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.NET Lifecycle, Roadmap, and Announcements

July 27, 2015 Jul 27, 2015 07/27/15
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In this post, Application Developer Managers, Joe Irizarry and Reed Robison provide an update on .NET – spanning new announcements, roadmap updates, and important support lifecycle changes. With the release of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 last week, it might be a good time to review upcoming support lifecycle changes as ...

US Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – July / August 2015

July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15
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Premier Support for Developers provides access to a wide range of advisory and training options that include most popular developer technologies.  Options range from onsite, instructor-led workshops to remote training, and even access to a distinguished team of Developer Consultants for specialized advisory needs.  Content frequently...

Visual Studio 2015 RTM and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released!

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
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(image) Today, we are happy to announce availability of Visual Studio 2013/TFS 2013 Update 5 and the release of Visual Studio 2015 RTM. This Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Visual Studio 2015 includes many new features and updates, such as tools for Universal Windows app development, cross-platform mobile development for iOS, Android, ...

Protect Your Enterprise with the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

July 17, 2015 Jul 17, 2015 07/17/15
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The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help organizations with their defense in depth strategies against cyber attacks, by helping detect and block exploitation techniques that are commonly used to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities. Tune in as Lex Thomas and Kurt Falde dive into the EMET and showcase its ...

Simplify Migration to the Cloud with RAP as a Service

June 29, 2015 Jun 29, 2015 06/29/15
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In this blog post, Application Development Manager, Lalit Patel, shares some examples of working with Premier to minimize risk and validate environments using RAP as a Service. (image) Migrating workloads to the Microsoft Cloud (Azure) provides many benefits for our customers. It is also a paradigm shift in how to approach capacity ...

Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – June 2015

June 8, 2015 Jun 8, 2015 06/8/15
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Premier Support for Developers provides access to a wide range of advisory and training options that include most popular developer technologies.  Options range from onsite, instructor-led workshops to remote training, and even access to a distinguished team of Developer Consultants for specialized advisory needs.  Content frequently...

Universal App Development and IoT Training – Now Available

May 26, 2015 May 26, 2015 05/26/15
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  Windows Universal App Development (Workshop and Briefing) We hope you’ve been able to watch some of the Build and Ignite sessions over the last few weeks. If the content on Windows 10 piqued your interest, Premier Developer has training materials available. Now you can build one app that runs on all Windows devices and design your ...

Unit Testing OData Web API/Entity Framework Applications

May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 05/15/15
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In this blog post, senior Premier Developer consultant Monu Bambroo demonstrates how to easily unit test an OData based Web API service which is consuming data from SQL DB using Entity Framework. The goal is to write unit tests which stub out the actual DB calls. We will make use of faking the DB Context and using a common DI pattern of construction injection. The result is a highly testable maintainable and cohesive codebase.