In this post, Application Development Manager, Chris Mason discusses the challenge of keeping documentation up to date in this fast moving DevOps world.  In addition, he spotlights DocFX and writes a build task extension which integrates it into your build pipeline. Overview We talk a lot about DevOps today and it represents a major strateg...

In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Sash Kavalaparambil introduces .NET Core and many of the features that make it a powerhouse for cross platform development scenarios. It has been over 16 years since the first version of .NET framework has been released. In spite of its wide adoption among developer community, todays cloud fi...

In this post, Application Development Managers,  Sheldon Ledbetter and DeWayla White, share a few of their favorite things about TFS 2017. Thinking about moving to Team Foundation Server 2017? Here are just a few highlights regarding improvements to the latest release: One of the first things you’ll notice is the collection page has been i...

In this post, Senior Application Development Consultant, Greg Roe, shares insights from a cloud transformation using Azure Cloud Services and ultimately, Service Fabric. I love helping customer's optimize their Applications using Microsoft technologies such as Azure. In doing so, our team helps customers proactively vet architectural decisio...

In this post, Principal Application Development Manager, Rick Caudle, demonstrates how to use Azure Resource Health API to query the health of Azure services. As a developer, I am always interested ways to gain deeper insight into the health of the resources that my solutions are deployed to, especially if an API is involved!  I mean, what d...

In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Patrick King shares a SSRS tip to help control report item order when it differs from what you may see in VS designer. I recently worked with a customer developing a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report that was rendering in a different order than what appeared in the designer in V...

Orlando Codecamp is “a free, one day learning event for programming professionals and students with a focus on coding, databases and related technologies, concepts and practices.” Join us on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at Seminole State College in Sanford, FL, for Orlando’s 12th annual Codecamp.  Several Microsoft employees will be presenting, ...

In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Nayan Patel, spotlights App Service deployment using Swap with Preview I was recently assisting a customer with an App Service deployment problem in Azure and came across a fairly new feature (Swap with Preview) that addressed the customer need.  App Services offer multiple deployment slo...

In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Davide Zordan, explores the rich set of validation features in Xamarin.Forms. I have recently been investigating the support available in Xamarin.Forms for validation and, in particular, researched the possibility of using INotifyDataErrorInfo to complement the traditional approach of using B...

When you hear the name Microsoft the first thing that comes to mind is probably software, however, in Microsoft Services, it’s as much about people as anything else.  We have a worldwide services organization engaged with customers and partners to help them get the most out of our technology.  Premier Support for Developers is just one many global ...