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Microsoft Graph – Consolidating multiple APIs into one

February 21, 2017 Feb 21, 2017 02/21/17

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Paul King, Senior Application Development Manager, introduces Microsoft Graph API as the unifying endpoint for many APIs (image) As Microsoft’s cloud services has evolved, so have the APIs used to reference them.  When Microsoft first offered cloud services like Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive and others, and API to access that ...

Investing In Improvement

February 17, 2017 Feb 17, 2017 02/17/17

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  In this post, Principal Application Development Manager, Larry Duff asks “How will you identify your normalized deviances and invest in improvement?” (image) I've been following a recent blog about the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy and was struck by a phrase in a recent entry, "normalization of deviance." They were ...

Congratulations Visual Studio on 20 amazing years! Join the VS2017 Launch Event

February 13, 2017 Feb 13, 2017 02/13/17

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If you were developing code back in ‘97, perhaps you remember the mind blowing concept of Microsoft delivering a single IDE that could do it all.  Up to this point, developers were used to juggling debuggers, compilers, linkers, editors, and more to build integrated solutions.  It was a special time to experience development technology ...

Power BI–A case study to end homelessness

February 10, 2017 Feb 10, 2017 02/10/17

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Keith Anderson, Senior ADM, shares a practical example of how Power BI quickly transformed a project using simple, out-of-the-box features to integrate data and provide visualizations. I had the opportunity recently to work with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) on their yearly Youth Point-in-time (PIT) Count event.  ...

The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17

Monu Bambroo

In this post, Senior Consultant, Bradley Ball discusses High Availability for SQL Server. In this latest blog post PSfD Consultant Bradley Ball begins the High Availability Conversation based off of a question on Twitter.  He answers the questions what do the Three Bears have to do with HA planning and the business users and IT management...

Dissecting the new() constraint in C#: a perfect example of a leaky abstraction

February 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 02/1/17

Sergey Tepliakov

Most likely you’ve heard about The Law of Leaky Abstractions coined by Joel Spolsky. Even if you never heard of it, you definitely faced it in your day-to-day job. The “law” is pretty simple: “All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky”. And this is 100% true. But sometimes even not that complicated abstractions can leak...

[Service Fabric] Securing an Azure Service Fabric cluster with Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17

Monu Bambroo

In this post, Senior Consultant, Larry Wall demonstrates how to secure Azure Service Fabric Cluster using Azure Active Directory via the Azure Portal. To make sure appropriate credit is given to a great article on this topic, I did take some of the information for the steps below from this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure...

Transpose Data Based on Repeating Pattern in a Column in Power Query

January 26, 2017 Jan 26, 2017 01/26/17

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Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Reilly, walks us through an approach to transpose data based on repeating patterns in Power Query. (image) You may run into a scenario where you receive data in say a CSV that needs to be transposed (Row become Columns).  If you want to transpose a table it's pretty straight forward in Power ...

HoloLens – How to Create Mixed Reality?

January 24, 2017 Jan 24, 2017 01/24/17

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Rick McGuire, Senior ADM, provides an introduction to mixed reality development with a test drive using HoloLens, Unity, and Visual Studio 2015. With the invention of HoloLens, it is now possible to superimpose a virtual 3D world onto our exiting reality. HoloLens lets you create holograms, virtual objects that appear in the in the same...

ASP.Net Session Swapping – Why it happens and what can be done about it?

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17

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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Sanket Bakshi explains details behind the sometimes perplexing issue of Session Swapping and how to avoid it. (image) Kernel Cache is a powerful and well-known feature introduced in IIS 7 and found in all later versions.  It’s the highly performant server level cache that very ...