July 2018 | Developer Support

Azure CLI Aliases Are Awesome!

Developer Support July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

App Dev Manager Isaac Levin spotlights extensibility in the Azure CLI allowing developers to do some pretty amazing things when it comes to mastering long and complex commands.

Digital Signatures and Certificate Expiration Dates

Developer Support July 30, 2018 Jul 30, 2018 07/30/18

Why should you sign your code binaries and documents? Read this post to learn why, as Premier Developer Lizet Pena De Sola explains reasons and best practices.

Software-as-a-Service Part 1 (Identity-as-a-Service)

Developer Support July 30, 2018 Jul 30, 2018 07/30/18

App Dev Manager, Keith Anderson explores aspects and patterns of building solutions under a Software-as-a-Service model.

The Importance of Limiting Your WIP

Developer Support July 29, 2018 Jul 29, 2018 07/29/18

Senior Consultant, Assaf Stone follows up on his previous post – why it’s important to limit WIP (Work In Progress).

Managing VC++ legacy within your Enterprise

Developer Support July 27, 2018 Jul 27, 2018 07/27/18

Senior App Dev Manager Sanket Bakshi shares some ideas on how to manage legacy VC++ within your Enterprise.

Accessing Certificates in Service Fabric Hosted Windows Containers

Developer Support July 26, 2018 Jul 26, 2018 07/26/18

In this post, senior consultant Megan Meyer demonstrates how you can utilize SetupEntryPoint scripts to manage acquiring certificates and making them available to your Service Fabric hosted container. This blog covers an approach that allows greater control and flexibility at the time of service setup so that you can have runtime access to certificate files within your container.

DevOps Stories – Interview with John-Daniel Trask of Raygun

Developer Support July 20, 2018 Jul 20, 2018 07/20/18

App Dev Manager Dave Harrison talks with John-Daniel Trask, co-founder and CEO of Raygun, about the adoption of DevOps. "Human beings are the center of the universe. But you wouldn’t know that by the way we’re treated by most of the software we write. Great engineers and great executives grasp that. They know that to humans, the interface is the system – everything else simply does not matter in the end. So they never let anything get in the way of improving that human, end user experience."

Late night Blockchain thoughts

Developer Support July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18

The reason why I've decided to write a blog post about Blockchain is not because I want to add a(nother) quick-start or easy explanation of the technology into the internet archive… I’ve had the chance to study, work and learn from the field what this technology may offer (a lot of potential opportunities) but of course also when it would be better to invest in something different.
So my goal is to give you some food for thought and to feed your curiosity sharing my honest feedback and thoughts.

Performance implications of default struct equality in C#

Sergey Tepliakov July 17, 2018 Jul 17, 2018 07/17/18

If you're familiar with C#, then you most likely heard that you should always override Equals and GetHashCode for custom structs for performance reasons. To better understand the importance and the rationale behind this advice we're going to look at the default behavior to see why and where the performance hit comes from. Then we'll look at a ...

WIP Your Product into Shape

Developer Support July 13, 2018 Jul 13, 2018 07/13/18

In his latest post, Senior Consultant, Assaf Stone shares some useful suggestions on tracking Work In Progress (WIP) in VSTS.What is WIP?WIP simply means work in process (also sometimes, Work In Progress). This metric simply measures how many items (features, stories, backlog items, tasks) your team have started to develop, but have yet to ...

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