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Are You Embracing Open Source?

November 25, 2015 Nov 25, 2015 11/25/15
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Rich Maines, Senior ADM, and Jeremy Rule, Services Practice Leader, share an important message about how Open Source is shaping our industry. Microsoft is.(image) At the last BUILD conference, Satya Nadella famously stood in front of “Microsoft ♥ Linux” and spoke to the work Microsoft had done to with Linux in the Azure public ...

Using OAuth2 with SOAP

November 20, 2015 Nov 20, 2015 11/20/15
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Premier Development Consultant Marius Rochon explores the combination of Universal App Platform (UAP) with SOAP using OAuth2 protocol for authentication. One possible application of this approach might be migrating from WCF to REST and/or needing to mix REST and SOAP services. Although the sample uses a UWP client, the same code would apply to...

Visual Studio 2015 ALM VMs and Hands-On Labs Available

November 12, 2015 Nov 12, 2015 11/12/15
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(image) If you looking to familiarize yourself with all the great new functionality in our 2015 ALM toolset, here’s an easy way to get started.  Check out the Visual Studio ALM VM 2015 (including both Visual Studio 2015 and Team Foundation Server 2015) along with many popular demo scripts. Don’t want to download the giant VM?  Check ...

Announcing Red Hat on Microsoft Azure

November 4, 2015 Nov 4, 2015 11/4/15
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(image) As a key component of today’s announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to address common enterprise,  ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on...

Team Foundation Server 2015 upgrade planning

October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15
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The Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management blog is a great resource to help you stay informed of current announcements and guidance material. If you are in the process of planning your move to Team Foundation Server 2015, be sure and reach out to your ADM who can help with training, guidance, and support throughout the effort to ensure ...

Install Android SDKs using Powershell

October 12, 2015 Oct 12, 2015 10/12/15
Andrew Arnott
The Android SDK Manager requires a GUI and tedious searching for the SDKs that you want to install. There is a command line android.bat script that lets you install and uninstall these without the GUI but it's based on an ordinal index for each SDK so you have to run the script once, note the index(es) of the SDKs you want to install, then ...

Great Article on Understanding DevOps

October 9, 2015 Oct 9, 2015 10/9/15
Pam Lahoud
Cross posted by Premier Developer Consultant Geoff Gray. We wanted to cross-post an article from Linked-In that does a great job of talking about what DevOps means. The author explains how DevOps is often misunderstood and explains a few key points that companies need to start understanding if they want their IT departments to start becoming ...

Why should diversity matter to Developers?

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15
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David S. Lipien, a Director in Microsoft’s Premier Services, collaborated with Stephen Barnes and Katie Konow to highlight the value of team diversity in application development.  They are all part of the Enterprise Services Business, enabling clients to leverage IT for business success in the cloud and on the ground.   Do you ...

Dissecting the Visual Studio Load Test Results Database (Part 1–Intro to the Schema)

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
Pam Lahoud
Premier Developer Consultant Geoff Gray comes to us this week with the first post in a new series from his awesome ‘Testing the Testing Strategy’ blog.  This series will focus on the structure of the Visual Studio Load Test results database and how you can derive insight on the performance of your application from this valuable data ...

Tasks are (still) not threads and async is not parallel

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15
Pam Lahoud
Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams recently had the honor of having one of his blog posts reposted to Wintellect’s Dev Center as a guest post.  Here’s a blurb from that post, be sure to head over to Ben’s blog to check out the full technical deep-dive and download his sample WPF application. I talk to a lot of developers who...