In exactly 10 days from now, the Global Azure Bootcamp takes place for the first Time in the Zurich Area! The Global Azure Bootcamp is a full day conference about the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform taking place in Wallisellen near Zurich on 22nd April 2017. It is free and open for everybody to join. […]
Today I spoke at the .NET User Group Basel about Azure Cognitive Services and the new (and old) Productivity Tools in Visual Studio 2017, such as Code Map, Intellitest and Live-Unit-Testing. Thanks for having me! Link to the event: https://www.meetup.com/Basel-NET-User-Group/events/237844700 Slides: DotNetUGBasel_ManuelMeyer_AzureCognitiveServices (PDF) DotNetUGBasel_ManuelMeyer_VS2017ProductivityTools (PDF)
I remember when I wrote a blog post in 2014 about how you can set up the Adventure Works Sample Database on an Sql Server hosted in Azure in under 10 minutes: http://manuelmeyer.net/2014/07/azureadventures-setting-up-the-adventureworks-database-in-under-10-minutes/ Well, today we can beat this time. In the meantime, the Adventure Works db has been integrated into the db setup in […]
When using Sql Databases on Azure, the firewall on the db server blocks requests from unknown IPs. This means that when you try to connect from a client such as Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS) or Visual Studio, your request to connect to the db is rejected with the following message: Cannot connect to mmedb.database.windows.net. […]
At our bi-annual TechEvent I spoke about Azure Cognitive Services. You can find the slides in this blog post: Intelligence-as-a-Service Lets build the Applications of the Future with Azure Cognitive Services Slides: MME_AzureCognitiveServices (PDF) Links: http://www.captionbot.ai http://www.celebslike.me http://www.projectmurphy.net http://www.mymoustache.net http://aifunclub.azurewebsites.net https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Samples-IntelligentKiosk
When starting with Azure development, the huge number of features is truly overwhelming. But, there is another problem. There are so many portals, documentation pages and tools that very often you don’t even know where to start. In this short session at the first Meetup of the Azure User Group, I tried to display an […]
Die Slides zu unserer Session gibts hier: Basta2017_MobileEnterpriseMitXamarinDotNetAzure.pdf Vielen Dank für die rege Teilnahme und die interessanten Fragen im Anschluss! Viele Grüsse Manuel & Thomas
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at TechDays 2017: “Schneller zum Release mit Live-Unit-Testing und den Produktivitätstools von Visual Studio 2017” It was great to speak in a movie theater to a motivated crowd! The slides can be downloaded here: TechDays2017_VS2017ProductivityTools.pdf In case of any questions, send me an email or a tweet. I […]
We are kicking off a new user group about Azure in Zurich, the Azure Zurich User Group: Check it out at: http://www.azurezurichusergroup.com https://twitter.com/azurezurich We plan meetups every other month in or very close to Zurich. Anybody interested in Azure is welcome! About the user group: We are a group of […]
The Windows Developer Magazin (https://entwickler.de/windows-developer-magazin) recently published my article about Azure Mobile Apps in its 9.16 edition: https://entwickler.de/windows-developer-magazin/windows-developer-9-16-255482.html Azure Mobile Apps Azure Mobile Apps, known as Mobile Services before, are a set of services offered by the Azure Cloud to support mobile app development. At the heart is a cloud-based, scalable application backend. It […]
The Windows Developer Magazin (https://entwickler.de/windows-developer-magazin) recently published my article about integration with Azure Logic Apps in their 8.16 edition: https://entwickler.de/windows-developer-magazin/windows-developer-8-16-252340.html The article introduces Azure Logic Apps and explains how Logic Apps can be used to connect Software As A Service offerings with custom code. The Azure App Service This section explains […]
This post introduces the “Interactive Azure Platform Big Picture” hosted at: http://azureplatform.azurewebsites.net/en-us/ I just stumbled across this recently. But I LOVE it! It is very easy to get lost in the hundreds of Azure services and building blocks. Of course, you get a lot of info from the Azure Service Directory: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/ Or the […]
Especially Azure beginners often struggle with the differences between the classic deployment model in Azure and the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) model. This posts explains the differences from my point of view. Have fun reading. So what is “classic” and what is “ARM”? As you might or might not know, there are two different deployment […]
This post explains how to install the Microsoft Azure Powershell Commandlets using the Web Platform Installer (WPI). Today, there are a multitude of ways how you can manage your Microsoft Azure Resources. Often, I find myself fiddling around in the Azure Portal and creating, deleting and configuring stuff. However, since I have become a big […]
This series of blog posts will tell you everything you need to know about application insights. Part 1: The Basics Part 2: Is Application Insights really that “easy to add”? Part 3: Is Application Insights really that “easy to use”? Part 4: Application Monitoring with Application Insights Part 5: Troubleshooting Failures with Application Insights Part […]