>> This week on Channel 9 is back baby.
We've got build recaps,
we've got WinGets, installed news,
we've got the Super Linter from GitHub,
Visual Studio Code updates,.NET 5 preview and more.
Be sure to check it out.
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>> Welcome back to another episode of this week on Channel 9.
I'm your host, Christina Warren, Senior Cloud Advocate.
I know it has been a while since we have been here.
Microsoft Build was like, gosh, a month ago?
A month ago. It is now summer.
But there was so much huge news there and so much content
that we needed to take a little bit of
a break to refresh ourselves.
Also, frankly, there were some more important things going
on in the world that we needed to focus on.
Just a reminder for anybody who is
tuned for the first time in a while,
this show is going to be on a Buy Weekly Cadence
until we can return to the studio to do things more regularly.
All right. So let's get into
this last few week's latest developer news.
First up, just a recap.
Microsoft Build 2020, as I said,
was a month ago, but there was a ton of announcements.
There were so much continent in
fact that you may have missed some of it.
So I've got a link in the show notes and the description too,
our Book of news which just highlights
all the big announcements, blog posts, information.
I've also got links in
the show notes and the description to all of the sessions.
So if you miss something you want to
learn more, you can check that out.
It has 48 hours of live content like wall-to-wall.
So if you missed any of the announcements,
if you've missed any of the sessions,
you can catch up now,
especially as you know, some people,
if you're in the Western Hemisphere
has some summer vacation time coming up,
and I don't know about anybody else,
but I love to spend time during summer
vacation nerding out about developer stuff because it's great.
So be sure to check that out.
Next up, one of the big things that we celebrated right
before Microsoft Build was
the 1.0 release of the Windows Terminal.
Actually now, the Windows Terminal 1.1 preview is available.
So if you are interested in getting
even more of the latest features with Windows Terminal and
you want to play with some of the things like they've
got new ways of being able
to a tile a Windows
in different theming options
and some other configurations options,
check out the blog posts that I've got in the show notes and
the description as well as the GitHub page or
the Microsoft Store if you want to
download the latest update and check out the preview release.
Kayla on the blog also has a really good road map for some of
the things that are going to be coming
ahead in Windows Terminal Lance.
So that's really awesome.
Next up, this is really cool news from GitHub.
GitHub has just introduced what they're calling a Super Linter.
So the idea here is basically GitHub has worked with a bunch of
different linters that are accepted by a bunch of
different programming languages and built it
into its GitHub actions workflow,
and the idea is that you can basically when you're submitting
your code for your CICD workflows using GitHub actions,
you can check things with these linters to
make sure that there aren't going to be any problems.
This can really cut down
on problems that you might have with builds or with other things.
So this is really great.
It's using, like I said,
a lot of the really big linter libraries that are
already accepted and popular within communities,
and it's open source because it's GitHub.
So I think this is really great that the GitHub Super Linter.
I've got details in the show notes and the description down
below for more details on that.
Next up, Visual Studio Code
1.46 May 2020 release is available now.
This adds a bunch of new features and refinements,
including the ability to have GitHub issue notebooks,
which will basically let
you have custom GitHub queries displayed in any custom notebook.
There's also now ARM64 support
for our Windows for the Visual Studio Code Insiders version.
This is a really big deal because I know that for a lot of people,
one of the problems with maybe looking at some of
the ARM-based Windows laptops,
things like the Surface of X
is that it doesn't work with apps like Visual Studio Code,
so the new Insiders build does.
There's also pinned editor tabs so that you
can always keep your frequently use files handy.
A lot of other features,
so check out the links in the show notes and
the description for more details on Visual Studio code,
how to get it downloaded,
the GitHub to sharing of
your issues or if you have patches that you want to share,
whatever the case may be great stuff.
Next up, this is pretty awesome.
In the new Insider's builds for Windows,
there are some really great updates around GPU Compute,
WSL Install, and an update to WSL.
One of the things that we announced at Microsoft Build is
the fact that in future versions of Windows,
you will be able to have GPU
access within Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL.
This is actually now in some of the Windows Insider builds.
So this is really great for people who are wanting to do
things with CUDA for machine-learning.
So if you want to basically be able
to have your Windows environment,
but you want to use the Linux side to access
your GPU to do your machine learning workflows, you can do that.
Actually, Nvidia now has
a CUDA graphics drivers available for WSL.
So I've got links in the show notes and the description on how you
can enable these things if you're using an Insider's build,
and these will be rolling out in
the coming months to all Windows 10 users.
But I think this is really great stuff and just
shows how much WSL is
improving and how viable it's
becoming for so many different use cases,
so that's really great stuff.
Next up, one of the announcements and moves,
actually one of my favorite announcements from
Microsoft Build is WinGet,
which is a new command line package manager for Windows.
If you've ever used something like Homebrew
or app or even Chocolatey or Scoop,
which have already existed for Windows,
this is a similar idea,
but the idea is you can install
your applications using the command line.
It's a great tutorial that I've got a link
too that shows how you can actually
use WinGet to install the Azure CLI.
So the old process was a little bit
more convoluted and it took a few more steps.
Now, its actually just typing it in a couple of commands,
which is really fantastic.
So we've got a link to that blog posts in
the show notes and the description down below.
In other news, this is really great,.NET 5.0 Preview 5,
as well as ASP.NET 5.0 Preview 5 and
the various other.NETs have been released.
This is great because there are
installers you can get for Docker images,
Mac binaries, either snap installers if you're
using an Ubuntu or another distribution that uses the snap format.
The Entity Framework Core 5.0 Preview 5 is available now.
As well, you are going to need to be using
the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 to use this.
But this just gets us one step closer to the release of.NET
5.0 which is going to be
the unification of a lot of the.NET things.
So I've got details about what is in
the new preview release and how they get it
in the show notes and the description.
Next up, this is pretty cool.
That's comes from my friend and former boss,
Tim Heuer, introducing Web preview,
and this is a really great extension for people who are doing
ASP.NET web forms where you can now have a instant web preview.
So you can think about this as something similar to
Xamarin's Hot Reload where basically,
you can have the ability to update and
preview your web app as you're building it.
So this is a really great extension.
I've got details about what this is,
and how you can install it and use it with your ASP.NET web
forms apps in the show notes and the description down below.
On Channel 9, this week,
we've got tons of great contents over on Data Exposed to talk
about Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database Part 1.
That's a really great conversation.
Over on the Visual Studio Toolbox,
Robert has an awesome conversation
with the man, the legend himself,
Scott Hunter, Part 1 of a conversation about.NET.
You definitely want to check that out.
Over on the Power Show,
you can get to know Power Apps component framework
or the PCF in the Power Platform,
and Donna talks with Kelsey Bloomquist about that.
So you definitely want to check that out.
Links to all these shows are
in the show notes and the description down below.
Now, it is time for my pick of the week.
Now, I realize that I've already made this my pick of the week,
like a month-and-a-half ago.
However, this needs to be my pick of the week again.
Basically, the game, Cyberpunk
2077 has been delayed until November,
but happy birthday to me, I suppose.
However, I got my limited edition
Xbox One X Cyberpunk edition.
I had to fight very hard to get this,
I'm very excited that I got it. It is amazing.
So I had to show it off because it's
the nerdiest thing that I've bought in a really long time,
and I'm really excited about it.
It's sold out basically everywhere, however,
you can get some of the other accessories like
headsets and controllers and hard drives and stuff,
if you want to build your own Cyberpunk Xbox aesthetic.
As I said before, I can't believe that I just
bought a console six months before.
I'm going to buy like the new console.
But you know what? When it looks this good,
I just have to do it.
If I hadn't done it,
I would've been really mad at myself.
So that's my pick of the week.
Well, that does it for me this week.
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