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Join the Visual Studio 2017 launch event keynote with Julia Liuson, Brian Harry, Miguel de Icaza, Keith Ballinger and Scott Hanselman as they share the newest innovations in Visual Studio, .NET, Xamarin, Azure, and more. Get started today by downloading Visual Studio 2017, visit: http://www.visualstudio.com/vs/whatsnew

Hear Jeannette Wing share her unique insight into the artificial intelligence and augmented reality trends that will shape the future. She'll explore innovative applications that are arriving today, and look ahead at others that are just over the horizon.

Come learn the top 7 new things in Visual Studio 2017 that should excite you as a C++ developer, regardless of whether you are already using the product and are looking to upgrade, or whether you never used the product but are considering Visual Studio.

DevOps is about people, process and products. Getting it all right requires effort but the benefits to your organization and customers can be huge. Microsoft has a fantastic set of products that can adapt to any language on any platform. In this demo-heavy keynote, Donovan Brown will show you how to go from "zero to DevOps" like a pro. Starting from just a blank desktop, he will create a new team project and a complete pipeline. He will also deploy an ASP.NET MVC application into Azure all live and hands on.

Visual Studio 2017 makes it easier than ever to build modern web applications using the latest JavaScript technologies. Join Bowden and Mads for a demo of how these new technologies make you more productive writing ASP.NET web applications with improved Intellisense, linting, debugging and transpiling.

In this workshop, you'll learn everything you need to know about Microsoft Hyper Converged Storage Solution called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). This session will cover all of the key concepts required to build your own Storage Spaces Direct environment. You'll see a live environment built out and configured in both Windows Server 2016 GUI and Nano Server. Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is the new storage foundation in your data center and this session is one that you will surely enjoy. You will learn: About Windows Server 2016 About Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) About Windows Server 2016 Networking Speakers: Dave Kawula - MVP, Cristal Kawula - Future MVP, Clint Wyckoff - MVP Dave is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His background includes data communications networks within multi-server environments, and he has led architecture teams for virtualization, System Center, Exchange, Active Directory, and Internet gateways. Very active within the Microsoft technical and consulting teams, Dave has provided deep-dive technical knowledge and subject matter expertise on various System Center and operating system topics. Dave is well-known in the community as an evangelist for Microsoft, 1E, and Veeam technologies. Locating Dave is easy as he speaks at several conferences and sessions each year, including TechEd, Ignite, MVPDays Community Roadshow, and VeeamOn. As the founder and Managing Principal Consultant at TriCon Elite Consulting, Dave is a leading technology expert for both local customers and large international enterprises, providing optimal guidance and methodologies to achieve and maintain an efficient infrastructure. BLOG: www.checkyourlogs.net Twitter: @DaveKawula Cristal Kawula is the co-founder of MVPDays Community Roadshow and #MVPHour live Twitter Chat. She was also a member of the S2D Technical Advisory board and is the President of TriCon Elite Consulting. Cristal is also only the 2nd woman in the world to receive the prestigious Veeam Vanguard award. Speaker - Clint Wykcoff - MVP Clint Wyckoff is an Evangelist at Veeam with a focus on all things Microsoft. He is an avid technologist and virtualization fanatic with more than a decade of enterprise data center architecture experience. Clint is an energetic and engaging speaker and places a large emphasis on solving the real-world challenges IT professionals face. Additionally, he is a 2x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Management as well as a VMware vExpert for 2015 & 2016. Clint is also a Veeam Certified Engineer (VCME) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). You can follow Clint on Twitter @ClintWyckoff.

Cloud technology is rapidly evolving, offering new ways to enhance productivity through organisational digital transformation. To harness this shift, and evolve your organisation’s capabilities, it’s more important than ever to invest and learn new skills to leverage the cloud. Join Scott Guthrie our Executive Vice President of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise on Tuesday morning to kick-start Microsoft Ignite Australia. Scott will focus on how technology enables digital transformation and, along with guests, demonstrate new technologies and investments for you to leverage our technology to make change happen.

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Shen discuss the week's top developer news, including; https://github.com/Microsoft/uwp-experiences/tree/northwindPhotoWindows Developer Day—Creators Update[01:25] Last Week's TWC9[01:53] Announcing new Azure Functions capabilities to accelerate development of serverless applications [Raman Sharma][02:39] 5 Features to Watch in Visual Studio 2017 [Scott Addie][04:20] Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary [Julia Liuson][05:31] Doing Visual Studio and .NET Code Documentation Right [Terrence Dorsey][06:46] Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Running and Managing LOTS of Web Apps on a single Azure App Service [Scott Hanselman][08:22] Service Fabric and Windows Containers sample[08:50] Winners of the 2017 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards [Laura Wallace][10:00] Real-Time Communications on the Universal Windows Platform with WebRTC and ORTC [James Cadd]Picks of the Week! Nikola's Pick of the Week:[11:08] LiveScan3D-HololensShen's Pick of the Week:[12:19] Surface Dial Tools for Visual Studio [Mads Kristensen]Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. Follow @CH9 Follow @metulev Follow @shenchauhan Follow @gduncan411

In this episode Chris Risner and Hannah Krager are joined by Chetan Agarwal, Principal Program Manager on the Azure Compute Team. Chetan joins us to talk about Managed Disks, a greatly simplified way of managing storage accounts used with VM disks. When using Managed Disks, you just specify if you want Premium or Standard storage and the size of disks you want and the service handles everything else for you. Managed Disks also offers new features such as availability set isolation, snapshots, and images. Links from the show: [00:53] - Basics of Managed Disks[05:08] - Availability Set Isolation[10:22] - Managed Disks in the portal[17:50] - Quick Start Templates with Managed Disks support[23:15] - CLI 2.0 and Managed DisksAnnouncing Managed DisksManaged Disks OverviewAzure Quickstart Templates on GitHubTemplates with Support for Managed DiskUsing Managed Disks with Azure ACSMigrating to Managed DisksAPI Reference: Creating and Updating Managed DisksCreating Managed Disks from the 2.0 CLIPowershell updates for Managed DisksSwagger Docs for Managed DisksManaged Disks on Tuesdays with CoreyLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @nzthiagoFollow @chagarw

Rohan Kumar and Scott Klein are back LIVE on SQL Unplugged. Great topics (including SQL Server v.Next) and some great audience questions! This show is your avenue for chatting with the individuals who own the relational database at Microsoft. Tune in each month as Scott and Rohan answer your questions and discuss the insights and inner workings of the SQL Server engineering team. Be sure to follow this show on Twitter (@SQLUnplugged) for updates and information on upcoming shows.

In this episode of Azure Friday, Aravind Ramachandran talks with Scott Hanselman about support for aggregate functions at global scale in Azure DocumentDB. Aravind explains how you can perform low latency aggregation queries against large datasets without schema definitions or secondary indexes, and other improvements in the DocumentDB query engine like reduced request units and support for polygon indexing.

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, shows Donovan Brown how to continuously deploy containers using the Azure Spinnaker to Kubernetes QuickStart Template (http://aka.ms/azk8sdeploy).

This Week on Windows: Cortana is coming in hot with reminders to help you stay on top of life, we're showing you how to get the most out of your day with the calendar app and we say aloha to Moana and Planet Earth II! Specific topics covered in this episode include: Cortana commitmentsPlanet Earth IIMoanaOscar collectionDid you know: Intro to calendar app

In this episode, Donovan Brown is joined by Adam Barlow, who shows how to use Espresso tests with Xamarin Test Cloud and Visual Studio Team Services. He shows how to leverage your existing Espresso tests with in your continuous integration build. For more information on the Xamarin Test Cloud, see the Test Cloud website.

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Sam Basu, Developer Advocate on the Telerik team at Progress, who introduces us to Telerik's DevCraft UI for Xamarin to create polished user interfaces. We discuss several roadblocks that developers run into when creating mobile applications and specifically focus on user interface controls that developers need such as charts, graphs, enhanced list views, and more. Segments: [07:00] Introduction to DevCraft[10:00] Telerik UI for Xamarin[17:00] Enhanced ListViews[30:00] Flyout Navigation, Charts, Graphs, and moreShow Links: Telerik UI for XamarinSample Apps: Android, iOSFollow @SamBasuFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Xamarin Developer Center & BlogXamarin and AzureMobile DevOpsXamarin University Self-Guided