Channel 9

Action parameters in ASP.NET Core MVC are automatically populated for you (as best they can be by the default model binder) from the incoming request using a series of conventions. You can bind primitives and complex types, lists, and even lists of complex types. Join Monster James as he walks through all of these concepts. Be sure to check out our previous episode on routing, which explains the premise of route tokens discussed in this video. Follow @aspnetmonsters

This week on Channel 9, returning guest hosts Scott Klein and Robert Green discuss the week's top developer news, including; [00:51] New Dev Center Capabilities [Bernardo Zamora][01:38] App Dev on Xbox On-Demand[02:35] How MonoGame is bringing more indie developers to Xbox One [Paul Acevedo][03:35] New C# 7.0 features in Visual Studio “15” Preview 4 [Mads Torgersen][05:04] Sell Visual Studio Team Services extensions [Mathew Aniyan][05:42] Announcing MSTest V2 Framework support for .NET Core 1...

So you've just installed Visual Studio - now what? Follow this quick video tutorial to build your first UWP app for Windows 10, and your computer will be talking to you in no time. Learn more about developing UWP apps with Visual Studio at http://aka.ms/DevelopWindows10.

In this video we will look at some of the best practices on how should you pick the right Redis Cache offering for your use case.https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/

All data scientists have some sort of a process to move a project from initial customer contact through to successful completion. Often, this is not formally documented, though we can point out when we are being asked to take short cuts that process, even if we haven't described the steps to our customers.In this talk, John Ehrlinger (Data Scientist, Algorithm & Data Science team) walks us through the 7 step process for data science detailing how data science works along the way...

In this introduction, David Bick and Tom Hodgson from Redgate walk through Redgate Data Platform Studio and show how it can be used to load existing data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse. For more information on Azure SQL Data Warehouse, see: Homepage A First Look at Azure SQL Data WarehouseAzure SQL Data Warehouse with Matt Usher To find out more about Redgate Data Platform Studio, see their homepage.

Retrieving data using the HttpClient is a fairly common practice in any number of applications. But HttpClient can easily be used incorrectly frequently with dire consequences. Make sure you're using it correctly in the latest ASP.NET Monsters video. References: Our blog post on this Microsoft Patterns and Practices documentation Official documentation (careful with this)

In this session we provide an overview of Azure monitoring and the various facilities it offers ranging from metrics, logs, alerts, autoscale and integration with other services. It is really informative and gives a sense for how almost all Azure services have a common base for monitoring. Let me know your thoughts! Links: Documentation Blogs (and another)

Join Technical Evangelist Matt McSpirit, along with Program Managers Tobias Klima and Cosmos Darwin from the Windows team, as they demo rolling out new drive firmware across Storage Spaces Direct cluster nodes with NO workload downtime, NO active management, and NO third-party tools or utilities. Just update one policy, and Windows handles the rest! Learn more at Updating Firmware for Disk Drives in Windows Server 2016.

In this episode, Robert is joined by David Catuhe, the project lead for the UWP Community Toolkit, an open-source collection of helper functions, custom controls, and app services that simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks for building UWP apps for Windows 10. David shows how easy it is to use the Toolkit and discusses some of the motivation and goals behind its creation. Resources: UWP Community Toolkit on GitHubUWP Community Toolkit Sample App in the Windows Store.