.NET - Developer Support

Avoiding Code Pollution when using Application Insights SDK

May 24, 2017 May 24, 2017 05/24/17

Pam Lahoud

This post comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Nasir Syed. “Insert a few lines of code in your application to find out what users are doing with it, or to help diagnose issues. You can send telemetry from device and desktop apps, web clients, and web servers. Use the Azure Application Insights core telemetry API to send custom ...

.NET Core Overview

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17

Developer Support

In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Sash Kavalaparambil introduces .NET Core and many of the features that make it a powerhouse for cross platform development scenarios. It has been over 16 years since the first version of .NET framework has been released. In spite of its wide adoption among developer community, todays ...

Multi-tenant WebAPI – simple admin consent

January 10, 2017 Jan 10, 2017 01/10/17

Pam Lahoud

In this post, Premier Developer consultant Marius Rochon shares his application authentication experience in order to help you create your own Multi-tenant WebAPI applications. The VS.NET 2015 wizard for adding authentication to ASP.NET WebAPI projects does not support using the multi-tenant option. Here are some notes on how to implement ...

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

Developer Support

In this post, Premier ADM, Rob Reilly, walks us through building Alexa Skills using Azure AD and ASP.NET Core Web API. Background 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 your ...

Referencing a PCL project in both ASP.NET Core and Xamarin Forms

October 3, 2016 Oct 3, 2016 10/3/16

Pam Lahoud

Thanks to Premier Developer Consultant Gustavo Varo for this prescriptive guidance on cross-platform development with Xamarin and ASP.NET Core. Back in March while working with Xamarin Forms and ASP.NET Core, I identified the need of sharing some code between both projects. My very first idea was to create a PCL (Portable Class Library) ...

Universal Windows Programming: What is it and how it can help

May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016 05/20/16

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Mike Finley, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses how Universal Windows Programming can help you develop one application that runs on multiple devices and form factors with Windows 10. More and more devices are now available for the end users to achieve an online and offline mobile experience. Gartner believes that by ...

Using OAuth2 with SOAP

November 20, 2015 Nov 20, 2015 11/20/15

Developer Support

Premier Development Consultant Marius Rochon explores the combination of Universal App Platform (UAP) with SOAP using OAuth2 protocol for authentication. One possible application of this approach might be migrating from WCF to REST and/or needing to mix REST and SOAP services. Although the sample uses a UWP client, the same code would apply to...

Visual Studio 2015 ALM VMs and Hands-On Labs Available

November 12, 2015 Nov 12, 2015 11/12/15

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If you looking to familiarize yourself with all the great new functionality in our 2015 ALM toolset, here’s an easy way to get started. Check out the Visual Studio ALM VM 2015 (including both Visual Studio 2015 and Team Foundation Server 2015) along with many popular demo scripts. Don’t want to download the giant VM? ...

Tasks are (still) not threads and async is not parallel

September 29, 2015 Sep 29, 2015 09/29/15

Pam Lahoud

Premier Developer consultant Ben Williams recently had the honor of having one of his blog posts reposted to Wintellect’s Dev Center as a guest post. Here’s a blurb from that post, be sure to head over to Ben’s blog to check out the full technical deep-dive and download his sample WPF application. I talk to a lot of developers who...

Spotlight on ALM and TFS

August 24, 2015 Aug 24, 2015 08/24/15

Developer Support

Establishing good ALM practices and learning to take full advantage of ALM tools is one of the best investments you can make with your team. Premier Support for Developers works with many of Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers to optimize the use of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio ALM tools. Whether you are planning a ...