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Build sets the stage for developers in 2017

May 11, 2017 May 11, 2017 05/11/17
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Developers from around the world came together this week as our Build Conference kicked off in Seattle. It’s always an inspiring time to hear new product announcements and seeing many new technologies in action for the first time. Build is sensory overload to anyone who loves technology, but more importantly, this conference sets the stage ...

Visual Studio 2017 Launch Recap

March 15, 2017 Mar 15, 2017 03/15/17
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If you missed the Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event last week, Senior Application Development Manager, Russ Clark, shared an event recap you may find helpful. Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017! Here is a quick roundup of information that was announced: Launch Event Blogs...

Roslyn Analyzer Deltas for VS2017 RC3

February 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017 02/24/17
Monu Bambroo
In this post, Senior Consultant, Joe Healy showcases Roslyn tools in VS2015. One of my favorite features in VS2015 is the Roslyn based live static code analyzers. Interactive IDE feedback on my code gives me  ‘opportunities for improvement’ to my code.  Think FxCop++ without having to build your project.  I like to say “in your ...

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 ...

New project type has XAML forms by default

October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16
Pam Lahoud
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/...

Web Test Plug-in for Authentication

April 19, 2016 Apr 19, 2016 04/19/16
Pam Lahoud
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Monu Bambroo gives us a step-by-step overview of how to add Authentication into your Web Performance and Load Test with Visual Studio. Web and Load testing are an essential part of application life cycle management. Within Visual Studio, we provide a great template to do web ...

Tips for Writing PowerShell Scripts to Use in Build and Release Tasks

April 13, 2016 Apr 13, 2016 04/13/16
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Premier Developer ALM Consultant Dave Burnison brings us this awesome collection of tips and tricks for using PowerShell in VSTS and TFS. You can now do almost anything in your build and release definitions in VSTS and TFS 2015. One of the most powerful ways to add your specific logic is to use the PowerShell task or the PowerShell on ...

On Prem IIS Web Application Deployment using VSTS RM vNext

January 26, 2016 Jan 26, 2016 01/26/16
Pam Lahoud
In his latest blog entry, Premier Developer Consultant Monu Bambroo demonstrates the new Visual Studio Team Services Release Management vNext tool for on premise deployments.  Here’s a quick peek at the blog, be sure to click the link at the end for the detailed step-by-step tutorial! Modern Lifecycle Development requires teams to be...

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? ...

Dissecting the Visual Studio Load Test Results Database (Part 1–Intro to the Schema)

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
Pam Lahoud
Premier Developer Consultant Geoff Gray comes to us this week with the first post in a new series from his awesome ‘Testing the Testing Strategy’ blog.  This series will focus on the structure of the Visual Studio Load Test results database and how you can derive insight on the performance of your application from this valuable data ...