>> Welcome back to another episode of This Week on Channel nine.
I'm your host, Christina Warren, senior Cloud advocate.
My shirt today is a classic on a couple of levels.
So it is an exploded OG Macintosh,
128k and I checked and I've actually had the shirt for
more than a decade which suggests that I might
need to update my wardrobe but on the other hand,
I was a recent college grad when I
bought this shirt and it still fits,
so go me, maybe?
Anyway, enough of all that let's get
into this week's latest developer news.
So first up, just some reminders of some of our upcoming events.
Microsoft Ignite will be in Orlando from November 4th through 8th,
and this event is actually sold
out but you can still get on the wait list.
If you are there and you see
me or any of your other channel line favorites,
please be sure to say hello because we always love to see you.
If you can't make it to Microsoft Ignite,
you may be able to make it to Microsoft Ignite,
The Tour and this year we will be in
30 cities across the globe delivering awesome,
deeply technical content for developers and IT pros,
and like I said last week and I've said in the past,
I had a blast at the tour last year.
So if you can make it to one of the events,
I highly recommend it.
Links to both Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Ignite,
The Tour are in the show notes and description down below.
Next up, this was a massive,
and I mean massive week for DotNet news.
Well, with the DotNet comp and the release of
DotNet core 3.0 So I've got a ton of links to
the biggest announcements and videos
from DotNet comp in the show notes in
the description but I wanted to spend
a little bit of time on some of the highlights.
So first DotNet core 3.0 is now available. Finally, this is great.
It includes many improvements
including adding Windows forums, NWPF,
adding new JSON APIs,
their support for ARM64 and
improving performance across the board.
C-sharp eight is also part of this release and it
includes a nullable async streams in more patterns.
F-sharp 4.7 is also included and it's focused on
relaxing syntax so that you can target DotNet standard 2.0.
Alongside DotNet core 3.0 is also ASP.net core
3.0 and EF core 3.0, that's also available.
Also alongside DotNet core 3.0, Visual Studio 2019,
16.3 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.3 were released and are
required if you want to use DotNet core 3.0 with Visual Studio.
So DotNet core 3.0 is actually part of Visual Studio 2019, 16.3.
You can just get the DotNet core by simply
upgrading to the latest version of Visual Studio 2019.
Also regarding the DotNet comp,
not only can you view all the videos
on Channel nine and on our YouTube,
but I've got to link board
the DotNet comp presentations as
well if you want to see the slides more easily.
So like I said, I've got links to blog posts and
DotNet comp keynotes and
deep dive videos and more in the show notes in the description,
but this is a massive release and we've been talking
about it since Microsoft Build 2018,
and I just really wanted to give it a huge congratulations to
the team for all the hard work that went into this release.
Speaking of Visual Studio,
Xamarin.Android support has been
updated for Android 10.0 in Visual Studio
16.3 and Visual Studio for Mac
8.3 and more details are in the show notes in the description.
In some other Xamarin news,
there is a new Xamarin plus Azure Functions challenge.
This is a really cool kind of
a cross I guess promotion challenge between the two teams.
So the Xamarin and Azure Functions teams
work together to create a challenge that lets you
use your existing DotNet skills
to build and run a mobile app built
with Xamarin that can connect to
a server-less Azure function running on the Cloud.
So you basically complete the challenge
following steps provided and you were then
automatically entered for a chance to win
one of our prizes and it's that simple.
So there will be a 1000 randomly selected participants who get
a $25 Xbox gold gift card and
10 participants will be randomly
selected to get a pair of surface headphones.
So I've got details on the challenge, how you can complete it,
and how you can enter to win in the show notes in the description.
The Windows Terminal was one of my favorite announcements for
Microsoft Build and the team
just released a brand new preview built,
and actually with this release,
the team has switched the syntax so that this version is
1909 for September 2019.
New features in this release include the inclusion of
the new Cascadia code font that we talked about last week.
Plus there's a brand new setting schemer
which helps you manage your profiles like JSON file.
There are a couple of other new features and bug fixes too,
so be sure to update.
The Windows Terminal team also posted their road-map on GitHub,
and the goal was basically to have
Windows Terminal feature complete by the end of the year and
then spring 2020 is targeted
as when they want to release version 1.0.
I've got a link to the blog posts, the GitHub repo,
and the show notes in description,
and you can install or update to
the new Windows Terminal in the Microsoft Store.
In some amazing VS Code extension news.
I wanted to give a shout-out to Ben Coleman who is
a Cloud architect for Azure in the UK and
he released a new extension called
the ARM template Viewer and this is actually super cool.
So what it does is it shows you
a graphical preview of
the Azure Resource Manager or ARM templates.
So it'll show you-all the resources with
the official Azure icons and it will
also link between those different resources.
So it's a really great way to visualize what's going on.
You can drag and drop move icons as you please. It's really neat.
It's actually been successfully tested to work with all
890 plus Azure Quick-start Templates, that's amazing.
Anyway this is super awesome.
I've got a link to download
it in the show notes in the description.
Now, usually I use this time
to give a shout out to the various videos on
Channel nine this week but this week
was basically just DotNet comp all the time.
So again I've got links to
that content earlier in the release notes.
Now it's time for my pick of the week.
So in my not so humble opinion,
one of the best television shows from
the last few years if not the last decade is The Good Place.
If you haven't seen it,
it's a sitcom about the afterlife and it manages to be both
funny and actually has
some really interesting philosophical questions.
So in the United States anyway,
it returned for its final season this week,
and as of this recording,
I haven't seen the season premiere but given
its great history I know it's going to be awesome.
So the good place it's on Netflix in most countries,
so if you want to watch it
even if it isn't specifically about tech,
I still think it's pretty great. So you should check it out.
Let me know some of your favorite shows,
tech or otherwise in the comments,
and let me know your thoughts about any of our other stories.
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