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This week, James is joined by friend of the show George Matthews, manager at the Microsoft Garage, who shows us the amazing Garage Intern project: Ink to Code. George shows us how Ink to Code enables developers and designers to brainstorm and draw their wire frames and export code directly into Visual Studio for UWP and Android applications to jump start their development process...

Damian is joined by Abel Wang to show us one way of tracking and deploying database changes alongside your code. The SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) project type in Visual Studio allows you to keep an up to date version of your code in source control. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) natively supports deploying any changes to an SSDT project to your SQL Server instance.

In this episode, Donovan is joined by James Montemagno, who shows some cool extensions for Visual Studio Team Service for mobile pipelines. Resources: Blog PostGitHub VSTS marketplaceFollow: Follow @DonovanBrownFollow @JamesMontemagno

Almost every software developer is using Git and has a GitHub account for either their personal or work projects. In this episode, we have Jasmine Greenaway (@paladique) joining Rich Lander (@RunFaster2000) to talk about the official GitHub extension for Visual Studio...

Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Learn five of the coolest features of TypeScript from Technical Fellow, Anders Hejlsberg. How can TypeScript help editors better check and improve our JavaScript? How does TypeScript use Control Flow Analysis? How do we avoid the pyramid of doom with asynchronous callback hell? Learn these and why Anders is having so much fun creating compilers in this episode of Five Things!

AI is moving at a very high speed today. How can we speed up AI aps for our developers? Here we talk about approaches using CoreML & Xamarin and how we can speed up real-time inferencing AI apps. GitHub link here.

Marc Goodner, from the Visual Studio C++ team tells Olivier about IoT devices development support in Visual Studio.

Whether you're building mobile or web applications, it highly likely that you've come across the async / await keywords in the .NET code you're working on. This combo makes working with asynchronous operations really easy, but can also lead into hard to debug issues if they aren't used correctly...

This week on Channel 9, Christina's out of a cast (yay!) but still wearing a splint (boo!) and back to share the latest developer news, including: [00:20] Build Registration is Open [00:38] Azure Go for Developers and an interview with Brian Ketelsenabout Go's popularity. *[01:08] Getting Started with Cosmos DB technical training seriesand the training series registration page [01:43] Using Core ML and Azure to Create Simple Xamarin...

Christina interviews Ruth Yakubu, a CDA focused on Java, AI, and cloud analytics. In this one-on-one interview, Ruth shares how she became interested in tech, and the career path that led her to Microsoft. In addition to her technical work, Ruth is also a fashion and beauty obsessed entrepreneur. She shares the journey with her bootstrapped startup, Poshbeauty.com. Ruth discusses some of the challenges with launching a startup, while also working a day job as an engineer...