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Top 10 Microsoft Developer Videos in 2015

MSDNTST — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:26:16 GMT

Keynote: Visual Studio 2015 – Any app, Any developer

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 this year. Its release keynote has received 558,107 views. The video provides a great overview packed with demos for you to get started with Visual Studio 2015, .NET 4.6 and Visual Studio Online. (Visual Studio Online was later rebranded as “Visual Studio Team Services” in Nov 2015)

The New User Experience with Windows 10

Are you ready for Windows 10? This video is part of the Microsoft Ignite 2015 conference. It gives you a deeper look at the user experience and discover new features. Find out how Windows 10 makes you more productive, celebrates a new generation of apps, and unlocks the power of hardware.

Microsoft Build Day One Keynote Presentation

Build 2015 is the biggest developer conference from Microsoft 2015. Its keynote has received 340,693 views. Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella describes Microsoft’s opportunity to Build the Intelligent Cloud, Reinvent productivity and business process and create more personal computing. Scott Guthrie explains how Microsoft’s Azure is poised to create the Intelligent Cloud. Satya explains how Microsoft Office is evolving to reinvent productivity. Terry Myerson explained how Windows 10 will create more personal computing with new bridges to enable developers to evolve their code into Windows 10 to enable phones, tablets, desktop, Xbox and Holograms.

Hacking Augmented Reality with Kinect

IllumiRoom (https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/roomalive/) prototyped turning any room into an interactive, augmented experience. In this session, Andy Wilson (Microsoft Research) teaches the key concepts behind these projects including: Kinect and projector calibration, networking multiple Kinect sensors together, and displaying dynamic AR objects in real-time. Additionally, all tools and source code used in the session will be released on GitHub to enable you to make use of these techniques in your own projects.

Compiling Objective-C Using the Visual Studio 2015 C++ Code Generation that Builds Windows, SQL, .Net, and Office

This video from the Microsoft BUILD 2015 conference covers the nuts and bolts of several key innovative compiler and runtime technologies we will be delivering in Visual Studio 2015 and its updates. New investments in the compiler and runtime space include: Improved optimization and auto-vectorization, /Guard secure code generation, incremental whole program compilation, and new asynchronous C++ code generation.

Building Rich, Contextually Aware Universal Windows Apps Using Sensors

This is another great video from the Microsoft Build 2015 conference with 218,570 views! Want to build rich, contextually-aware apps with sensors for Windows 10? Learn how the Windows Sensors APIs can help you build smart apps for your daily life: apps that detect your presence when you approach your device; apps that figure out your activities – whether you are walking, running, driving, biking, and helps you track your fitness routines. See demos on app scenarios including health and fitness, navigation, and power saving using with Activity and Environmental sensors. Learn about the Windows 10 sensor features, custom sensors for hardware innovation, and reusing your Android and iOS app code to build Universal Windows apps.

Microsoft Build 2015 Day 2 Keynote Presentation

Microsoft’s Chief Technical Evangelist, Steve Guggenheimer and Chief Geek, John Shewchuk drilled deeper into the concepts explained in day 1 by providing coding deep dives. Media and entertainment reinvention were seen with Muzik Official’s Bluetooth wireless drumsticks, Acumatica’s use of Power BI illustrated how to rethink reporting. New open source projects Vorlon and Manifold.JS were introduced. David Treadwell and Kevin Gallo showed how to build a universal Windows App and gave a peek at the code required to move Android and iOS apps forward. Joseph Sirosh described the connected cow, talked about machine learning with March Madness and Genomics and brought How-Old.Net to the mainstream. Briana Roberts and Aidan Brady introduced a Minecraft modding project to Visual Studio using Java.

Template 10: How to Build Your Universal Windows App…minus all of the repetitive, tedious, boilerplate ____!

Another video about Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform! As part of the DevRadio show, the video has received 190K views in 1 month! Wouldn’t it be great if you could eliminate all of the repetitive, tedious work while writing your Windows app? Well look no further than Template 10! Join Jerry Nixon and Daren May, Co-Founder and President of CRANK211 as they walk you though the thought process and how to get started with this fantastic time saver for your development needs.

Developing for HoloLens

The video is again from the Microsoft Build 2015 conference. It’s an interview with Alex Kipman, the chief inventor of Microsoft HoloLens.

.NET Native Performance – Optimizing Your Windows Apps with .NET Native

Jerry Nixon welcomes Xavier Ziemba to the DevRadio show as they discuss the recent performance enhancements made to .NET Native that will dramatically optimize the performance of your Windows apps. Be sure to listen in and catch all of the important announcements here!

What is the difference between Debug.Write and Trace.Write?

MSDNTST — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:32:05 GMT

Debug.Write is usually used in the debug mode while you are debugging a project.

Trace.Write is usually used in the release mode to produce some trace logs.

How can I find the actual size of my database so that I know how much space is left and plan accordingly?

MSDNTST — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:48:33 GMT

The database size is calculated by counting the number of pages in the database that contain their tables, index and objects. This is similar to calculating the size of a database in standard SQL Server – not the disk space consumed by the instance but just the space consumed by each database. Some things that do not affect the size are:

Logs are excluded from the size calculation
Master DB is excluded from size calculation
All other system databases and server catalogs are excluded from the calculations
All customer database replicas are excluded from the calculations (we only count one of the three replicas of the customer database

You may use the following Data Management View (DMV) to get an approximate size of the database used:

SELECT 
SUM(reservered_page_count)*8.0/1024 as ‘SizeInMB’ 
FROM 
sys.dm_db_partition_stats

Priority Subscriber Support in MSDN Forums

MSDNTST — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:44:48 GMT

As an MSDN subscriber, you receive priority support in select MSDN Forums. With this benefit, a Microsoft engineer will respond within 2 business days to your posting if the community hasn't already responded. MSDN Forums are a very active community and a great place to get help and help others.

To receive priority support in the MSDN Forums designated below, simply sign in with the same Microsoft account associated with your MSDN subscription.

Are you an MSDN Platforms subscriber? You also receive priority support to TechNet forums. Check out the TechNet forums available to you, then simply sign in with the Microsoft account associated with your subscription to take advantage of this benefit.

.NET Framework

Microsoft Azure

Windows Forms Development

Windows Universal Apps

Developing Windows Universal Apps

Internet of Things (IoT)

Windows 10 IoT

Office Development

SQL Server

SharePoint

Visual Studio

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Visual Studio Languages

BizTalk

ADO.NET

XML

Popular Developer Conferences in 2015

MSDNTST — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:45:47 GMT

CodeChannels posted 10 top developer conferences in 2015.

https://codechannels.com/news/top-10-developer-conferences-in-2015/

It includes BUILD 2015, Connect(); //2015, and Visual Studio 2015 Final Release events from Microsoft.

Microsoft – Build 2015

Build will cover all Microsoft Platforms – expect rich new content and information on Windows, Azure, Office 365 and more. Developers will receive deep training, allowing them to take advantage of the incredible advances in our platforms, including Windows 10, and providing access to over 1.5 billion devices.

Connect(); // 2015

Join us this year to hear directly from Scott Guthrie, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman on what’s next in this exciting journey. Get deeper insights into our exciting announcements with over 80 on-demand sessions. Interact with the engineering team members behind Microsoft tools and technologies to help you get started.

Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event

Join us in celebrating the release of Visual Studio 2015! Watch the keynote on demand below to learn about the latest features and technologies. You can also watch the Visual Studio developer team create an end-to-end solution for an open-source project and see how they tackled problems along the way.

Daily Findings: Discover various developer channels on CodeChannels.com

MSDNTST — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 16:01:58 GMT

Developer educational videos are all over the places. Is there a one-stop shop of videos to learn the various development technologies such as Windows 10, iOS, Android, WordPress, etc and stay up to date?

We just discovered a developer community called CodeChannels. It curates various developer shows, courses, events and videos from almost all known developer channels.

CodeChannels curates the up-to-date developer videos from Microsoft Channel 9, Google Developers, AWS, Code.org, Android Developers, etc

CodeChannels displays popular developer events.

Developer courses and shows

CodeChannels Twitter: https://twitter.com/codechannels

CodeChannels Facebook: https://facebook.com/codechannels

Code Sample: Creating a Calculator app in Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform

MSDNTST — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:01:54 GMT

The code sample demonstrates a standard calculator app in Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform. Its functionality is almost identical to the built-in Standard Calculator app in Windows 10.

Live Demo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/windows-10-code-sample-calculator/9nblggh5x0bn

Code Sample Download: https://scottge.net/product/uwp-windows-10-sample-calculator/ (The code sample has high quality, and I maintain it constantly. Please feel free to leave your technical questions in the sample download page. I will help you.)

After you download the sample, you will get the complete source code to debug and run. The code sample can be easily extended to support more advanced functions

Windows 10 Nav Pane App Template for Visual Studio 2015

MSDNTST — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 11:40:31 GMT

Here is the new Windows 10 Nav Pane App Template for Visual Studio 2015.

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/7284fa56-cd50-4d66-ba61-03ee77bddd19?SRC=Home

A navigation pane (or just "nav" pane) is a pattern that allows for many top-level navigation items while conserving screen real estate. The nav pane is widely used for mobile apps, but also works well on larger screens. When used as an overlay, the pane remains collapsed and out-of-the way until the user presses the button, which is handy for smaller screens. When used in its docked mode, the pane remains open, which allows greater utility if there's enough screen real estate.

After installing the project template, you will discover the following new “Nav Pane App” option in the New Project Dialog.

The project compiles and runs like this:

Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Amazon Data Platform Conferences before the end of 2015

MSDNTST — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:13:13 GMT

From Microsoft, Oracle, to IBM, Amazon, from SQL to NoSQL, here is a complete list of major data platform conferences from August to October:

https://scottge.net/2015/08/11/upcoming-data-platform-conferences-from-august-to-october/