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This week, James is joined by friend of the show Jon Douglas, Xamarin.Android Program Manager, who shows us how to super charge the startup time of Android applications with a brand new feature called Startup Tracing. Jon tells us what Startup Tracing is, how to use it, and how it can reduce app startup by up to 60%! Show Links: Xamarin.Android Release NotesBlog: Faster Startup Times with Startup TracingDocs: Preparing an app for releaseFind 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

When data is the lifeblood of your business, you want to ensure your databases are reliable, secure and available when called upon to perform. Service level agreements (SLA) set an expectation for uptime and performance and are a key input for designing systems to meet business needs. This conversation will help discuss the key SLA metrics and how you can leverage them for the most critical applications. For more information read this blog HERE.

Let's take a step back in a new mini-series that I like to call Xamarin.Forms 101. In each episode we will walk through a basic building block of Xamarin.Forms to help you build awesome cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows applications in .NET. This week we will look at how to visualize your application with the built in XAML Previewer for iOS and Android. Show Notes: Xamarin.Forms XAML Previewer DocumentationNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowLearn 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

In the second part of the CCF series of videos, we get a deeper look at and demonstrations of Microsoft's open source Confidential Consortium Framework (CCF), which leverages Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology to provide full confidentiality, high transaction throughput, and governance capabilities for blockchain and multi-party application builders. Additional details about CCF can be found at https://github.com/microsoft/CCF Follow @CH9 Follow @MSFTBlockchain

Join Amanda Silver, our first PM guest to learn more about how she accelerated her career with customer understanding and how she harnesses a sense of mission to stay motivated to achieve more. [01:08] - Amanda's roles through the years [03:45] - modern PM - driving culture and anthropology [05:06] - bringing customer into the product [07:07] - career pivot - searching for opportunities with cloud developer [10:50] - figuring out how to bring the entire team to become more customer focused [13:30] - figuring out how to empower her teams [15:30] - PM'ing for Chakra and Typescript - serendipity [19:50] - Moving from specialist to generalist [22:40] - What drives her career? Finding motivation in career and making the world better through developers [25:08] - Amplifying devs [26:52] - How did she get started? Amanda's "nerd family" [28:37] - finding CS [29:53] - why PM and academics vs industry vs startups [35:15] - best career advice : mission and purpose

The Microsoft Test Framework (MSTest) is an extensible testing framework for .NET applications. With MSTest v2, developers now have the ability to target .NET Core. In this episode, Sarabjot Singh sits down with Kendra to give us a demonstration of how developers can get started with MSTest v2 and make use of some of the newer features. [01:08] - What is MSTest?[02:58] - What is new with MSTest v2?[06:30] - How to migrate from MSTest v1 to v2?[09:40] - How to create a new .NET Core test project?[12:24] - How to enable parallel test execution?[16:20] - What are the extensibility points with MSTest v2?[23:13] - How to get updates about MSTest RFCs and releases? Useful Links MSTest v2 on GitHubUnit Testing with MSTestMSTest vs framework docsQuarterly ReportsMS Test Releases

In this episode, Damian speaks to George Verghese from the Azure DevOps team about the new Azure DevOps CLI. There are several ways to work with Azure DevOps, and if your goal is automation, the CLI should definitely be in your toolbelt. George explains why you may want to use the CLI over the other options, and walks through its capabilities, how to use it, and some of the scenarios it can help with. Follow George on Twitter: @gvvarkeyFollow Damian on Twitter: @damovisa Resources: Azure DevOps CLI Extension GitHub repo - https://github.com/Azure/azure-devops-cli-extensionAzure DevOps CLI documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/cli/get-started?view=azure-devops?WT.mc_id=devopslab-c9-dabradyScaffolding script example - https://github.com/Azure/azure-devops-cli-extension/tree/master/examples/Scaffolding

https://aka.ms/iotshow/securitycommunity Azure Security Center for IoT can help you monitor and manage your IoT security posture. Organizations can now easily protect their IoT deployments using hundreds of built-in security assessments drawn from the industry best practices, or create custom rules in a central dashboard. With newly added IoT security capabilities, you can now reduce attack surface for your Azure IoT solution and remediate issues before they can be exploited. In this episode of the IoT Show, IoT Security experts show how to onboard to Azure Security Center for IoT and demo some of the many security values you will get. For more details, visit Azure Security Center for IoT documentation at: https://aka.ms/iot-security-docs Join our community at: https://aka.ms/iot-security-community

This week on Channel 9, Christina is back with the latest developer news including: [00:18] Christina's Shirt [00:41] NINJA on Mixer [01:08] WSL 2 Updates [02:03] Docker for Desktop WSL Technical Previewand Scott Hanselman's blog with his thoughts [03:05] Docs.Microsoft.com Samples Browser and you can browse samples directly [04:06] Electron 6.0.0 [04:35] TorchSharp and the NuGet page [05:25] Building jetson-containers for Nvidia devices on Windows 10 with VS Code and WSL 2 [05:54] The IoT Show [06:03] On .NET [06:10] Xamarin Show [06:15] Christina's Pick of the Week: Poolside.fm Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. Follow @CH9 Follow @CH9 Create a Free Account (Azure)

Jane Mareth joins Scott Hanselman to show how nonprofits with limited budgets can accelerate their cloud adoption with Azure Foundation for nonprofits. The Azure Foundation provides prescriptive scripts, documentation, and diagrams to help nonprofits quickly adopt Microsoft Azure. Azure Foundation also includes governance and security guidance specific to the most common nonprofit scenarios. Azure cloud solutions for nonprofitsGet started with Azure FoundationMicrosoft TechSparkwillstg/AzureFoundation GitHub repoMicrosoft for nonprofitsCreate a free account (Azure)

Data integration is complex and has many moving parts that spans across hybrid data environments. Typically, data integration projects have dependencies upstream and downstream making dependencies an important aspect to consider in any job scheduling. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can create dependent pipelines in Azure Data Factory by creating dependencies between tumbling window triggers in your pipelines. Using these dependencies assures you that the trigger is only executed after the successful execution of the dependent trigger in your data factory. Create a tumbling window trigger dependency docsAzure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory pricing(blog post mentioned at [07:16] not published yet)Create a free account (Azure)

In this demo, we will show how you can explode a Bill of Materials using Graph Shortest Path function, introduced with SQL Server 2019 CTP3.1, to find out which BOMs/assemblies a given product/part belongs to. This information can be useful for reporting or product recall scenarios. We will explore the Shortest Path function and try to understand different ways in which it can be used. More information: SQL Server Graph official documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/graphs/sql-graph-overview, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/graphs/sql-graph-architecture and https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/04/20/graph-data-processing-with-sql-server-2017/Bulk Insert Best Practices: https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/features/sql-graphRecommendation System: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlcat/2017/04/21/build-a-recommendation-system-with-the-support-for-graph-data-in-sql-server-2017-and-azure-sql-db/Product Recommendations in WideWorldImporters using SQL Graph: https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/demos/sql-graph/recommendation-systemEdge Constraints: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverstorageengine/2018/09/28/public-preview-of-graph-edge-constraints-on-sql-server-2019/Using Derived Tables or Views in graph match: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverstorageengine/2018/11/07/public-preview-of-derived-tables-and-views-on-graph-tables-in-match-queries/, https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/features/sql-graph/DerivedTablesAndViewsInGraphMatchSHORTEST_PATH function: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SQL-Server/Public-Preview-of-Shortest-Path-on-SQL-Server-2019/ba-p/721240, https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/features/sql-graph/ShortestPathAdvanced Graph Algorithms: https://github.com/shkale-msft/GraphRecursiveQueriesFollow Shreya Verma and Jeroen ter Heer

In this episode (part 2 of 2), Robert is joined by Leslie Richardson, who shows several ways you can get the most out of Visual Studio's debugging tools. She shows a number of features, most of which have been in the product all along. Whether you are a new or experienced developer, you will see some things you can use to help solve issues in your code. You can find part 1 here. Check out https://aka.ms/watchwindowsearch to learn more about searching for objects in the Watch, Autos and Locals windows. Check out https://aka.ms/manageddatabreakpoints to learn more about data breakpoints for managed code.

Let's take a step back in a new mini-series that I like to call Xamarin.Forms 101. In each episode we will walk through a basic building block of Xamarin.Forms to help you build awesome cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows applications in .NET. This week we will look at how to optimize user interface based on the type of device that your app is running on with OnIdiom. Show Notes: Xamarin.Forms OnIdiom DocumentationXamarin.Forms Device Class DocumentationNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowLearn 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

The Visual Studio Test platform is the engine that powers the testing capabilities in Visual Studio and also the .NET CLI. The platform provides an extensibility model for test frameworks (and language runtimes) to provide a common set of operations such as filtering and test execution. In this episode, Sarabjot Singh joins Kendra to give us a deep dive into the features and extensibility model that the VS Test Platform provides. [01:29] - What are some of the benefits of software testing?[03:30] - Stages in test execution[07:03] - What's new in the Test Platform v2?[10:15] - Running the Test Platform without Visual Studio[11:19] - .NET Core testing in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Azure Pipelines[14:15] - Executing tests in parallel[18:34] - Migrating to the new test configuration format[20:46] - Diagnostics test crashes with blame[22:24] - What are the extensibility points for the Test Platform?[27:55] - Documentation and quarterly reports[29:36] - Demystifying Test Platform v1 versus v2[31:20] - Can other programming languages plug into the Test Platform?[32:09] - Using blame in Azure Pipelines Useful Links Test Platform on GitHubTest Platform DocsRFCsQuarterly ReportReleases