Franky's Notes: outlook

Suggestion of the week

Announcing the public preview of Azure Advisor (Shankar Sivadasan) - This is definitely the most asked question from clients: how can I optimize my solutions. I was very positively surprised by the quality and precision of the suggestions of the advisor service. It's a must.

Announcing auto-shutdown for VMs using Azure Resource Manager (Xiaoying Guo) - Really awesome feature that is finally available.
Connect your things with the Azure IoT Gateway SDK (Sam George) - Interesting post that introduces us to the SDK and tells us a bit about how it could help us.

Creating a New View Engine in ASP.NET Core (David Paquette) - Interesting post , where the Asp Monsters are sharing their experience building a view engine. Pretty cool.
Getting to Know Containers (Alexandre Brisebois) - This post answers questions like: why? How? and why now?

Microsoft Connect(); 2016 Recap (Joseph Hill) - Three full day of great content. However, if you are like me, you didn't that much free time. Fortunately, all the presentations are available in video on demand. You need a summary because even if the keynote was really good... it is still 2h30, this post is the place to start.

.NET Web Development and Tools Blog (Jeffrey T. Fritz) - Really cool tutorial with Visual studio, Docker, and Azure that repeat the Connect keynote demo.
Five Days of Azure Functions (James Chambers) - Nice post to know more about these Azure functions that everyone is talking about.
Azure App Services Continuous Delivery (Gopinath C) - This post explains how easy it is to setup a continuous integration with Azure.

Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate (John Montgomery) - More details about all the new stuff announced this week related to VS.
The expanding Visual Studio family of products - Another post that lists all the new Visual Studio's news for the week.
Using MongoDB with Web API and ASP.NET Core (Mahesh Sabnis) - Dotnet core is now much more stable and so much more performant. It worth to try it.
Visual Studio Code just keeps getting better - with extensions (Scott Hanselman) - Visual Studio Code is awesome; get a list of some cool extensions in this post.

8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB - here's how to see yours (Troy Hunt) - Interesting post about a leak of information related to Github account.
Reconnect Outlook 2016 or Outlook 2013 to Outlook.com to fix issues after Outlook.com upgrade - Outllook.com is doing a facelift. That an important upgrade could impact your access to it. If you are syncing it from Outlook on your desktop. This post explains what to do, when to it, and how to proceed.
Docs.microsoft.com - I didn't have the chance to look yet, but now that have done it... Wow great job, and well organized.