Analyzing W3C IIS Log with PowerBI
IIS and HTTP.sys logs contain incredible source of information to help in identifying potential issues. When I first started troubleshooting IIS/Websites issues, LogParser (and LogParser Studio) was my...
View ArticleWhy Developers Should Install WSL Today
In this post, App Dev Managers Matt Hyon and August Banks spotlights the developer benefits of WSL. You've just finished installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on your Windows 10 computer and...
View ArticleHDInsight# Hive Frequently Asked Questions
In this bog post we have captured some common questions and answers related to Hive in Azure HDInsight. How do I check DAG counters for a query? Go to Tez View. Find the DAG and click on Dag counters...
View ArticleBlockchain in the Enterprise
In this post, Sr. Consultants Farah Deendar and Chike Okor introduce blockchain concepts and enterprise adoption constraints. So, what is Blockchain exactly? Blockchain, also called distributed ledger...
View ArticleIntroducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Art Garcia
Who Are You? I am a .NET developer with over 20 years of industry development experience. I have done everything from VB.NET to C# to Web pages. I have worked in multiple industries and I believe that...
View ArticleDeadlock Simulator app for Developers
Recent, I was involved in assisting a deadlock issue and specifically the exception handling part in an application. Together with a colleague from Visual Studio/Languages team Daniel Sauer, we built a...
View ArticleHow To: Viewing reports as PDF documents
OVERVIEW This article describes alternate viewing options for document reports in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations applications. The following scenario refers to the Customer base data report,...
View Article22-23 мая. Бесплатная онлайн-конференция. Бизнес-приложения в облачной среде
22 мая. Бизнес-приложения в облачной среде Мероприятие посвящено модернизации внутренних бизнес-приложений в соответствии с требованиями современных ИТ-задач и быстро меняющимся бизнес-потребностям....
View ArticleAvoid unexpected UIA delays by understanding your threading model
This post reminds devs that unless the threading model being used in a UIA app is carefully considered, there's a very real risk that your customers will encounter severe delays when using the app....
View ArticleApplication Insights in Disconnection Mode
In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Adel Ghabboun gives insight on connectivity issues in Azure and how they may effect Application Insights. He gives details about a special disconnection mode...
View ArticleTo change SQL server collation without rebuilding the instance
A few days ago, I came across an issue where we had to change the SQL server instance collation and we were just asking the clients to rebuild the system databases to do so in the previous cases. But...
View ArticleNew features in Azure Data Factory v2 SSIS Integration Runtime : Enterprise...
You can find the details in SSIS Product Group's blog post below : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssis/2018/04/27/enterprise-edition-custom-setup-and-3rd-party-extensibility-for-ssis-in-adf/
View ArticleHow to create a docker image with a node js express website, push it to azure...
I just created a very simple node.js express web app and wanted to deploy it to azure. Install Node.js and Docker for Windows. Create a Folder, navigate to it from a commandline and run npm Init....
View ArticleUI Browser Automation using Appium with Visual Studio Android Emulator
Appium is an open source cross platform automation tool for native/hybrid and mobile web based apps. Why? You can use Appium with various languages like c#, java or Objective C with Selenium driver....
View ArticleAzure DevOps: Use VSTS conditions to control build or release flow
I was asked recently about how to use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) conditions to run different tasks dependent on the outcome of previous tasks (effectively branch the behaviour in a release)....
View ArticlePartial search results in Code Search
Problem: You are seeing “Showing partial code results” banner for a given search request in Code. When are you likely to encounter this scenario? Your code base has one or more large repositories...
View ArticleSelf Cleaning Load Test Database
I ran into an issue where I was running out of storage on the Load Test Repository DB. I knew that there were a ton of old aborted runs and other runs I didn’t need. It would have taken hours to sort...
View ArticleGitHub, NuGet, and VSO
There are April 2018 releases on GitHub for DirectX Tool Kit (DX11 / DX12), DirectXTex, DirectXMesh, and UVAtlas. These were more minor releases focused on code quality, fixing a few bugs, and cleaning...
View ArticleReplication Enhancement – Improved Distribution Database Cleanup
Replication Distribution database is the perhaps the most important entity in the entire replication topology. Apart from storing the replication metadata and history for replication agents, the...
View ArticleCalling an Azure AD secured REST API from PowerApps using Flow
Scenario:”I am building a canvas PowerApp. The connector I am using doesn’t do exactly what I want it to do. However, I know the connector uses a REST API secured by Azure AD. Can I call the REST...
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