Learn how to optimize your table design for joins and aggregations when using Azure SQL Data Warehouse. One month free trial for SQLDW by visiting here and use Referral Code: "MSConnect"

Azure Stream Analytics – adding real-time capabilities to your applications

Learn how to easily add powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to your applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services. See Cognitive Services for more information:…

Everyone in the team, be it product owners, developers, testers, UX designers etc., can use the Test & Feedback extension to test their web-apps and provide feedback to the team, right from their…

Learn and experience the ease of integrating "conversational intelligence" and scalable, extensible search models powered by LUIS and Azure Search.

Learn and experience the seamless ability to have a "full-stack" end-to-end ASP.NET core solution running on Linux by leveraging the new Visual Studio 2017 publish to Azure Linux Apps via…

Learn and experience surfacing aggregated data from SQL Server 2016 and real-time streaming within Power BI as well as the ease of leveraging newer Office Graph services to replace legacy service…

Learn the ease of creating and managing Azure Functions, especially relating to Azure Storage-based triggers, as well as the simplicity of accessing Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs in a secure and…

Learn and experience leveraging SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) within Visual Studio 2017 to create and manage schemas, as well as leveraging the Azure SDK to connect to and populating Azure Blob…

Experience the ease of ASP.NET Core and Azure App Services creation and management, and the benefits of Application Insights based on best practices and practical examples.

In this final session, we will get ready to distribute our trivia application to the world – starting with some beta testers. We will look at two different systems – first, HockeyApp which allows us…

We all know that we need to test our applications thoroughly to ensure quality – and this is particularly important in the mobile world where a few bad reviews can kill your sales on the various app…

Now that the main pieces of the trivia application are in place, we will explore adding a server backend to our mobile application using Azure App services. This session will show you how quick and…

Xamarin.Forms supports the use of the XAML markup language to design your UI. In this session, we will cover the basics of the XAML language, design a few more screens for our trivia application, and…

In this session, we will dive into Xamarin.Forms, a cross-platform UI framework that allows you to create native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows with shared code. By the end of this session, you will…

This session provides a quick introduction to the Xamarin tools for Visual Studio. It will show you what you need to develop, debug, deploy and publish applications for iOS and Android using Visual…

In this brief overview, we present some of the new productivity features to come for Microsoft .NET in Visual Studio 2017, including improvements in debugging, unit testing, live code analysis, and…

The cloud is truly becoming the "brain" for our connected planet. You're not just running algorithms in the cloud, rather you're connecting that with data from sensors from around the world,…

Brian and Jamie showcase the new and noteworthy additions to Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2017 that are enabling organizations to further evolve and streamline their DevOps…

Engineering leaders at Microsoft talk about the evolution of developer tools and services in a cloud-first, mobile-first world. Panel speakers include Julia Liuson, Beth Massi, Corey Sanders, Miguel…

Hear Scott Guthrie speak on how Azure is enabling developers across any stack, OS and language to build powerful applications. Hear his thoughts on the evolution of the Intelligent Cloud at Microsoft…

Learn about the available table storage options for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. One month free trial for SQLDW, simply use referral code "MSConnect": https://azure.com/sqldwfreetrial

Learn how application developers can use Power BI Embedded, an Azure service, to quickly embed stunning, fully interactive reports and visualizations in customer-facing apps. For more information see:…

Learn about HDInsight, which is a fully managed Cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized Open Source analytics clusters for Spark, Hive, Map Reduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka and R-Server. Also learn…

Learn about SQL Server on Linux and watch demos on how to get started today. See SQL Server on Linux for more information: http://www.sqlserveronlinux.com/

Learn about what we've been working on regarding open source technologies and the Node.js Tedious connector. Check out the Node.js Tedious Connector for SQL Server on GitHub and contribute to the…

Learn what we've been working on for C# developers when connecting to SQL Server from their .NET Framework or .NET Core applications. Check out CoreFX on GitHub and contribute to the project:…

This video presents an introduction to Microsoft Graph. Through demos, you'll learn about the exciting new feature that lets you easily extend Microsoft Graph by adding your own application data. For…

Join us for a panel discussing Windows 10 app development and the Windows Store. UWP enables apps to reach PCs, phones, Xbox, Surface Hub, HoloLens, and IoT devices. The Windows Store enables…

Azure DevTest Labs is an Azure service that lets you quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling costs. Learn what problems DevTest Labs can solve, what scenarios and…

Updated video is now available, see: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio-2017-Launch/T105 In this video, we introduce Live Unit Testing, a brand-new addition to the Enterprise…

Get an introduction to the modern Office platform and the types of solutions you can build. Learn why we're so excited about the opportunities that the platform provides for deep and powerful Office…

Visual Studio 2017 comes loaded with many features to help you be even more productive when building great desktop apps. With faster performance, improvements to debugging and code authoring, and so…

Get an overview of the new Linux C++ development workload in Visual Studio 2017. Download Visual Studio 2017 and try the new Linux development with C++ workload, everything you need to…

Visual Studio for Mac is a new member of the Visual Studio family for mobile-first, cloud-first development. This video preview shows how to get started with Visual Studio for Mac and explores its…

Package Management supports your continuous integration and delivery workflows by hosting NuGet and npm packages in your Visual Studio Team Services accounts and Team Foundation Servers. Get started…

Learn how data scientists working with IT and business analysts can use Microsoft R to speed the delivery of predictive applications that are stable, scalable and portable. Learn more about Microsoft…

Azure is a broad platform. It offers many infrastructure services and tools that help you be cost effective, be agile, and scale globally. Learn how Azure Resource Manager enables you to templatize…

See how you can add contextual analytics to your application by using the new Power BI client JavaScript API. With the JavaScript API, you can easily make application analytics responsive to your…

Imagine needing only one C# statement to authenticate. One statement to create a virtual machine. One statement to modify an existing virtual network. With Azure Management Libraries for .NET, there's…

Learn how to start submitting deep neural network (DNN) training jobs in Azure by using Azure Batch to schedule the jobs to your GPU compute clusters. You can also deploy your DNN tools and libraries,…

Get the overview of ways that you can extend the team-based chat experience of Microsoft Teams through Connectors, Bots, and Tabs. Get started at https://dev.office.com/microsoft-teams

Learn how to use SQL Database In-Memory technologies to improve performance without increasing costs for transaction processing (OLTP), analytics (OLAP), and hybrid transactional and analytical…

Visual Studio 2017, .NET Core and Azure deliver end to end solutions from developing and debugging in containers, publishing to App Service Containers and configuring Continuous Delivery to Azure…

After you start building and deploying images to your many Azure resources that run containers, you'll likely want to have more control over your images. You can keep the images private to your…

Learn how you can easily set up continuous integration and deployment of a multi-container Docker application to an Azure Container Service cluster. We'll cover how you can use standard Docker assets…

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight, open source code editor that's blazing a new trail in the world of editors. VS Code runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows, and it is improving performance and shipping…

Adding UI Automation for testing will speed up your development cycle and improve product quality. In this session, we'll demo how to use Appium test framework support for Windows applications, how to…

We invite you to try a preview of two diagnostics features of Visual Studio Application Insights: the improved Application Map and Application Insights Profiler. You can use the improved Application…

Tizen is an open source operating system based on Linux that powers more than 50 million Samsung devices around the world, including TVs, wearables, mobile, and many other Internet of Things (IoT)…

Learn how to create fully managed web applications in Azure hosted on Linux and how to use advanced features like custom Docker images. To learn more details see our documentation page.

Windows 10 enables existing desktop applications (like Win32 and .NET) to become part of the UWP ecosystem and to be distributed in the Windows Store. This session will talk about new capabilities and…

Device Portal is a diagnostic platform for Windows that ships on every Windows device. You can now see and control more on your device than ever before. We'll cover how to use Device Portal (via a…

Microsoft Azure offers a rich suite of services to help you accelerate a digital transformation. With Azure Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, and BizTalk Services, you can seamlessly connect…

Are you building bots? Then you'll want to see how quickly you can get started on Azure with the intelligent bot development service powered by the Microsoft Bot Framework and run in a serverless…

"Making testers an integral part of Agile teams,” "Everyone owns testing in Agile teams," and "Testing for enterprise customers" are the three themes that we have been working…

Learn about Azure DocumentDB including the new Emulator and build your DocumentDB apps offline on your local computer. Start with DocumentDB free, no Azure signup required. See the new DocumentDB…

Bash on Ubuntu on Windows and a much improved Windows Console shipped as part of Windows 10 Anniversary Update. In this video, Rich Turner will review what has already been delivered and what's coming…

The Microsoft Azure application platform is a rich set of IaaS and PaaS services. Get introduced to Azure services you can use to build apps for any platform, faster. Try Azure App Service:…

Learn about what we've been working on regarding open source technologies and the Python connector. Check out the Python Connector for SQL Server on GitHub and contribute to the project:…

Learn how to run R models on large datasets in Azure HDInsight using parallelization. We'll also show how to connect R to Spark data sources using the latest features in R Server on HDInsight.…

Command-line tools like Azure PowerShell and the Azure Xplat CLI 2.0 Preview are essential to automating Azure resource allocation and management. We'll discuss the latest features in the Xplat CLI…

In this video, we go over some of the exciting new features in ASP.NET Core 1.1. Learn about ASP.NET Core 1.1 integration with Azure and more.

Learn about what we've been working on regarding open source technologies and the PHP connector. Check out the PHP Connector for SQL Server on GitHub and contribute to the project:…

Learn about common scenarios for Microsoft Translator and see a demonstration of free Translator apps and interactive documentation. This introduction includes a code walkthrough of common scenarios…

Learn about Cortana Intelligence--the fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite that can help transform your data into intelligent action. Visit our Cortana Intelligence Suite site for more…

Use the IDE of your choice for an optimized ALM experience with Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. Our IntelliJ Plugin enables developers to support end-to-end DevOps workflows…

The Team Foundation Server (TFS) Data Import Service for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) preview provides a high fidelity solution for migrating your TFS databases. This video discusses how to…

Learn how you can take advantage of Power BI's open-source visualization stack to build custom data visualizations to help your users get the most of their data.

Gaining insights from data is a critical component of success in a modern application. Learn how to load data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse and get started creating value from your data.

Learn how to build a persistent data pattern common to modern cloud-hosted apps. Requirements of modern apps have driven the industry to use a broad range of technologies for storing data within an…

Learn about working with SQL Tools from your platform of choice with SQL Server on Linux. We'll show you how to use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) with SQL Server…

Get a quick demo of the Visual Studio features that make getting started with .NET Core and Docker easy, as well as showing the advantages of being able to debug inside a container with Visual Studio.…

Use Visual Studio 2017 to detect architectural dependency issues in real-time in the IDE. After presenting how this differs from layer diagrams in previous versions of Visual Studio, we demo the…

This video discusses Visual Studio Marketplace, the one place where developers can offer and acquire all the tools they need for any Visual Studio product.

In this video, we discuss how to add automated security scanning for vulnerabilities in open source components and code into your release pipeline with Visual Studio Team Services or Team Foundation…

In this video, we demonstrate how Azure deployments are made easy by using Visual Studio Team Services Release Management. Resources: Build: https://aka.ms/ci-buildRelease Management:…

This video discusses the general availability of Release Management and how we are adding new features to help enterprises manage triggers, business policies, and compliance for all releases and…

Azure Container Service has just gotten a series of updates. This video shows how Container Service is a streamlined, open, and flexible way to run your container applications in the cloud—providing…

Get an overview of what TypeScript 2.0 brings to the table, as well as what's new with TypeScript 2.1. To learn more about TypeScript visit https://www.typescriptlang.org and also check out our…

Learn about Azure Data Lake Store--a no limits, secure, hyper-scalable Data Lake that powers big data analytics. For more information visit: https://aka.ms/AzureDataLake

Azure Data Lake Analytics brings a new era of productivity for developers in the cloud. See how Data Lake Analytics enables developers to easily scale and optimize their big data programs. For more…

This video shows how Visual Studio 2017 includes support for great mobile development, streamlines cloud development, and greatly boosts developer productivity with improvements for everything from…

Learn about Python support in Visual Studio 2017. We will review the Data Science and Analytical Apps workload, and walkthrough how you can use the tools and environments that come with it to solve a…

Get an overview and the latest updates from the Office add-ins platform. Learn how to build Office add-ins on the Mac and in a Office 365 centralized deployment. Learn how to get started with the…

The SharePoint Framework lets developers build client-side extensions to SharePoint by using modern, open developer tools. Learn how to get started with the SharePoint Framework at…

With the general availability of Release Management in Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), we are introducing a new model for its licensing and usage. We first discuss…

See how to use relational Database-as-a-Service for your applications. See SQL Database for more information: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/

Use SQL Database elastic pools for simple, cost-effective performance management of multiple databases.

Learn about what we've been working on regarding open source technologies and the JDBC connector.

This video shows how SQL Server Data Tools and Visual Studio Team Services enable continuous integration and deployment for your SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and allow you to quickly apply…

This video demonstrates how Visual Studio 2017 makes it easier to be more productive than ever as you create modern web applications. Download Visual Studio 2017 and select the "Web…

With Windows containers you can now run and debug .NET 4.5.2 and 3.5 applications in containers. Watch as Glenn Condron demos the Visual Studio features that make it easy to get started with…

Office 365 Actionable Messages let users complete simple tasks against external services, right within Outlook. In this video, learn the mechanics of Actionable Messages and guidelines for developers…

The Xamarin platform enables developers to use their C# and .NET skills to create native mobile apps for Android, iOS Mac, and Windows. With Xamarin, you use the same language, APIs, and data…

With Xamarin.Forms, you can build cross-platform native UIs with one shared codebase. Learn how to build a shared UI completely in XAML that targets iOS, Android, and Windows. Take advantage of the…

Learn about the preview release of Kubernetes 1.4 on Azure Container Service. This deeper and native support of Kubernetes will give you another fully open-source choice for your container…

This video demonstrates how Visual Studio 2017 makes developing with JavaScript faster and more productive in every context. To get started, download Visual Studio 2017 and select the "Web…

Learn about the newly introduced support for containers and Docker in the just-released Windows Server 2016. Build, ship, and run hybrid applications that span Azure and on-premises. Resources:…

Big data processing requires a language that hides the complexity of managing scale and provides easy integration of your custom code to handle the complex processing requirements ranging from data…

Learn how to take advantage of Azure Search to extend your data from common stores such as Azure SQL and DocumentDB to build great search experiences into web and mobile applications that use advanced…

Learn how you can use Azure Notebooks as an interactive executable canvas to accomplish your data science experimentation and manage your workloads.

Learn about what we're planning for HADR and what security capabilities are available for SQL Server on Linux. See SQL Server on Linux for more information: http://www.sqlserveronlinux.com/

The new Visual Studio Build Tools provides a lightweight option for installing the tools you need for building native or managed MSBuild applications without requiring the Visual Studio IDE. For more…

Learn about the new workloads available inside Visual Studio 2017 that enable C++ developers to get the tools they need, no matter the type of development. Choose from Windows desktop,…

Get an introduction to the Skype Developer Platform. Learn how developers can integrate real-time communication and collaboration features with Skype for Business Online. Get started at…

This video focuses on the end-to-end flow of application development for Azure. We present a set of tools that make it extremely easy for you to get set up for developing great applications using…

R Tools for Visual Studio now ships as part of the Data Science workload in Visual Studio 2017. Watch this video to learn about some new key features in this latest update, including: Multiple…

This video provides an overview of the new installer in Visual Studio 2017. Download Visual Studio 2017 from http://www.visualstudio.com

Visual Studio 2017 adds built-in support for CMake. Watch this video to learn more about how the latest Visual Studio release fundamentally changes the way you interact with your CMake projects and…

Learn about our improved C++ IntelliSense and code navigation experience in Visual Studio 2017. For more information visit the C++ team blog.

Watch this video for an overview of C++ standards conformance progress in the Visual C++ compiler and libraries. For more information, visit https://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog

Get an overview of the .NET platform and see what's new in .NET Framework and .NET Core. Learn more at www.dot.net

Come learn how you can now use Microsoft Graph to reach on-premises and cloud users of hybrid Exchange 2016 deployments, in addition to Office 365 and Outlook.com. We'll discuss how your application…

Use the Excel REST API available on Microsoft Graph to build deeper and richer integration with Excel workbooks. Get started with Microsoft Graph at…

Learn about faster solution loads, IntelliSense, and debugger improvements. For more info on Visual C++ performance visit blog: https://aka.ms/vcperf

Bring your C++ codebases to Visual Studio with Open Folder. Learn how to get started and configure your environment to get the best C++ editing, building, and debugging experience…

Learn about the new F# 4.1 features. Resources: For more information read our recent blog post and visit: https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-designTo see a complete set of features, in addition to…

Find out about new features available in Entity Framework Core. For more information on EF Core, visit https://docs.efproject.net

A variety of SDKs for mobile devices, servers, and services make it easy to quickly integrate a wide variety of data into your apps and services. Explore our Microsoft Graph SDKs at…

Xamarin Workbooks simplify learning C# and mobile development by using interactive documentation and guidance to show developers how to code their apps. In this video, Craig Dunn explains how Xamarin…

Visual Studio Enterprise includes exclusive Xamarin features—Xamarin Inspector and Xamarin Profiler—to help developers debug and performance-tune their Android, iOS, and Windows apps. In this video,…

With Visual Studio 2017, Unity developers can install a tailored Visual Studio workload with just what they need to write and debug their Unity games. This video demos a lightweight and performant…

Visual Studio 2017 has new productivity tools to help Universal Windows Platform developers accelerate development. In this video, we show how, with new XAML power tools, new debugging tools, faster…

Learn how Vcpkg can help you rebuild C++ Libraries in Windows. For more information, see https://aka.ms/vcpkg

Use /Debug:fastlink to observe 2-4x link improvements for your C++ code. This short video talks about the latest improvements to fast link along with how you can start using it today To learn…

Get an overview of the new C++ extension for Visual Studio Code and how you can use this extension to edit, build and debug your code across Win, Linux and Mac. For more information visit:…

Microsoft .NET Core 1.1 includes support for additional Linux distributions, has many updates, and is the first Current release. Watch a quick command-line interface (CLI) demo on Linux of how to…

A quick overview of some of the new language features coming to C# 7.0. For more details see our blog post.

Want to get instant insights about your application? Use Visual Studio Application Insights Analytics to execute ad-hoc queries against your telemetry. Then use these queries to build dashboards for…

Get an introduction to Microsoft Graph. Learn about the new capabilities that have been added to the API, like SharePoint and extensibility. Demos show you how easy it is to integrate Graph into your…

Xamarin Test Recorder makes mobile app testing fast and easy: manually interact with your mobile app, record your actions, and automatically create test scripts. In this video, John Lago demonstrates…

Visual Studio Application Insights is an extensible, intelligent application performance-management service for web developers, providing fast analytics and integration with your existing DevOps…

Visual Studio Application Insights is an intelligent, application performance-management service providing instant analytics and integration with your existing DevOps workflows. This video reveals its…

Attend a panel that shows how you can build intelligent applications using Office technologies. Reach hundreds of millions of users where they work--in Office applications every day -- by taking…

Join us for a panel discussion about how to architect and build intelligent, data-driven apps focused on bots and agents. We'll discuss Microsoft Bot Framework and how data brings it to life including…

Join us for a panel discussion about how you can build microservice applications leveraging a number of Azure technologies, including Azure Functions, Service Fabric, and Azure containers.

Join us for a panel discussion about how you can leverage Azure App Service and the variety of Azure developer tools to quickly and easily build web and mobile apps. Also learn how you can seamlessly…

Join us for a panel discussion with ALM and DevOps experts. We will discuss and demonstrate the recent enhancements to Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server 2017, including agile…

Join Microsoft mobile experts for an interactive discuss on the announcements from a mobile developer's perspective, take an in-depth look at the latest releases and walk through live demos of Visual…

Join us for a panel discussion among Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, and C# language experts. We will review yesterday's keynote announcements from the perspective of the .NET developer, take an in-depth…

Join us for a panel discussion with Visual Studio development tools experts. We will discuss and demonstrate the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2017 and new enhancements in Visual Studio Code.

Join Corey Sanders for this live Q&A session, ask your questions and hear more details on Microsoft Azure cloud platform

Join Julia Liuson & John Montgomery for this live Q&A session, ask your questions and hear more details on Visual Studio. To get started with Visual Studio 2017 visit:…

Join Rohan Kumar and Tiffany Wissner for this live Q&A session, ask your questions and hear more details on Intelligent Apps and Data

Join Scott Hunter and his two special guests, Chris Sells from Google Cloud Developer Tools and Hong-Seok Kim Vice President of Samsung. This is your chance to ask the panel your .NET questions during…

Join Brian Harry and Jamie Cool for this live Q&A session, ask your questions and hear more details on Application Lifecycle Management and DevOps topics

Join Nat Friedman & Miguel de Icaza for this live Q&A session, ask your questions and hear more details on the Xamarin platform for mobile development

Join Scott Guthrie for this live Q&A session, ask your questions and hear more details on the most exciting keynote announcements

Join Dan Fernandez and Seth Juarez for a recap of keynote announcements and an introduction to the live Q&A segments starting at 10:00am PST

Join us for keynotes featuring Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman and many other Microsoft speakers and guests. Create a Free Azure Account Here!

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