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Scaling Agile using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17
Pam Lahoud
In the latest article on his blog, Premier Developer consultant Ilias Jennane discusses how to scale the Agile software development process for large organizations using Visual Studio Team Services. When the Agile Manifesto was written about 16 years ago, it had a simple goal and that is to uncover better ways of writing software. (image...

Azure App Service : Swap with Preview

April 4, 2017 Apr 4, 2017 04/4/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Nayan Patel, spotlights App Service deployment using Swap with Preview I was recently assisting a customer with an App Service deployment problem in Azure and came across a fairly new feature (Swap with Preview) that addressed the customer need.  App Services offer multiple ...

Validate input in Xamarin.Forms using INotifyDataErrorInfo, custom Behaviors, Effects and Prism

April 3, 2017 Apr 3, 2017 04/3/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Davide Zordan, explores the rich set of validation features in Xamarin.Forms. I have recently been investigating the support available in Xamarin.Forms for validation and, in particular, researched the possibility of using INotifyDataErrorInfo to complement the traditional approach of ...

CMMi SM – Modelo de madurez de Arquitecturas orientadas a servicios usando Microsoft Azure

March 31, 2017 Mar 31, 2017 03/31/17
Pam Lahoud
We here at the Premier Developer blog are very happy to announce that our colleagues in Premier Developer Latin America have launched a Spanish language blog!  Premier Developer consultant Erick Ramirez Martinez has posted the first article on using Microsoft Azure to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) maturity model.  ...

Protecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17
Pam Lahoud
In his latest blog post, Premier Developer consultant Najib Zarrari discusses one approach to protecting sensitive information in your application by using VSTS and Azure Key Vault. If you are building a modern application and are following modern design principles, there is a good chance your application is composed of a number of layers ...

Working in Microsoft Services – Development and Modern Apps

March 27, 2017 Mar 27, 2017 03/27/17
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When you hear the name Microsoft the first thing that comes to mind is probably software, however, in Microsoft Services, it’s as much about people as anything else.  We have a worldwide services organization engaged with customers and partners to help them get the most out of our technology.  Premier Support for Developers is just one ...

Agile – Not just for Developers

March 25, 2017 Mar 25, 2017 03/25/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Robert Shanks, highlights some of the challenges with Agile transformation beyond development teams and spotlights how our team can help. (image) As an Application Development Manager (ADM), I’ve have the opportunity to work with teams at varying stages of their Agile transformation. For the sake of...

The Fourth User Interface: How Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality will change your world

March 25, 2017 Mar 25, 2017 03/25/17
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It’s no secret that our team is pretty excited about the possibilities of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in the hands of innovative developers.  Our Practice Leader, Jeremy Rule, recently featured this post on the Premier Developer blog.  The conversation continues this month on the Taste of Premier Podcast discussing the next ...

Getting Started with Azure Data Lake

March 24, 2017 Mar 24, 2017 03/24/17
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Application Development Manager, Jason Venema, takes a plunge into Azure Data Lake, Microsoft’s hyperscale repository for big data analytic workloads in the cloud.  Data Lake makes it easy to store data of any size, shape, and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. I’m not a data guy. ...

Entity Framework Query Caching

March 23, 2017 Mar 23, 2017 03/23/17
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Senior Application Development Manager, Deepak Malik, explains the Query caching behavior, performance implications, and extensibility provided in the latest release of Entity Framework Caching entities or query results has been a recommended practice for application development to improve an application's performance especially in data ...