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Leveraging Native UI in Apache Cordova Apps Using Project Ace
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 their web skills (JS, CSS, and HTML) to develop once and deploy a native shell everywhere that hosts a WebView. The Need for Native UI Whereas Apache Cordova resonates a lot with teams that utilize their web skills to build Cross Platform Mobile Development, there are many...
Qualcomm Developer of the Month: PSfD Consultant Joe Healy
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 KineticCare. In recognition of this amazing achievement, Qualcomm has featured Joe and his teammates as their Developer of the Month for February! Congratulations to you and the team Joe! We are proud to have you as part of the Premier Developer family and we are l...
Steve St. Jean and Abel Wang talk source control and DevOps on Channel 9
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/Interview-with-Abel-Wang-and-Steven-St-Jean
TaskSchedulers and semaphores
When you write multi-threaded code, it's important to be aware of whether the code in other libraries you call into is also thread-safe. By my observation, most code written is not thread-safe. So if you're writing thread-safe code, kudos to you. But as you'll sometimes need to call non-thread-safe code from your multi-threaded code, this post presents a couple options for doing just that. Writing thread-safe code is not easy. Even if you think you're writing thread-safe code you may even have bugs in it. In fact even in the .NET Framework, most types are not thread-safe on their instance members, but are thre...
On Prem IIS Web Application Deployment using VSTS RM vNext
In his latest blog entry, Premier Developer Consultant Monu Bambroo demonstrates the new Visual Studio Team Services Release Management vNext tool for on premise deployments. Here’s a quick peek at the blog, be sure to click the link at the end for the detailed step-by-step tutorial! Modern Lifecycle Development requires teams to be agile and work with a DevOps mindset. To realize that vision fully, it is paramount to have a robust release pipeline for managing the releases. Release Management vNext is a VSTS service that enables teams to automate the deployment of their applications in different environm...
Microservices and Service Fabric – The Future Architecture?
Rick McGuire, Senior ADM, provides an introduction to Microservices, an increasingly effective architecture to enable agile development with complex systems. Microservices are a hot topic these days as more companies are looking for ways to simplify managing complex enterprise applications. If you are not familiar with microservices, the idea is to break up complex monolithic applications into smaller, functionally cohesive services with loosely coupled interfaces. Each service, on its own, is independent and can be updated and deployed separately. This approach works well if you are practicing Agile as ea...
US Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – January 2016 Update
Premier Support for Developers provides access to a wide range of advisory and training options that include most popular developer technologies. Options range from onsite, instructor-led workshops to remote training, and even access to a distinguished team of Developer Consultants for specialized advisory needs. Content frequently includes proven practices established through the support of Microsoft’s largest customers. Teams struggle to keep up with the latest technology trends, so training and knowledge transfer are important investments to build the expertise required for optimal applicati...
If I Remove or Don’t Use Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10, Can I Avoid Upgrading to Internet Explorer 11?
This week, Premier Developer Consultant Pat Altimore brings us this very timely post on upgrading Internet Explorer. On January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for Windows will be supported. For older OS such as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you will need to upgrade to IE11. Even if you don’t use IE on a PC such as a server, you should upgrade to the latest version of the IE browser. Why Upgrade? There are many components that constitute the browser. Most of the components are part of the operating system including the JavaScript / HTML rendering engi...
Introducing CREST and Graph API
Deepak Malik, Senior ADM, shares an overview of Commerce Rest and Azure AD Graph APIs for Cloud Solution Provider Partners. Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners can improve their experience through API Integration with the Office 365 services provided by Microsoft to monitor, service and manage customers. These API's are categorized based on the usage as CREST (Commerce REST API) and GRAPH (Azure Active Directory Graph API). The CREST API allows you to: The CREST API is intended for programmatic management of customer and subscription life cycle. It is REST based API with no call backs. ...