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August 2017 - Developer Support

Agile work in progress tracking: Are we there yet?

August 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017 08/28/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Ilias Jennane explains Agile Work in Progress Tracking. In almost every engagement I have with customers seeking guidance on how to effectively run an Agile development shop, the question of work in progress tracking comes up. However, the question comes in different “flavors”, often ...

HTTP Secure, Part II. Is Diffie-Hellman always used in the HTTPS key exchange?

August 23, 2017 Aug 23, 2017 08/23/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Lizet Pena De Sola explains Diffie-Hellman in the HTTPS key exchange. I got a question right after I had spent a week in training classes for the COMPTIA Security+ exam: to describe how HTTP Secure (HTTPS) modifies the HTTP traffic between a client browser and the server.  At the end of my ...

Docker Blog Series Part 3– Deploy IIS based applications to Service Fabric using Docker Containers

August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 08/18/17
Pam Lahoud
In the third post in his blog series on Docker, Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo illustrates how to deploy IIS based applications to Service Fabric using containers. One of  the value propositions of using containers with Service Fabric is that you can now deploy IIS based applications to the SF cluster. In this blog post, we ...

Nailing it: Making Sense of Vague PowerShell Errors

August 17, 2017 Aug 17, 2017 08/17/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on troubleshooting PowerShell errors comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Rob Vettor.PowerShell is a “must-know” for Azure cloud development. Yes, it’s a scripting language, but moreover, it’s an automation engine that can execute complex tasks with minimal effort. The vast majority of Azure administrative ...

Claims augmentation with OWIN but outside of Startup code

August 16, 2017 Aug 16, 2017 08/16/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on authentication and authorization is from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon.Claims list included in the ClaimsPrincipal usually originate from the security token received by the application as part of user authentication (SAML, OpenIDConnect id token) or access authorization (OAuth2 bearer access token).  However, ...

How Not to Use Service Fabric Default Services

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on avoiding the use of Default Services in your Service Fabric application comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Larry Wall and Application Development Manager Danny Kolke. Service Fabric is an ideal platform for microservices making it easy to package, deploy, and scale. As a developer, there are a lot of solutions that ...

Monitor your Xamarin Forms application with Mobile Center

August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017 08/11/17
Pam Lahoud
This article on using Mobile Center to monitor your Xamarin Forms application comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Gustavo Varo. More and more customers are asking about Mobile Center and how it can help them to monitor and analyze the customer experience. A lot of customers mentioned that they know about Mobile Center, they ...

Microsoft Best Places to Work – Chicago

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17
Developer Support
This post is provided by David S. Lipien, Director Premier Support for Developers with a spotlight on Microsoft Chicago.Microsoft was awarded Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work 2017 in April. This was a great external recognition for the Microsoft team in Chicago. As a leader of people at Microsoft and part of the team locally, it ...

HoloLens – How to Create Mixed Reality Part 2

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17
Developer Support
Rick McGuire, Senior ADM, provides the second post in this series -- an introduction to mixed reality development with a test drive using HoloLens, Unity, and Visual Studio 2015.With the invention of HoloLens, it is now possible to superimpose a virtual 3D world onto our exiting reality. HoloLens lets you create holograms, virtual objects that...

How to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
Developer Support
This post is from Senior App Dev Manager, Chev Bryan who shares how to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files.The most likely way to do this in my experience is to take a look at the most recent backup job. This can be done quite easily from a T-SQL script. Feel free to refine the bellow to suite your needs, but it should get you ...