.NET, Azure, and Office dev
Creating an angular app from scratch is annoying and time consuming. The easiest option is to use the Angular CLI to create a new app and its components; this gets you up and running very quickly. What I am talking about below is how to add the LaunchDarkly JavaScript library to an Angular CLI application,... Continue Reading →
A while back I noticed a VSTS add-in for sending messages to Slack from a VSTS Build or Release process. This was a great idea and thought that mentioned that it would be great to have an equivalent for Microsoft Teams, to which the response was: Microsoft has already created Microsoft Teams integration to VSTS,... Continue Reading →
In an effort to get more people learning their cloud platform, Microsoft have announced a series of new courses on various areas of Azure, as well as discounted MCP exams; and what you get is pretty awesome. I have put some links at the bottom of this but you can see it in more detail... Continue Reading →
When looking into the capabilities of the Application Insights REST API, I came across the following error returned when attempting to get a list of events. { "error": { "message": "Rate limit is exceeded", "code": "ThrottledError", "innererror": { "code": "ThrottledError", "message": "Rate limit of 0 per day is... Continue Reading →
Whilst going on my journey to complete Microsoft Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions I have found a whole bunch of supportive resources to help me through. I thought it beneficial to lay them out here for anyone who needs them. Seeing as how the objective domain of the exam has changed, some of the... Continue Reading →
Microsoft recently changed the objectives of course 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, this is unsurprising as Azure itself is so rapidly evolving the exam requirements can get out of date very quickly. Changes have also been put through to 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (which is the equivilent course for the IT Pro) and 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure... Continue Reading →
All of my day-to-day projects are using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repositories, but recently we have been considering using Git. This is for a few reasons, but one of the big ones is the rich functionality that is provided in Visual Studio Code. Whilst at Ignite I mentioned this to one of the VSTS... Continue Reading →
Whilst looking into the plethora of Apps and Integrations for Slack I noticed there was no integration for Microsoft Azure Application Insights, really I would like to see when an alert is triggered in a channel so looked into what I can do to get that. As Slack is such a popular tool used by... Continue Reading →
Whilst using TypeScript to work on my Visual Studio Team Services extension, I am bringing in modules using import/require: Which compiles to the below JavaScript: But when I run the extension I get the below error in the browser's console– Uncaught ReferenceError: define is not defined Visual Studio Team Services uses Asyncronous Module Definition (AMD) to... Continue Reading →
