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Automating Releases to Separate Azure Resource Groups using both TFS and VSTS

June 6, 2018 Jun 6, 2018 06/6/18

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This post is written collaboratively by Premier Developer Consultants Ilias Jennane and Daisy Chaussee along with App Dev Manager Wyn Lewis-Bevan. Read on to learn how to build a solution in TFS, release it in VSTS, and automate the deployments to separate Azure Resource Groups. Business Case: One of our customers recently challenged us ...

Enterprise Deployment of an Internal Load Balancer with an App Service Environment v2

June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18

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App Dev Manager Mariusz Kolodziej kicks off this multi-part series covering the deployment of an Internal Load Balancer with an App Services Environment via ARM templates and PowerShell.Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is becoming the norm for deploying all resources (IaaS and PaaS) in the Cloud. This post is part 1 of 7 of a miniseries which will...

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 4 – Azure IoT Hub

June 4, 2018 Jun 4, 2018 06/4/18

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In the fourth post of his series, Premier Developer Consultant Steve St Jean expands on how Azure IoT helped him buy a new home. He goes into detail about how to configure within the Azure IoT Hub. In the first part of this series, I described the problem I was having, my hypothesis as to the source of the issue, and the steps I would take ...

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 3 – ESP8266 Code

June 1, 2018 Jun 1, 2018 06/1/18

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In the third post of his series, Premier Developer Consultant Steve St Jean expands on how Azure IoT helped him buy a new home. He goes into detail about writing the code for the sensor rig to send telemetry data to Azure IoT Hub. In the first part of this series, I described the problem I was having, my hypothesis as to the source of the ...

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 2 – Electronics

May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 05/29/18

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In the second post of his series, Premier Developer Consultant Steve St Jean expands on how Azure IoT helped him buy a new home. He goes into detail about developing the IoT sensor rig. In the first part of this series, I described the problem I was having, my hypothesis as to the source of the issue, and the steps I would take to test my ...

Integrating Angular Unit Tests With Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Using Headless Chrome and Puppeteer

May 28, 2018 May 28, 2018 05/28/18

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In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh expands on a previous post and demonstrates how you can run unit tests using headless Chrome and utilize Puppeteer to install Chrome on your CI server. In a previous post, I showed you how to Integrate Angular Unit Tests with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Whereas it ...

Cloud Simplified: A practical webcast to demystify Azure features

May 28, 2018 May 28, 2018 05/28/18

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This post is provided by Ryan Berry, a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) at Microsoft.  In many of our strategic accounts, CSAs play a key role in the success of customers making a transition to the cloud and work closely with your Microsoft account team and App Dev Manager.(image) The cloud is becoming increasingly important to business-...

Running .NET Core 2.0 applications in a Linux Service Fabric Cluster on Azure

May 27, 2018 May 27, 2018 05/27/18

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In this post, Senior App. Dev. Managers Guru Satish Piduru and Mahendar Madhavaram explain how to deploy .NET Core 2.0 applications to a Linux Service Fabric Cluster.The support for running .NET Core 2.0 applications in Service Fabric Cluster (SFC) environment on Linux is in preview mode today and general availability in the coming months. ...

Spotlight on Industry Experiences

May 26, 2018 May 26, 2018 05/26/18

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This post is provided by Marty Donovan, Senior Program Manager for Industry Experiences. The Industry Experiences team (as part of Scott Guthrie’s organization) delivers industry technical documentation and experiences to customers including use cases, solutions guides and hands-on architectural design reviews.   Our goal is to help ...

Using AI and Bots as an underpinning for modern UI

May 25, 2018 May 25, 2018 05/25/18

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In this post, Consultant/App. Dev. Manager Timothy Baillis explains how AI and Bots can improve modern UI designs.It has been said that every great developer is inherently lazy- or at least inspired by boring or repetitive tasks. The idea that you can code a program to automate a task or overcome an obstacle is a powerful incentive to create. ...