This is a virtual edition of our user group, with a special focus on PowerShell Developer technologies, Azure and of course a deep dive into PowerShell. We have made the decision to host this event virtually for the first time, and we are excited to be able to open up our local user group to the global stage for the first time! We have an evening with diverse and advanced topics prepared for you presented by experienced speakers. Registration through Eventbrite is optional, with the benefit that you’ll receive an email notification with the streaming link and a calendar invite.
The sessions will be recorded and will be published to our YouTube channel:
All recordings are available in the following YouTube playlist:
We have the following speakers presenting:
- Thomas Rayner – Senior Security Service Engineer at Microsoft
- Justin Grote - Datacenter Solutions Architect
The event will take place on the 16th of April, all times here are listed in CEST.
- 1900-1910 Announcements – Jaap Brasser
- 1910-2000 Building your first VSCode extension – Thomas Rayner
- 2000-2045 Power Up Your Shell! – Justin Grote
- 2045-2115 Open Discussion with the DuPSUG community
Informational session about the event, agenda of the evening future events and updates from the PowerShell world.
VS Code with the PowerShell extension is the de facto standard editor for PowerShell. One of the best things about VS Code is how customizable it is. Anybody can create themes and extensions for Code, and in this demo-heavy session, you’ll learn how you can join the fun, too. Whether you want to deploy a small extension to help your team stay productive, you have an amazing idea for an extension that the public will celebrate for years, or you want to contribute to the PowerShell extension, in this session you’ll learn the skills and tools you need to get going. We’re going to write a VS Code extension starting from scratch, examining the different resources in place to help you along your journey as we go.
Windows Terminal is nearing its 1.0 release and Justin Grote will be showing off neat tricks for both new and advanced users. Justin will also provide insight on customizing your prompt experience with PSReadline and prompt customizations, which will work on any platform, so there’s something here for everyone!
During our last virtual meetup we naturally ended up being a group discussion on future topics for virtual meetings, issues with PowerShell and a show-and-tell about anything PowerShell related. So if you have any specific question or you can’t wait to show what you’ve been working on we’re happy to give you the platform to do so.
Thomas Rayner is a Senior Security Service Engineer at Microsoft. His background is in Cloud and Datacenter Management, specializing in DevOps, secure software supply chain, CI/CD, systems and process automation, public, private and hybrid cloud, and .NET coding – particularly PowerShell. Thomas is a prominent speaker, best-selling author, and instructor covering a vast array of IT topics. Thomas is very active within the technical community and a variety of Microsoft technical and strategic teams.
You can get in contact with Thomas by email at thmsrynr@outlook.com, on Twitter at @MrThomasRayner, or on LinkedIn at Thomas Rayner.
The event is hosted virtually, signing up through Eventbrite is not required, but you will receive a link to the meeting by email a day before the event takes place. We will also publish the link to the event on Twitter, an hour before the event on the @DuPSUG account.