March 2020

Application Insights – Use case for TelemetryClient flush calls

March 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020 03/31/20

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Ideally, the right usage pattern for Flush method is when the application encountered something unexpected, shutting down and needs to upload exception before crashing.

Enabling remote workers with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

March 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020 03/31/20

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This retail customer was able to implement a critical business work-from-home policy using Azure VDI pools, auto-scale capacity on-demand to meet dynamic usage requirements, exploit existing Azure Active Directory and Azure ExpressRoute investments to provide seamless access to corporate compute services.

Modernize your legacy Windows desktop apps with ease using Xaml Islands

March 31, 2020 Mar 31, 2020 03/31/20

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Xaml Islands enables developers to enhance the look, feel and functionality of legacy Win32 C++ or WPF apps using UWP controls without having to do a complete rewrite. Xaml islands also offers the ability to leverage new UI controls on specific parts of the app so you can modernize at your own pace.

5 Reasons Why Engaging with Your End Users Improves Your Code

March 30, 2020 Mar 30, 2020 03/30/20

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One of the biggest mistakes I see in any project is the development team failing to get outside feedback. Whether project teams wait until the very end of a project to reach our or they don’t get feedback at all, these teams are missing out on one of the best sources of information to help build a better solution.

Routing in Blazor Apps

March 30, 2020 Mar 30, 2020 03/30/20

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Based on the current implementation, Blazor Router makes routing much easier to implement and developer hardly need to maintain routing as the application evolves. Bugs due to misconfiguration of routing might become a thing of the past.

Angular How-to: Add Application Insights to an Angular SPA

March 29, 2020 Mar 29, 2020 03/29/20

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Application Insights is an Azure service for monitoring web applications. It includes analytics tools to help you understand application usage and to diagnose issues with the goal of continuously improving performance and usability.

Push an ASP.NET Core API Container to Azure Container Registry Part 2 of 2

March 28, 2020 Mar 28, 2020 03/28/20

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ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, open-source framework for building modern , cloud-based, connected applications. With ASP.NET core you can build web apps, API APS, Microservices, mobile backends, and IoT apps.

Hosting and ASP.NET Core API in a Container Part 1 of 2 – Building the Container

March 28, 2020 Mar 28, 2020 03/28/20

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Improving Angular CI Build Time Using Azure DevOps “Cache Task”

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20

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As demonstrated above I was able to drop the build time from 5m 10s to 2m 34s which is roughly a 50% reduction in build time. This is a significant saving especially when you factor in the fact that you will run the build several times a day. This can quickly add up to hours of saved build time each day.

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March 2020 - Developer Support