Last Week on Channel 9: April 11th - April 17th, 2016

Here are a select 35 shows, episodes and post released by our authors last week...

SNR - Episode 5- Data Manipulation with R

This episode is all about performing data manipulation to derive raw insights from your data using the R programming language.  Data manipulation is the core to anything and everything you do in business intelligence and machine learning.  This episode sets the base for all R based intelligence sessions from here on out. ...

Introducing Microsoft Azure Stack

Join Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, and Jeffrey Snover, Enterprise Cloud Technical Fellow, to learn how Azure Stack will help you drive app innovation by delivering the power of Azure in your datacenter. ...

TWC9: Build & Edge on Demand, VS Code 1.0, React Native UWP, Windows 10 Updates and more...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad are back and discuss the week's top developer news, including;

• [00:39] Build 2016 On-Demand ...

A Future Look at Modern PCs

Join Microsoft evangelists Marlowe Daily and Kevin Remde as they discuss what makes a modern PC and peek into future hardware trends that are coming to market in the Windows device category.

• [1:26] How do you define an “old” PC? ...

What's New From Build 2016: Xbox One Dev Mode

Do you dream about publishing your own games on a major game console? Get caught up with the latest Xbox news from Build 2016 and hear about the different ways you can publish your very own game on Windows 10 and Xbox One. Use your own Xbox One console for development or apply for a dev kit via ID@Xbox. Harness the power of DirectX 12 and use a variety of tools to build your own games! 

One Dev Question with Raymond Chen - Is There Code From Windows 95 That Is Still In Windows 10?

The 'One Dev Question with Raymond Chen' video series is part of the One Dev Minute channel.  In this series, longtime Microsoft developer and semi-official Windows historian Raymond Chen covers a series of questions about Microsoft Windows development, team culture, and/or history.  If you have additional questions for Raymond, please add your questions in the comments section below.  You can also find out more development details about Windows and its history on Raymond's blog.

PlayFab - Melissa Benua & Matt Augustine

We're back this week with a new episode with PlayFab to talk about how the cloud can help make awesome games. Our guests are Melissa Benua and Matt Augustine. ...

2016-04-11 Mid-Day Cafe: Get A Handle On Group Projects With Office 365 Planner!

Want to get a better handle on your collaboration group projects? If so then you need Office 365 Planner! On this Mid-Day Café host Michael Gannotti is joined by special guest Mike McLean (Microsoft Senior PM Project) for a special session focused on Office 365 Planner. ..

Windows Server & Hyper-V Containers at the TechNet Virtual Conference 2016

At the recent TechNet Virtual Conference, Taylor Brown, Principal Lead Program Manager and friend of the show, delivered a great overview of our container technologies, and strategy, which, if you haven't seen it, is definitely worth checking out. Not only did Taylor deliver a great session, but followed up with a brief Q&A, answering some of your key questions around containers. ...

The Maker Show: Episode 10 - Adding a Coin Acceptor to Your Arduino Project

Have you ever wanted to make your own coin-operated arcade game cabinet, jukebox, or claw machine? In this episode of the Maker Show, Rachel Weil walks through how to wire up and write code for an Arduino and a programmable coin acceptor. ...

MyDriving Sample Application

In this episode, Robert is joined by Harikrishna Menon, who shows us MyDriving, an Azure IoT and Mobile sample application. This solution uses On-board diagnostics (OBD) data from your car to analyze your driving. The backend uses multiple Azure Services like IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, SQL databases, HDInsight, Machine Leaning, and App Services ...

In 81 Seconds: Microsoft @ Miami Mini Maker Faire 2016

Microsoft had a big presence this year at the Miami Mini Maker Faire 2016! People visiting the Microsoft Maker Faire booth got to get hands-on with a wide range of cool tech like XBOX, IoT devices, Mobile apps and Wearables. Makers got to see and experience technology that included Microsoft Band, Raspberry Pis, Phones, Games and more. ...

Video: Introduction to Media eXperience Analyzer (MXA) - Part 4 - Video Glitch Analysis

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder is joined by Jorge Novillo. They examine a video glitch scenario, and show how to use MXA to determine what caused the problem. ...

How happy are you?

This week Martin and Martin look at building an ASP.NET Core website that uses Microsoft Cognitive services to determine the emotions of faces in a picture. You can see the finished website at http://howhappy.co.uk and see the code over on Martin Kearn's ...

CodeChat 058 - Atlanta's Dev Scene

In this episode of CodeChat, I sit down with Tommy Patterson from the Atlanta office and talk about all forms of software development happening there - startups, students, indie developers... you name it. ...

Getting Started with the HoloLens

Get started now with HoloLens development! The HoloLens team has started shipping dev units to developers in multiple waves. Maybe you haven't ordered one yet or aren't even sure where to start. Tune in for a quick overview of the development requirements and loading up Galaxy Explorer (one of the open source HoloLens Unity projects) in the HoloLens emulator. ...

Human Interactive Apps with Kinect v2

In this video we cover the basics of working with a Kinect for Windows v2 to create a WPF game. The goal is to show you how easy it is to get started creating apps for human interactivity.

We start with a blank WPF application, add a reference to the Kinect library and the code our way from sensor to FrameArrived.

The Maker Show:Mini - How to use NeoPixels

What are NeoPixels? How do you use them? Why do they make your life easier? Get started playing with large amounts of LEDs easily by using Adafruit's NeoPixels. In this Maker Mini, you will learn how to use NeoPixels and how to install the NeoPixel library in Arduino to get up and running with some great blinky blinky gear.  ...

The Maker Show:Mini - Adding 3rd Party Boards to the Arduino IDEs

Ever go to program your Microcontroller and you don't see it listed under the boards in the Arduino IDE? In this maker mini, I will show you how to add third party boards to the Arduino IDE so that you can start to see them in your board list and upload your sketches to them. We'll use the Adafruit Flora as an example, showing how to add the board to Arduino and then uploading a sketch to it.  ...

Tuesdays with Corey: New Export Azure Resource Manager Template capabilities

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute shows off some new functionality in the Azure Portal - the ability to EXPORT a resource group into an Azure Resource Manager template! ...

DevDays Peru with Corey Sanders

El evento de tecnología Microsoft más importante de américa latina está a auna semana. Ven al Microsoft DevDays LATAM 2016 en Lima Perú para conocer, aprender y compartir con las personas que están creando la tecnología.  Te esperamos en Lima los días 21 y 22 de Abril. ...

Philly .NET code camp, 2016.1

Twice each year, the Philly .NET user group puts together a code camp at Mirosoft's Malvern MTC, and I've put together a video encompassing the events. Here's a glimpse at what you've missed! ...

LIVE with Pressboard and Tiam Korki

Pressboard is a story marketplace that uses data to connect brands with big publishers and influential bloggers around content. In this session Tiam Korki will outline some of the challenges he faced working with data at Pressboard to enable their rapid growth processing a few GB to a few TB of data and how Azure and its stable of data tools ...

The Maker Show:Mini - Learning how to Laser Cut

In this maker mini, let Dave Sheinkopf of Pioneer Works, introduce you to the wide world of laser cutting as he explains how laser cutting works, doing it safely, designing your files and starting a laser cutting job. Curious about how to use this tool to prototype or build enclosures, but wasn't sure what was involved? Now you can find out. ...

MVC in ASP.NET Core: The new kid on the block

So much exciting stuff has happened with ASP.NET lately. In this session Fanie Reynders focuses specifically on MVC in ASP.NET Core, a brand new framework for the next generation of the .NET Platform, and teaches us how you can quickly get on-board using it - even your current MVC & Web API knowledge.

Bringing your user's experience deeper into your app

In today's demo call, Gian shows Jerry several of the new experience controls he created for Windows 10, expressly for the special use cases around the Surface Hub. Part of the solution is to enable the enhanced inking capabilities of the Universal Windows Platform. But, also, to unlock the signature Windows experience of speech in a simple way.

Package Managers

Inserting wormable malware in packages in general and, specifically, Sam Saccone's warnings about the Node.js Package Manager (npm).

Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016: Remote Desktop Services

You will meet Clark Nicholson, a Principal Program Manager on the Remote Desktop Services team. As RDS is considered a partner platform, Clark and his team focus on the partner community which consist of the many global partners building services and technologies on top of RDS. ...

Azure's Open Source Journey for Cloud Innovation

Join Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, to learn what organizations around the globe are doing with open source technologies in Azure. From adding value to their existing datacenter investments, to exploring new paradigms to transform their businesses, Azure provides an open and flexible ...

XMING + Bash on Ubuntu on Windows = X11 Window System Running from Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux

Demonstrating Bash on Ubuntu on Windows with various X11 and GTK applications using XMING for hosting graphical applications running in the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux.

With Developer Commentary, Double Switch (Sega CD, Saturn)

During this brief episode, I compare / contrast the Sega CD version against the superior Saturn version, and wanted to give you a good idea of how the performance was on either platform. Enjoy! ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to deliver opening keynote at Microsoft Ignite

We're pleased to announce that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will deliver the opening keynote at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in September. During the keynote, Satya will provide his unique perspective on the technology trends shaping the future of business and enabling powerful new ways for people and organizations to work. ...

Defrag Tools #159 - Powercfg

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Chad Beeder and Andrew Richards discuss the Powercfg command-line tool in Windows, which allows you to configure power management settings, and analyze power and battery usage. ...

Thoughts on Microsoft Build 2016

Build 2016 had lots of great announcements.  Join James Sturtevant as he talks about Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, .NET Foundation's new members and Service Fabric GA announcements.  You will get to see Bash running on a Windows 10 machine and hear why the this is great not only for Windows developers but why it is good for the entire eco-system.    ...

Bonus Video: How to burn Arduino bootloader using an Arduino Uno board

If you have an Atmel chip without Arduino bootloader, just find a friend with Arduino board and burn the bootloader.

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