>> Welcome back to another episode of This Week On Channel 9.
I'm your host, Christina Warren, Senior Cloud Advocate.
My shirt today is a cool throwback
to one of my all-time favorite bands,
billing and Washington's very own Death Cab for Cutie and yeah,
I know the shirt says Seattle on
it and I'm aware my husband pointed that out too.
But you know what, if Ben Giber says that this is okay,
then I'm like it's official match. I'm good with it.
Enough of all of that,
Let's get into this week's latest developer news.
First up, in some.NET 5.0 news lucky
number.NET 5.0 preview 7 is now available.
This is actually the second to the last of the preview releases
before.NET 5.0 goes RC or release candidates.
On the official blog, Richard says that
most features should be close to done at this point.
There are some single file in ARM 64
intrinsics that are two feature areas
that are taking the longest time to complete,
but they are on track for preview 8, it's a great stuff.
I've got links in the show notes in the description down
below for the various blogs,
for all the various flavors,
both ASP.NET and EF Core as well as download links.
So be sure to check that stuff out.
Next, up.
In some Windows Terminal news,
Windows Terminal 1.2 preview is now available,
which means that the Windows Terminal 1.1 is now,
like the main release.
Windows Terminal Preview 1.2 has
some great new features that will appear
in Windows Terminal in August.
So if you want to get the ground running, you can do that now.
You can actually download this preview release
from the Microsoft Store or from GitHub.
A couple of the new features include a new focus mode,
which will basically hide everything except for your terminal,
as well as a always on top mode,
which will allow the terminal to be
your topmost window at all times,
which is pretty great and there's
some new commands that you can check out too.
So I've got links for more info in the show notes
in the description and I've also got a link in the show notes
in the description for a blog post
that went up at the end of June about
how you can customize
your Windows Terminal if you want to
trick it out with lots of great colors,
maybe some custom fonts and stuff like that.
So be sure to check that out.
All right, next up in some Git news,
getting GitHub news, we've got a bunch of stuff here.
You've got a bunch of things to go over.
So first big news is that Git version 2.28.0 is available now.
It has a really neat feature that allows you to override the name
of your default first branch when
you are creating a new repository.
So historically, this branch name has been called Master.
But there have been a lot of really important conversations across
the world about words and what they mean and what they signify.
So that really doesn't feel appropriate anymore.
So using a new configuration variable,
you can set your default first branch to be
a more inclusive name like say main.
In the coming months, GitHub as well as GitLab
and Bitbucket and some of the other Git providers are
going to be making more changes to make it easy to
retroactively change your branch names too.
So that's really exciting stuff.
There are some other new features in Git
2.28.0 and I've got
those in a blog and has shown us in the description.
There's also, I wanted to know that the GitHub Team has
released their official GitHub roadmap.
This is a pretty big deal.
It's in the official.
They've got a full Kanban board
showing all the different things that are
going to be happening across the product and
the different features and priorities that the team is working on.
This great stuff. I've also got a link in the show notes and
description for a blog post on that.
All right, now next up I'm going to call
this section Notebook Palooza or Notebook news,
I guess we're going to say because I've got a ton of
different Notebook related news items
that happen to come out this week.
So first up, there's
a brand new Gather Extension available for
Visual Studio Code that makes it easy to clean Notebooks.
So what this extension does,
is the blogpost explains is that,
it's a Notebook cleaning tool gathers
Notebook cleaning tool that analyzes and
determines the necessary codependencies
within a Notebook and then performs code clean up.
This automates what can be a difficult,
annoying, and time-consuming task.
So I love that.
So check out the blog posts as shown us in the description for
more info as well as to download that extension. Great stuff.
I also want to mention that the Python Extension for
Visual Studio Code insiders is
showing off a new preview of
something that they are calling Native Notebooks.
We've talked about this before.
There's a new native Notebook API that you can
use in Visual Studio Code and in other applications.
Native Notebooks are VSCode newest implementation Notebooks
and in the Python extension is
leveraging this Native Notebooks API that I mentioned to
revamp its data science experience and so this is awesome.
Again, check out the show notes in the description for
more information on this and to download
the insiders version of this extension and check this out.
Finally, the PowerShell team has a public preview
of the new Notebook mode extension for VSCode.
We talked about this when it was in the planning stages,
what feels like a million years ago in actuality,
it was March, but that does feel like a
million years ago and I'm super
stoked now to see that the team is
offering up a preview of this extension.
Basically what it lets you do is open up PowerShell scripts,
those are like.ps1 files in a Notebook view.
So what's great about this is that it gives people
the ability to get familiar with a Notebook experience
without having to go full in on something like
Jupiter Notebooks or the.NET Interactive Books.
So this is awesome stuff.
I've got more details in the show notes in
the description down below for you to download
this extension and to learn
more from the team about what they are doing.
Next up, Windows Devs have
a brand new landing page on our docs page.
This is actually really great because it's specifically
tuned for Windows Devs who were using Windows,
not just to build Windows apps,
but to do cross-platform apps,
or even apps that are specifically aimed at something like Linux.
There's also a brand new Windows Developer GitHub repo,
which is a great place for you to report bugs or
issues or feature requests for your various tooling things,
which is pretty awesome.
So I've got links to
the announcement blog and both of those landing pages,
but that the new GitHub repo and
the landing page in the show notes
and the description, awesome stuff.
On Channel 9 this week we've got tons of great contents.
First up on Azure Friday,
everyone's favorite developers, Scott Hanselman,
talks about how you can enable
secure remote work using Windows Virtual Desktops,
that's always good stuff.
Then over on the.NET Show,
Rich talks about packaging and deploying.NET
Corporate Linux and this is the first of a two-part series.
Finally over on the IoT show,
Olivier is going to talk about how you can add,
plug and play to your Internet
of things stuff. So that's pretty awesome.
I've got links to all of those videos
in the show notes and the description down below.
Be sure to check them out.
Now it's time for my pick of the week or shall I say,
pics of the week.
Now, I know everyone expects me to be picking Taylor Swift's,
brand new album Folklore as my pick of the week and yes,
you should stream it. It's amazing.
It's unreal, even if you don't like her pop stuff.
Fantastic. However, I decided
to go in a slightly different direction this week.
So first up, this is actually a follow
up to a previous pick of the week from,
I think last October.
The analog pocket, which is basically
a machine that lets you play old-school Game boy,
Game Boy Color, Game Boy Bands.
You can even get like adapters to play a Game Gear
or Atari Lynx or new GO color cartridges on it.
It's just really cool machine.
This was announced last fall and it will actually
be up for pre-order on August third.
The bad news is,
it won't be shipping until May,
but I'm ordering it.
I might even order two.
So I'm super excited.
So some follow-up there.
Be sure to check that out if you're interested
in in old-school retro console stuff.
My next pick of the week finally,
the US Marshals are holding
an auction for some Fyre Festival Merch.
If you're not familiar with
the wonderful thing that is Fyre Festival,
there are two great documentaries on it.
One on Netflix the other one on Hulu.
I actually already own some official Fyre Festival Merch
that I got last year, year before last.
I've actually worn it on this show before.
But I'm still bidding on a hat like whoa,
I do have my limit on how much I'm willing to
spend on this stuff, but it's pretty cool.
So I had to share that if you are
interested like me and owning a piece of
a disaster that just defines
a culture or at least a moment in culture, check that out.
Let me know in the comments down below
what new or old tech you are most excited about.
Also let me know what
your thoughts are in any other stories we covered this week.
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