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Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – April 2015

April 10, 2015 Apr 10, 2015 04/10/15

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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...

Why performance is critical in the Health Insurance Industry

April 7, 2015 Apr 7, 2015 04/7/15

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Sujith Nair, Senior Application Development Manager, shares his experiences working with a healthcare customer and the performance challenges common during open enrollment season. He also discusses how customers could use Azure, or the Microsoft Cloud, to manage such bursting compute scenarios. What are enrollment cut-off dates in ...

DevOps – Bridging the gap between development and deployment

March 25, 2015 Mar 25, 2015 03/25/15

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Senior Application Development Manager, Dave Harrison, gives us his perspective on how DevOps can round out your application lifecycle management (ALM) process by bringing together developers and operations teams to simplify and streamline deployment and production support. A few years ago I remember leaning back in my office chair and ...

How to choose the Mobile Strategy that best suits your company

March 24, 2015 Mar 24, 2015 03/24/15

Pam Lahoud

A lot of companies that are trying to adapt to the proliferation of mobile devices targeting different platforms have the following question on their mind today: What is the Mobile Strategy that best suits my company?  This post by Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh outlines some of the things to consider when choosing the strategy that ...

Windows 10 developer tooling is now available to Windows Insiders!

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15

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Windows 10 SDK, tools, and samples were released to the Windows Insiders Program website today!  Be sure and start with Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and the instructions on the dev center: http://dev.windows.com/en-US/windows-10-developer-preview-tools.  Installation order is important in these pre-release kits. (image) For additional ...

Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – March 2015

March 18, 2015 Mar 18, 2015 03/18/15

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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...

Part 2: Security and the Internet of Things

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15

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Mark Taylor, Premier Services Senior Consultant and David S. Lipien, Director in Microsoft’s Premier Services present a 3 part installment on the internet of things (IoT). Part 1 of the IoT series was a primer on the subject matter, looking at it from a business value perspective and looking at some the important questions that should...

Microsoft Project Siena – Create a Windows 8.1 App with “zero” Lines of Code!

March 11, 2015 Mar 11, 2015 03/11/15

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Rick McGuire, Senior Application Development Manager, spotlights a way to build and prototype applications using rich visuals, custom intelligence, and broad functionality, with no programming skills required. How would you like to be able to build a fully functional Windows 8.1 application that can be distributed to your peers and ...

What’s your software development capability? Try a Developer Foundation Assessment to find out.

March 6, 2015 Mar 6, 2015 03/6/15

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Senior Application Development Managers, Pete Fuenfhausen and Paul Martissa spotlight how our Development Foundation Assessment can help identify areas of improvement in your development lifecycle. Do you wonder how effective your team is at building applications?  Have you ever considered that you may not be taking advantage of the ...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP Released!

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15

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Sharing on the excitement with our friends over in Visual Studio, be sure and check out the latest builds of VS2015 and TFS 2015! (image) You can Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads) or use the provided VM in Azure. Learn more about what’s in Visual Studio...