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Azure Web Apps - beware the phantom deployment slots As I've mentioned in previous posts, we use Octopus Deploy to handle our deployments on-prem and to Azure. Last week I was doing some maintenence and decided to update some...
JavaScript reference directives and Visual Studio 2017 Visual Studio 2017 brings a lot of new functionality to the table; as you would expect from a major new release, but Microsoft appear to give with one hand and take away with...
Visual Studio Application Insights - a few months on Several months ago I spent some time looking at Application Insights, which at the time was part of the Visual Studio family of tools and services. Well as we've seen before,...
Christmas comes early for Microsoft developers It's closing in on that time of year again, but Microsoft have jumped the gun and have handed developers a massive pile of goodies to play with. Their Connect(); //2016 event...
An introduction to Azure Functions If you already know about WebJobs, Azure Functions can be seen as an evolution, bringing with it quicker setup, easier management, and a lot more functionality. For those of...
Visual Studio Application Insights - getting your money's worth out of the free plan In my introduction to Visual Studio Application Insights, I covered the basics including your options to get up and running with real metrics in minutes. Today I want to touch...
Visual Studio Application Insights - An overview Have you heard of Application Insights? It's a great tool to give you a precise look at the activity and issues in your web apps and services. After setting it up, you can use...
iPhone tethering - instant disconnection of client Today one of our users grabbed me for a bit of help with their company issued iPhone and laptop. For months they have been unable to tether their laptop to their iPhone and...
.NET Core 1.0 has been released It's here! After many years of hard work by Microsoft, we have now moved in to a true cross-platform .NET world. .NET Core is a brand new platform built from the ground up...
An introduction to Nancy If you haven't heard of Nancy before, is it described as ...a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono. The goal of the...