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A Smart Way to Host Your Training Labs

June 8, 2017 Jun 8, 2017 06/8/17
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In this post, Application Development Manager, Wesam Darwish walks us through how to leverage Azure DevTest – a cost effective, consistent, and streamlined way for quickly deploying a virtual training lab in your environment. At Microsoft Premier Support for Developers, we provide a variety of training options and a wide range of ...

Finding that Perfect Home: Web App Hosting in the Azure Cloud

June 7, 2017 Jun 7, 2017 06/7/17
Pam Lahoud
This post is from Premier Developer consultant Rob Vettor. After months of late nights and more pizza than you want to remember, it’s time to deploy your brand-new web application to production. The good news is… you’ve got choices – lots of choices! However, making the right decision requires that you have a good understanding of ...

Defining ASP.NET Core Controller action constraint to match the correct action

June 5, 2017 Jun 5, 2017 06/5/17
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When developing Web Api controllers many times we have situations where we need to define similar arguments in different methods. For example, a controller that has 2 methods that query users either by last name or date of birth. The name of the method is different but they both will receive a single argument of type string. When the routing engine can’t determine which action method it should call, a status code of 500 is returned.

Deploy Azure Quickstarts to Azure Government

June 3, 2017 Jun 3, 2017 06/3/17
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In this post, Application Development Manager, Marcus Fernandez, covers using existing Azure templates with the Azure Government cloud. (image) Some great resources have been developed by the ALM Rangers, MVPs, and Microsoft Product Groups around Azure Quickstarts. Great place to get started should you need a pre-baked infrastructure. ...

Exam prep for Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, 70-534

June 2, 2017 Jun 2, 2017 06/2/17
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In this post, App Dev Manager, Omer Amin talks about preparing for the Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Exam. (image) So you are thinking about taking the 534 exam, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions. There are plenty of exam prep resources and courses out there from Udemy\Pluralsight courses, books, guides, etc. Search ...

DevOps for GIS

June 1, 2017 Jun 1, 2017 06/1/17
Pam Lahoud
This article is from Premier Developer consultant Ron Vincent. DevOps is more and more becoming mainstream. We are seeing it being broadly adopted across all industries and technology fields. We are also seeing the technology field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) adopt DevOps but not as quickly as it could. This article will address ...

Should you obfuscate your Xamarin app?

May 30, 2017 May 30, 2017 05/30/17
Pam Lahoud
This blog on securing your source code is from Premier Developer consultant Bill Reiss. I saw a question recently about how to protect code in a Xamarin app package. I feel the first question is whether you need to, and not how to do it. The reality is that you can never completely protect your app code, and if someone wants your code bad ...