Build conference is over..
Hereβs combined summaries of what happened at //Build 2016.
Thanks to YTechie, Gastblogger Toni@Codefest and many others π
Windows
- Windows Announcement Highlights
- “Anniversary Update” free
- 270 million installs
- Edge will allow biometric authentication for websites
- “Ink workspace” shows inking apps and recent pen apps
- Sticky notes are smart
- Facebook, instagram, messenger bringing first party UWP apps to the store
- Linux Subsystem β bringing BASH and more to windows
- Not emulated, it’s the real binaries
- Android notifications
- Start menu: https://twitter.com/JenMsft/status/716844501789069312/photo/1
- What’s new in UWP: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B809
- UWP
- Modern Desktop App Installer allows double-click install of Appx
- Centennial converter
- Edge extension support
- Cortana extensibility
- Action Center in the cloud
- Notification mirroring between desktop and phone – even on Android
- Sync live tiles
Visual Studio
- Update 2 available today
- Visual Studio 2017 preview
- Show dependencies that are in GitHub
- Search samples without leaving the IDE
Xbox
- Turn a standard xbox into a dev box today
- Remote debugging is supported
- Unified into the Windows store, will run UWP
- Cortana coming to xbox with Anniversary update
Hololens
- Galaxy explorer
- Open source
- In the store
Skype
- UWP app
- Cortana integration for brokering conversations
- Video bots
- SDK available today at dev.skype.com
- Skype for hololens
Bots
- Available for integration in things like skype
- Microsoft bot framework – dev.botframework.com
Microsoft Cognitive
Xamarin
- Free for Visual Studio customers
- Free for Visual Studio community customers
- Xamarin studio free for mac free with MSDN
- There will be a free version of Xamarin studio on Mac
- Xamarin is going open source
Azure
- Azure Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/
- Service fabric
- GA
- Linux support
- IoT starter kits for sale
- Document DB
- Global databases
- Decouple size and perf
- Use any standard MongoDB drivers
- PowerBI Embedded
- Integrate PowerBI in your applications
- Public preview starts today
- Free until May 1st
- Parse server available
- Azure Batch for Linux Preview
- Storage encryption preview
- Storage roadmap annoucements
- Azure SDK 2.9
- ARM Template debugging
- DV2 instance sizes
- 20 cores, 140GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 8 NICs, 40 disks
- The new Dv2 VM:
- Name is Standard_D15_v2
- These are isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer
- JSON support in Azure SQL DB V12 (public preview)
- VM Scale Sets β GA
- Azure Data Catalog β GA
- MongoDB protocol support for DocumentDB
- Allows code written to MongoDB APIs to use DocumentDB under the covers
Office 365
- Latest tools available today
- Ribbon extensibility
- GA Office 365 group connectors
- GA of Skype for Business SDK
- Calendar integration
- Sideloading of add-ins
SQL Server
- 2016 RC1 available
HoloLens
- Emulator is now available for download:
Build Session Downloader
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