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Empower your Cloud development with Microsoft Premier Developer
In this post, Application Development Managers Frank Ellero and Larry Duff, along with Technical Delivery Manager Dan Simmons, spotlight package offerings from Premier Support for Developers to help make your cloud transition a success. The Cloud. The quintessential IT buzzword of the 21st Century. It is a paradigm shift that rivals any we have seen to date within our industry. The Cloud is big and there is a lot to understand. What does the Cloud truly provide? Where should I go to learn about this ever-changing Cloud? Most importantly, how do I use the Cloud to ensure that my Customers, my Business, my Appli...
Coding with My Daughter
When we started the Premier Developer blog, we wanted it to be a reflection of our team, our business, and the things we are passionate about. Unlike many Microsoft blogs that focus on one technology or product, you may notice we cover a lot of ground here. Sometimes post topics are technical in nature, sometimes they are purely business or process focused. Perhaps the most important variables in everything we do: people. Highly productive teams learn how to work well together and the importance of a diverse, respectful workplace will absolutely impact productivity. Technology ...
Introduction to Progressive Web Applications (PWA)
In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh introduces us to the concept of Progressive Web Applications for cross-platform development. It is no secret that we live in a Cloud First/ Mobile First world. Whereas a lot of our customers have come to embrace Azure when it comes to the cloud, the choice of the best mobile development framework still eludes them. The keyword here is “best”. What may be considered best for one team is not necessarily true for another. But there is always one common theme amongst most of our customers and that is the need for a solution that allows them to write once an...
Debugging .NET core with SOS everywhere
Get some insight into debugging .NET code on non-Windows operating systems with this post from Premier Developer consultants Gustavo Varo and Ben Williams. I have been working more and more with .NET Core and one question I keep getting from our customers and partners is about the debugging experience when using operating systems other than Windows. It is not a secret to anyone that Windows has an incredible debugging experience, whether you like to use Visual Studio or you like to script your debugging tasks using WinDbg. But for everyone who is not using Windows, missing those tools is, in my opinion, o...
Options to migrate Classic ASP and VB6 Applications from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012
If you are still running legacy ASP/VB6 solutions and are considering paths to Server 2012, you might want to check out this post. Application Development Manager, Zafar Kapadia shares some options to migrate classic ASP and VB6 applications to Windows Server 2012. Lift and Shift Applications to Windows 2012 Upgrade the Classic ASP site to ASP.NET and VB6 code to VB.NET/C# Re-Write the Application Read more on Zafar’s blog Premier Support for Developers provides strategic technology guidance, critical support coverage, and a range of essential services to help teams optimize development lifecycles ...
Using web.config transforms and Release Manager – TFS 2017/Team Services edition
Senior Application Development Manager, Marcelo Silva, previously posted on Using Web.Config transforms and Release Manager. That post was done on TFS 2015 and using the now “old” architecture of Release Management. This post will follow the same idea of deploying an application to Azure (App Service), but this time using Visual Studio Team Services and its Build/Release system. This can be easily translated to TFS 2017 RTM, the latest TFS version at the time of this writing. I’ll be using an old MVC app (TailspinToys) as an example and will be focusing on the web.config changes only. I’ll check if I can ...
My highly opinionated guide to setting up the best environment for Angular development
This post from Senior Premier Developer Consultant Laurie Atkinson gives you a step-by-step guide to getting started with Angular development. Follow these steps to get up and running with an Angular application including source control, editor tooling, and essential commands. Step 1 – Use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Source Control (NOTE: If this is not available to you, any Git repository will work.) Step 2 – Use Visual Studio Code for editing your code Step 3 – Set up Angular and its dependencies Step 4 – Comm...
Using ADAL with Angular2
In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Vishal Saroopchand, walks us through an example of ADAL with Angular2. The primary goal of this post is to give a high level walkthrough on how to use ADAL (Azure AD Authentication Library) with Angular2. ADAL ships with support for Angular1; however, there are no clear guidance for Angular2 at the time of this post. We will focus on the core ADAL.js library without any other dependencies. Initializing our sample project We will take a simple bare-bone Angular2 starter as our starting point. To get started clone the angular2-seed starter project from...
Authentication options for custom application when accessing data from O365
In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Anant Dimri explains authentication options available to application developers who wish to interact with data in O365. A developer writing applications that interact with SharePoint (SP) data (Lists/Events/Documents, etc.) will be faced with several options to setup authentication. While there are numerous blog and support articles that cover authentication and API methods, they are spread out over multiple product areas and no one solution is right for every scenario. This article attempts to consolidate and list out the options to help a developer...