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Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Xamarin.Essential API of the week we take a look at geolocation to easily get the cached or current location of the users device. Show Links: Xamarin.Essentials DocumentationXamarin.Essentials Getting Started DocumentationGeolocation API DocumentationSource CodeFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links: Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter

Starting a user group and building a community is not an easy task. Keeping your group running can be even harder. In this episode, Scott chats with Andres Pineda about getting started with open source and how he helped kickstart the .NET user groups in the Dominican Republic. [00:30] - Bootstrapping a .NET open source community[02:08] - Seeding a young user group[04:09] - Involving non English speaking colleagues[05:57] - Paying it forward with scholarships Useful Links .NET meetups and user groupsBecome a social developerCaribbean Developers ConferenceScott's views on community and productivity

Andon is a methodology originally designed by Toyota in the 80's to allow responding faster and more efficiently to issues on manufacturing lines. Skoda is modernizing the methodology to allow operators to respond more quickly to production problems, as well as automatically notify supervisors, leveraging Azure IoT Hub and Office 365. Stepan Bechynsky joins us on the IoT Show to show how the solution implemented at Skoda works using the "hello world" of IoT demos: a simple button that operators can press to signal problems on a piece of equipment and that integrates into business applications such as Microsoft Teams.You can learn more about Andon at https://aka.ms/iotshow/andon

This Week on Channel 9, Christina is giving a last update before the studio goes on hiatus bringing you the latest developer news, including: [00:26] COVID-19 and Microsoft Teams Offer [01:30] Best Pracatices for Working Remotely [01:57] GitHub Satellite Now Online Only [02:08] WSL Conf Now Online Only [02:34] Docker Desktop for Windows 10 Home [02:59] Dual-Boot Windows 10 Insider Without Partitioning [03:27] Raft WSL [03:47] PowerShell 7 [04:48] PowerShell VS Code Extension [05:08] Visual Studio Spring 2020 Roadmap [05:26] What's New in Visual Studio Online [06:07] PowerToys v0.15.1 [06:33] Visual Studio Toolbox [06:42] The IoT Show [06:49] Career's Behind the Code. [07:01] Christina's Pick of the Week: Rose Gold Xbox Series X Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. Follow @CH9 Follow @CH9 Create a Free Account (Azure)

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to go over two important updates to Azure Cosmos DB: Free Tier and Autopilot. Free Tier enables you to run small applications using Azure Cosmos DB free of charge for as long as you like. Autopilot enables developers to only pay for the Azure Cosmos DB usage they need and not worry about predicting throughput. [0:02:10] - Autopilot mode demo[0:09:48] - Free Tier Optimize development and testing cost in Azure Cosmos DBCreate Azure Cosmos containers and databases in autopilot mode (Preview)Frequently asked questions about provisioned throughput in Azure Cosmos DB autopilot mode (Preview)Azure Cosmos DB overviewCreate a free account (Azure)

In Kubernetes, the API server is the central way to interact and manage the cluster. To improve cluster security in Azure Kubernetes Server, Ruchika Gupta shows Scott Hanselman how you can restrict access to the API server to a limited set of IP address ranges. [0:02:23] - Demo Secure access to the API server using authorized IP address ranges in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) overviewKubernetes: Getting startedCreate a free account (Azure)

Have you ever wanted to know how to setup a Hackathon? Then join us in this show where Dona and Sarah talks to the EPIC Chris Huntingford about what the Power Platform is doing for the community and how to get EVERYONE around you involved using Hackathons. Chris is a legend amongst the community. He has worked in the industry for over a decade with Partners and Customers alike and is now working for Microsoft as a Senior Partner Technology Architect. He is the mastermind behind the Hack 4 Good initiative and continues to work on community efforts across the world. Learn more about Chris here https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishuntingford/ To learn more, visit: https://aka.ms/LessCodeMorePowerDocs

In this video, you will learn how you can get a better TCO for recommended SQL Server HADR architectures with your Software Assurance benefits. [00:00] Intro[00:30] Deploying SQL Server in High Availability / Disaster Recovery configuration[01:36] HA and DR benefits introduced in November 2019[02:15] Applying HA / DR benefits to typical HA/DR configuration[04:22] Contrasting licesing before and after November 2019[04:59] Application to older versions of SQL Server and various architectures[05:31] SummaryLearn more at https://aka.ms/sqlserver2019licenseguide?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner and https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server/optimize-tco-with-new-sql-server-software-assurance-benefits-for/ba-p/1123731?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner.

In this episode, Robert is joined by Jerome Laban, CTO of the Uno Platform. Back in December, we showed you how you can use Uno to build mobile, desktop and Web Assembly apps using C# and XAML. Jerome provides a behind the scenes look and how (and why) the Uno Platform was created, the decision to open source it and how it is maintained. He gives more insight into how it actually works and shows some new features that have been added since the previous episodes. Resources: Uno Platform Part 1 episodeUno Platform Part 2 episodeUno Platform

We're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Steve Lee and Richard Lander discuss how the PowerShell and .NET Teams are working more closely together bringing better compatibility and performance. PowerShell 7 is the latest major update to PowerShell, a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation tool and configuration framework optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models.

This month's episode features Stephen Toub, a Partner Architect on the .NET team focused on performance and building great libraries. The libraries that Stephen stewards are at the base of your .NET application. In this episode, Stephen shares what he's learned about how to be a successful remote worker, what he learned from his brief sojourn in management, and how having been a PM and a technical assistant gave him insights to further his career. #careers #software #dotnet 0:00 meet the other Steve 1:15 Toub's role and being a perf guy 4:49 Toub's start in consulting 9:25 technical writing and communication skills as a key skill for devs 14:55 becoming a program manager and breadth 17:54 picking roles that are closest to the core mission 18:50 learning he shouldn't be a manager 25:05 moving to full time dev 28:00 becoming a technical assistant for an executive 31:30 navigating reorgs and jumping into open source and cross platform .NET 33:21 big company skills, networking, and self-promotion 38:15 working remotely successfully and open source 42:00 mentors 44:00 learning perf

Data entry automation is a huge space and has tremendous impact to many countries around the world. Raul Roa is a software engineer in the Dominican Republic who is using .NET Core and Azure to help drive the digital transformation for his country and many others around the world. In this episode, we chat with Raul at the Caribbean Developers Conference to learn how he's using technology to improve the lives of the people in this country [01:07] - What tools are being used?[03:34] - How did they move from mono to .NET Core?[05:30] - What impact has their work had?[10:51] - Benefits of the cloud for the Caribbean Useful Links TagShelfGetting started with ML .NETGet started with .NETMachine Learning in Azure

Partly Cloudy is the show where you'll learn how to build a Xamarin.Forms app from scratch all the way through deploying it to the App Stores! Along the way you'll see some Azure goodness sprinkled in to make a fully enabled real-world mobile app. In this episode we put the finishing touches to the app's user interface. It looked good before, but now it'll look even better! You'll learn all about Xamarin.Forms Visual, how to change the home screen icons, tailor the splash screens to your exact specifications, and even play around with Xamarin.Forms styles. And for good measure, we'll dig down into the platform code to tweak some UI too! Show Links: All the code for this episode is on GitHub here.Episode recap post.Create a FREE Azure accountLearn more about Xamarin.Forms VisualWe used the Material Theme in Visual, find out about thatHere's a cool blog that walks you through all Visual has to offerChange to iOS icons with easeWork with iOS storyboardsAndroid splash themes are a bit of work, find out moreDark mode for Xamarin appsDark mode on iOSDark mode on AndroidXamarin.Forms styles will change your lifeMicrosoft Learn course for learning Xamarin.FormsMicrosoft Learn course for Azure StorageMicrosoft Learn course for creating a CDN with Azure StorageFind Matt on: Twitter, GitHub, and his BlogFollow @codemillmattUseful Links: Learn more about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, & Cross-platform developmentXamarin Developer Center & BlogMicrosoft Learn Self-Guided TrainingCreate a Free Account (Azure)Xamarin Developers YouTube ChannelXamarin on Twitter#XamarinForms #Xamarin #Azure #iOS #Android

This is the final, part 4 of a four-part series that breaks up a talk that I gave at the Toronto AI Meetup. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 were all about the foundations of machine learning, optimization, models, and even machine learning in the cloud. In this video I show an actual machine learning problem (see the GitHub repo for the code) that does the important job of distinguishing between tacos and burritos (an important problem to be sure). The primary concepts included is MLOps both on the machine learning side as well as the deliver side in Azure Machine Learning and Azure DevOps respectively. [00:28] Tacos vs burritos [04:15] Prep, Train, and export model[13:43] Machine learning pipelines[14:46] MLOpsHope you enjoy the final of the series, Part 4! As always feel free to send any feedback or add any comments below if you have any questions. If you would like to see more of this style of content let me know! The AI Show's Favorite links: Don't miss new episodes, subscribe to the AI Show Create a Free account (Azure) Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning Get Started with Machine Learning

As developers, we have the ability to use machine learning to our applications to create very unique experiences and solve difficult problems for our customers. In this episode, Martina and Bruno Capuano sit with Scott to show us how we can use Custom Vision and IoT devices to recognize objects in the real world. This is a great demo of how to get started with ML without having to train a model, and also how to get our children interested in technology. [00:42] - Exploring the setup[01:47] - How does this work?[03:36] - What else can we apply this to?[04:52] - How to get stated?[05:44] - Are there concerns about data privacyUseful Links Custom VisionCustom Vision Service DocumentationIdentify faces and expressions by using the Computer Vision API in Azure Cognitive Services