Last Week on Channel 9: August 29th - September 4th, 2016

Last week we held a great in-studio event if you're thinking about bringing your app to the Xbox One (or just interested in playing around with that), App Dev on Xbox.

Beyond that the new studio was busy with new episodes, videos and shows. Here are just a select 26 of them...

TWC9: Predator 21" Notebook, App Dev on Xbox, 10k Apart, Sell VSTS Extensions and more...

This week on Channel 9, returning guest hosts Scott Klein and Robert Green discuss the week's top developer news, including;

• [00:51] New Dev Center Capabilities [Bernardo Zamora] ...

Writing Your First Windows 10 App

So you've just installed Visual Studio - now what? Follow this quick video tutorial to build your first UWP app for Windows 10, and your computer will be talking to you in no time. ...

Ayende Rahien - RavenDB

Today we speak with Ayende Rahien about RavenDB. ...

Opsec, Bro

Being careful with what we post online, and our employees post online. Also, guidance on security awareness training.

Increase performance through Redis Cluster in Azure Redis Cache

Redis clustering gives you maximum scale and throughput. Azure Redis Cache offers Redis cluster as implemented in Redis. In Azure, Redis cluster is offered as a primary/replica model where each shard has a primary/replica pair with replication where the replication is managed by Azure Redis Cache service. ...

A Linear Method for Non-Linear Work: Our Data Science Process

All data scientists have some sort of a process to move a project from initial customer contact through to successful completion. Often, this is not formally documented, though we can point out when we are being asked to take short cuts that process, even if we haven't described the steps to our customers.

In this talk, John Ehrlinger (Data Scientist, Algorithm & Data Science team) walks us through the 7 step process for data science detailing how data science works along the way. These 7 steps were developed in response ...

Loading data into Azure SQL Datawarehouse with Redgate Data Platform Studio

In this introduction, David Bick and Tom Hodgson from Redgate walk through Redgate Data Platform Studio and show how it can be used to load existing data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse. ...

Microsoft Ignite 2016: Counting down the days!

With just a few weeks to go until Microsoft Ignite 2016, the energy is really building; in the industry, at Microsoft, and hopefully for you! Microsoft Ignite is sold out, so for the fortunate 20 thousand plus people who will be there, I look forward to seeing you in person.  

In my 15 years at Microsoft, I have had the opportunity to work across our entire enterprise technology portfolio. Many people know me from my prior 8 years, focused on Office 365, but today, I am working on our cloud platform, including Microsoft Azure and Windows Server, IT security & management. In my current role, I also have the privilege to lead our IT professional community and readiness programs. ...

ASP.NET Monsters #62: You are probably using HttpClient wrong

Retrieving data using the HttpClient is a fairly common practice in any number of applications. But HttpClient can easily be used incorrectly frequently with dire consequences. Make sure you're using it correctly in the latest ASP.NET Monsters video.  ...

Troubleshooting slow response issues with Log Parser

If you troubleshoot day in and day out, you will deal with an amazing amount of data. Because, to find out the cause and get to the bottom of the issue, we look into lot of places. For example: IIS Logs (If we are troubleshooting issues related to websites hosted in IIS), Windows event logs, Network traces, Custom logs in various formats, Process monitor, Performance monitor, ETW traces, Active directory objects, Registry and what not. In this series of videos, we will discuss about a simple but a powerful tool called LogParser which will help us analyse these log files with tremendous amount of data to troubleshoot variety of issues like slow performance, DOS attacks, session loss etc. ...

SharePoint Framework Tutorial 1 - HelloWorld WebPart

This tutorial will guide you in building a simple client-side web part using the SharePoint client-side development tools. ...

SharePoint PnP Webcast – Building Angular SharePoint Framework Client Web Part

In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on covering how to use Angular in your SharePoint Framework client side web part. We go throught the steps on adding Angular on the SP Fx web part project and build a simple task tracking solution. Actual tasks are not saved to SharePoint in this sample, since we wanted to concentrate on showing the Angular integration part, without additional complexity. You can certainly extend your implementation to talk to SharePoint lists for task CRUD operations. We also cover how to use ngOfficeUIFabric...

ASP.NET Monsters: Summer of Config Winners

It's the moment you've all been waiting for....here are the winners of the ASP.NET Monsters Summer of Config contest!

The Summer of Config was all about creating the wackiest, most insane configuration provider that you can dream up and boy did our viewers deliver! ...

All about Azure Data Lake

Today's guest is Saveen Reddy who is in to talk about Azure Data Lake. Scott and Brady discuss updates in Visual Studio and .NET core as well as updates to documentation.  Oh, by the way, this is the first show in the new Channel 9 studios! We're still working out the camera angles and such, but great show! ...

Azure Platform Monitoring Overview

In this session we provide an overview of Azure monitoring and the various facilities it offers ranging from metrics, logs, alerts, autoscale and integration with other services. It is really informative and gives a sense for how almost all Azure services have a common base for monitoring. Let me know your thoughts! ...

Microsoft Apps for iOS and Android Users

Microsoft apps on platforms other than Windows? Yes, folks its true --- you can run Office, Outlook, Cortana and countless other Microsoft applications on the iOS and Android platform. Check out our favorite apps from Microsoft found in the Apple App Store. ...

Update Drive Firmware Without Downtime in Storage Spaces Direct

Join Technical Evangelist Matt McSpirit, along with Program Managers Tobias Klima and Cosmos Darwin from the Windows team, as they demo rolling out new drive firmware across Storage Spaces Direct cluster nodes with NO workload downtime, NO active management, and NO third-party tools or utilities. Just update one policy, and Windows handles the rest! ...

UWP Community Toolbox

In this episode, Robert is joined by David Catuhe, the project lead for the UWP Community Toolkit, an open-source collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services that simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks for building UWP apps for Windows 10. David shows how easy it is to use the Toolkit and discusses some of the motivation and goals behind its creation. ...

Getting Started with Operations Management Suite Automation

Getting Started with Operations Management Suite Automation.

Episode 442: Kasia Mrowca on Feature Gluttony

Kasia Mrowca discusses how to address customers who request extraneous or unneeded features.

Tuesdays with Corey: The Goodness of Azure Logic Apps

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team talks with Kevin Lam, Principal PM on the Logic Apps team.Kevin shows corey the magic of Logic Apps and all the goodness you can do with them. ...

Dependency Injection with Xamarin Forms

Learn how to use Dependencuy Injection with Xamarin Forms applications. This demo will start with an MVVM application and add Unity DI container to register and solve dependencies.

Using JSON in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database

Since Jovan was in Redmond we thought we would take advantage of his time and do another video on JSON. Building on he earlier introductory video on JSON, Jovan spends a few minutes discussing why JSON support was added to SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database then spends the rest of video starting at the 4:01 mark in T-SQL showing us how to work with JSON data. Jovan provides an overview of the different JSON functions available, then proceeds to show us how to use these functions across a variety of use cases, including how to take JSON to tabular data, how to take tabular data and turn it into JSON, as well as how to edit and modify existing JSON.

2016-08-25 | A Mere Mortal Makes Dashboards

Insights from data can be the differentiator for your business.  The amount of data, the time it takes to go through it and understand it, and the ability to socialize it with others takes time that can change how your business performs. Have you ever wondered if there is an easier and faster way to get the most of your data?  Well now you can. 

In this webcast, viewers will learn more about: ...

Automatic Mining of Text for Trends, Anomalies and Correlations

Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can learn the key semantic elements contained in large collections of text in a completely unsupervised manner allowing for the automatic discovery of trending topics, anomalous event or hidden correlations. In this video, T. J. Hazen discusses how NLP techniques for learning key phrases and latent topics can be applied to text corpora, and demonstrates how these techniques perform on two different data sources: (1) newswire data and (2) the US Congressional Record.

Defrag Tools #167 - Debugging User Mode Crash Dumps Redux

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder use Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg) to determine the root cause of various application crashes which have occurred on Andrew's computer. We use Sysinternals ProcDump to capture the dumps.

While debugging, we take a side trip into configuring colors for Compressed and Encrypted files in Windows Explorer, and use Sysinternals Process Monitor to determine why the debugger was getting an Access Denied when loading the PDE Debugger Extension ...

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