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Should I Use Visual Studio 2017 or VS Code For My Next Angular Application?

October 19, 2017 Oct 19, 2017 10/19/17
Pam Lahoud
This post on using Visual Studio to develop Angular applications comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh. I engage with a lot of our customers that work on Angular applications and I frequently get asked the following question: Should we use Visual Studio 2017 or VS Code for our next application? The short answer is ...

SQL Server 2016 Express SP1 – Always Encrypted

October 18, 2017 Oct 18, 2017 10/18/17
Developer Support
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Chris Tjoumas who provides an overview of Always Encrypted with SQL Server 2016. Introduction In this post, I want to focus on the Always Encrypted security feature of SQL Server 2016 SP1, specifically with the Express edition. This post is motivated by a customer who was hoping to ...

Jump Start ASP.NET Core Application on Nano Server

October 17, 2017 Oct 17, 2017 10/17/17
Developer Support
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Linkai Yu who shares some tips to speed up ASP.NET Core Application dev on Nano Server.With the Nano server release from Windows 2016 Server, I’m excited to see the new application deployment practice to work with the thin and fast OS.If you are new to ASP.NET Core application deployment on ...

Dissecting the pattern matching in C# 7

October 16, 2017 Oct 16, 2017 10/16/17
Sergey Tepliakov
C# 7 finally introduced a long-awaited feature called "pattern matching". If you're familiar with functional languages like F# you may be slightly disappointed with this feature in its current state, but even today it can simplify your code in a variety of different scenarios. Every new feature is fraught with danger for a developer working...

TFVC Source Code Control in Visual Studio Code

October 12, 2017 Oct 12, 2017 10/12/17
Pam Lahoud
In this post, Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh demonstrates how to integrate Visual Studio Code with your source control environment using Team Foundation Version Control. In this post I will be walking you through the Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) support within Visual Studio Code. I will assume that you are running on ...

The Forgotten Roles in an Agile Transformation

October 9, 2017 Oct 9, 2017 10/9/17
Developer Support
This post is provided by App Dev Manager Tuan Nguyen who spotlights the importance of Agile roles and contributions across the business.Most of the organizations I have been involved with that adopted Agile tend to treat non-developers as an afterthought. This is not surprising as Agile is usually driven by the IT department but it can be ...

Using ADAL with Angular2–Part 2

October 8, 2017 Oct 8, 2017 10/8/17
Developer Support
In this post,  Senior Application Development Manager, Vishal Saroopchand who follows up his first post to demonstrate how to pass and revalidate the JWT token. In my last blog posting, I explained how to use Adaj.js with Angular2 and demonstrated how to retrieve the JWT token from AAD. I also stated you can supply the JWT to your back...

Getting the most from your Premier Contract

October 7, 2017 Oct 7, 2017 10/7/17
Developer Support
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Mark Meadows who shares some tips on getting the most from your Premier Support for Developers contract.A Microsoft premier contract can be a very valuable asset to you and your company.  You not only get access to a wealth of reactive and proactive engineers and services, but an advocate ...