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This Week on Windows: Cortana helps you tackle the holidays, Minecraft adds a new cartoon texture pack and a photos app update just in time for holiday selfies! Other topics covered in this episode include: Halo Wars 2 preorderDead Rising 4 + MS rewards offerBest of 2016 (Windows Store)

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Thomas Dohmke, Group Program Manager on Visual Studio Mobile Center. Thomas joins us to go over the features of the new service and the features it provides mobile developers. Mobile Center combines numerous other features including: HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, Azure Mobile Engagement, Xamarin Insights, Azure App Service, and CodePush. Mobile Center combines these features into one easy to use offer that is capable of building your mobile apps (including iOS apps without needing your own mac), automating beta app distribution, automating UI Tests, providing usage insights and crash reports, and much more. Links from the show: [04:36] - Visual Studio Mobile Center demoVisual Studio Mobile Center landing pageRequest an invite to Mobile CenterMobile Center documentationLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010Follow @ashtomFollow @mobilecenter

DocumentDB collections are logical resources that can span multiple partitions to provide practically limitless scale. In this episode of Azure Friday, Shireesh Thota talks with Scott Hanselman about scaling DocumentDB with a partitioning collection and how best to choose your partition keys to optimize for read and write workloads. Partition management is fully managed by Azure DocumentDB and it is completely transparent to your application, so you do not have to write complex code or manage your partitions.

Learn how to easily add powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to your applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services. See Cognitive Services for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/cognitive

Join us as we chat with Jamie Cheng, the founder of Klei Entertainment. Jamie got his start as a programmer for Relic, and in 2005 started Klei to develop their own original titles. Klei is best known for titles such as Don't Starve and Mark of the Ninja. We'll ask Jamie about their toy business, lessons learned over the years and how his studio actually achieves work life balance. [00:00]: The start of Klei Entertainment[02:40]: Canadian Media Fund[04:00]: The Diversity of Games from Klei and their core tenant of remarkable experiences[08:40]: Getting into physical goods and toys[13:01]: Lessons learned over the last 10+ years[17:40]: Work life balance in game development #Ch9LevelUp

In the Channel 9 studios this week is Harini Gupta, a Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server SEALS team, and Dinek Kothottil, a Senior Engineering Manager on the SQL Server SEALS team. Both Harini and Dinek are in the studio today to show off a new tool currently in preview called the Database Experimentation Assistant, a tool that enables migrating from a lower version of SQL Server to the latest version of SQL Server. However, it is much different than the Data Migration Assistant in that the Database Experimentation Assistant provides clarity into the complexity and risks of upgrading. Harini and Dinek explain that the DEA focus is on key upgrade and migration areas such as understanding breaking changes or performance implications through looking at production workload comparisons between your current version and SQL Server 2016. At the [03:15] mark we get into the high-level architecture and how the Data Experimentation Assistant to capture, replay, and analyzes workloads across SQL Server versions. Harini and Dinek explain how this works and what to expect during the process. At the [05:35] mark it is DEMO TIME! Dinek spends the remaining 15 minutes of the show demoing the Database Experimentation Assistant tool, including capturing a trace, replaying the trace, and interrogating traces and tests to gain insights into the workload comparisons. The DEA is a GREAT tool and we look forward to having Harini and Dinek back to provide updates to the tool. They are also looking for feedback on the tool, so download it and provide feedback via the links below! You can download the latest DEA from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54090 Data Migration Team blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/datamigration/2016/10/24/database-experimentation-assistant-v1-0-preview/ Questions/Feedback: deafeedback@microsoft.com

In this session attendees will get a solid overview of the machine learning process through an interactive discussion of the foundational principles of data science. In addition to the machine learning process, several popular machine learning algorithms will be introduced in order to get a firm understanding of how these things work in practice. After having a solid foundation, attendees will see how these principles are applied in AzureML. Speaker: Seth Juarez My name is Seth Juarez. I currently reside near Redmond, Washington and am Microsoft Evangelist for Channel 9. I received my Bachelors Degree in Computer Science at UNLV with a Minor in Mathematics and completed my Masters Degree at the University of Utah in the field of Computer Science. I currently am interested in Artificial Intelligence specifically in the realm of Machine Learning. I currently am working on a .NET library meant to simplify the usage of the common machine learning algorithms. I've been married now for 14years to a fabulously beautiful girl and have two beautiful daughters, and two feisty sons.

In this video, Seth interviews Olivia Klose abot the evolution of AI. Olivia Klose: Olivia Klose is a Software Development Engineer in the Technical Evangelism & Development group at Microsoft. She is focussing on all analytics services on Microsoft Azure, in particular Hadoop (HDInsight), Spark and Machine Learning, and is a frequent speaker at German and international conferences, such as TechEd Europe, PASS Summit and Technical Summit. Prior to joining Microsoft, she studied Computer Science with Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, the Technical University of Munich and IIT Bombay. Here, she focused on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.

It all began five years ago, as an experiment, whether it is possible to create a development environment in the browser with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Today it has become an expandable, intelligent editor that runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. Visual Studio Code is largely implemented in JavaScript / TypeScript and uses Node.js, Electron, and over 100 open source components. Visual Studio Code has also been an open source project since last November. It has a trip with some direction changes behind it. At the same time, Microsoft has also changed constantly. In this session, Erich Gamma describes the most important stages and directional changes of the journey, starting with the experiment up to version 1.0 of Visual Studio Code. Erich Gamma: Erich Gamma is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. He works with his team in Zurich on Visual Studio Code. Previously he worked for IBM and he was one of the fathers of Eclipse and was leading the Eclipse Java development tools. Erich is also a member of the Gang of Four, which is known for its classical book, "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software."

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Nina Vyedin, Xamarin Platform Program Manager, who introduces us to Xamarin Profiler for iOS, Android, and macOS apps. Nina walks us through how to get the Profiler, what is capable of, and how it can help developer build better apps by diagnosing performance issues in their apps. We take a long look at cycles and how they are caused in the managed and unmanaged world. Segments: [09:00] Getting the Xamarin Profiler[11:30] Profiling an App with Instruments[15:00] Walking through the Profiler[24:40] Understanding CyclesShow Links: Xamarin ProfilerIntroducing the Xamarin Profiler Blog PostFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict with Frank.Follow @JamesMontemagnoFollow @misskallisto

In this brief overview, we present some of the new productivity features to come for Microsoft .NET in Visual Studio 2017, including improvements in debugging, unit testing, live code analysis, and IntelliSense. To get started and download Visual Studio 2017, visit: http://www.visualstudio.com

Learn about what we've been working on regarding open source technologies and the Node.js Tedious connector. Check out the Node.js Tedious Connector for SQL Server on GitHub and contribute to the project: https://github.com/tediousjs/tedious

Learn what we've been working on for C# developers when connecting to SQL Server from their .NET Framework or .NET Core applications. Check out CoreFX on GitHub and contribute to the project: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx

Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen have been driving PowerShell since the beginning. They will talk about the vision that drove Monad into PowerShell, and reminisce a bit on what it was like to bring a next-generation command-driven platform to the GUI world of Windows.

Join us for a panel discussing Windows 10 app development and the Windows Store. UWP enables apps to reach PCs, phones, Xbox, Surface Hub, HoloLens, and IoT devices. The Windows Store enables discovery, distribution, and monetization across all of these device families.