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Dissecting the code: yet another programmer’s blog

December 20, 2016 Dec 20, 2016 12/20/16

Sergey Tepliakov

Hi everyone. My name is Sergey Tepliakov; I’m Senior Software Engineer at TSE(*) team at Microsoft. At my day-to-day job I’m working on a next-gen build engine with tons of very useful capabilities. But don’t worry, I’m not going to dig into this topic. At least for now:) Before joining Microsoft 2 years ago, I’ve been a Microsoft C...

How to Import Related Data into Dynamics 365

December 19, 2016 Dec 19, 2016 12/19/16

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In this post, Senior ADM Justin Scott walks us through how to maintain entity/table relationships when importing data into Dynamics 365. A recent project I was on involved bringing over customer and contact information from another proprietary CRM application. Being newer to the Dynamics platform, one challenge was to figure out how to ...

Rollback tests with TFS/VSTS

December 19, 2016 Dec 19, 2016 12/19/16

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In this post, Premier ADM Mike Lapierre covers techniques to rollback bulk editing changes with TFS test cases. I was assisting a customer recently who was working on many TFS test cases, using Excel for bulk editing.  The Excel integration is great for editing regular fields but it can’t handle HTML fields like the description or the ...

Amazon Alexa Skills Development with Azure Active Directory and ASP.NET Core 1.0 Web API

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16

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In this post, Premier ADM, Rob Reilly, walks us through building Alexa Skills using Azure AD and ASP.NET Core Web API. Background (image) Amazon Alexa is a technology developed by Amazon that takes voice commands, interprets them, and then takes action by sending requests on to API’s to perform a multitude of tasks only limited by ...

One less click to download with Edge

December 8, 2016 Dec 8, 2016 12/8/16

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This timesaver is shared by Premier ADM, Billy Sun with a simple tweak that can save you a few extra clicks downloading content with Edge. Ever since the release of Windows 10 and Spartan beta in early 2015, Edge has always been the default browser for the new OS. Unless you change the default manually, everything that would trigger the ...

Migrating SQL Workloads? Check out Database Experimentation Assistant

November 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016 11/30/16

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Considering the impact of a SQL upgrade? In this post, Application Development Manager Omer Amin spotlights Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA).  Customers who are upgrading from previous SQL server versions (starting 2005 and above) to any new version of the SQL server will be able to use analysis metrics to help them build higher ...

Technical Debt: A change in perspective

November 21, 2016 Nov 21, 2016 11/21/16

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In a recent post from his blog, Premier ADM Shawn Gaul puts a metaphorical spin on Technical Debt with Steve St. Jean and Marty Donovan.   (image) This series demonstrates how a metaphor can be used to change the way you look at this problem and thereby help to understand ways to overcome it. With that change in perspective, we’...

US Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – Nov/Dec 2016 Update

November 14, 2016 Nov 14, 2016 11/14/16

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Teams struggle to keep up with the latest technology trends, so training and knowledge transfer are important investments to build the expertise required for optimal application and infrastructure.  It’s a great way to proactively stay in front of technical gaps that can manifest in the form of implementation delays, architectural problems...

How to work around an issue with VSTS build agents for the Mac, when building Xamarin Forms apps for iOS

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16

Monu Bambroo

In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard shows how to work around a potential issue you might run into when building a Xamarin Forms app for iOS on your Mac. Heads up if you’re running VSTS build agent on a Mac for Xamarin.Forms iOS projects. You may see this error message from the NuGet package restore step...

Easily deploy SonarQube Server in Azure

October 31, 2016 Oct 31, 2016 10/31/16

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(image) The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are a great asset to the VS ALM community, providing important guidance and sharing knowledge from real world experience.  Premier Developer’s own Kevin Mack and Steve St. Jean team up with the Rangers to spotlight SonarQube integration and deployment with Azure. Technical Debt is a growing problem for...