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Watch to learn about the latest bot building tools that are AI services aware, and support end-to-end bot development workflow to create, build, test, deploy and manage your bot. The tools we provide include a set of rich command line tools that help you create and manage bots and channel registrations, and manage AI connected services...

Connecting your bot to resources like the Microsoft Graph API, LinkedIn, or Uber can be challenging. In this video, learn about the newly built-in authentication cards supported in Azure Bot Service, enabling your bot to authenticate users against a wide variety of auth providers and perform tasks on their behalf.

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Brandon Minnick to discuss how to easily integrate Azure Blob Storage with Xamarin apps. We discuss when you should use Blob Storage and share a sample app that shows how to easily integrate Blob Storage + Xamarin! Show Links Xamarin Sample App CodeMicrosoft Docs, Blob Storage + XamarinBrandon's TwitterFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict...

In this session we will talk about when and how to inject NLU into your bot using LUIS. We are launching a new set of features in (LUIS) that enable a more integrated experience for building end to end bot intelligence with NLU interfaces. LUIS is fully integrated with Speech, Text Analytics, and machine translation from Cognitive Services to enable bots that you can text or talk to, converse with in multiple languages, and even further get sentiment and do key phrase extraction...

In this video, you will see what is coming out this Build for Vision Cognitive Services, including a view into the new computer vision and custom vision experiences in action.

F# is a functional programming language that runs on .NET. It has a great community behind it, and now comes included with .NET Core. In this episode, Phillip Carter (@_cartermp) joins Rich (@runfaster2000) to talk about what is new for the F# language. Phillip talks about where F# fits in the family of .NET languages and how it compares to C#...

Azure Maps were designed with the cloud customer in mind. Learn about the cartography design process as well as the robust data behind the curtains. For more information: Azure Maps (sample)Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to use the traffic APIs in Azure Maps. You will learn about how to surface the best in class traffic data coming from our partnership with TomTom using a set of simple REST APIs. Get up to date information on traffic flow as well as incidents. For more information: Azure Maps (layers sample)Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Seth Juarez sits down with Gurpreet Singh Pall to talk about Bing developer updates.

In this session we show how to use Git in teams with pull requests and how to use branches to manage your releases. In this session we will compare GitHub flow with the 'Release Flow' practised at Microsoft.