Pam Lahoud, Author at Developer Support

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New project type has XAML forms by default

October 17th, 2016

Recently on his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy highlighted some new templates available to Xamarin developers in Visual Studio. See below for the full article, but also be sure to check out Joe’s DevFish blog for lots more great content! Xamarin has some great documentation. The article at [ https://developer.xamarin.com/...

Referencing a PCL project in both ASP.NET Core and Xamarin Forms

October 3rd, 2016

Thanks to Premier Developer Consultant Gustavo Varo for this prescriptive guidance on cross-platform development with Xamarin and ASP.NET Core. Back in March while working with Xamarin Forms and ASP.NET Core, I identified the need of sharing some code between both projects. My very first idea was to create a PCL (Portable Class Library) ...

Web Test Plug-in for Authentication

April 19th, 2016

In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Monu Bambroo gives us a step-by-step overview of how to add Authentication into your Web Performance and Load Test with Visual Studio. Web and Load testing are an essential part of application life cycle management. Within Visual Studio, we provide a great template to do web ...

Passive is good!

April 8th, 2016

Here’s a quick read from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon’s blog. In it, Marius gives some great reasons to leverage passive authentication protocols in your applications rather than writing your own code to handle credentials. Some time back I wrote about avoiding handling of credentials (creation/maintenance/...

Workflow Manager 1.0 Refresh Disaster Recovery (further) Explained

March 15th, 2016

Premier Developer Consultant Brian Gregor recently took some time on his blog to document his experiences implementing disaster recovery for Workflow Manager. The following is an excerpt from his post, get the full story over at Brian’s blog Nose to the GrindStone: With the release of SharePoint 2013, Microsoft released a new ...

Developer’s Guide to Automated Install of ADFS On Windows Server 2016 (TP4)

March 8th, 2016

In a recent article on his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais outlines the steps required to set up a developer environment instance of Active Directory Federation Services on the current Technical Preview (TP4) of Windows Server 2016. Here’s a snippet of Razi’s article, be sure to follow the link to his blog for ...

Changing user password in Azure AD using GraphAPI

March 3rd, 2016

Recently, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon posted this article on his blog regarding changing passwords in Azure AD that may be helpful to those of you facing this specific scenario in your applications: If this is something you are facing, read the rest of Marius’ article here for the solution, including a code sample: ...

Leveraging Native UI in Apache Cordova Apps Using Project Ace

February 18th, 2016

This article comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh. When it comes to Cross Platform Mobile Development there are two options that stand out today. The first option is Xamarin which allows users to use C# and XAML to develop once and deploy everywhere natively. The second option is Apache Cordova which allows users to use ...

Qualcomm Developer of the Month: PSfD Consultant Joe Healy

February 17th, 2016

This past January, Premier Developer consultant Joe Healy traveled to Las Vegas along with his team from Tampa, Florida to participate in the 2016 AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon. After 40 brutal hours of work (with no sleep, on his “vacation” time), Joe and his team won the $25,000 grand prize with their home healthcare solution...

Steve St. Jean and Abel Wang talk source control and DevOps on Channel 9

February 11th, 2016

Check out our own Premier Developer consultant Steve St. Jean and former Premier Developer consultant now Technical Solutions Professional Abel Wang chat about source control and DevOps in an interview by DevOps Program Manager Donovan Brown on Channel 9! Great conversation guys! https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevOps-Interviews/...