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Updating Windows Form UI elements from another thread

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17
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This post is from App Dev Manager, Omer Amin who covers how to update Windows Form UI elements using worker threads.(image) In a typical Windows Forms .NET application, the UI elements are created and updated by the main thread. This thread is also responsible for processing Windows messages. For this reason, it is recommended to keep message ...

How to Set Up Multi-Level Hierarchies in VSTS

August 3, 2017 Aug 3, 2017 08/3/17
Pam Lahoud
In another awesome post about Visual Studio Team Services, Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone talks about customizing VSTS by creating a multi-level hierarchy.BackgroundBoth VSTS (Team Services) and TFS (Team Foundation Server) have a set organizational hierarchy. An individual developer belongs to a team. A project (also called Team ...

Cross-Account Package Management for NuGet in VSTS

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17
Pam Lahoud
Here is yet another awesome post from Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone!In the following post, we will look at the difficulties in consuming packages from a different VSTS account, as part of a build process in our own account.BackgroundVisual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers package management services. As per the documentation, this...

Scaling Scrum with Nexus in VSTS

July 24, 2017 Jul 24, 2017 07/24/17
Pam Lahoud
This post is from Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone.In this post, I will cover what Scrum Nexus is, where, when, and why you would want to use it, and how to set up VSTS best to accommodate your Scrum practices. As VSTS’s tooling is not yet perfect for some of Nexus’s practices, I will discuss some viable fallbacks and workarounds....

How to Track Impediments in VSTS

July 19, 2017 Jul 19, 2017 07/19/17
Pam Lahoud
This post is from Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone.Note: While this post discusses impediments in VSTS, everything mentioned can be applied to TFS as well.Visual Studio Team Services (or VSTS) has great tools to support Scrum teams. The product owner can use the backlog and board to track the progress of individual teams or the entire ...

Use of AOP in Cross Cutting Aspect of Error Handling

July 17, 2017 Jul 17, 2017 07/17/17
Pam Lahoud
This post comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Crystal Tenn.Cross Cutting Concerns are global concerns that span across methods, classes, applications—and can be concerns widely affecting a whole company or industry. Think of patient records or a financial history, and things always needed in those industries and how it affects each...

Debugging Windows Applications with DebugDiag Workshop

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
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This post is provided by Senior ADM, Jason Giordano, who spotlights our DebugDiag workshop available to Premier Support customers. (image) If you have ever engaged Microsoft to assist with an application hang or crash, chances are, DebugDiag was used at some point.  While there are many tools out there to capture exceptions, crash ...

Inspiration from the Microsoft Ability Summit 2017

July 13, 2017 Jul 13, 2017 07/13/17
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This post is from Senior ADMs, Bill Bevan and Joseph Flanigen, who discuss incorporating accessibility into the product lifecycle in a sustainable way, including business and design requirements, leadership roles and responsibilities, design vs. remediation projects, and assessing legal risk.For the seventh year, Microsoft has hosted an ...

Getting Started with Java on Azure

July 12, 2017 Jul 12, 2017 07/12/17
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This post is provided by App Dev Managers, Derrick Sharpe and Andrea Martini, who spotlight the use of Java on Windows Azure.Many people are surprised to hear that running Java on Microsoft Azure is even possible, but there are many large, Java-based production applications running in the Microsoft Cloud. Azure provides numerous resources just...