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Part 2 – Deploying Your Dockerized Angular Application to Azure Using VSTS

Premier DeveloperMay 9, 2018May 9, 201805/9/18

In part 2 of a series of posts, Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh demonstrates how to eliminate daunting requirements and instead install Angular build tools and utilize Docker to more easily and efficiently deploy an application to Azure using VSTS. From Wael: In part 1 I demonstrated building a VSTS build pipeline which built...

Deploying Linked ARM Templates with VSTS

Premier DeveloperMay 8, 2018May 8, 201805/8/18

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Najib Zarrari walks through how to deploy linked ARM templates with Visual Studio Team Services. When dealing with deploying a large number of components in Azure, a single ARM template might be challenging to manage and maintain. ARM linked templates allow you to make your deployment more ...

Multi-Tenant Applications and Azure AD

Premier DeveloperMay 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18

Following up on a previous blog post, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon describes recent changes and compares the use of Azure AD multi-tenant features with the custom features in B2C.Read Marius’s first post here.Since then, there have been some changes to the demo application regarding new modes and new features. In his follow-up ...

DevOps and Leadership

Premier DeveloperMay 5, 2018May 5, 201805/5/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Ron Vincent explorers the role of leadership in an industry driven by DevOps.DevOps requires a different approach to leadership. In this article I'll explain where "management" came from and how we can change it for the age of rapid innovation.For decades now, the American corporation has been modeled after the ...

Focus on your code, Let Microsoft Teams worry about the UI

Premier DeveloperMay 4, 2018May 4, 201805/4/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Kyle Kapphahn spotlights the conversational UI framework of Microsoft Teams to simplify UI development for enterprise apps.When I first began commercial software development in the mid-90's (yes, I know I'm dating myself), we used the classic 3-tier model: Presentation, Business Logic, and Data Layers. If you were...

Opening a Premier Developer support request using Premier Online

Premier DeveloperMay 3, 2018May 3, 201805/3/18

This post walks through the process of setting up a new support case using Premier Online. Credits to App Dev Managers, Al Mata, Dave Harrison, Charles Ofori, Bharat Suneja, Joseph Flanigen, Sheldon Ledbetter and Bill Bevan. Opening a Premier developer support request on Premier Online Microsoft Premier Online (MPO) is an...

Avoiding struct and readonly reference performance pitfalls with ErrorProne.NET

Sergey TepliakovMay 3, 2018May 3, 201805/3/18

As you may know from my previous posts "The 'in'-modifier and the readonly structs in C#" and "Performance traps of ref locals and ref returns in C#", structs are trickier then you might think. Mutability aside, the behavior of readonly and non-readonly structs in "readonly" contexts is very different. Structs are meant for high-performance...

Enterprise Integration made easy in Azure

Premier DeveloperMay 2, 2018May 2, 201805/2/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Deepa Chandramouli explores how Azure Logic Apps and API Management can help with Enterprise Integration scenarios.Being in the services role and helping customers in their digital transformation journey with Azure, this is a topic that comes up time and again. How do we talk to apps in Azure from our on-premises ...

Three questions that could improve your Agile team

Premier DeveloperMay 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18

This post is contributed by App Dev Manager Justin Scott who asks three very important Agile questions.Agile has been adopted by many successful companies who value quality, incremental change on a more frequent basis compared to a team that uses a waterfall development methodology. Teams that embark on the journey of introducing Agile often ...

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