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

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...

New project type has XAML forms by default

Recently on his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy highlighted some new templates available to Xamarin developers in Visual Studio.  See below for the full article, but also be sure to check out Joe’s DevFish blog for lots more great content! Xamarin has some great documentation. The article at [ https://developer.xamarin.com/...

HockeyApp replacing App Insights…definitely not…

There has been a lot of chatter about the roadmap and direction of Application Insights in relation to HockeyApp.  Senior Application Development Manager, Brian Swiger, sums it up. (image) In Summary: App Insights originally shipped with a set of SDKs for mobile platforms that pushed telemetry data into the App Insights pipeline. It is...

Loading paged and related data from MS Graph API into Power BI using a recursive Power Query function

Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Reilly, recently came upon a situation where he needed to provide enhanced, adhoc, and drillable reporting based on a mix of data sources.  Leveraging Microsoft Graph API for customer data and using Power BI, he explores the power of using these technologies together to build a solution and ...

Using Redis as ADAL token cache

In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Marius Rochon  shows how to use Redis as ADAL token cache. Here is a sample TokenCache class implementation using Redis for use with the Active Directory Access Library (ADAL). The library is used for obtaining tokens from Azure AD or AD FS using the OAuth2 protocol. Continue ...

Getting started with your DevOps journey

In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Ilias Jennane  explains about navigating through the Dev Ops journey. You have probably started to hear all the noise about DevOps. Most likely you fall into one of the following categories: Regardless of which phase of that journey you’re actually in, there are ...

Five DevOps Must-Reads

DevOps promotes the collaboration between developers and other IT stakeholders to optimize software delivery.  For many organizations, it’s a challenge for teams to come together with the right mix of priorities and expectations.  Application Development Manager, Dave Harrison, shares five of his favorite DevOps books. DevOps as a ...