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How To Build Planet Scale Mobile App in Minutes with Xamarin and DocumentDB

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
Most mobile apps need to store data in the cloud, and Azure DocumentDB is an awesome cloud database for mobile apps. It has everything a mobile developer needs, a fully managed NoSQL database as a service that scales on demand, and can bring your data where your users go around the globe -- completely transparently to your application. Today ...

ASP.NET Core Authentication with IdentityServer4

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
In my post on bearer token authentication in ASP.NET Core, I mentioned that there are a couple good third-party libraries for issuing JWT bearer tokens in .NET Core. In that post, I used OpenIddict to demonstrate how end-to-end token issuance can work in an ASP.NET Core application...

Enhanced Device Logging in Visual Studio

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
During development we often print out logs, warnings, and errors to the console to help with the debugging process. However, with the complexity of mobile operating systems and applications, we often need to see what’s happening on the device or being logged by other parts of the operating system. This is where the iOS and Android device...

Moving the Games Backend from Servers to Cloud: Game Insight Goes for Azure

January 27, 2017 Jan 27, 2017 01/27/17
Vahe Minasyan
Building a successful online multiplayer game is а complex task that requires orchestrating a host of nitty-gritty details. All the major components must play well together, starting from game design, artwork, client implementation, and the servers running behind the scenes. Without that last one, modern mobile games literally could not exist...

.NET Core Image Processing

January 26, 2017 Jan 26, 2017 01/26/17
Vahe Minasyan
Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I’ll give a code sample for image resizing, and...

Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit Made Open Source

January 26, 2017 Jan 26, 2017 01/26/17
Dmitry Lyalin
Many developers use the Bing Maps REST services to perform spatial queries such as geocoding an address or calculating routes and distances. The Bing Maps REST services are nice and fast, however, using them from a .NET application used to require a decent amount of work. The Bing Maps .NET REST Toolkit aims to make it easy to use these ...

Manage your open source usage and security in your pipeline

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Ilya Biryukov [MSFT]
The open source approach has a tremendous value for us as a technological community. The collaborative development model helps the industry evolve rapidly, increase innovation and save time and money. We all use open source components in our applications, front or back end, JavaScript, .NET or Python, whether it is a JSON serialization library...