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Satya Nadella & Jeff Weiner provide an update on Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn
Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn Corporation on announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn's net cash. LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand, culture and independence. Jeff Weiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
MSDN Flash May: Accelerating the Canadian Cloud!
Hosts JR and Lacho are on a mission to arm you with the latest developer tools, news and shows. Keep your eyes and browsers open, because a tornado of content is about to sneak up on you. MSDN Flash: Canada Edition The newsletter for developers building solutions on or with the Microsoft stack for both work play.
MSDN Flash April 2016 - Bash on Windows, Hack Your World, The Future of C#, UWP + more
Hosts JR and Lacho are on a mission to arm you with the latest developer tools, news and shows. Keep your eyes and browsers open, because a tornado of content is about to sneak up on you. What was your favourite BUILD 2016 announcement or workshop? Bash on Windows, HoloLens? Share it with us here (a) MSDN Flash: Canada Edition The newsletter for developers building solutions on or with the Microsoft stack for both work play.
Hack a Mousetrap with Windows 10 Internet Of Things
Recently DX team members from Microsoft Canada took part in the DevOps Hackathon. Our hack was to literally build a better mousetrap by connecting a Raspberry Pi to record the number of times a trap is set off and where the trap has been set off. The data is fed through IoT Hub, stored in Azure SQL and then fed to Azure Machine Learning to provide predictions as to when the traps would need to be emptied.
Hack Grunt to Make Your Website Awesome
Do you get tired of reloading your website every time you make a change to your CSS styles? Are you always compressing your CSS and JavaScript files? In this video, Rami Sayar hacks together a Grunt script to help make your website awesome. This Gruntfile automates compiling SASS to CSS, improves your CSS with autoprefixer, minifies the CSS, JavaScript, HTML files and watches your files to automatically reload the browser and sync styles as you develop.
MSDN Flash March 2016 - Make Web Not War, iOS to Windows, ASP .NET Monsters + more
Hosts JR and Lacho are on a mission to arm you with the latest developer tools, news and shows. Keep your eyes and browsers open, because a tornado of content is about to sneak up on you. We've seen a lot of awesome apps created by developers across Canada, that is why we decided to challenge you. Have a look at the How to Convert your iOS app to Windows video, give it a try with one of your iOS apps, and let us know how long it took you to convert an iOS app to Windows.
Episode 9 - What Makes a Controller?
With ASP.NET Core we have new options for the way we build out our controllers. Sure, the conventions we know are there, but today we have the option to use as much or as little of the base class as we like in MVC Core. Dive in with Simon, Dave and James as they explore the ins-and-outs of using MVC controllers based on the built-in framework, or by using "plain old CLR objects" in your project.
1. How to install
Before doing something with Code, we need to install it. You can do it visiting http://visualstudio.com site where Microsoft publishes important links for software developers.
Visual Studio Tip: Fast Select and Edit
Like many coders, Susan spent a lot of time cutting, copying, pasting, and moving code. So the ability to quickly select the code I want helps me code more efficiently. In this video, she shares a couple of keyboard shortcuts that can help you select exactly the code you want with the mouse or the keyboard.
The Kudu Debug Console, Azure Websites best kept secret
One of the advantages of using Azure Websites (now Web Apps in the Azure App Service) is that it’s a Platform-as-a-Service, meaning that you don’t have to maintain and patch the operating system but as a side effect, you can’t use remote desktop to connect directly to the machine even if you use the Standard service tier where you have your own VM. So what if you want to have a little more control over your Websites?
Visual Studio Tip: How do I request a new feature in Visual Studio?
I frequently get comments on my blog posts or videos asking "Why doesn't Visual Studio do ?" In this video I will show you two easy ways you can provide feedback directly to the Visual Studio team!
Visual Studio Tip: Customizing Search Output in Visual Studio
When you do a Find in Files (CTRL+SHIFT+F), by default the output displays the file path which can fill up the results window. Did you know you can use a registry key to customize the output of your search?
Visual Studio Tip: Dude, Where's My File?
By default, the file path for Visual Studio projects is very long. When you want to access a subfolder or file in your project from Windows Explorer or reference the file path in your code, you can find yourself navigating up and down folders trying to find the file locations. Did you know you can right click on the tab in the code editor window to access the file path or to open the folder in Windows Explorer? Check it out.
Visual Studio Tip: Where Does the Open Brace Go?
Want to start a fight between two coders? Ask them if the open brace goes on a new line or at the end of the method declaration! Luckily you can set up Visual Studio to put the brace in whichever location YOU prefer. Go to Quick Launch and type in "format" you will find lots of great options to control how your code is formatted by default in Visual Studio. Once you have the settings the way you want them, just use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+K+D to reformat any existing code.
Visual Studio Tip: Lazy Code Snippets
You have probably discovered code snippets and you may even know you can create your own code snippets. But, I have a confession to make, I am lazy. I usually can't be bothered to define the xml to create my own snippets. That's why I love using the Toolbox! You can just drag code from the code editor into the Toolbox. Then the next time you need it, just drag it back to the code editor!
Visual Studio Tip: Faster than CTRL+X, CTRL+V
Glad it's helpful. Do let me know if you have discovered any great tips I should share in future videos!As for the VS2012 vs VS2013... I promise not all the tips will be VS2013 only, though this one happens to be a new feature in VS2013. Even if you work somewhere that only has 2012, you can always explore VS2013 with the express version, or try it on a VM, there is actually a VM in the Azure VM gallery with the CTP of the latest Visual Studio!
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