Channel 9

Christina is back from the first two legs of the Create Startups Tour (and she's wearing the merch to prove it!) and is back with the latest dev news, including:

• [00:15] Create Startups Tour

• [00:30] Microsoft Build 2019 and check-out our Countdown to Microsoft Build YouTube playlist

• [01:01] Microsoft Ignite: The Tour

• [01:20] Microsoft Edge Insider Channels - check out what to expect, an introductory blog, the GitHub org, and how to enable dark mode

• [03:10] Azure April on Dev.to

• [03:33] Azure Tips and Tricks: Getting Started with Front Door

• [03:45] Publishing Static Content on Azure Blob Storage

• [04:00] Move from S3 to Azure Blob Storage with AzCopy v10 Preview

• [04:15] New Chocolatey GitHub Organizations

• [05:00] One Dev Minute and The DevOps Lab

• [05:10] Xamarin DevelopersYouTube

• [05:27] The Next Release of PowerShell: PowerShell 7

• [06:20] Christina's Pick of the Week Surface Hub 2S

Let me know your thoughts on the new Microsoft Edge in the comments!

Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. 

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Create a Free Account (Azure)

Azure App Configuration is a service that enables you to centralize your application configuration. Built on the simple concept of key-value pairs, this service provides manageability, availability, and ease-of-use. You can use Azure App Configuration to store and retrieve settings for applications, microservices, platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Azure App Configuration docs
• Quickstart: Create an ASP.NET Core app with Azure App Configuration
• Key-value store (concept)
• Azure App Configuration REST API Reference (GitHub)
• Azure App Configuration feedback and issues (GitHub)
• Create a free account (Azure)

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Amanda Chew, App Center Program Manager, shows us the latest features in App Center diagnostics for mobile applications including filtering, searching, errors vs crashes, attaching logs and events, and a lot more! She also shows us how to setup webhooks to notify chat applications when there is a new crash or open an issue on GitHub or Azure DevOps automatically.

Show Links:

• App Center
• Documentation: App Center Diagnostics
• Find James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.
• Follow @JamesMontemagno
• Never Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow

• Xamarin Developer Center & Blog
• Xamarin and Azure
• Mobile DevOps
• Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree

After a long day in sessions, check out two unique Seattle brewpubs: Old Stove Brewing Co. in historic Pike Place Market (great views, delicious local fare) and Cloudburst Brewing in Belltown (12 rotating taps of liquid sunshine).

In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, who shows a number of his favorite new little features in Visual Studio 2019, all designed to make you more productive. He shows:

• New Search experience [01:25]
• See content of Clipboard Ring [02:25]
• New C# refactorings [03:45]
• IntelliCode [05:00]
• Search in Autos, Locals and Watch windows [06:35]
• Document health indicator [08:00]
• Code Cleanup for C# [09:35]
• Git Stash [11:30]
• Clean Solution Load [13:30]

Resources:

• Little great things about Visual Studio 2019 (Visual Studio blog post that includes several of these features)
• Comment Remover extension
• Download Visual Studio 2019