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Ramping up on Powershell & CLI

April 7, 2018 Apr 7, 2018 04/7/18
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Danny Kolke, gives a practical guide on getting started with PowerShell and Azure CLI."For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." AristotleIn working with my customers I often run into those who want to get started with Azure but just haven't done ...

Microsoft Immersion Program: Bringing Microsoft Product Engineers to your Team

April 4, 2018 Apr 4, 2018 04/4/18
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App Dev Manager Katie Konow spotlights the Microsoft Immersion Program and the value it brings to both Microsoft and our valued customers. immerse verb  im·merse  \ i-ˈmərs \ ENGROSS.  to take or engage the whole attention of : occupy completely As a developer or development lead using a Microsoft technology, you may find ...

Part 1: Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Windows Containers–Networking Tips

April 3, 2018 Apr 3, 2018 04/3/18
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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Julien Oudot teaches you how to ensure network connectivity when working with Windows Containers and Virtual Machine Scale Set in Azure.When working with Windows Containers and Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) in Azure, some steps need to be performed to make sure the networking connectivity works as ...

Accessing a .NET Bot’s State via Dependency Injection

March 29, 2018 Mar 29, 2018 03/29/18
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The .NET BotBuilder SDK has deprecated the StateClient class, leaving some to wonder how they should access their bot’s state. Premier Developer Consultant Ben Williams shares an example of using dependency injection in your BotFramework projects.When using the .NET BotBuilder SDK’s dialog system, you can access the bot state using the ...

Unit Testing Your JavaScript Code

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18
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In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard discusses how to set up Visual Studio 2017 to run JavaScript-based unit tests.This week, I demonstrated to a client how they could write unit tests in JavaScript to test their JavaScript code by leveraging Karma, Jasmine, and Chutzpah. The unit tests show up in Test ...

Audit SQL Server stop, start, restart

March 27, 2018 Mar 27, 2018 03/27/18
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In this article, Application Development Manager Steve Keeler outlines an approach for determining the domain identity of a user who has initiated a stop, start, or restart request on SQL Server services. Although SQL Server contains server and database auditing functionality as part of the product, this cannot be used to determine the ...

With cloud applications, performance is money

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
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This post is provided by App Dev Manager Reed Robison who examines the opportunity and impact of cloud application performance.  If you are moving apps to the cloud, it has never been more important think about performance and as a developer, the business impact you can have may be profound.(image) Early in my career, developers were ...