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Exploring DataTable and SqlDBAdapter in ASP.NET Core 2.0
This post comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Joe Healy. .NET Core 2.0 Preview was released May 2017. Great timing as one of my customers was inquiring re DataTable and SqlDBADapter support in ASP.NET Core. Instructions to wire it up are below. Read the rest on Joe’s blog here.
A Smart Way to Host Your Training Labs
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 knowledge transfer sessions that cover both development technologies and processes. The educational sessions we run for our customers empower developers, help increase their expertise, and accelerate time to market while minimizing risks across various stages of the software devel...
Experiments with HoloLens, Bot Framework, LUIS and Speech Recognition
In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Davide Zordan, walks us through a POC using HoloLens, Bot Framework, LUIS and Speech Recognition. Recently I had the opportunity to use a HoloLens device for some personal training and building some simple demos. One of the scenarios that I find very intriguing is the possibility of integrating Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to create immersive experiences for the user. I decided to perform an experiment by integrating a Bot, Language Understanding Intelligent Services (LUIS), Speech Recognition and Mixed Reality via a Hol...
Finding that Perfect Home: Web App Hosting in the Azure Cloud
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 each. In this post, we’ll fly over some of the more popular hosting options shown below in Figure 1. Note that as we move from left to right, we focus more of our effort on the application platform, letting Microsoft manage the underlying infrastructure concerns. Read the rest on Ro...
Defining ASP.NET Core Controller action constraint to match the correct action
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
In this post, Application Development Manager, Marcus Fernandez, covers using existing Azure templates with the Azure Government cloud. 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. The old saying don’t reinvent the wheel. The challenge my current project faced was deploying these quickstarts to Azure Government as they are currently tailored for the Commercial cloud. In this post I’ll walk you through publishing these resources to Azure Government. Contin...
Exam prep for Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, 70-534
In this post, App Dev Manager, Omer Amin talks about preparing for the Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Exam. 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 returned 227,000 search results for “Azure 70-534 certification”. With all these different resources, where’s a good place to start? Continue reading on Omer’s blog While Premier Support for Developers participates in the the Microsoft Certified Professional program and periodicall...
DevOps for GIS
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 why the field of GIS needs DevOps and how GIS professionals can benefit from adopting DevOps just like any other technology field. Read Ron’s full article on Linked In.
Should you obfuscate your Xamarin app?
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 enough they can use decompilers and hard work to get it, even if you obfuscate. The only way to completely protect it is to put any code that is critically important to your business, your “secret sauce”, on a secure server and access it via APIs. The first question is whethe...