>> Welcome back to another episode of This Week on Channel 9.
I'm your host, Christina Warren, Senior Cloud Advocate.
Yes, I'm in a new location this week because my office,
which has been a disaster,
is finally getting redone.
I'm awaiting installers to come do some stuff with my desk,
so I'm in my closet.
That's where I am right now.
What other trillion dollar company would
let you see the real stuff,
which is the closets of
their employees overpriced downtown apartments. Here we are.
Also, shirt this week is Supreme,
is also fitting because it's a CAPTCHA.
I think that we can all tech nerds appreciate that.
That's that.
Well enough of all this preamble.
Let's get into This Week's latest Dev news,
and we've got so much stuff.
Microsoft Ignite was this week
and we had so many amazing sessions,
with amazing announcements, interviews,
new launches, exciting set about the future.
One of the things I'm really excited about
is the fact that opening eyes
GPT-3 is now going to be available exclusively on Azure.
That's really great.
In the show notes in the description down below,
I've got links to the myignite.Microsoft.com
page where you can catch up on all the sessions on demand.
You can also download resources.
We've got them in a nice Word files.
You can get access to keynotes and transcripts and videos,
and all that stuff. Check that out.
I also wanted to point out that in
addition to being able to get the SEP on-demand,
if you just want a high level view
of all the news that it was announced, there's so much.
I've got a link in the show notes in the description
for the Book of News for Microsoft Ignite.
Actually, side-note weird off-script tangent,
if any of you would be interested in us doing maybe
a 15-minute recap of our big shows that we do,
let me know in the comments down
below because that's something that
maybe we could do and I could bring that
out up with the powers that be.
Anyway, check out the show notes and description to
catch up all the Microsoft if think you missed it.
Seth Juarez and I were hosting
the best time zone or best time zone ever.
We had a blast with the folks in Europe and EMEA, so good stuff.
Next step, this actually was announced at Microsoft Ignite,
but I wanted to just go ahead and
highlight this tier two because it's really cool.
Azure Static Web Apps are now
supporting.NET and Blazor in preview.
Azure Static Web Apps launched back at Microsoft Build in May.
It's a great way for you to host your static websites for free.
It supports a lot of
JavaScript frameworks including Unit view and Hugo,
and Jekyll, and now,
it also in preview supporting Blazor and.NET.
This is really great and I've got links
in the show notes in the description down below on
how you can get started doing this as well as
the GitHub repo that you
can do if you want to set up a Hello world instead.
This is great. Next up,
I wanted to talk about,
this was released from the.NET Team.NET
5 is just around the corner and the.NET Team
released a really great blog that has
an update on the cadences and the cycles of releases.
Because.NET 5 is going to be the merging of.NET Core and.NET.
It's really big deal.
We've been talking about it for months.
But what's great about this blog post is that it
outlines for people who might not be familiar or
might not remember all the differences in
different.NET releases and how long things are supported.
Check that out in the show notes on the description,
because.NET 5 is right around
the corner and we couldn't be more excited.
Next up, this is a big deal.
This is GitHub Codespaces got some big updates.
I announced last episode that over
Visual Studio Codespaces and GitHub Codespaces are consolidating.
What's happening and we announced this at Ignite,
is there's a bunch of new support coming for
GitHub codespaces for C++ developers,
for.NET developers, and in
the preview version of Visual Studio 2019.
I think it's 16.8 Preview 3.
There is an update for where you can actually connect
directly to a Codespace from Visual Studio 2019.
That's going to be coming in at the main release really soon.
There's a ton of updates around Codespaces and Visual Studio,
and I've got links in the show notes down below for all of that.
Next up, I also wanted to mention
our POSIX GitHub released version 1.0, the GitHub CLI.
When this was in preview,
I don't remember how many months ago it is because quarantine.
This is a great deal,
now, it's gotten even better.
The GitHub CLI will basically let you
do everything end-to-end from GitHub,
from the command line as you can go from issues to release.
On the command line, you can script almost any GitHub action,
you can set aliases,
you can basically do it all from the command line.
This is really great for people like me,
I'm not going to lie who we'd love,
a good GUI, love it.
But sometimes, it's just easier to use
the command line and also sometimes for your automation tools,
it's easier to use the command line.
This also connects with GitHub Enterprise server.
You can handle PR's merge issues,
stuff you can do with it. It's really terrific.
I've got a link in the show notes,
the description for how you can install it,
as well as new documents for getting started.
Really good stuff.
Next step, just a note that
the Windows terminal preview for version of 1.4c is coming.
It is available now rather.
There's amazing stuff here,
including the ability to do hyperlinks that's coming soon.
I'm so excited.
This is available in the Microsoft Store as well as on GitHub.
I've got links in the show notes in the description.
Windows Terminal, if you haven't been playing with it is just one
of the best things that's come out, I think, in years.
The progress of the team as well as
our community is making with this is
just terrific. Check all that out.
I also wanted to add on that note
the Windows Subsystem for Linux team
released an update this month,
just covering all the big updates that
have happened around WSL2 in the last few months.
We've talked about some of those on this show before.
For instance, the back porting of
the WSL2 support for Windows 10 versions, 1903 and 1909.
Meaning that if you've got an older version of Windows 10,
for whatever reason, you can still take
advantage of WSL2 goodness, which is great.
Also, there's some details in this blog post about
the state of Linux GUI apps coming to WSL2.
It is coming soon.
That's actually going to be a really big deal as well for people
who might have a specific GUI app.
This is also really going to be great for working
included developers, a lot of other people.
Check out that link in the show notes,
in the description if you want to catch up
on all the new stuff that's been
announced over the past few months in Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Next up, this is also from Microsoft Ignite.
This is actually going to come in October,
but I wanted to share this,
and yes, self promo, that is me.
In that screenshot, I was able to talk with Sean Larkin,
who's a Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge Team because
Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux in October.
We actually first announced this at Microsoft Build
but we've got even more details at Microsoft Ignite.
It will be available at a Windows Edge
insiders.com in October for the first preview release for Linux.
This is going to be great.
This is really aimed at both the Linux as a daily driver users,
as well as developers who
use Linux in their CICD workflows and want to
be able to use all the browser tools and what tools of
edge and what I have consistency across other platforms.
This is going to be great, you can download it either
from the command line by manually adding
the repositories to your system.
We'll also have.Dev and.RPM insolvable files as well.
The team is really,
really looking to connect with people in the communities.
Especially if you're involved with certain distros,
wanting to get their feedback on how they can maybe
work together and have some relationship.
If you are interested in that,
please reach out to that team
and stay tuned for getting this update.
I think this is awesome and it's going to be
a first-class experience bringing all the same DevTools,
although same support over to
the Linux side and the first preview will be out in October.
Next up on Channel 9.
This week, we get a lot of great content.
First up was on Visual Studio Toolbox.
They talk about IntelliCode team completions,
which is really fantastic.
Check that out. Over on Careers Behind the code,
Scott Hunter talks about how he became the Director
of Program Management with.NET.
Scott Hunter's an amazing guy.
His story is fantastic and so many of us look up to
him and it was great to hear his story about how he became him.
Finally, over on the tabs versus spaces,
which is great show.
Clint talks about how you can use PowerToys,
which is great to customize Windows 10.
I love powers way if you haven't checked that out.
I have a link for that in the description to
all these shows are available on
Channel 9 or on our YouTube channel.
I've got links for them all in
the show notes description down below.
Now, it is time for my Pick of the Week.
This came courtesy of Gizmodo who found it from Terence Eaton.
I had to share this because this is maybe
the best / worst DIY project
I've ever seen and you'll understand why in a second.
What Terence did is he basically created
his own DIY Walkman out of a floppy disk.
The audio quality's terrible.
But he was able to do this because there are some compressions
that show you can get 30 minutes of music on a single floppy disk.
I don't know, use Raspberry Pi,
USB floppy drive, and some ingenuity.
I hate it but I love it.
I just think that this is a great project.
I would love to know your thoughts.
Do you have a favorite Walkman memory?
Do you have any favorite DIY projects
or bad things to do with Raspberry Pi?
Let me know in the show notes or in the comments down below.
That does it for me.
That's it for this week. If you'd like this episode,
give us a thumbs up on YouTube,
that really helps us out.
In the comments down below,
wherever you're watching, let me know.
Again, like what your favorite thing from Microsoft Ignite was?
What you're most excited about in the coming months?
Also, again, what terrible / awesome projects
have you seen using
a Raspberry Pi or are you wanting to do yourself?
That does it for me. See you next time.
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