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Converting PCL (Portable Class Libraries) to .NET Standard Class Libraries – Part 3

January 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018 01/10/18
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In Part 3 of this 3 part series, App Dev Manager, Herald Gjura describes how to incorporate these libraries into an existing .NET application.In Part 1 and 2 of this blog series I described how to migrate your old PCL libraries into the .NET Standard ones, and how to change you build and release pipeline for a successful NuGet deployment. In ...

Async Main() is available, but hidden

January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18
Pam Lahoud
Check out this quick tip on unlocking the new features of C# 7.1 from Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams.Ever try to use async/await in your Main method of a .NET app? You couldn’t before, but now you can. I just posted a quick tip about enabling this by turning on C# 7.1 features in Visual Studio (they are not enabled by default). ...

[Service Fabric] How to troubleshoot deployment errors in Service Fabric Windows cluster

January 8, 2018 Jan 8, 2018 01/8/18
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Having issues deploying your service to your Service Fabric cluster?  Check out this post from Premier Developer consultant Julien Oudot on troubleshooting deployment issues in Service Fabric. The Service Fabric explorer is a great interface to control the cluster health and configuration. However, I recently worked with customers who ...

Visual Studio App Center

January 5, 2018 Jan 5, 2018 01/5/18
Pam Lahoud
This overview of Visual Studio App Center comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Sana Noorani. One of Microsoft’s newest offerings, the Visual Studio App Center, is a tool for streamlining the DevOps pipeline for mobile development. The product is an updated version of its previous product, Mobile Center, and has many more features...

Get Excited About Microsoft Flow

January 4, 2018 Jan 4, 2018 01/4/18
Pam Lahoud
Need to set up a workflow between applications or services but don’t know where to start?  Check out this post about Microsoft Flow from Premier Developer consultant Daisy Chaussee to learn how to make services talk to each other without even writing one line of code!Microsoft Flow creates automated workflows between apps and services. ...

Application Insights Debug Snapshot issue “Unexpected error has occurred”

December 22, 2017 Dec 22, 2017 12/22/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on the Debug Snapshot feature of Application Insights comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Adel Ghabboun. A couple of days ago, I encountered an ambiguous issue while trying to open the debug snapshot feature in Application Insights following Debug snapshots on exceptions in .NET apps. The error was “Unexpected ...

Code Reviews and fishing

December 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017 12/20/17
Pam Lahoud
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard discussed the human side of code reviews…Years ago, before I joined Microsoft, a team at one of the companies I worked for decided to start doing code reviews. This was back before modern IDEs that would show you side by side code comparisons with color highlighting of...

PowerAppsPuzzle: @ vs # == Cryptic Error

December 18, 2017 Dec 18, 2017 12/18/17
Pam Lahoud
In today’s post, Premier Developer consultant Brian Gregor is back with another installment in his PowerAppsPuzzle series!Hey folks!  We are back with another PowerAppsPuzzle this week. This time we are trying to track down the source of a very cryptic error message. I am working on a solution for a PowerApp that integrates with ...

Alternative way to protect your Application Insights “Instrumentation Key” in JavaScript

December 14, 2017 Dec 14, 2017 12/14/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on Application Insights and protecting your instrumentation key comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Adel Ghabboun. Application Insights instrumentation key can be used in both Server and client side. Using the instrumentation key in the server side is secured and no one can see it. The opposite happens on the client ...