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Web Test Plug-in for Authentication

April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16
Pam Lahoud
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 8, 2016 Apr 8, 2016 04/8/16
Pam Lahoud
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/...

How Microsoft does DevOps

April 4, 2016 Apr 4, 2016 04/4/16
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In this blog post, Application Development Manager, Justin Wendlandt, shares a bit about DevOps strategy, why it’s important, and common areas Premier Developer can help your teams.   One of the core focuses at every enterprise or technology organization is how to deliver more business value to their sponsors. It may be ...

Workflow Manager 1.0 Refresh Disaster Recovery (further) Explained

March 15, 2016 Mar 15, 2016 03/15/16
Pam Lahoud
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 ...

Strategic Partnerships in an Agile World

March 11, 2016 Mar 11, 2016 03/11/16
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Bryan Towne, Sr. Application Development Manager, discusses the advantages of strategic partnership in this fast moving technical landscape.  You should expect more.  Here’s why. (image) What is a strategic partner? In the course of my professional career I have had interactions with customers of all types.  Some were small, ...

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

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Pam Lahoud
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 ...

Microsoft Embracing Open Source

March 4, 2016 Mar 4, 2016 03/4/16
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(image) Senior ADM, Brian Keyes spotlights the momentum of Microsoft embracing Open Source software and recommends you to take a moment to peruse the official Microsoft GitHub collection of  repositories.  As of today there are 21 pages of repositories.  Roughly 400 projects.  Included are the source code for the Edge JavaScript engine...

Changing user password in Azure AD using GraphAPI

March 3, 2016 Mar 3, 2016 03/3/16
Pam Lahoud
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 18, 2016 Feb 18, 2016 02/18/16
Pam Lahoud
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 ...