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March 2018 - Developer Support

IntelliTrace and the ‘Magic’ of Historical Debugging

March 30, 2018 Mar 30, 2018 03/30/18
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Premier Developer Consultant Lizet Pena De Sola discusses the Visual Studio Debugging and Diagnostic Tools Workshop, in which she discovered IntelliTrace and its magical debugging capabilities.Lizet recently visited a development team in Nevada that was eager to learn more about Visual Studio debugging tools and the C# compiler Open Source ...

Accessing a .NET Bot’s State via Dependency Injection

March 29, 2018 Mar 29, 2018 03/29/18
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The .NET BotBuilder SDK has deprecated the StateClient class, leaving some to wonder how they should access their bot’s state. Premier Developer Consultant Ben Williams shares an example of using dependency injection in your BotFramework projects.When using the .NET BotBuilder SDK’s dialog system, you can access the bot state using the ...

Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18
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In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard discusses how to set up Visual Studio 2017 to run JavaScript-based unit tests.This week, I demonstrated to a client how they could write unit tests in JavaScript to test their JavaScript code by leveraging Karma, Jasmine, and Chutzpah. The unit tests show up in Test ...

Audit SQL Server stop, start, restart

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18
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In this article, Application Development Manager Steve Keeler outlines an approach for determining the domain identity of a user who has initiated a stop, start, or restart request on SQL Server services. Although SQL Server contains server and database auditing functionality as part of the product, this cannot be used to determine the ...

With cloud applications, performance is money

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
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This post is provided by App Dev Manager Reed Robison who examines the opportunity and impact of cloud application performance.  If you are moving apps to the cloud, it has never been more important think about performance and as a developer, the business impact you can have may be profound.Early in my career, developers were always ...

Getting started with Azure App Services Development

March 25, 2018 Mar 25, 2018 03/25/18
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In this post, Application Development Manager, Vijetha Marinagammanavar, demonstrates how to get started with Azure App Services.To get started with Azure development we need to have Visual Studio 2013 or later, Azure SDK, and an active Azure subscription. We are using Visual Studio 2017 with our demo. If using VS2013 then download the SDK ...

Running .NET applications client-side in the browser

March 23, 2018 Mar 23, 2018 03/23/18
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In this post, App Dev Managers Robert Schumann and Ben Hlaban, introduce us to Blazor – an experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor, and HTML that runs in the browser via WebAssembly. This journey started from a blog by Daniel Roth. Other than the YouTube of Steve Sanderson’s prototype demo at NDC Oslo, this wasn’t much ...

Accelerate Your GDPR compliance with Microsoft Cloud

March 22, 2018 Mar 22, 2018 03/22/18
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This post is provided by App Dev Managers Latha Natarajan and Sujith Nair who explore the critical aspect of protecting personal information and the impact of data security failures. This post also discusses the rich set Azure services that Microsoft customers and organizations can use to protect personal data in compliance with GDPR and other...

Use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to host your private package server

March 21, 2018 Mar 21, 2018 03/21/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Keith Beller demonstrates how to use VSTS to host a private package server.Before you go through the trouble of setting up a private package server to host your Nuget, NPM, Maven or Gradle feeds, consider using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The Microsoft Package Management plugin found in the VSTS ...