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Since Roslyn shipped last year, the Microsoft team has been hard at work building on it to improve tooling, adding new language features, and enhancing Roslyn itself.

In this session at the Xamarin Evolve 2016 event Mads Torgensen, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, and Dustin Campbell, Principal Software Engineer – Visual Studio Team, show early versions of new C# 7 language features such as tuples and pattern matching, new editor features like code style and source generators, and more.

Source: YouTube/Xamarin HQ

Find out why #SQLServer migrations are taking a bit less time than #IT pros first thought! https://t.co/DF9f51eDi3 pic.twitter.com/DkjVTufDUr

— Microsoft SQL Server (@SQLServer) April 23, 2016

In February 2016 Microsoft commissioned an online survey to examine SQL Server 2005 migration practices, including stages, drivers, barriers and migration plans. A total of 516 surveys were collected from around the world and found, “Those who’ve completed their migration say the process took less than the two to three-month timeframe they were expecting. Most are migrating ten or fewer instances, and most are virtualizing — although some are migrating to physical servers or overwriting old instances, and a few are moving to the cloud. Most are headed to SQL Server 2012 or 2014, citing better performance, security and licensing.“

Source: twitter.com/SQLServer, “Saying Goodbye to a Classic” White Paper (Microsoft)

BizTalk Server 2016 is on track for General Availability this Autumn.

Late last month Microsoft announced the release the first Community Technology Preview (CTP1) for BizTalk Server 2016, saying “…CTP1 enables integration with mission critical applications with increased agility, availability and cloud connectivity.”

The release focuses on a number of important improvements including support for SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, as well as support for the newest platforms such as Windows Server 2016, Office 2016, Visual Studio 2015.

A full list of what’s new for BizTalk Server 2016 is available via the Microsoft Developer Network here.

The fourth and final SQL Server 2016 Release Candidate (RC) 3 is now available for download.
Enhancements for this version are mainly bug fixes as Microsoft continues to refine the product for general availability in the coming months.

Of the release Microsoft said,”Our SQL Server Release Candidates represent important milestones in the release of SQL Server 2016, as the product is now essentially feature complete, and means that a very rich set of capabilities is now available. These include real-time operational analytics, rich visualizations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, new advanced security technologies and new hybrid scenarios that allow you to securely stretch data to the cloud.”

Source: Microsoft SQL Server Blog

Watch the Data Platform engineering team talk about the spark behind SQL Server 2016:

Source: Microsoft , video via YouTube/Microsoft Cloud Platform