Microsoft Driving to Cross Platform .NET Standard 2.0
Microsoft has had evolving variations of the .NET framework over the years targeting specific platforms. Even within Windows, there were multiple .NET framework platforms depending … Read More
Microsoft Releases .NET Core for Windows, OSX and Linux
For the first time, Microsoft has released its .NET framework as open source with support for Windows, OS X and Linux. Microsoft first released a … Read More
New Microsoft Integration Stencils Pack for Visio Available for Download
Microsoft has released a new set of Visio Stencils for creating diagrams in Visio 2013/2016. The symbols include services such as: BizTalk Azure App Service … Read More
Microsoft Introduces new Virtual Assistant Bot Framework
Microsoft has announced a new “bot framework” for building virtual assistants available via text message, Skype, Slack, and other services. Bots are software driven virtual … Read More
Microsoft Acquires Cross-Platform Mobile Framework Xamarin
Xamarin is a cross-platform development framework for mobile applications. You write your applications in C# and the framework publishes your app to native IOS, Android … Read More
Conflict between Latest NUnit Framework and NUnitTestAdapter
I was working with Visual Studio 2015 today, and ran into an issue running NUnit tests. The basic process to integrate NUnit into Visual Studio … Read More
Visio Stencil for Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise
Microsoft has published a visio stencil you can download here that contains symbols for Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise. The stencil has some neat things … Read More
Microsoft is Consolidating Microsoft Account and Azure AD Authentication Models
In the current Microsoft cloud world, there are two core identity management systems – 1) the Microsoft account and 2) the Azure AD account. As … Read More
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Just Released
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 have just gone general availability and are now available for download. Key feature improvements include: Unified debugging and profiling … Read More
How to use Microsoft Project Efficiently for Building Plans
As consultants, we have to develop estimates and the number one tool we use is Microsoft Project. Over the years, I have developed a set … Read More