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Microsoft Best Places to Work – Chicago

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17
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This post is provided by David S. Lipien, Director Premier Support for Developers with a spotlight on Microsoft Chicago.Microsoft was awarded Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work 2017 in April. This was a great external recognition for the Microsoft team in Chicago. As a leader of people at Microsoft and part of the team locally, it ...

HoloLens – How to Create Mixed Reality Part 2

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17
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Rick McGuire, Senior ADM, provides the second post in this series -- an introduction to mixed reality development with a test drive using HoloLens, Unity, and Visual Studio 2015.(image) With the invention of HoloLens, it is now possible to superimpose a virtual 3D world onto our exiting reality. HoloLens lets you create holograms, virtual ...

How to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
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This post is from Senior App Dev Manager, Chev Bryan who shares how to estimate the size of your TFS database backup files.(image) The most likely way to do this in my experience is to take a look at the most recent backup job. This can be done quite easily from a T-SQL script. Feel free to refine the bellow to suite your needs, but it should ...

mySQL, POSTgreSQL DBs as a Service

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
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This post is from App Dev Manager, Omer Amin who spotlights mySQL and POSTgreSQL, both announced at BUILD this year.(image) If you missed the announcement at BUILD earlier this year, Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL provide fully-managed MySQL and PostgreSQL database as-a-service for easy development and deployment...

Migrating TFS to a new data center

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17
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This post is provided by App Dev Manager, Steve Keeler who outlines an approach for performing TFS migrations to a new data center in a different domain and where there is limited or no connectivity between the current and target environments. Applies to: TFS 2013 | TFS 2015 | TFS 2017 - This article outlines an approach for performing ...

Updating Windows Form UI elements from another thread

August 8, 2017 Aug 8, 2017 08/8/17
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This post is from App Dev Manager, Omer Amin who covers how to update Windows Form UI elements using worker threads.(image) In a typical Windows Forms .NET application, the UI elements are created and updated by the main thread. This thread is also responsible for processing Windows messages. For this reason, it is recommended to keep message ...

How to Set Up Multi-Level Hierarchies in VSTS

August 3, 2017 Aug 3, 2017 08/3/17
Pam Lahoud
In another awesome post about Visual Studio Team Services, Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone talks about customizing VSTS by creating a multi-level hierarchy.BackgroundBoth VSTS (Team Services) and TFS (Team Foundation Server) have a set organizational hierarchy. An individual developer belongs to a team. A project (also called Team ...

Cross-Account Package Management for NuGet in VSTS

July 26, 2017 Jul 26, 2017 07/26/17
Pam Lahoud
Here is yet another awesome post from Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone!In the following post, we will look at the difficulties in consuming packages from a different VSTS account, as part of a build process in our own account.BackgroundVisual Studio Team Services (VSTS) offers package management services. As per the documentation, this...

Scaling Scrum with Nexus in VSTS

July 24, 2017 Jul 24, 2017 07/24/17
Pam Lahoud
This post is from Premier Developer consultant Assaf Stone.In this post, I will cover what Scrum Nexus is, where, when, and why you would want to use it, and how to set up VSTS best to accommodate your Scrum practices. As VSTS’s tooling is not yet perfect for some of Nexus’s practices, I will discuss some viable fallbacks and workarounds....