How To|Mar 26, 2015

Four Steps to Building Your First Web App with Azure App Service

One of the best things about Windows Azure, or perhaps one of the most confusing, is that there are many ways to accomplish a task.  In this post I’ve attempted to describe what I believe to be the shortest path to a working Web App using Microsoft’s recently announced App Service.  This version doesn’t require…
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How To|Mar 12, 2015

Adding gulp to Visual Studio Online Builds

At one of our Code in the Cloud camps someone asked me how they could integrate front-end build tasks in the Visual Studio Online (VSO) build process. Lately we’ve been adding great support for gulp/grunt/bower into our Visual Studio IDE (check out this post from Scott Hanselman to learn more). But I have to admit…
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how-to|Nov 20, 2014

A Quick View Into Apple WatchKit

Get a tour of the basics of Apple Watch development! Apple released their much awaited Apple Watch SDK called WatchKit this week.  Through the WatchKit we start to get an idea of just what the Apple Watch is capable of and also what it’s not.  Here are some of the things to know to help get…
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How To|Nov 6, 2014

Dual Boot Windows 10 Technical Preview from a VHD

So, you want to take the new Windows 10 operating system for a test drive but don’t want to risk your productivity to a pre-beta release?  Sure you could install it on a spare PC if you happen to have one of those sitting around.  If not, then dual boot is probably the option you…
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Blogs|Apr 24, 2014

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Explained

The purpose of this post is to provide an introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. While I’ve participated in lots of discussions online about MVVM, it occurred to me that beginners who are learning the pattern have very little to go on and a lot of conflicting resources to wade through in order to try…
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