This week on Channel 9, Petri Tapio Wilhelmsen and guest host Joris Brauns discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:17] Follow @jorisbrauns[02:21] New Look for Channel 9[02:42] Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member[03:45] Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group [Chris Sells][04:26] Connect(); On Demand[04:51] MSDN Magazine – Connect(); Special Issue[05:12] The expanding Visual Studio family of products [Julia Liuson][06:26] Visual Studio 2017 Productivity Guide[06:53] Announcing .NET Core 1.1 [Rich Lander][07:49] Windows Application Driver for PC integrates with Appium [Yosef Durr][08:03] Choose Azure, like OpenAI did, to power your compute intensive workloads and add intelligent interactions to all your apps Nicole Herskowitz][08:58] Celebrating 15 Years of Xbox [Will Tuttle]Picks of the Week! Joris' Pick of the Week:[09:52] Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.2 [David Catuhe]Petri's Pick of the Week:[10:50] Vuforia 6.1 with HoloLens Support [Adam Kerin]Admin Note: No show next (i.e. this) week, see you in December! Please leave a comment or email us at [email protected]. Follow @CH9 Follow @MarkDeFalco Follow @metulev Follow @vladkol Follow @gduncan411

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

This week on Channel 9, Petri Tapio Wilhelmsen and guest host Joris Brauns discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:17] Follow @jorisbrauns[02:21] New Look for Channel 9[03:13] Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member[04:15] Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group [Chris Sells][04:54] Connect(); On Demand[05:22] MSDN Magazine – Connect(); Special Issue[05:38] The expanding Visual Studio family of products [Julia Liuson][06:56] Visual Studio 2017 Productivity Guide[07:23] Announcing .NET Core 1.1 [Rich Lander][08:06] Windows Application Driver for PC integrates with Appium [Yosef Durr][08:32] Choose Azure, like OpenAI did, to power your compute intensive workloads and add intelligent interactions to all your apps Nicole Herskowitz][09:26] Celebrating 15 Years of Xbox [Will Tuttle]Picks of the Week! Joris' Pick of the Week:[10:22] Announcing UWP Community Toolkit 1.2 [David Catuhe]Petri's Pick of the Week:[11:17] Vuforia 6.1 with HoloLens Support [Adam Kerin]Admin Note: No show next week, see you in December! Please leave a comment or email us at [email protected]. Follow @CH9 Follow @MarkDeFalco Follow @metulev Follow @vladkol Follow @gduncan411

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

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

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Jon Fancey joins Scott to talk about Azure Logic Apps, iPaaS, and enterprise integration. With the new XML and B2B processing features in Logic Apps, Jon shows how you can quickly create cloud-scale processes for exchanging data securely with trading partners as well as validating and transforming XML data using an Integration Account.

During his first official visit to Australia since becoming CEO, Satya Nadella on Wednesday said that Microsoft's rich heritage as a platform company remains core as artificial intelligence (AI) enters the mainstream. He said Microsoft offered intelligent cloud services that deliver bot and intelligence capability to empower every developer, to build any app and experiences.

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.