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Connect 2016 [video]

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We've got some announcements coming that makes today's keynote worth watching trust me. I am speaking as someone who helped pull this event off and is sitting back stage :)

Can you please update key announcements here as they come, as I can't watch the live stream. Thanks in advance.

We'll have everything (videos) available on-demand after the event, we're also pushing live over 100 8-12min short videos on topics you guys might be interested in it will all be on http://channel9.msdn.com/events/connect/2016

We'll also have detailed blog posts and a special edition of MSDN magazine that is going live shortly with lots of stuff to read through. ill do what I can to get you folks links.

thanks for your interest.

Google Cloud joins .NET foundation technical steering group.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/Google-Cloud-to...

Microsoft joined the Linux foundation as a Platinum member.

Nobody is live blogging this event?

Here's hoping for VS for Linux 2017.. ;)

Edit: Nevermind, whoa. The Visual Studio Code demo was quite impressive and looks awesome as it is.

Microsoft should buy CodeWeavers (the company behind Wine)

https://www.codeweavers.com/

Just tuned in - I see they're using the iOS Simulator on Windows. Have they explained how? That's one of the main reasons I use a Mac still.

The Xamarin tools have supported using a remote Mac to run the simulator. Microsoft has an iOS shim library and Objective-C tool chain for porting apps to Windows, but it's very much in preview.

Ah, I see. Less exciting, though I suppose inevitable.

If only running OS X as a virtual guest on a Windows host was supported. Then you could use that as the remote mac that is used with the shim.

It's sad that I'm completely serious, because that should sound ludicrous.

Visual Studio 2017 RC announced by Nat Friedman. (CEO of Xamarin prior to acquisition).

e: kinda surprised its the mobile group who's announcing RC for VS as a whole

Just saw Github CEO Chris Wanstrath deceptively hail Microsoft for having the most outside contributors... from his slides:

- 16,419 Microsoft

- 15,682 Facebook

- 14,059 Docker

- 12,841 Angular (Google)

- 12,140 Google

Makes me wonder whether he's included React in the Facebook numbers...

It has to be right? Why would Github be so inclined to lean towards Microsoft over Facebook.

e: just doesn't follow that they have enough of a vested interest in msft to be deceptive.

Yes, it's included. Remember Microsoft has VSCode, Typescript, .Net, Cognitive Toolkit and more on Github. Google would be #1 if Angular was hosted under the Google org.

I remember first seeing these stats in Github's infographic which they released a month or two ago: https://octoverse.github.com/

What's the deception?

- Microsoft has the most contributors on GitHub

- Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member

- Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2017

- Microsoft announces Visual Studio for Mac

- Microsoft announces Visual Studio Mobile Center

Please keep updating

I missed part of the key note but it sounds like MSVS for Mac is subscription only?

If that's the case, it sucks :(

No, they mentioned there's a free edition of Visual Studio for Mac they're publishing as well.

Title should have a warning about automatically playing content, although I guess with more “modern” devices background tabs' actions don't matter as much.

At this point in the internet, it's almost a given that any single link you click is going to have an auto-playing video and 5 MB of JavaScript tracking scripts.

Microsoft: For our first demo, let's build a todo app using the MEAN stack on a Mac.

HN: Hell is freezing over.

The girl demoing VS 2017 pronounces tuple as 'TWO-pull'. That can't be right, is it?

Both 'TWO-pull' and 'TUH-pull' are acceptable.

huh, interesting. Thanks.

Slightly uninteresting: while I now pronounce it as 'TUH-pull', I pronounced it as "TWO-pull" in my younger years because of my background in music, where we use the term 'duple', which people usually pronounce as rhyming with the latter.

YMMV, but I've heard both TWO-pull and TUP-pull in academic and professional contexts. From a quick google search it looks like both pronunciations are generall accepted. I prefer TWO-pull myself!

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12980/how-to-pron...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12737515/how-do-you-prono...

interesting - do you pronounce qiuntuple, octuple, etc. the same way?

Yes, but according to the OED there is an exception. "Octuple" is correct pronounced "ock TOOP lay".

I kid.

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac

Page is available now, but the download link is still broken ATM.

Wednesday, November 16th

10:00am - 12:30pm EST (15:00am - 17:30pm GMT): Keynotes by Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman

I suspect a big announcement about .NET on Mac. :)

Goodies:

Visual Studio 2017 cross-platform support

Visual Studio for Mac

Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation

What I don't like is the way Microsoft integrates and advertises VS Docker integration, VS CI/CD functionality where everything is supposed to run automagically and their attitude that it's OK for devs to be clueless about these technologies and underlying processes but hey, they still should be comfortable using them.

Today's Microsoft motto: "super easy, super simple, yet powerful". I'm not buying it.

Big thanks to GitHub CEO for coming on stage at Connect(); they are such a great partner

Jim Zemlin from Linux Foundation is on now.

Does it mean that Microsoft may release some phone in near future (year? two? three?) with SDK based on Xamarin?

What's the live stream URL?

EDIT: The link live streams on Edge, but not on Firefox

Works in Chrome.

here's a youtube live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUd4S3FBrQ

Linux won a long time ago and now it's doing a victory lap. I'm glad Microsoft joined the team.

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