News and Impressions from Build 2016
שבוע שעבר נערך כנס מפתחי התוכנה השנתי הגדול של מיקרוסופט – Microsoft Build. במהלך הכנס הוכרזו והוצגו מספר רב של חידושים עבור הפלטפורמות הטכנולוגיות השונות של מיקרוסופט אשר את עיקריהן אסקור במאמר זה.
Software
Azure Mobile Services & SignalR
Azure Mobile Services Azure Mobile Services is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for easily authoring a mobile application back-end, complete with support for user authentication, push notifications and more. It is a type of service also commonly known as a Backend-as-a-Service. ASP.NET SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is a library for ASP.NET developers that simplifies the process […]
Azure Mobile Services Workshop – Slide Deck from Last Week
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a one day workshop at Microsoft Israel on Azure Mobile Services. For those of you who don’t know, Azure Mobile Services is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for easily authoring a mobile application back-end, complete with support for user authentication, push notifications and more. It is a […]
Azure App Service – Resources from Yesterday’s Talk
Thank You! First of all, I’d like to say a big thank you to all those who attended yesterday’s meeting of the Israeli Azure Developer Community. Feedbacks from those who attended are great so far and I sure do hope to see you on next month’s meeting. Azure App Service Resources If you saw my presentation […]
My Impressions from Build 2015
Last week I attended Microsoft’s Build conference at San-Francisco along with my colleagues. Build is Microsoft’s prime developer conference, and as such it is packed with technical content relating to software development on top of Microsoft’s various platforms – from Band, to Xbox, to PC to Azure. In this post I’ll try to summarize my key […]
DevOps in the Cloud: Slide Deck
I’d like to thank all those who attended last week’s sessions at CodeValue’s open-day “From ALM to DevOps”. I had a good time delivering my session, and I hope you enjoyed it and all other sessions as well. The slide deck from my session is available to view online from SlideShare. If you attended the […]
Released: Code Contracts VS2012 Editor Extensions
Code Contracts is an experimental project from Microsoft Research which provides a language-agnostic way to express coding assumptions in .NET programs, thus allowing for improved testability, static verification at compile time and automatic API documentation. If you participated in my session about Code Contracts last week, then you already know that. At my session, I […]
WF 4.5 and Code Contracts: Slide Decks and Code
I’d like to thank all those who attended yesterday’s sessions at the Israeli .NET Developer User Group. I had a good time delivering the sessions, and I hope you enjoyed them as well. What’s New in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.5? Sample code for the session can be found here. Enhance Your Code Quality with […]
Accessing the AggregateException with await
The await keyword is a new keyword in C# 5.0 which, in tandem with async keyword, allows us to easily author methods which execute asynchronously in regards to the calling code. In previous posts I’ve shown certain issues you should look out for when using these keyword. In this post we’ll look at another issue […]
Task.Wait() vs. await
The await keyword is a new keyword in C# 5.0 which, in tandem with async keyword, allows us to easily author methods which execute asynchronously in regards to the calling code. In a previous post I’ve shown a certain issue you should look out for when using the async keyword. In this post we’ll check […]