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Closing the gap between TFS and Scrum
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Alexei Govorine who covers the use of scrum with TFS and spotlights TFS Version Control, Dashboards, and Markdown.IntroductionScrum is one of the most used agile frameworks that helps people address complex problems while delivering products of the highest possible value. For additional information on what Scrum is all about, see the Scrum Guide.Team Foundation Server (TFS) or its online version, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), are ALM tools created by Microsoft. TFS provides source code management, reporting, requirements management, project management, build ...
An overview of SSDT
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Fadi Andari who provides some history around Data Tools and a practical walk-through of SSDT.I am the first to admit that the SQL Server/Visual Studio relation has been very confusing for the past few years especially when it comes to Data Tools and Source Control. In this post, I will focus on the tools while leaving Source Control, Continues Integration, and deployment to future posts.The first emergence of SQL Server Data Tools was during the release of Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The tool was called "Business Intelligence Developer Studio” (BIDS), w...
Delighting students with Microsoft Hour of Code and Minecraft
This post is provided by Senior ADM, Cissy Ho, who spotlights an “Hour of Code” to inspire others through technology and shares information on how you can too.As a part of working in Premier Developers and Microsoft Canada, I am honored to share my technology expertise with Enterprise developers, and even broader communities with students and young in-college settings.Last November I taught an "Hour of Code" in two schools and coded Minecraft tutorials in 3 classes.My goals were to bring awareness that "Coding can be a part of Everything we do". I have related to the students how coding is all about s...
What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t in the full .NET Framework?
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Managers, Keith Beller and John Abele who ask the question, “What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t do in the full .NET Framework?” Microsoft’s mission to empower every individual and organization is manifested in .NET Core, the most transformative .NET framework ever. Rebuilt from the ground up, .NET Core is tailor-made for modern development workloads such as cloud apps, microservices and containers. The philosophy behind the framework is also to extend the reach of Microsoft development technologies beyond traditional boundaries and offer an unprecedented level o...
HoloLens Animations
This post is provided by App Dev Manager, Robert Schumann who explores the process of creating and animating avatars with HoloLens. HoloLens Ambitious Beginnings My first application on HoloLens involved animating a Marine Corps squad to do PT. Using voice commands, avatars would do sit-ups, push-ups, burpees, jumping jacks, etc. That was a year ago and a brutally naïve, overly ambitious learning curve to overcome. Since then HoloLens has its first “birthday”, seen huge interest and growth, and countless tutorials created. But few tutorials exist that provide straight-forward guidance about building anima...
Premier ITSM Testing Services: Anatomy of a Lab Engagement (Part 2)
Sanjeev Gogna and Charles Ofori, Senior Application Development Managers, discuss the importance of testing and spotlight the resources available to our customers as part of a testing engagement. This is the second of a three part series to discuss the importance of testing and spotlight the resources available through Premier Support and our IT Support Management (ITSM) team. In the first blog post we introduced the features of Premier testing services. In this blog, we will focus on the stages of such a lab engagement – planning, execution and post lab activities. PlanningThis phase will typically last a month ...
Enabling Drive Sharing with Docker for Windows
In this blog post, Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh shows how to enable drive sharing with Docker for Windows. During Build 2017 the Asp.Net team shared with the world some cool features that Visual Studio 2017 has to offer in terms of Docker support. Naturally I was excited to start coding and trying some of these new features. Like any sane developer I decided to start with a hello world application as from humble beginnings come great things. I started by creating an Asp.Net Core application targeting .Net Core as I wanted to target a Linux container to try the cross-platform capabilities of Asp....
New Innovations for SharePoint Developers
This post is provided by Senior App Dev Manager, Ed Tovsen who highlights some of the new innovations available for SharePoint developers. SharePoint development has evolved over the years since its initial release in 2001. Customization options have varied from fully trusted code, to sand-boxed solutions, to add-ins. With each new option, Microsoft has intended to simplify and control how customers customize their SharePoint environments. This past year Microsoft has continued innovating and introduced some new services and frameworks to expedite the customization of SharePoint environments. Two of the ne...
Getting the most out of your Premier Support for Developers Contract
In this post, Application Development Manager, Deepa Chandramouli shared some tips on getting the most of your Premier Support for Developers contract. Microsoft Premier Support manages the highest tier support programs from Microsoft. Premier Support for Developers (PSfD) empowers developers and enterprises to plan, build, deploy and maintain high quality solutions. When you purchase a Premier Support for Developers contract from Microsoft, an Application Development Manager(ADM) is assigned. He or she will guide you to use the contract in an efficient way that will benefit your developers and the business. ...