For my first session at Microsoft Ignite Conference 2015, I chose DevOps as a Strategy for Business Agility by Brian Harry, Microsoft Technical Fellow and he serves as the Product Unit Manager for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. I must say, it was a great choice. Brian kicked off this amazing session with only a few, very […]
Posts Tagged ‘.net’
Azure: Did You Know? Always On Web Apps
When you creating a new web app (or web site, how it used to be called until recently) it’s have “Always On” setting off by default, which means the web site will be recycled after period of inactivity (20 minutes). This setting is somewhat similar to “Idle Time-out” setting on IIS application pool.When you web […]
Top 10 Announcements from Build 2015 Keynote on Day 1
The 2015 BUILD Conference kicked off today, and today’s keynote was packed full of TONS of announcements and new information. Some of these things are going to be released sometime this year, but some of it has also been released to be available today! Even though you can watch the Build 2015 Day 1 Keynote […]
Working with dynamic schema in Azure DocumentDB
About a week ago Azure DocumentDB, a new Microsoft’s entry into NoSql database market, become generally available. DocumentDB allows user to to store/update/delete arbitrary objects (as complex as needed, not limited by relation structure) and query these objects using a special (quite limited) flavor of SQL (yes, SQL!) or LINQ when it’s used from .NET. […]
Perficient is named a Sitecore Platinum Implementation Partner
Today, Perficient announced that we are now a Sitecore Platinum Implementation Partner. Sitecore established the new designation to recognize partners who distinguish themselves through their implementation capability, joint reference clients with Sitecore, and demonstrated thought leadership in customer experience management. It’s been an exciting couple of months for Perficient’s Sitecore practice. In addition to being […]
Azure Search: Scoring Profiles
Introduction When a search query is submitted to the index, each document that is returned has a search score which is an indicator of its relevance in the current search query and context. The higher the score, the more relevant the item and therefore, the higher it is ranked on a scale of high to […]
Customer Experience Drives Digital Transformation – Webinar 2/25
Digital Transformation tends to have a slightly different meaning to different people, depending on how you ask. Whether it’s cloud, customer experience, eCommerce, integration, CRM, digital marketing, mobile, collaboration, analytics or Big Data, most would agree, however, that digital transformation enables businesses to “see” their customers better and add value throughout the lifecycle. There’s a […]
On-Premises Claims Authorized SharePoint and Hybrid Apps in Azure
I recently needed to deploy a SharePoint-hosted App that would work in both SharePoint Online and On-Premises. My client had an Azure license, and we are hosting the App there. Now, how to get the On-Premises farm to work with my App? I started by reading this MSDN article on the subject. This article had […]
.NET Framework Guidelines and Best Practices
A brief summary, some handy links, and information to get started on .Net best practices for all development stages. At Perficient, we always strive to enforce that the best analysis, architecture, and implementations are followed. The .NET Framework Guidelines and Best Practices is a good way to start if you are building a solution using […]
Anglebrackets Conference – Day 4
Keynote – ASP.NET vNext and you Speaker: Scott Hanselman ASP.NET will run anywhere (Mac and Linux). Web server will be included. New free SKU of Visual Studio. Community edition will replace Express. ASP.NET and modern web Totally modular (dependency injection built in) Faster development cycle Seamless transition from on-premises to cloud Choose your editors and […]
Anglebrackets Conference – Day 3
I have been fortunate to attend this year’s Anglebrackets conference in Las Vegas. (See my coverage of Day 1 here and Day 2 here.) The following are my notes from the Day 3 keynote, “Conversations with Microsoft.” The speaker: Steve Guggenheimer, corporate VP and chief evangelist. A lot of changes at Microsoft over last year. New CEO, Satya […]
.NET 2015 is coming! And then some
Yesterday in New York at Microsoft’s Connect(), a virtual event for developers focused on current and future technologies, Microsoft did what a lot of us in the developer community have been waiting for and [finally] announced that the next .NET release is coming! But wait, as the late night TV pitchman says, there’s more. There […]