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Working in Microsoft Services – Development and Modern Apps

March 27, 2017 Mar 27, 2017 03/27/17
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When you hear the name Microsoft the first thing that comes to mind is probably software, however, in Microsoft Services, it’s as much about people as anything else.  We have a worldwide services organization engaged with customers and partners to help them get the most out of our technology.  Premier Support for Developers is just one ...

Agile – Not just for Developers

March 25, 2017 Mar 25, 2017 03/25/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Shanks, highlights some of the challenges with Agile transformation beyond development teams and spotlights how our team can help. (image) As an Application Development Manager (ADM), I’ve have the opportunity to work with teams at varying stages of their Agile transformation. For the sake of...

The Fourth User Interface: How Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality will change your world

March 25, 2017 Mar 25, 2017 03/25/17
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It’s no secret that our team is pretty excited about the possibilities of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in the hands of innovative developers.  Our Practice Leader, Jeremy Rule, recently featured this post on the Premier Developer blog.  The conversation continues this month on the Taste of Premier Podcast discussing the next ...

Getting Started with Azure Data Lake

March 24, 2017 Mar 24, 2017 03/24/17
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Application Development Manager, Jason Venema, takes a plunge into Azure Data Lake, Microsoft’s hyperscale repository for big data analytic workloads in the cloud.  Data Lake makes it easy to store data of any size, shape, and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. I’m not a data guy. ...

Entity Framework Query Caching

March 23, 2017 Mar 23, 2017 03/23/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Deepak Malik, explains the Query caching behavior, performance implications, and extensibility provided in the latest release of Entity Framework Caching entities or query results has been a recommended practice for application development to improve an application's performance especially in data ...

OWIN and WS-Federation with CA Siteminder

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Pam Lahoud
Check out this blog from Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon for information on how to integrate ASP.NET applications with CA Siteminder. A customer was having a problem integrating an ASP.NET application with CA Siteminder v12.52. Firstly, there was a problem with using SAML2.0 token formats. To get around that, we reconfigured SM to...

Why Enterprises are Moving to Xamarin for Mobile App Development

March 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017 03/21/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Mike Finley, spotlights why more and more enterprises are choosing Xamarin to answer the demands of mobile development. With most mobile users on Android, Apple and Windows phones, companies are facing challenges of supporting their applications on multiple platforms. Microsoft acquired its ...

Visual Studio 2017 Install Screenshots

March 15, 2017 Mar 15, 2017 03/15/17
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Building on the momentum of the Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event, many of you will be installing the latest drop of our tools.  If you would like to get a peek of the install experience before jumping in, Application Development Manager Al Mata shared a few screen shots and notes from his install experience.  Check out his blog here. (...

Visual Studio 2017 Launch Recap

March 15, 2017 Mar 15, 2017 03/15/17
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If you missed the Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event last week, Senior Application Development Manager, Russ Clark, shared an event recap you may find helpful. Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017! Here is a quick roundup of information that was announced: (image) Launch Event Blogs...