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US Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – Nov/Dec 2016 Update

November 14, 2016 Nov 14, 2016 11/14/16
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Teams struggle to keep up with the latest technology trends, so training and knowledge transfer are important investments to build the expertise required for optimal application and infrastructure.  It’s a great way to proactively stay in front of technical gaps that can manifest in the form of implementation delays, architectural problems...

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

November 1, 2016 Nov 1, 2016 11/1/16
Monu Bambroo
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...

Easily deploy SonarQube Server in Azure

October 31, 2016 Oct 31, 2016 10/31/16
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(image) The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are a great asset to the VS ALM community, providing important guidance and sharing knowledge from real world experience.  Premier Developer’s own Kevin Mack and Steve St. Jean team up with the Rangers to spotlight SonarQube integration and deployment with Azure. Technical Debt is a growing problem for...

SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster

October 20, 2016 Oct 20, 2016 10/20/16
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Does the marketing live up to the hype?  Senior ADM, Paul King shares some perspective from the field. (image) Upgrading between major versions of a product can sometimes be a painful and time consuming task.  Development organizations often have to spend time going over depreciated feature lists to make sure that their applications will ...

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/...

US Workshops, Webcasts, and Tech Talks – October 2016 Update

October 14, 2016 Oct 14, 2016 10/14/16
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Teams struggle to keep up with the latest technology trends, so training and knowledge transfer are important investments to build the expertise required for optimal application and infrastructure.  It’s a great way to proactively stay in front of technical gaps that can manifest in the form of implementation delays, architectural problems...

HockeyApp replacing App Insights…definitely not…

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16
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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

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16
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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 ...