ISV Partnership with Microsoft Fully running on Azure Need to be at the forefront of emerging tech and pre-empt the trends to stay ahead of the competition Connected with Engineering Using MS Bot fram
Embracing Linux and OSS in PaaS Full support to bring your own containers from Docker or Azure Container Registry and forget about the rest Hear from an NZ Partner, Intergen talk about how they lev
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 St
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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 s
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 ea
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 t
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.
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 Storage
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 s
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 APIs
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 Az
Learn and experience the ease of integrating "conversational intelligence" and scalable, extensible search models powered by LUIS and Azure Search.
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 how to easily add powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to your applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services. See Cognitive Services for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/cogn
Windows Containers are coming in Windows Server 2016. But what are they? What should you do with them? And why should you care? This session will focus on providing crisp examples of how Windows Co
Heard about Meeting Broadcast in Office 365? It is available for all Enterprise licenses. You can use your regular Skype for Business client to stream your meeting to any device without any client req
Cloud or no cloud, that is the question; the possibilities when it comes to data and analytics. Every company has already formed a cloud strategy for their data warehouse and is moving towards impleme
In this session you will learn how to successfully plan, implement and evaluate the success of your upcoming Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite project. We will dive into planning cloud services, man
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to JavaScript. It's a free cross-platform, cross-browser, open source language that enables developers to build large scale enterprise applic
Over the years Microsoft has invested a tremendous amount of effort into creating the best developer experience possible. Which of courses means that the programming languages evolve. VB.NET, F# and C
Forrester Research predicted a sixfold increase in the cloud computing market by 2020. With all its promises and possibilities even the smallest of systems is tempted to make the move to the cloud fro
ASP.NET Core is a brand new cross-platform, open-source framework for building Web apps and APIs using .NET. In this session, we'll take a deep look into the important information that you need to kno
"Conversation as a Platform is likely to change the way you communicate with your customers by bringing natural and contextual interactions into your applications. How will this impact us as deve
This session will be a journey through the evolution of modern software design – looking in particular at the impact of Azure and IoT on how modern distributed systems should be designed and built, an
This session introduces the new exciting features in Cortana and the speech platform, that allow users to engage with Cortana from across the room, and ensure that Cortana is ready to assist users eve