The Spectacular Highlights from Microsoft Connect(); 2016.

On November 16th and 17th, 2016, Microsoft announced all the news regarding its developer tools at the annual Connect(); conference.

Keynotes and technical deep dive sessions were led by Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie, Principal Program Manager Scott Hanselman as well as many other industry innovators.

The recording of the “must see” keynote is available on Channel9 along with the full two days’ worth of content, ready for on-demand viewing.

Some of the most important announcements of the conference include:

• The immediate availability of Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
• The release of Team Foundation Services 2017
• The introduction of Visual Studio for the Mac, available as a preview
• The announcement of Visual Studio Mobile Center including a Preview edition
• .NET now being supported on the Tizen platform
• How to put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio
• Microsoft contributing to the open ecosystem by joining the Linux Foundation and welcoming Google to the .NET community
• The Linux Foundation loving Microsoft back
• Microsoft Azure announcing the industry’s first cloud bot-as-a-service
• The announcement of the .NET Core 1.1 Release
• An alpha version of the new MSBuild for .NET Core
• The Fastest ASP.NET Yet: ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM
• App Service on Linux now supporting Containers and ASP.NET Core
• The first public preview of SQL Server running on Linux