Today Azure App Configuration is out of preview and is now generally available. Azure App Configuration helps you manage application settings and control their access centrally. It’s built on the simple concept of key-value pairs, and this service provides manageability, availability, and ease-of-use. Azure App Configuration provides the following benefits: …

This week GitHub announced the beta for their new GitHub CLI tool, which provides an easier and more seamless way for you to interact with GitHub from your terminal. The GitHub CLI can be installed on Windows, macOS and Linux. …

Earlier this week I noticed that Microsoft launched the Azure Apps Demo Map website, a centralized way to see some awesome resources available by Microsoft for building enterprise applications that leverage Azure technologies. Most of the scenarios include an interactive user experience to explore the solution — including solution diagrams…

In this post, I’ll walk through what is Azure App Configuration and how to get started using it in your applications, whether their on-prem or in the cloud. What is Azure App Configuration? Before we get started with Azure App Configuration lets first look at what is it. Microsoft docs explain it as follows… Azure…

Registration for this year’s Microsoft Build event is now open and will be held in Seattle from May 19 to May 21. You can register at https://register.build.microsoft.com Microsoft Build focuses on latest trends and future looking technology innovations for leading architects, developers, start-ups and student developers. Pricing and free child admission The cost for Build…

As we start the month of February, there will be an online community called Azure Spring Clean which will focus on promoting well managed Azure tenants. This event starts February 3 and will be on “ Azure RBAC — Best Practices”. Check out https://www.azurespringclean.com for all the details and keep an eye on the Twitter hashtag #AzureSpringClean. Enjoy! Resources https://azurespringclean.com/

The following are eleven tips I’ve learned over the years of giving technical presentations at work, meetups, or at conferences that I wanted to share with the community so that it might help someone else that is new to presenting or wants to refine their presentation process. …

The Windows Terminal was announced at Build 2019 and is open source and free. In this article I’ll show you how to add a new shell profile for the Developer Command Prompt for VS2019. Getting Windows Terminal Windows Terminal requires Windows 10 1903. You can get the Windows Terminal for free from the…

SQL Server Management Studio v18.0 is now generally available and is the latest version that provides support for almost all feature areas on SQL Server 2008 through to 2019 preview. If you have a preview of SSMS 18.0 installed, you will need to uninstall before you can install SSMS 18.0…