In Azure Resource Manager ARM Templates, you describe all the resources needed for your project. One of which could be an Azure App Service. For Azure App Services you can add an MSDeploy Resource, that describes what to publish to the app service. You could also define App Settings, Site Configurations, Connection Strings and many…
What do you think of our definition of done (DoD) for Extensions?
The Scrum Guide recommends that when anyone states “Done”, everybody in the team understands what “Done” means. Furthermore, when there are multiple teams working on the same product, the teams must mutually agree on the Definition of Done (DoD). WORK IN PROGRESS v0.1-2015.05.26 This post will evolve over time and shares our definition of done…
Versioning NuGet packages in a continuous delivery world: part 3
This is the third and final post in a series covering strategies for versioning a NuGet package. If you missed part 1 or part 2, you should read those first. Today’s post walks through a specific workflow that Git users could adopt, using a really powerful tool called GitVersion. GitVersion comes with some expectations about…
Experiencing Data Latency for Many Data Types – 05/26 – Resolved
Final Update: Thursday, 26 May 2016 20:47 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 5/26, 20:45 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 5/26, 12:35 UTC and that during the 8 hours that it took to resolve the issue customers experienced latency of data outside…
Achieving regulatory agility in the era of cloud computing
Cloud Security Director of Cloud Health and Security Engineering, Matt Rathbun, shares his thoughts and insights on ways to improve the agility of regulatory frameworks in a cloud-centric world. Check out Matt’s post on the Azure blog.
Free Power BI Webinar 6/7: Advanced Power BI and Solving the Hard Problems
The Power BI Community webinars are brought to you by the experts doing real world implementations and sharing their hard earned best practices. In this weeks session Devin Knight shares with us what the world looks like when you leave: “Demo Land” and your data isn’t perfectly formed or business scenarios don’t translate perfect to…
Investigating issues with Hosted Build in Visual Studio Team Services – 5/26 – Resolved
Final Update: Thursday, 26 May 2016 18:26 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of 26 May 2016 ~17:32 UTC. Customers should no longer see any issues with Hosted Build in South Central US region now. We have deployed a hotfix to a database configuration issue which caused delay in builds getting processed. We also taking…
Insights on Container Security with Azure Container Service (ACS)
Microsoft Azure has a number of security partners and these partners help us help you deploy more secure solutions in Microsoft Azure. We greatly appreciate our partners work and encourage you to seek out the wide range of partner security solutions available in the Azure Marketplace. We also like to share a diversity of voices…
Return a value from Windows 10 UWP MenuFlyout control
Using the Windows 10 UWP MenuFlyout control, but don’t see how to return a value from the selected options? You could sub-class MenuFlyoutItem, but don’t overthinking it: just use the .Tag property in MenuFlyoutItem, like this: private void button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Open a MenuFlyout var myMenuFlyout = new MenuFlyout(); // Create the menu options…
CLRs, Web Services and JSON – Design Decisions
Recently I was working on a CLR that needed to talk to a web service and return a tabular dataset. Within the development and deployment process there were several considerations concerning security and design. This post will documented these to help understand the challenges and options available. Security problems should be considered early as they…
