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Managed object internals, Part 3. The layout of a managed array

September 12, 2017 Sep 12, 2017 09/12/17
Sergey Tepliakov
Arrays are one of the basic building blocks of every applications. Even if you do not use arrays directly every day you definitely use them indirectly as part of almost any library. C# has arrays from the very beginning and back in the day that was the only "generic"-like and type safe data structure available. Today you may use them less ...

Role Based Access Control in ASP.NET MVC

September 5, 2017 Sep 5, 2017 09/5/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Lizet Pena De Sola explains Role Based Access Control in ASP.NET MVC. Role Based Access Control in MVC is pretty straight forward. There is also a way to do claims access control, but the most common way is based on roles. To show or hide action links in a view depending on the user role we can ...

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 ...

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 ...