

Azure Translator Services with Delphi

IoT and Delphi

InterBase XE7 & Change Views

In other words a lot to go and see in one day! For the full descriptions and to register, visit our SDN Event page:
http://sdn.nl/EVENTS/11-september-2015

Make sure you will be there, not only to learn but to network with peers as well or get your printed copy of the SDN Magazine!. See you there!

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SDN Event Speaker Request

SDN Event Banner

For our quarterly Dutch SDN Events we are always looking for people with interesting presentation proposals. March 28th of 2014 is our next SDN Event and already have received several proposals. To name a few topics (preliminary, subject to change):

  • Team Foundation Server
  • Azure Mobile Services
  • Roslyn
  • Windows 8/8,1
  • Windows Phone
  • Delphi
  • HTML5
  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    If you want to share your knowledge with your peer developers contact us: @MarcelMeijer or @aafvstam (me) and we will put you on the list to do your talk at the next SDN Event (or if that is a better fit for you one of the following SDN Events). We would like to schedule about twenty session slots with a wide variation of topics related to the complete software lifecycle so that means your topics can cover everything from initialization, design, deployment, marketing and end user support. In other words covering the complete ALM cycle of your software development projects including best practices, design patterns etcetera.
    Don’t hesitate, contact us … share your knowledge to the world!

Showtime: Paranormal Activity, The Marked Ones

Paranormal Activity The Marked Ones

The “Showtime” section on my blog is a reminder, mostly for my own reference but maybe helpful for other film enthusiasts as well, to remember what movies I’ve seen lately, what it was about and how I rated it in general.

Paranormal Activity, The Marked Ones is not part of the other Paranormal Activity series (Paranormal Activity 1,2,3,4 and 5 on its way to arrive this year) although it does include some hidden footage from Paranormal Activity 3 but is a so called spinoff.

The story is about high school graduate Jesse and he is experiencing weird things after his neighbor was found dead. He is curious to see what happened there and investigates the abandoned home of his neighbor. Not long after that he appears to be marked for possession and affecting the people around him.

The movie feels a bit low budget (the actual budget was $5,000,000 so what is low) and to me was not that thrilling. As with the other Paranormal Activity movies this one was also captured as if it was recorded using a home video camera (as seen in the The Blair Witch Project) and gives you a messy interpretation of what is happening. Overall not the best horror movie available and I wouldn’t recommend spending your money on going to the cinemas. Instead wait for the TV, DVD or VOD and watch it at home with a bag of chips and get on with your life. Four out of Ten I’d say …

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Last call for SDN Magazine Copy

SDN Magazine

If you would like to see your article in print, this is your chance. We are about to close the gate and getting ready to assemble the next SDN Magazine so if you have some copy to print on your desk still hot enough to put in print in the magazine contact @MarcelMeijer or @aafvstam (me) to get your article in.

Obviously when you miss the deadline, we are always looking for new articles, we just shift ‘em to the next one if you are too late :-).

The SDN Magazine is mostly Dutch but if you want to provide an English article that is OK too, as long as the article is Software Development related we are happy to serve that to our readers.

Showtime: The Wolf of Wall Street

Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street is this crazy movie based on the true story of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo diCaprio) working his way up on Wall Street from nothing to a successful stockbroker. It completely gets out of hand and turns into a world full of drugs, corruption, crimes and fighting the federal system.

The movie starts where Jordan starts to make big money and building his little empire of stockbrokers and at a point making millions in just minutes. Not knowing what to do with all the money he and his buddies try to think of all sorts of crazy things to do just to get rid of the money as it comes in faster than they can spend.

To be honest, the registration of all of this crazy stuff tends to be a bit boring after some time. You get used to all the crazy things, naked people running around, parties and other weird stuff and start waiting to get to the second part of the movie where Jordan actually gets into trouble with the federal government as some of the ways to earn more money wasn’t exactly done how it should be done.

The story was mostly told by Jordan and you are experiencing the things he is doing from within his head hearing his thoughts (somewhat like Stranger than Fiction, did you get to see that one?). One of the nice aspects in the movie is showing the differences between what Jordan thinks and what is compared to what happened in ‘the real -sober- world’. Martin Scorsese did a great job making this a movie with a lot of extravaganza in the world of excessive stockbrokers. Not a thrill but a joy to watch and spend a couple of hours in another space. I rate the movie Eight out of Ten, but maybe just a bit jealous seeing all that money :-).