Hey friends, we're launching Visual Studio 2019 today and we wanted to try something different. Sure, there's going to be demos and code and lots of fun, but I think it's easy in today's internet to forget about people. And I drove up from Portland for this event to show you that there's hundreds of folks here in Washington and working remotely who are excited about making software for and with you. So I thought why don't we talk to them. But first, a few notes about what's happening today. We're going to have live stream sessions after the keynote. There's a virtual attendee party on Twitch and there's on demand sessions that are actually available right now. I also want you to go to Twitch because there's going to be all day interactions with the program managers and the programmers that built Visual Studio 2019. Remember that Visual Studio 2019 and VS 2019 for Mac is now available for download at visualstudio.com. Now if you're using Visual Studio today, you're probably using one of the many extensions available. Our amazing extension partners have already updated over a thousand extensions to be compatible with 2019 and you can get those in the marketplace. We're also releasing Visual Studio Live Share today, which is integrated with Visual Studio 2019 and can also be used in Visual Studio code. We're going to chat about Live Share a little bit later. Also DevOps is an important part of the developer lifecycle and Azure DevOps Server 2019 is generally available as of March 5th. We're going to cover Azure DevOps and GitHub in more detail both in this keynote and during the live stream after. Now let's go and find some of the people that made all this possible. I also want you to keep an eye out for some of the little gems and Easter eggs that we've hidden in this video and let us know online using the hashtag VS 2019 if you find them. This is a great room but it's a beautiful day outside so if you don't mind we could have our meeting on the deck. Get some chairs? Yeah, grab some chairs. Good. I'm glad we got such good weather. Yeah, it is gorgeous. It's better to be outside than to be in a conference room, even a nice conference room like the Treehouse. For sure. So Julia, you're in charge of all of DevDev but have you've worked here for a while? You've had basically every job in the developer division, haven't you? I sure did. And we've got a little gift for you here. The worst named Microsoft product ever. Did you work on this? I sure did. It's very useful. Yeah. Visual basic for the web. Really? It says you can make dynamic applications. It's quite nice. It is. Are we still using some of your code? I think it is in there indeed. That's awesome. We're on also Visual Studio, right? Because we're now doing Visual Studio 2019. That's 22 years ago. Yeah, that's right. And that's the first version of Visual Studio ever. So in two years ago, we celebrated 20 years of Visual Studio. That's fantastic. And it's kind of, I have something to do with every single version of Visual Studio. Yeah. So if you ever had any problem with it, I have something to be blamed. I also heard that it was important that everyone be able to develop. There was a huge push for accessibility. You want to make sure that it works for everyone, no matter what language that they speak. Having everyone to be able to be a developer was a priority as well. So we're looking at how we can make developers more productive. We're looking at developers sitting in every corner of the world. And their feedback, we also have 23% of our team located outside of Redmond. So that's another very important source of information. There's a huge amount of people that are remote, myself included. I would have guessed it was single digits, but it's over almost 25% of people who are remote. And now we get to use cool things like LiveShare to go and collaborate.  Yeah, I always find that so funny too. Why do we say that at Microsoft? You own Visual Studio. I don't know. I don't know. It's always been that way, hasn't it? Yeah, it has. Yeah. So you own that, right? Yeah, I work on Visual Studio. You're so modest that I work on Visual Studio. But you own that. So when that means ownership, that means the shipping, the getting it out the door, or they're making sure that it's focused on the right things, that it's doing the right thing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, basically, my job is to make sure that we ship the right product at the right time. But I am told from people who know both of you that you still somehow find time to code. There's times when you'll say, this code doesn't do the way thing I wanted to do. And I've also heard people say when talking about you, Julia, that why did, how did she know that?  Julia was the engineering manager for that, or she was responsible for this. Like, you've both had basically every job as you've worked up to the places that you're at. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've been in the developer division at Microsoft since 2001. So almost 18 years, I guess. And I've worked on pretty much every product at Microsoft, but from the developer lens. So I've worked on Xbox at some point, and SQL, and Azure, and Office, pretty much everything. And to your point earlier around, do I actually still get to code? Yes, I actually do. It doesn't happen as often as I like it to. But pretty much everybody on my team, and we're the PM team, so the product manager team, everybody on my team codes. And we have to because our customers, our developers, and so for us to actually evaluate the product, we have to do it. It's surprising to see how many people are writing documentation. Someone was telling me that they saw some check-ins from Scott Guthrie that he may have been up late at night doing some documentation check-in. We have built a system to make it really easy. So one of the things we did is that we rebuilt a documentation engineering system to be based on GitHub. And then there's repos out there for every single language that we support. And people can just do a poor request if they find any issues with our documentation. And we really encourage everyone to work and help improve the documentation that our customers actually in the end read. That's interesting that you bring that up, because there's a series of systems that are making all the loops. We talk about the developer inner loop and the outer loop. All these loops are being tightened up, whether it be how we make software, how quickly we ship software, the quality bars, all of the things. Everything's continuous integration deployment. That's right. That's right. I mean, I think that the way we think about it is that even though people think about Visual Studio as a client software that installs on your machine, internally we really treat it very much as a service. We're continuously improving it. We're continuously looking at the feedback customers give us in every way that they do. And then our goals make the product better and better every day. That's pretty cool. And in the past, I would use Skype or Teams, and I would send a screenshot, like a moving picture of my Visual Studio, but that was really inefficient, especially when I was tethering my phone or I was overseas, I was really having a challenge. I never would have seen Live Share coming though. I didn't know I needed it, but then I needed it. Yeah, actually, so we did a lot of interviews over probably two or three different years of particularly focusing on development teams that are focused on time to market as their top concern when they choose their tools and their processes. And what we found was that a lot of teams were really struggling with collaboration. And they were especially struggling with collaboration with remote employees. And their definition of who was a remote employee was actually pretty static. It was even to the point that some people didn't want to hire any more engineers on their team, even though they had business demand, because dealing with somebody who actually was physically in a separate room, even if it was down the hall, was too much cost. It was clear that we had to do something that was pre-check-in time, because the check-in time is basically too late. At that point, you already have a pretty high cost to be able to get review feedback, and then you end up with iteration cycles, where you have to kind of hand it off. It's as efficient as email. But that's really where LiveShare came from. We kind of figured out if we could actually enable collaboration ahead of the check-in and make it possible for you to collaborate in real time, that that would be a lot more productive. We also have situations where people have different accessibility needs, and so they might have different kinds of settings on their developer desktop. They use narrator, or they might use a high contrast mode, which might make it very, very uncomfortable for you to actually share my screen. But with LiveShare, you can actually connect into my environment. You don't have to do anything to get your dev box to be set up other than have Visual Studio or VS Code on your machine. You can actually see my environment. You could even execute commands in the terminal if I give you that access. As you know, I'm a C-Sharp fan. I'm all about C-Sharp. I love C-Sharp, but I'm noticing, then I think Microsoft is noticing that hybrid solutions, multi-polyglot solutions, are the word of the day. Not everyone is going to use just.net. Visual Studio suddenly supports basically everything. Was that a conscious decision that it would support all of these languages? We want to build the best tool to support any customer, no matter what kind of application or service they want to develop on any operating system. So that is a core pivot of what we're doing from a strategy perspective. Now you see us really follow that up with our investment in Visual Studio Code, which is obviously open source and cross platform. We made .net open source and cross platform. And that become a common scene in how we do everything. I had a moment where I was literally in Visual Studio on Windows in C++ doing remote debugging to Linux. And it just worked. It was a joy. And I was in the middle of doing it. And before I did it, I'm doing remote debugging in Visual Studio on Linux. And it's just working just great. And I didn't feel like I was doing something I shouldn't have been. Yeah. I mean, that was, if I think back to 2001 when I came to Microsoft for the first time and used Visual Studio for the first time, because the first version was out then in the .net era. And I had come from an Emacs Unix background in college. I had, I experienced IntelliSense for the first time. It's this magical thing, right? And your productivity from kind of an Emacs environment into a Visual Studio environment where you have this assisted development experience is pretty dramatic. So I still remember that moment. But now thinking back on where Visual Studio was in that era and where it is today, it's, we continue to create more and more of those magical moments.  And I didn't have the heart to tell them that IntelliCode was going to completely change the way that they wrote software. Now we've got AI assisted IntelliSense that's coming in IntelliCode that people can see with Visual Studio 2019. I'm assuming though that that's just the beginning of what we could do with AI from a pro-level perspective. Yeah, absolutely. I mean AI could really impact the entire software development life cycle from everything to obviously completing your statements. And we will get to the point where we cannot just complete what is the next IntelliSense thing, completion that you're going to pick, but actually the entire parameter. I mean the entire line of code that you're writing or even potentially an entire code snippet. But not just that, finding code defects, for example. We've found classes of issues that AI can uncover that your classic static analysis really could never discover before. But we will then be able to take it further into things like testing or encouraging you to follow certain practices in terms of who you seek code reviews from. So this is really just the beginning. That's exciting. So this is just the beginning of AI and what it could mean for a Visual Studio developer. Yeah, and I think the goal just like with IntelliSense is we should really be focused on making sure that every keystroke that you write is more efficient. We really want to make sure that you're writing the code that only you can write. And so there's anything that we can automate in this system that will actually allow you to become more productive and more expressive than that's the kinds of things. So you add value where you can add value and the boring parts. Yeah, I mean it's really we add value where the machine can add value, right? So if the machine in the cloud can add value and make you more productive as a developer, then that that seems like goodness. You can actually write more code for your business. How did you decide what is going to be in Visual Studio 2019? Like what are the principles and the priorities and the scope of this is this release and this is that release? Well, for VS 2019 we really plan on four core themes. The first one is performance. Making sure our product is faster and faster with each release is very important to us to our customers. The second one is to look at big industry trend. How do we make sure customers are developing cloud native applications in containers in easy way? That kind of common theme. The third thing we look at is really helping with the team collaboration and identifying issues as early as possible. And the fourth one we really look at are bunch of delighter features across the product where people find value with the upgrade. But how do you know what she's saying is correct and the customers really want that? Well, I mean, for every single one of these areas we actually go through an iterative process where we identify who are the potential customers for that particular feature set and we bring them into labs or do call downs with them and interview them. And those lab studies are where people can actually play with early prototypes of the product in an environment where we can actually watch how successful they are with the product. So I would definitely encourage you to go check out the UX lab. So I can go find real customers working on future versions of Visual Studio in a lab. Yes. I've had experiences with companies like Microsoft or maybe Microsoft in the long distance past where Microsoft was there to like validate assumptions and push agendas. Yeah. But you didn't even start with that. You were immediately like let's go and meet a customer and let them lead the discussion. Yeah, I like to use the term customer led inquiry because it's the idea that we don't know when we first start that conversation where it's going to lead to, right? And so we should be open to the idea that it'll lead to some places that we didn't expect. And if we can uncover a more urgent problem that the customer has that we could address, then that's much more valuable than getting validation that the idea that we thought was the biggest problem to solve is actually what we need to go solve. When we're bringing new people in though, I've noticed that in the past it has taken like months and months to ramp people up. You can't really just hire someone and have them sit around for six months. You really want to onboard them. Like how are you bringing people onto the team in an organized fashion and get them both into the culture and into the tooling as quickly as possible? Yeah. I mean actually one of the things that we've instituted in the last couple of years is this notion of a dev dev boot camp. So if you're a new employee either you know you're on another team and you join our team or if you're brand new to Microsoft entirely then you'll spend basically two weeks getting kind of a boot camp into what it's like to work in dev dev. How do you develop a sense of shared culture at in dev dev so that everyone is all feeling the same about the product and feeling the same about each other? Well for culture one of the key things we learned is that we really need to have shared goals, shared languages and make sure we're changing our actions to actually embrace the new cultural values. So for us customer obsession is a core key value that we're embracing. So we're looking at how we're developing a product in a different way to really embrace that particular value. It seems like there's been a real focus on on data. I've seen more dashboards, there's TVs and everywhere I turn there's a dashboard showing the build and the burn down chart all these kind of things. Are you really pushing to be data driven in your decisions? Absolutely not only from a developer internal engineering process perspective but most more importantly we want to look at data that our customer are giving us their particular feedbacks you know our crash rate reliability in the wild not only in the engineering internal environment. Those are critical data point to help us understand what is the customer experience with our product while they're using it every day. I was told that every release has to be better than the last release. Absolutely. That's an important goal. That's a very important metric that we track every day and then we have weekly meetings that we actually look at this metric in terms of is customers you know success in acquiring a product installing a product updating a product better today than last week. Is customers you know experience with reliability and crashes and performance better you know this week than last week and then how are we responding to the customer feedback they have provided. That's super cool but now I want to know who to go and visit. Who should I talk to first about Visual Studio? Well I mean in some ways you could really go to building 18 and just talk to anybody who's there and they could talk about what's going on with Visual Studio. But I'd also suggest that you go to the UX lab as well and see kind of what we're studying today. Okay cool I'm going to go wander around building 18. I'll check out the UX lab and try to find some more cool people that are working on Visual Studio 2019. Awesome. Thanks for talking to me. Thank you Scott have fun building 18. Thanks Scott it was fun. Hey Scott want to play? I don't really play Smash that much competitively. You guys ready? Hey everybody. Dude it's going to be great. We're going to see a Raspberry Pi. Well we've got it right here. Awesome. Talk about Visual Studio 2019. Let's do it. Yay! I'm very happy to be here I just came over from the tree house I saw Amanda and I saw Julia and she said that you all are the folks to talk to to show me some of the cool stuff in Visual Studio. Why don't we start with you Pratik. Awesome. So I remember when I started up Visual Studio 2019 I was surprised how fast it started it went right to the start window. Yeah so this is it's a small modal UI and it starts really fast faster than actual the whole Visual Studio IDE starts and what happens is when it loads it also asynchronously loads your most recently used project so this is the same recently used projects list that you had in VS 2017 so all of your pinned items your solutions folders remote repositories all show up in this recently projects list for you to access really fast with a single click and then get to your code really fast too. So the whole point is to get me to my code as fast as possible and I've got it I've pinned the ones that matter the most to me. Yep. And the thing that I find the most cool though is I click on clone or checkout code so I double click click on clone paste enter and then I've just brought something down from GitHub or wherever. Right right if you have the URL that's awesome you can just paste in your URL and then hit enter and then it clones the code if you don't if you don't remember the URL or you don't want to go to the web to get it you could also sign into your GitHub or Azure repos accounts and then you can see a list of all the repos that you or your organization has and then that you can just search for or click on and then clone it down as well without the URL. Very cool so auto complete for my repos in the cloud and then boom I'm there. Yep. Awesome. Exactly. So when I create a new project this is new like this is like a tagged new version of File New Project. Right yeah we totally revamped the create new project process instead of a single window that has a tree view that has been a little overwhelming to some of our users we decided to simplify and make it a search based view. So you can really easily and quickly search for the types of templates that you're looking for and you can if you don't remember exactly what you're searching for you can use the filters so there's language platform and project type drop downs and you can filter by them and get a smaller list and like narrow it down there and then you search maybe to even filter in further. So click on the template that you want that's one decision then we move you to the next decision which is configuring your project and that you enter in your name location and then you hit go and you have your project created. I love that when I was scrolling around in the window here and looking for what I wanted it got the impression that maybe I wasn't finding what I wanted and tried to offer like are you finding what you need are you are you able to get what you want here it's a much much smarter window. Yeah yeah yeah that's what we were that's what we were trying to do. One of the things that I was impressed with was how many choices there are when you pull down platform or when you pull down project type it's just so weird to be in Visual Studio 2019 and see Linux and Android and TVOS all these things are tagged. Yeah and Visual Studio has all those things to offer so even if you haven't installed them and you haven't used them say you're a C++ developer and you're doing C++ and you don't know and that Visual Studio does Python development as well but this this thing offers it to you this tool offers support for Python as well and you can quickly say oh wait I don't have any templates for Python let me install them and then it installs it for you takes you to the installer it installs them and then you get Python templates as well and you can get started with Python. There it goes so I see all the things that I could potentially build and if I don't have that workload it'll go and get it for me. Exactly yeah that's hot. On the left hand side here what is this a recent project template what's going on there? Yeah so whenever you create a project it is a long list of templates and so whenever you create a project the templates that you use most often and most frequently stay on the left side so if you want to quickly access like hey I always create console apps I always create class libraries you can easily go to the left and just click on a template from there and get started with that instead of going through the main list. That's cool there's a nice symmetry between the new start window and the new create new project window because on that left hand side it's the stuff I do regularly. Regular your recent stuff's on the left yeah and that was the start window in Visual Studio 2019. That's very cool. So I love the start window in Visual Studio 2019 as well. I love how easy it is to get started with a new get repository from either Azure Repos or from GitHub. I can uh I can just get started I can pull down a repository without you know starting up Visual Studio I can do it right from the beginning and these URLs are like just kind of baked into my muscle memory so I just type them out but yeah I can browse them as well. It's really interesting how Git is getting baked into our lives and into our workflows and into the product right now. Absolutely yeah I can stay in Visual Studio 2019 and manage my pull requests and Julia mentioned actually at the treehouse that she wants to bake quality in and they want to catch things you know before the commit but then once the commit has happened they want to make sure the quality gets through the entire process. Oh absolutely I think that's critical so you know I can of course you know write some code and run some tests inside BS 2019 but I also want to catch that as soon as somebody opens a pull request so if I have a project on GitHub like an open source project and I want to take contributions I want to make sure that their code is good I want to make sure it builds and I want to make sure the test is passed so I want continuous integration for my GitHub projects for my Azure repos projects and I use Azure Pipelines for that so Azure Pipelines has .NET Core 3 ready to go we've got hosted build agents in the cloud so we've got Mac we've got Windows and we've got Linux all of them are running the new .NET Core 3 the latest preview and it's ready to go so I can actually do my continuous integration right there. So we talked about how Git is getting incorporated into our lives and also being remote and remote collaboration is incorporated to our lives you're actually remotely collaborating with John right now John. Yeah I'm working with my colleague John then and he's actually working from home right now and we're actually trying to work on teams and he's trying to do a screen sharing with me to be able to work on his node app and instead of it being lockstep trying to negotiate control one person driving or not with live share we're able to independently collaborate while working at our own pace. So rather than pushing 4k pixels with teams from a remote location you're actually remoting the the context of the entire application? Yeah so it's a simple link and with that I can hop into his project and I get the full context of that so I can see on the side I can see all the files and folders that he's working with a terminal actually reopens with all the commands that he was running before this so I get full context into that and finally I am able to see the file that he's working in and we can see the highlights and cursors as we're going on. Now when I was peaking over here and seeing what he was doing before it looked like he was in VS code on a Mac but suddenly now I'm seeing the same node code in Visual Studio 2019 on Windows. Yeah so I'm working in Windows on Visual Studio 2019 and I don't even have the node workload or node.js actually installed on my computer but it's all working on my side because it's all being forwarded from his machine. And I'm noticing his cursor his name or appearing he's selecting code right here and showing you what to be looking at. So yeah so with his highlights he's able to give me some context on the issue that he's looking into. That's super cool. So what about debugging though? Um yeah so actually I'm able to set down break points and those break points are seen to John with his machine. I can even hit f5 and my debugger starts and it attaches to the running app on his machine. Okay but when you hit f5 and it runs on his machine do you still have to do a screen share to see what's going on? So with LiveShare the server for the front end is actually shared with me so I can pull that up in my browser to be able to see it on my side as well. So your local host 5000 is his local host 5000? Exactly. And then you can click around the website in order to hit the break point. Yeah and we can even negotiate control for debugging stepping over stepping into methods between the two of us. I'm impressed. That is very cool. Okay last question what about IntelliSense? So yeah so you're actually able to get all the IntelliSense completions forwarded from John's machine to mine. With this being a note app if I start typing I can hit dot and I get a full completion list of all the things that work for this app. So everything from his machine watches and all the context that is the app is being sent over to you? Yeah so I'm able to get that full context on my side and worked at my own pace. Interesting would even your feature be forwarded? I I do believe it would. So IntelliCode works on live share and you've got IntelliCode running on your machine right here? Yep. What's this demo that you've got? Yeah so first I'm just going to show you sort of our base cases we call it. So for years we heard from our users IntelliSense is wonderful. I love it. It helps me so much but you have to be able to do better than alphabetically. Like we're all computer scientists. We're smart right? We can make it better. So what we did is we took the wisdom of the community and what I mean by that is we took you know hundreds of open source repositories on GitHub. We scanned through them to try and find the most popular practices for you know APIs, for strings, for asserts and now when you use any of those within Visual Studio you know if I do some sort of string variable dot it will give me this list of recommended suggestions. So are you saying that you taught Visual Studio what I'm most likely to type based on what thousands and thousands of programmers that are better than I have already typed? Yes that's exactly what we did. So we took as you know as I said our tagline wisdom of the community. We took that whole community input and sort of infused intelligence with it so that you can get better recommendations. So now at the top of your intelligence list you get these starred recommendations that are most likely what you want. Okay so that's amazing that you brought me like the wisdom of the ancients up from these open source projects but my project is an open source I really want like my own custom model that's for me and my team but that's not for you. Yeah no so we've actually just built that feature so you can do that now. All you have to do is open the solution that you want a custom model for. Head to the IntelliCode page click train on my code and we create a custom model just for you it's private to you and whoever you choose to share it with. So if you think your team would benefit from these custom IntelliCode recommendations you can also share your wisdom with them. Okay and then you kind of union them so I get both the public wisdom and then the wisdom of my own team. Correct.  Oh yes yes and what's really cool is that it changes depending on your context right so if you're just in the body of a method versus if you're in an if statement versus in a four or an else you could get different recommendations at each point there so ideally you just have to tab enter tab enter tab enter is what we always are you trying to say that programming for me is just gonna be two two things yeah that's cool and what language is going to do this work so right now in Visual Studio 2019 you can use IntelliCode for C sharp XAML and C++ and in Visual Studio code you have it for typescript JavaScript Python and Java.  She brought a Raspberry Pi which I think is amazing thank you very much. Of course. Is this machine talking to the Raspberry Pi? It is so our Windows 10 application that we've built in Visual Studio 2019 has actually you know what let me deploy it so I will go ahead and deploy our Windows 10 app and now it is successfully on our Raspberry Pi because I've installed Windows 10 on it isn't that cool. That's overachieving. Yeah so this application will tell us if Visual Studio is ready to launch in fact it says is it time to launch do you want to try it? Let's find out. Touch screen. It is time to launch. Yeah. Very cool. I hope everyone tries it out. That's just fantastic. Well thank you so much for showing me this I'm going to go find a soda pop if I can get you anything. Oh good. All right. Yeah thanks. I'm gonna go find some more PM to talk about Visual Studio 2019. Awesome see you all. Bye. Now we can relax. Wasn't that cool? I know you're going to see a lot more of these features later on. I just love talking to all these passionate people behind the features and hearing about why we build them. You know what else I love here? Free soda. Free soda Microsoft. Now as I mentioned earlier you can download Visual Studio 2019 on PC and Mac right now. Visual Studio community users can head over to visualstudio.com but if you're a Visual Studio professional or enterprise subscriber there's even more goodness available to you to the my.visualstudio.com portal. Of course you can download Visual Studio but you'll also find Azure DevOps access that's up to $150 in monthly Azure credits, technical and professional training subscriptions and much more. Also speaking of technical training head over to launch.visualstudio.com to find links to all new Visual Studio 2019 technical training courses from both Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning. Now let's head over to the UX lab that Amanda mentioned earlier to check out how we do customer research here in DevDiv. So I'm going over to the PM UX UI lab. I think it's in this building. I understand that they're actually doing some studies right now so I'm keeping my voice down because I don't want to interrupt anybody. Ah okay it's over here. We've got Dr. Rich. It looks like they're doing a study right now. Hi Scott. I'm so glad you could join us. How's it going? So what do we got going on here? Yeah come on in. This is our research lab. Okay. Right now we have a Python study happening and this is our entire product team so you're going to get team members that are from engineering, PM, design, docs and they're all actually watching the participant on the other side interact with the product. So this is real. Like these are real people like they're from we flew them in or where did they come from? Yeah so these are real people so in Redmond we have we run studies every day in our lab. Every day? Yeah so we have over 10,000 customer connections a year and what you see right here is just one of many studies that we run. So the entire product team joins us because basically what they're doing is understanding how the customer is using our product but it also they can see everything about the customer right? So they can see their facial expressions they can see if they lean back in the chair cross their arms if they're smiling in delight. This actually fosters empathy with our product team and inspires them to take action to to change the product if it doesn't fit our customer's needs. Well actually I recognize this guy I'm going to see if I can grab. Hey Jeffrey do you got a second? So what are you guys testing here? So we're trying out some new designs for our Azure storage SDK client libraries and we have a couple of different designs we bring the people into the usability study and we give them tasks to perform to try to download a blob and they try it with version one they try it with version two a couple minutes ago you just missed it but they high-fived each other because they were really successful in a short amount of time. Excellent and that's very reassuring for our team. That's great and this is the whole team is watching this and they're getting to see kind of in real time did we get it right or not? Yes exactly and what we can do better and so on yes. That's fantastic it's good to see you. Thanks for your patience. All right so we've got SDK, we've got Python, SVS for Mac, we've got the Azure developer platform can we peek in one of these? Yeah let's go ahead and take a look in lab one. So this is the Visual Studio Code Python study and what you're seeing here is people with developers that have experience in Python but are using Visual Studio Code for the first time with our Python extension. Can I open the door for that? Yeah absolutely. I don't want to like anger the beast see us. So what you're seeing here is that on the other side our participants they can't see us it's a one-way mirror so thank law and order so they can't see anyone on the product team but the product team can see exactly what they're doing on the other side and the beauty of these type of studies is that we can not only see every mouse click that they have on this screen but we can see their body language. So you're doing this every single day? Yes we have over 10,000 customer engagements every single year many of them come in the form of surveys one-on-one interviews or focus groups or site visits. So this is our culture room let me grab Travis he'll walk us through Travis. Hey so we're showing the culture room. So the culture room is a room that we walk teams through to help them understand about what we're trying to achieve and really becoming a customer obsessed or you know we know that Satya is walking us through every day trying to transform this company into being creating zero distance between us and the customer. So we spent a lot of time in this room thinking about how we can change our culture to better connect with our customers and really bring zero distance between us and engaging with our customers so we talk a lot about hacking our culture and we're spending a lot of time with our customers it's so important that our developer community gives us feedback every single day in terms of where we're headed with the product and what we're trying to do. It's so inspirational that there's so much more data driven there's so much more customer obsessed it's being baked in at every level I was surprised that you were saying you're doing these UX labs every single day right I hope people that are watching this are learning that this is happening and right these things are being thought about well and the important thing to remember too is that to engage with us you don't have to be in the UX lab so we have developer community and there's so many ways to be in contact with us to give us feedback about the product even within visual studio for instance fantastic so we need customers to understand that we're here we're listening and we're engaging we're trying to make the product better based on what they're giving us that's great I'm going to go find some more pms that are working on the product thank you so much Travis my pleasure Dr. Rich thank you so much thank you all right let's go find some more pms hey friends yeah how's it going I have just come from the UX lab it's amazing you got to go check it out but I hear that you have some fun demos for me yeah all right let's see them you know I was talking with Julia and Amanda about some of the things in visual studio 2019 that kind of like delight people just little features that just make you happy when you're debugging and you work on some of those things Leslie yeah one of the cool things that we added for visual studio 2019 are data breakpoints which if you're a c++ developer then chances are you already know about this feature but now C sharp and .NET core users can rejoice because yeah it is now in our managed code lives and so basically this is a feature that allows you to break when an object's value changes so if you want to hone in on a specific value of an object and not just the whole scope of an object this is the way to go cool so you say I want to know when that thing changes no matter where it changes and the breakpoint gets hit right that's awesome it's super cool so like sometimes when you have like a really big application you might have a big stateful object that's really really deep like a big dependency maybe if you're doing like a big game or something like that and then you could use managed data breakpoints yeah absolutely except the problem is if you have a large application like a game sometimes it can be near impossible to even debug it if you're using a previous iteration of visual studio so teams across microsoft for instance such as the office team and the edge team and xbox couple of those teams they've approached us like hey can you please let us actually debug our really really big apps that are usually written in c++ because right now we're just getting constant out of memory errors so now for 2019 we have made it we've made symbols out of proc for c++ applications so you're now able to debug those applications without constantly experiencing those memory errors i think i recognize this game is this what i think it is yes this is gears of war so that's obviously a really big game and as you can see it's being debugged in visual studio 2019 we've also uh just to compare it we've tried to debug it in 2017 if you look in the task manager at the memory consumption being used the amount of memory being consumed in 2019 is significantly lower than what it is in 2017 so no sweat there you should be able to do and also they gave you the source code to gears of war which is so awesome yeah they're so nice so if i've got an application that works great locally but maybe it's got a cloud service and put that up in the cloud what if it doesn't work well in production how do i debug that yeah so normally in the past what you'd have to do is you know either make a repro locally which can be really tricky or you'd have to try to garner what the issue is from a bunch of logs you may not even get all the relevant information that you need so uh visual studio 2017 introduced snapshot debugging which allows you to take a snapshot of your application and debug it while the code is still running in production without any impact on the end user's experience so what we've added for 2019 on top of that is time travel debugging which basically allows you to step through your code as you're using the snapshot debugger seriously like literally time travel debugging i'm moving forward and backward in time yep so you can move forward backward frontwards and you get all the context about everything that's happening in your application yes so yeah you still get the full functionality of the vs debugger so call stacks um watch window locals window uh that's awesome well i've got my application into production but if it's if it's got a bug and i need to debug i probably didn't pass my unit test what happened kenra well um live unit testing can actually help you make sure that everything you push into the cloud has actually had a test run so live unit testing can automatically rerun tests every time you make a code change seriously like every time you save it yeah so here i can make a quick code change and you can see the test is rerunning in the background as i'm typing as you're typing yeah and i can get feedback on the test result right in the editor okay wow so that was my bad to push the bug into production yeah it's on you for sure next time i will use live unit testing so whatever you're working on kenra so this is actually a little twitter sentiment analysis app that uh we cooked up so it gets all the recent tweets on visual studio and runs them through azure cognitive services to gauge sentiment so here i have a little emoji searching for emoji tests because emojis are super important well i gotta ask yeah how did you get the emojis to display like that in the editor because visual studio is awesome and recognizes you character i didn't do anything yeah so the refactoring that i just triggered um is all of our code fixes and refactorings you can access through control dot and that was one of the new refactorings one of many that we added in visual studio 2019 wrapping parameters so if you have super long parameters and it's difficult to see some people prefer the code style of wrapping every new parameter on a new line one of the things that they were mentioning was that in the old days i used to have to remember all of these different hotkeys but now they're like control t control dot control q what's like the is there like a ultimate refactoring yeah um so control dot when you're in the editor okay will open all the refactorings available where your cursor is so it's very contextually clever i guess um control t is our main navigation shortcut for anything inside your code and control q is anything within your menus and visual studio and tools options that kind of thing so i just have to remember those three hotkeys and i have the power visual studio and we have little icons that you can open to so a little screwdriver will appear a light bulb if you got a suggestion very cool and i'm now going to put emojis in all of my code excellent one of the first things you'll notice as soon as you open visual studio 2019 is the new colorization so methods local parameters all of your user members have new rosalyn syntax classifications so they get new colors so you can see for each is purple here uh parameters are this dark blue we tried to mimic the visual studio code colors as much as possible because those had already been super successful uh in the community and uh we got a lot of feedback that people love them that's cool so you gave visual studio a little pop so it'll be the colors that i'm used to with just more context yeah a refactoring we added to visual studio 2019 is for each to link it is the latest one to join the for loop refactoring family so we have uh link to for each we have for loop to for each and converting back many of them they're super fun to try out it makes me feel smart because i maybe can't write the link from scratch but i can totally write the triply nested for loop and they go and it turns into link yeah i'm like yeah i wrote that myself everyone's god you can use link what if i'm getting started with a a code base it can be a little crusty and i'd like to just kind of get a jump start i don't want to refactor like step by step yeah um a great way to apply all the refactorings you want to is code cleanup so you've probably see configured all of the rules and tools options what levels of refactoring suggestions warning or errors you want this to be triggered on you can export those to an editor config file that lives with your repository all of your team members can have the same editor config file and code cleanup will run the refactorings that you said in that very cool yeah it's a great way to clean up your code that was fantastic thank you so much thank you yeah all right what do you have for me oh my gosh i have so much to show you today i'm really excited so kendra was talking about those code fixes and refactorings that we have on visual studio 2019 for windows now we've actually brought the c sharp code editor from windows over to max so visual studio 2019 for mac has the same intelligence um code refactoring syntax highlighting that you get on windows now you're literally sharing code between the two we are yeah very cool yeah so here we are in a xamarin forums project so scott as you know xamarin is our dot net framework to run c sharp code on ios and android and watches and tvs all that great stuff and this project is xamarin forums so 100 of the front end is in xamal and it runs on both ios and android so you're sharing the ui across all of this yep we are and it's great uh and this is tailwind trader so it's an app we demoed at connect in the fall and it's 100 xamarin forums and it's using a new feature we have called shell that does all your navigation for you seriously yeah so coloring and changing the flyouts and the tabs is super easy very easy to customize that was visual studio 2019 from mac so let me flip over to windows here i have some more great stuff to show you for xamarin uh first off we have intelacode support for xamarin forum xamal right out of the box nice so you can go ahead and type out your controls and your attributes and it just pops up with suggestions it's really smart we also have a property panel so you can go in and change the colors of your controls the layout where they're positioned the text all that great stuff without actually having to write any xamal which is very helpful nice one of the things that kept me from using xamarin before was i thought it was really had a large install size but that's way smaller in 2019 right we dropped the install size from 23 gigs to seven gigs which is fantastic it makes it way quicker to get started we also did a lot of work on android build and deploy performance so it was previously all really slow and it took a long time to spin up the emulator and then you had to build your project deploy your project and that inner dev loop we call it was taking people a really long time i hear that the android build times are way faster and it's just a lot more fun yeah the build times are faster the deploy times are faster uh the emulator for android now supports hyper v we worked closely with the hyper v team on that that's great that means i can have android on an emulator on hyper v with docker and i can have my microservice talking to my xamarin oh yeah you can have it all working and it's so much faster and so much smoother and cleaner now so it's a lot of fun that's great you've got a phone right here running tailwind traders i do i also have this pair of pliers and using 100 xamarin forms and and xamarin we can actually take a photo of this pair of pliers right here okay and it will recommend to us what we can buy that looks like this using computer vision so it's hooked identified it and it's already talked at the back end it already has it says got this red multi-tool plier right here wow that's so cool yeah it's great so that he's using a back end that's written in in azure yeah it's all in azure yeah and we have some great tools in visual studio to enable you get started developing for azure so i can go and write it back in really quickly starting with visual studio 2019 that is correct so one of the easiest ways we have to get started is we have a lot of project templates built into visual studio for dedicated azure types like azure functions we also have ASP net core which is just a great general purpose back end that can be hosted in lots of places running in azure then when you're developing as a user we have all sorts of emulators to run things locally so you don't even necessarily need a cloud connection when you're developing and targeting azure so you don't need to be running up your bill you want to use storage databases all those things are available to run locally so you don't have to have a cloud connected developer environment every day i know you travel a lot scott you can actually do it on the airplane yeah i was really surprised how many things i was able to do developing for the cloud for azure on my local machine with emulators for cosmos db for storage and all those kind of things making cloud applications on an airplane disconnected yeah that is one of our goals we hear from a lot of people that they they like that tight loop of just being able to do everything locally without the cloud dependency you know on a day to day basis all right well i've landed the plane and i'm ready to go from offline to online i'm going to put this up into azure yeah we've worked really hard to make that easy from visual studio i have to do is right click the project choose publish and you'll see a list of azure targets available to run it if you don't have an opinion yet we recommend starting with azure app service as we think you'll find that the easiest place to get started and after you've published your application the core part of your code that's going to run we make it really easy to create other dependencies that the application may need to function correctly including sql server and azure storage directly from visual studio and actually once you've published it even if you don't need it initially one of the new things we've added in 2019 is we've made it easy to come back and add those at any point in the application development lifecycle so you're making that published dialogue kind of re-entrant i can go back in and say i want a little sequel and i want a little storage and add that to my existing publish absolutely yeah so if you decide that you need storage three months into development you just add that to the app service environment directly from visual studio without the need to go to the portal or some other tool that's cool i love everything that you just showed me except my boss won't get me access to create anything new in azure yeah we hear that a lot so one of the other things we offer in visual studio is the ability to choose existing resources so as long as you have permissions to publish to the resource you can through visual studio select an already created resource in azure and that same published summary tab will get populated just like you created everything yourself in fact we even are able to show you the sequel and storage dependencies fantastic you've solved all my problems this has been great absolutely all right well i'm going to take off to my next thing thank you so much for your time thanks all right bye bye everybody that was so much fun for me i hope you enjoyed getting to know some of the people who work on visual studio 2019 and taking a peek behind the scenes as i mentioned at the start there's a ton more content coming today with 11 live stream sessions starting right now at launch.visual studio dot com be sure to ask questions and let us know what you think either on twitter at hashtag vs 2019 or join us for live conversations on twitch at twitch.tv slash visual studio that was a lot good job scott you added some value well i hope we fix that in post cool that's very cool so who do you think i should go and see it's fake isn't it it sounds so weird it does sound weird because we don't know what you just said but whatever it was super excited i can actually do my continuous integration right there yeah i have it right here um and it's it's hooked up to the interwebs and running the back high five on that we can do high five try it again is that okay yeah kindre stop ruining the illusion that you're standing next to scott so i was able to sign in directly to github from the start window yeah right that's exactly right and then i'm gonna say something i


Lagos State Governor Babaji Desongulu has assured that some mailers in the Oko-Baba area will possibly move to the proposed Tuberville site at Aboaikorodu by December this year. The governor stated this while speaking with statehouse correspondents during the inspection of ongoing works at the proposed site. Blostevi News correspondent Love Ikukuo Yedokun was there in our reports. This is a new SOMI project known as Timboville in Aboa, a coastal city in the old ECME local government area. It is where the Lagos State government plans to relocate sole mailers from the Oko-Baba waterfront in the Ebutemeta area of the state. Though started by the regime of Raji Farshula as governor of Lagos State, Saowonlu said his administration was determined to see it completed. He is gratified that the project has been activated by his administration. Like you all observed it's been on for a very long time but we're happy that within our own government we've activated it back. I will spend a lot of money resource to be able to bring it to a usable and a convenient situation. So what you have here is first there must be an access route from the main route up until this site which is about three kilometers. One of the delays were like they have to do like a bridge crossing and that construction is almost completed. There are piles that have been that have been drilled and so we should be finishing that route construction very soon but even in the alternative we've done an alternative route for them which is where you know we're putting here. Saowonlu said a total of 162 bedroom floods had been completed as part of facilities available for potential sole mailers who would occupy the new site. The governor clears the air on path we will doubt about the political will to bring the relocation exercise to Paris. All agreed completely in terms of political will we have 110% political will to do that but we don't want to just throw our citizens into a place where it's not fully fully ready but you've seen the houses have been done what we need to do is clean up all of the boom area clean the water I sense that are there do a lot of push clearing you know for them and just fix you know things here and there you can see the cabbages are here the whole community is excited they are waiting for them and we've told the contractor once we made additional funding available we're hoping that before the end of this year we all should sing alleluia and bring everybody down here so it's been a very very very long journey right but our administration is committed that that journey must come to an end on around the end of this year. Apart from the construction of the access road which is in progress Saowonlu also inspected a facility managed by Loma weather byproducts from the mill ranging from the sawdust among others will be treated. From Lagos, love Ikuku Uyiduku, Plus TV News. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


This is stock number 90134. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ram headquarters. Today we are checking out this all-new 2019 Ram 1500 Crew Cab Big Horn Edition. This is a 5 foot 7 inch box and this is the Big Horn Black Edition. So for the first walk around here I'd like to take a step back from the vehicle so that you can see the vehicle from all the corners from far away and then we get up close and get into a little bit more of the options and what the Big Horn Black Edition entails. You can see it's got the blacked-out ram by the taillights there. Really good look. It has the blacked-out tailpipes which is a nice little accent. Blacked-out ram badge, blacked-out Big Horn, blacked-out 4x4. Of course the 20 inch blacked-out rims the white letters on the tires. Black stepbars, the black 1500 badge on the hood. Now we'll come in and take a closer look at some of the options. They are Bridgestone Duler tires, 20 inch painted satin painted black rims. Diamond black is the color. It has the LED lighting group so you get the LED running lights, LED headlamps, LED fog lamps, the front sonar on the bumper. You get the blacked-out ram grill. Kind of a flat black for the stepbars, flat black on the ram emblem. Of course it's got the rear coil suspension on all the 1500s. Gives you a much smoother ride when you don't have anything in the bed. Now it's talking about kind of blacked out by the lights there. Breaks up the taillight a little bit. A gloss black, almost a gloss. Actually looks like a black chrome actually that they do on some of the SRT models. Painted black bumper. See the big horn is blacked out. Nothing special on the bed. You get the bed rail covers of course. Five foot seven inch box. New on the 2019s is the capitalist fuel fill. So that's pretty much it for the exterior as far as what the big horn black package gives you. You have the built-in directional signals, the built-in heated mirrors with the blind spot mirrors. Inside you have the black cloth interior. Both the seats are heated. Power driver seat. You got lumbar. We have power pedals here, auto headlamps. This particular truck has the 7-inch TFT display. You get power windows, power locks, power folding mirrors. Has the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel. Got the information center right there. You can customize all the corners of the vehicle. This one has the 8.4 4C radio with the factory navigation system. You can also do your heated seat buttons and heated steering wheel buttons right there as well as the backup camera. Up here you have the SOS and assist systems. The homelink buttons. You get the gloss black around the radio here. Dual climate controls. You have your stability control.  This one has the cell phone holder. The CD player. USB's. USB C's. And then an AUX jack. You get the dual glove boxes. And of course I really like the interior on these new big horns with the darker black dark gray seats. A lot better than those light gray seats. This one does come with floor mats but they are rolled up in the back. We'll take a quick look at the back seats. Of course you got power pedals, auto head lamps as well. Crew cab gives you a lot of room back here. You have the in-floor storage. The latch child safety system back here. The power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats do fold up. Lots of room nice flat bottom of the truck. You also get a 115 volt hundred or 400 watt plug-in back here. Two USB's and two USB C jacks as well. It's a lot to connectivity that you can do with this truck. Powering up all your devices. And under the hood we have the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor. Engine bay is very clean. Which you expect on a brand new truck. Anyways, that's the 2019 Big Horn Black Package. Hope you learned something and enjoyed checking out the truck. This one is available for sale. If you're interested and want to make it yours, you can give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Ask for one of our sales associates to make this Ram yours today. Once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you again for checking out the video. If you want to check out more videos, you can go to youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. Always got new stuff coming out. A link to more new truck videos like this one on your right. If you haven't been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website. Click those check us out. We really look forward to helping you with this suit 2019 Ram 1500 Crew Cab 5 foot 7 inch Short Box Big Horn Black Package. Thanks again.


Okay, so let's try this one. It says, arrange the following carbocations and order of increasing stability. So that means from the least stable to the most stable, okay? So, how are we going to order these? Which one is going to be the least stable? Two. Two. Why is that? Because it's a primary. It's a primary, right? Okay, so we'll write it over here. So we'll say two is less stable than what's the next most stable? Okay, three. Why is that? Because it's a secondary. Secondary. And secondaries are more stable than primaries, of course. And then what's the most stable? One. Obviously one, right? Because there's nothing left. And why is that? Because it's a tertiary. Yeah, so in other words, tertiaries are more stable than secondaries, which are more stable than primaries. Carbocations, right? Don't say carbocations anymore. Cat-I-am. Okay? Got it? Yes. Okay, wonderful. Okay, any questions on that one? No. Okay, wonderful.


So, we human look all different. As you can see from here, many different people and including my small group of students who look different, behave differently and they are susceptible to different diseases, mainly due to this 0.1% difference in DNA sequence which is of 3 billion base pairs. We have been working on this using this different diversity of DNA sequences and we are surprised by a famous actress, Angelina Jolie, receiving preventive surgery of her breast based on the identification of BRCA1 mutation in her genome. And that surprised us but actually tells us that the importance of this genome-based diagnostics. You are looking at an eye which lost the eye vision because of the genetic disease called abelino-conial dystopia. If one of your parents have this genetic mutation, you will not be blind, however if you receive LASCHIC, you will become blind in two or three years. So diagnostics early is very important. It can be done very easily by swapping some inner cells from your mouse and then you do the PCL amplification of the DNA region and then you hybridize it with pre-pattern thing. Using this technology, we tested more than 440,000 patients who tried to receive LASCHIC, saved 413 people from becoming blind. Also you can use it for testing other genetic diseases such as Wilson's disease which is caused by accumulation of heavy metal ions and you lose the functions of your brain and liver. So that needs to be identified early in the stage so that the child can be treated with proper medicine. You can apply this diagnostic technology for the identification of exact pathogenic micro-organism so that you can administer the right antibiotics without causing antibiotic resistance problems which is becoming more and more significant and also dangerous. Now this can be done in more nano-tech based way. For example, you can make a nano-patterned chip which uses technology called LSPR and then you can use eptoma immobilized on the chip which is specifically captured only the specifically designed pathogenic micro-organisms. Now you get the very simple way of testing it. We eat vegetables fruits every day and you probably did it today too. Sometimes these are contaminated with toxic agri-chemicals which is not good. Can we test it? Well yes, you can do it by using nano-technology. You can make a very inexpensive disposable chip which is immobilized enzyme that can detect such toxic agri-chemicals. Not only diagnostics is the application of marrying nano-tech and biotech. You can produce something. Based on nano-tech, for example, you can identify beautiful metal nanoparticles that can be synthesized by various micro-organisms which is of course engineered to accommodate such heavy metal ions and make something useful as shown in this slide. So you can incubate cells with diverse portfolio of metal ions. You can make quantum dots. You can make metal magnets. You can make some nanoparticles which have never been synthesized by chemists but micro-organisms are capable of doing it. Now you can have various applications but you want to mass-produce it to make money. How you do that? Well, you're looking at cells which are grown in a bioreactor. You're looking at the highest cell density cultivation which contains about 400 billion cells per milliliter of growth which is probably equivalent to filling this room with 500 people and make them live happily for 200 years. You can use high productivity system to produce something such as this one. That is muscle-glue protein which can be used as a water-resistant super adhesive. Now you can clone this gene into E. coli and based on nano-tech you know the structure you want to have. You can have system that allows production of the strongest natural fiber around. That is spider silk. That is as strong as Kevlar which is the strongest manmade fiber. You have bulletproof vest applications, parachute ropes, you can have biomedical applications so actually applications are endless. Now to make this if you look at the DNA sequence and also amino acid sequence in the protein it is very nasty so you cannot allow cells to produce it. Now you can metabolically engineer cells to over-produce this and eventually you will be able to produce enough amount using high cell density culture and then you spin them out to get it actually delivered. So marrying nano-technology and biotechnology not only give you very robust, simple, inexpensive accurate diagnostics but also production of very useful highly functional materials from sustainable resources. Thank you very much.


Dermatoscopy is a diagnostic tool used to detect and differentiate between benign and malignant lesions such as basal cell carcinomas, BCCs. It can be used to identify specific features of BCCs, including their distinctive dermoscopic patterns, which can help in the diagnosis and management of these tumors. Dermatoscopy can also be used to assess the extent of the tumor, determine whether there are any pigmented areas within the tumor, and monitor the response to treatment. This article was offered by Emilios Lalas, Zoya Palla, Giuseppe Argenziano, and others.


Welcome to In the World of Winooski. I'm your host, Mayor Christine Lott. And joining me today is city manager, Jessie Baker. Was been no stranger to this show over the past four years that she served in her role, leading our city staff and operations here in Winooski. Jessie is moving on to the next step in her career, taking on the role of city manager in South Burlington. And her last day with Winooski will be tomorrow. So we wanted to take some time to celebrate, look back on the past four years and all that we've achieved in our community in that time. So welcome, Jessie. Thank you. Thank you for having me today. Of course. Before we dive into what we've been achieving over the last few years, I would love to hear about your experience when you first came to this role in Winooski. You know, any interesting things you learned or special memories or stories to share? Great, thanks. That's a great question. So I joined the team in March of 2017 and actually put in my application for the position in November of 2016. So when I think back on my interest in this position, it goes back well before my start date. As folks probably know, I'm Vermont kid. I was the assistant city manager in Montpelier before joining the Winooski team. And I'd always had my eyes on Winooski. You know, I spent some time living in New York City and right outside Boston in Somerville, Massachusetts and really loved densely populated urban communities with lots of diversity and hearing different languages on the street and having access to different restaurants and businesses and things like that. So Winooski was always really appealing to me as the place I might find that in Vermont. When I started, I went through a really wonderful slash intense interview process with the community. We had a great steering committee at that point, much like you do now, that assisted the council in my hiring process. So I got to meet about eight different community leaders as part of my interview process and just the joy they articulated about being Winooski leaders and Winooski residents was just palpable. And I knew I was joining a team in a really special place in a place that folks knew each other, folks really cared about the future of the community, folks were ready to welcome new people and grow and try new things and be innovative. And that was just so intriguing to me. On my, I guess the last phase of my interview process and slash Mayor Leonard at the time probably viewed it as part of my orientation process. I spent a day with him going around and meeting all of the different departments, staff and all the different departments in the city. And that was just so fun and interesting and seeing his connection to the staff, the councils which you have carried on in your role Mayor Lott, the council's connection to the staff team and the orientation between the staff and the council really being on the same team. I think sometimes in communities you see elected officials and staff feeling almost at odds with one another. And that really is not the case here and Winooski it really is the elected officials and professional officials of the community working together to implement a vision of the community is a really special thing. And I saw that from my interview process forward and really appreciate your leadership to keep that connection going as well. You know, that's a great point you make Jesse. I think maybe not everybody knows exactly what this role is and how the leadership functions locally. So we have our city council of elected officials who are here to set the kind of policy vision for Winooski and then the city manager role operationalizes that and helps staff carry out that vision. So we're lucky here in Winooski to have a pretty comprehensive master plan. Perhaps some folks participated in this process others not but through a series of public meetings and outreach we have developed this master plan to guide us for the next seven, eight years on what we should be prioritizing working towards what the vision is for Winooski. And that, when did we approve that maybe two years ago? That is one of the great things I think that we have achieved over the last few years is really getting that in place along with other like subsidiary strategic plans. You know, having these guiding documents really helps leadership in staff in the elected officials stay on the same page and also have a vision we can articulate to residents. So they understand, you know what it is we're working towards. A couple of big thing pieces of that come to mind over the time that I've been serving in this role alongside you. You know, we obviously we have reconstructed the pool something less visible. We have a capital improvement plan that we can work through. There's been quite a few of these like big projects that we've worked on. And I wonder if there's, you know one that is your favorite maybe that you worked on or had the most interesting experience with or that you think is gonna be really important to us in the future. So I'd love to hear your experience on some of these like big projects we move forward. Sure, I'd love to talk about that. Can I talk about master planning for just a minute? Yeah, by all means. So I think that this, I love how you introduced that because it's, I think it also tells a story of how a community changes and adapts and leaders come in and out within a community vision. So when I started, the prior to me starting under prior council and Dick DeCaro and Mayor Leonard they had established the strategic vision for the city. And those principles, you know being focused on housing, economic vitality, municipal infrastructure and safe, healthy connected people were really the have become even though you and I did not create those those came out of, you know hundreds and hundreds of hours of community participation through the development of the form-based code and the early conversations around the master plan those have been our core now as a community for about seven or eight years. And you and I have taken those and with staff and with the planning commission and with our commission structures and really built out that master plan and those associated documents. And now we have annual work plans together where we articulate for each other and for the community what we're doing to accomplish those goals. We've had three in my experience here we've had three mayors and 11 city counselors who have influenced that process. We will have had three or four city managers who have influenced that process. And I think that's really a testament to the vision of this community and that that vision can carry through beyond leaders. It's the residents who are articulating what they want and we just have the privilege of being able to move those forward. So I think that foundation is really strong. I think it's something that's really special about Winnieski. In terms of favorite projects, you know I'm sure if I don't say the pool people will be surprised. We've done a lot of really interesting projects we've done the pool, we've done a lot of repaving we've put in new sidewalks we're currently finishing up our Hickok Street project. We're in final plans for our Main Street Ritualization project. We've done a lot of things. I actually want to talk about the Headworks project which is probably not the one that most people think of but from a kind of core municipal services is an incredibly critical critical part of what we do. Our wastewater treatment plan is arguably our most expensive asset as a government on par with the school building. You know, obviously it is where all of our sewer system and stormwater system ends up and being able to appropriately handle that treat that in a very small city and dispose of the waste and put the effluent back into the Winnieski River is really critical to not only our public safety but our natural resources safety as well. So forgive me for a minute while I talk about this really wonky municipal thing the Headworks project. It was a project we completed last year had a bond vote for in 2007-18 cost about one and a half million dollars and basically the wastewater all the wastewater ends up at the treatment plant and before we did the Headworks project our staff was taking out all of the non non biodegradable things that came through the wastewater stream which is quite a bit. So daily they were shoveling things out of that stream. It was a really arcane system created some public health challenges for our staff and the Headworks project really modernized that and automated that process. So our staff no longer has to do that by hand. There is a system in place to do it. It can track more effectively the flow and what's coming in and out and really let's make sure that our water and wastewater infrastructure is well maintained. So while it is certainly not a visible project to most it is actually an incredibly critical modernization that we did in the last four years that I think is really important and will set up the community well for the future. I'm kind of glad you mentioned that one. I think there's a lot of work that happens that is not visible to residents. And so I think it's hard to envision like how much happens in our city like how much stuff staff are doing. The pool Main Street, these are things that people have heard about. They're very visible but like the Headworks project I'm not gonna use the right terminology but I know that staff have done some like patch basins and various other sort of stormwater treatment, things that are really important to keeping our environment safe that aren't very visible. And a lot of that happens also in when a street is redone, a project like Main Street like there's a lot of components that aren't just about resurfacing and parking but actually like treating our environmental sustainability as a city. And those are sort of things that I think don't often get highlighted. They're not as exciting but they're really important. I think similarly we, I believe so I've been serving in this role for a couple of years but you've been city manager longer than when I came onto council. But I believe in that time we have passed every city budget with pretty strong voter support. And I think that's also something that is not on the surface remarkable but I know historically hasn't always been the case. So I feel like the master plan public outreach working together in these leadership roles has put us in a position to be able to present something that voters can support that's in line with what residents want. I think another maybe less obvious financial piece is our downtown tax increment financing the TIP district and you and staff have really done a good job of keeping that financially on track. I wonder if you could speak a little bit to what that has looked like, how you guys have thought about making sure that those finances stay in line. Sure. So one of the things I think you are right going back to the budget approval, each budget that you and I have worked on and Mayor Lara, Mary Ace and I worked on together all passed with over, I think the lowest approval rate was 64% and topped out at about 73% approval rate. So that's really significant and shows that the strong majority of our residents think we're going in the right direction. I think that is in part, I think that's a result of a lot of trust that the council and the staff have built with the community. I also think it's a result of council asking really hard questions and demonstrating to the community that they are holding the staff team accountable. These are dollars that we are taking from our neighbors to provide services and we really wanna make sure we're doing that as effectively and efficiently as possible. And I think the council being very engaged in that process has demonstrated to the community that these are budgets that can be supported because they've been really examined by the elected officials and the elected officials know what's going on. So again, thank you for that partnership. The tax increment financing district was one of the things that really appealed to me coming to this position. I think it's a really innovative financing tool for municipal governments to redevelop significant areas of the town that are not just solely on the backs of the current taxpayers but really invest in infrastructure to see that future growth. So just for people who may be watching short one minute on TIF. So basically our downtown we established it in around 2000. The property values were frozen at that period of time. Those dollars continue to come back to the general fund. And as it's redeveloped and the assessed value of the properties has increased, that difference between what they were assessed at the time and the increase, that increment, that difference is going to pay off the debt that we took on to build the new street structure to underground utilities, to build the parking garage, to build the rotary and the river walk. So that is on track to be fully paid off in 2024. So just a few years from now. And really, I'm standing on the shoulders of Deake and the past city managers who put that work together. Like O'Brien, George Cross, Jerry Myers, a lot of others who did an enormous, Clem Bissnet who did an enormous amount of work both in Winooski and at the state level to make that happen. So what we've really focused on in the last four years is modeling and ensuring that we have an incredibly tight handle on the revenues that are coming in and the expenses that are going out annually. So that we are very confident that in fiscal year 24, we will be able to fully retire that debt. And then that increment will come back into both the city coffers and the state education fund. Because right now we are one of the few TIF districts in the state that gets to retain 98% of the education increment as well. So we are on track to do that. We are currently working on our lot 70 project. That's the final significant parcel that the city owns and controls as part of the TIF district that we are looking to redevelop. As the community probably knows, we have identified Netty Real Estate as our development partner and are working on bringing likely a hotel and housing to that site with some public parking. A benefit of that project already is that when the proposal for that project first came in VEIC Vermont Energy Efficiency Corporation, many of whose employees live here in Winooski was slated to go into that location as their headquarters. And we were really excited about that, a great new employer in Winooski, lots of good paying jobs and a really vibrant partner in some of our energy priorities of the city. So while they are no longer committed to going into the 7D project, they actually just signed a long-term lease to locate their headquarters in the Champlain Mill. So when already of 7D is that VEIC's headquarters will now be in Winooski for the foreseeable future. Another big TIF related business change that happened relatively recently that's maybe been a little quiet because of COVID is Vermont Public Television located their headquarters to our TIF district as well. That's in addition to VSAC and CCV, Marathon Health and PCC and the Mill. We have a lot of great kind of anchor employer tenants downtown that provide those jobs, provide vibrancy to the downtown business community, the restaurants and the bars. And I think really will solidify the future of our downtown and make sure our TIF district retires successfully in 2024. It is really exciting to be at this end of the TIF district. We're working towards that benefit that voters supported that big investment for at the beginning. And I'm pleased that you'll still be around to see that as you continue to reside in Winooski. Yes, absolutely. One more thing that I wanted to call out specifically about that I've seen in your time in this position is I think you've done a really great job of building more relationships and partnerships, between the school, neighboring communities working on regional issues, service providers right here in Winooski, like USCRI and the Association of Africans of Lima. I think that ability to build those relationships and then leverage each other's resources instead of trying to recreate work or work in silos is really important to successful service to our community. And I'd love to hear about your focus on that and how you feel about some of that relationship that we've done. Yeah, thank you. For any leader, those relationships are just key. And I think especially in Vermont and in this part of Chinden County, our residents are the same. It's not, we have 72 to 7,500 residents. We'll see what happens as the census numbers come out. And folks don't always think about are they, if they're coming to meal bar for a drink or they're going up to Landry to play softball, are you in New Scare, are you in Cold Chester, are you in Burlington, are you in South Burlington? I think people know that, but they don't necessarily think about the governance differences in those communities. And so I think the more we can partner with our surrounding municipalities as well as those service organizations and efficiently provide services to our residents, the better, because again, the residents aren't necessarily thinking about those organizational lines. And residents are involved in with lots of organizations beyond just municipal government. Folks send their kids to school and get services from the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants and ALV and the Howard Center and Spectrum and Center Point. The more we as organizations can minimize the bureaucratic barriers between our organizations, our residents will be better served and will be better served as efficiently as possible. I think COVID, you and I have worked so closely with so many of those partners through COVID and we've really seen the success of those close partnerships, that constant communication with our partners to make sure that we all are, have the same information. We know who needs help and when we know what kind of help they need and we're able to provide that really quickly. And we couldn't do, as a small municipality, we cannot do that alone. We need our service providers to partner with us in that work. So I think those relationships are at the core of creating that safe, healthy and connected community that we aim to provide. Plus, they're just amazing individuals running those organizations and the privilege of being able to learn from Emila and learn from Jacob and Thoto at ALV and learn from DGETWHA and learn from Sean at the school district. They're just wonderful humans who are so committed to our neighbors and it's really been a privilege to get to know them and I'm sure those connections are not just with me. You have those connections and our leadership team here in Winooski has those connections. The new city manager will build those connections as well. That is not a new specific thing. That is the culture we have in Winooski to kind of wrap support around all of our neighbors. Yeah, I think it's, I always hear from folks like, I love it here because it feels big and small at the same time. Like I know my neighbors, I can't feel connected to the community and I think it is that we wanna get to know each other. We wanna work together. And you mentioned during COVID, like those relationships have been absolutely critical to the way we've been able to respond and support the community. And we'll obviously be fostering those to continue when we hire our next city manager. I also, I think the regional work is important on another level as well, when we think about like finding efficiencies and providing the best services we can. You know, voters supported a couple town meeting days ago moving into this regional dispatch scenario where we would combine across Chittenden County instead of providing our own dispatch services, trying to regionalize that. That's something you've been working on for a while. Hasn't, we're not quite at the launch point yet, but I think that is really important, you know, the collaboration with Burlington and South Burlington on addressing airport noise issues. There's a lot that we have across the community that we can work on together. And I'm grateful that I'll actually continue to get to work with you in your next role as we continue exploring these other partnerships. So two funny operational points on the importance of that regionalization, you know, moving towards Chittenden County Public Safety Authority's regionalization of dispatch is absolutely essential. One of the things that keeps me up at night, and I think residents may not know this is our dispatch center here at the police department. We run that dispatch center with one staff person on 24 seven, which means that one staff person, if there's a big crash on the interstate or there are multiple fire calls going on at once, is really busy and really a lot of pressure on them all at the same time with often a life or death situation. So thinking about how regionally we could provide better service and back up calls more effectively, I think is really important for those, quite frankly, those worst moments of our neighbor's lives when they need police or fire EMS to respond really quickly. A funny story on that regionalization, and I'm not gonna get the names correctly, but probably about two years ago there was, folks may remember, there was a fire up at UVM in one of the buildings that was kind of in the middle of campus. And it was big enough fire that it was multiple alarm fire, meaning that fire departments from a number of different communities were called in to respond to the fire. Mutual aid, we do it all the time. So the big Burlington trucks arrived and the Big South Burlington trucks arrived and Winooski arrived and we have a much smaller truck. And the truck needed to set up to effectively reach the fire, the big trucks couldn't get there, but our little Winooski truck could get right in there and help put out the fire. And I think that, thinking about that network of assets that we have as a community, everyone may not need the same size ladder truck if we have one in Burlington, South Burlington, how do we use that network of assets that are over 1.5 million dollars to buy a new fire truck? How do we best leverage those assets as a region I think is a really interesting conversation. And we had that, we had, proved positive of why that is important a couple of years ago at that Winooski, at that UVM fire. That's such a, it's like a little engine that could. Yeah, exactly. I love that story. Jesse, do you want to share, you know, like what you're most proud of during your time serving in this role? Oh, what I'm most proud of. You know, I think we talked earlier about the master plan and the alignment of the commissions to that structure and our shared work plan between staff and council. You know, I know it's really wonky and dorky, but those structures, those structures that we built together between staff and the council, I'm really proud of that. And I think it let us leverage a very small team to do a lot of really important things in the community's vision. I'm also incredibly proud of some of the hires we have made in the last couple of years. Again, that's not necessarily always publicly seen, but during my tenure here, I've brought on five new department heads or promoted them to their current positions. And they're really just an exceptional group of experts in their field of professionals of folks who care about Winooski and care about the residents. And they're the ones who, you know, are dealing with the water breaks in the middle of the night or responding to the fire calls or dealing with employees' benefits and pay and making sure that their families are taken care of so they can take care of the community. You know, the professionals that we have on the leadership team are just exceptional and are so well poised to not only carry through this interim phase, but also carry the city through the next five or 10 years. I know the new city manager will come on and add to that value and make it even stronger. But I think this team is what I'm most proud of, this staff team. I can say as an elected official, this is not my professional career, right? A lot of folks, residents, you come into this, into these service positions without necessarily having a municipal background or a government background. And those structures that we have, the staff that we have, so much great support to help somebody come into one of these roles and just take off and help move things forward. Looking out into the future, what are you looking forward to seeing us achieve in the coming years? Well, I think, so two things, I'm really excited about watching in the upcoming years. One obviously is the completion of the TIF district and what that means for our community and what new resources that bring to enable us to do the work of the community. And those community conversations about our values, how we wanna spend those funds, what we wanna do with those funds, how we invest in ourselves or invest back in our taxpayers. Those are gonna be really rich community conversations and I'm excited to see how those go. The other thing I'm really excited about that we haven't talked about much yet today is right through this wall right now is our fabulous new equity director, Yasmine Gordon. She's amazing and comes to us fully grant funded through a grant with a Boston Fed. She'll, that position is funded for the next three years and we have a sustainability plan of how to fund it beyond that. But thinking about undoing the structural racism that does exist in our community and in our systems and bringing more voices to the table and ensuring that policy decisions in when you see are really made with all voices taken into consideration that our leadership team looks like our community that our council and our commissions look like our community. I think that's going to be really exciting work. We've had a lot of wins in that already. I think back to the equity summit we held in 2019 and those 60 people in that room for that day which now seem so foreign and I hope we get back to a place where we can do that. But listening to the students and the wisdom they brought to the table. I think that we've done a lot of work and we're ahead of the game and a lot of things trying to keep up with the school district of course who's really ahead of the game but really making sure that our organization is seen as open and welcoming and accessible to all. I think we'll be just so exciting to watch. We'll see that increase probably, hopefully momentarily when the legislature finally passes our charter change allowing all residents to vote in Winooski. I think we see things opening up to be a more equitable community and I think that that work will continue and really thrive in the next three to five years under Yasmin's leadership and your leadership and the staff team. That is a really great place to end Jesse looking towards the future and efforts that you have been integral to supporting. So thank you for taking the time to share with us on your way out. Really, it's just been a pleasure to work with you and I'm grateful for the time and dedication you've given to our city and that we'll still have you around as a resource as a resident. So just wanna thank you for your time in the world of Winooski. Well, thank you and I hope folks understand how much time you give to this position and the leadership and the guidance you show to staff, to me and to staff as a whole. You have just been an outstanding mayor and I know you'll do great things for the future of Winooski. So thank you as well and thank you for your time today. Thank you.


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