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Jan 27, 2017
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How To Build Planet Scale Mobile App in Minutes with Xamarin and DocumentDB

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 we are...

Jan 27, 2017
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ASP.NET Core Authentication with IdentityServer4

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.

Jan 27, 2017
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Enhanced Device Logging in Visual Studio

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

Jan 27, 2017
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Moving the Games Backend from Servers to Cloud: Game Insight Goes for Azure

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.

Jan 27, 2017
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Training: Intermediate ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Microsoft Virtual Academy)

Want a deeper dive into ASP.NET Core 1.0? Build on what you learned in Introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0, and explore this new technology even further, as Scott Hanselman, Jeff Fritz, and Rowan Miller offer an in-depth, intermediate-level look at ASP.NET Core 1.0.

Jan 26, 2017
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.NET Core Image Processing

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

Jan 26, 2017
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Open sourcing the VS Test platform (Brian Harry)

Yesterday we released our unit test execution infrastructure as an open source project.  You’ll also find an open source project with the documentation