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Microsoft Build 2023: Highlights for App Developers

Last week, Microsoft's annual Developer conference took place and besides interesting sessions, a bunch of new announcements have been made. This post summarizes the most important ones for App Developers, along with a list of recommended sessions to watch.

Robin-Manuel Thiel May 30, 2023 • 3 min read

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Microsoft Build 2019: App Developer Highlights

For Microsoft Build 2019, I have tried to summarize the most important announcements for Application Developers, Cloud Native fans and Data & AI engineers here at one place.

Robin-Manuel Thiel May 9, 2019 • 9 min read

API Management

Control ingress to AKS with Azure API Management

In this blog post, we will discuss, how to use Azure API Management as an ingress point for AKS services, that are not exposed publically and how other services in the Kubernetes cluster can use the same API Management instance to communicate with these APIs while leveraging the power of

Robin-Manuel Thiel Jan 12, 2019 • 4 min read

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Microsoft Connect 2018: App Innovation Highlights

This week, Microsoft Connect(); 2018, one of the companies smaller developer conferences took place in Las Vegas and the internet. All sessions are also available on-demand. During the keynote and other deep-dive sessions, there were some announcements around Azure and Microsoft’s Developer Tools. Beloware my highlights for Cloud

Robin-Manuel Thiel Dec 6, 2018 • 3 min read

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Microsoft Ignite 2018: App Innovation Highlights

This week, Microsoft’s yearly Ignite Conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Ignite focuses mostly on cloud topics and is beside Microsoft Build the second biggest Microsoft IT conference of the year. Here are my developer centric highlights summarized! Compute Azure Functions: Runtime 2.0 Released Official Announcement The improved

Robin-Manuel Thiel Sep 28, 2018 • 6 min read

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Microsoft Build 2018: App Innovation Highlights

From Monday to Wednesday, //build 2018 conference took place in Seattle. It’s in the nature of Microsoft’s largest and most importantdeveloper conference to announce a bunch of cool stuff and updates to their Cloud, AI, and Frontend developer tools and services. Here are my developer centric highlights

Robin-Manuel Thiel May 10, 2018 • 4 min read

azure

Replace your old cronjobs with free Azure Functions within 5 minutes

For some of my older projects, I had some repetitive tasks where a simple job triggers a script to run and loadsome data from the web. For this, I used good old cronjobs like the ones cronjob.de offers. As this was expensive und quite unsatisfying in terms of

Robin-Manuel Thiel Jan 10, 2017 • 4 min read

azure

Different ways to register devices to the Azure IoT Hub

The Azure IoT Hub is Microsoft’s Internet of Things solution inthe cloud. Beside the commoneventmessage endpoints, it contains a device management system, which allows to register and manage devices that may send data to the IoT Hub. This increases security by generating a unique access key

Robin-Manuel Thiel Oct 22, 2016 • 3 min read

azure

Manually connect and send data to an Azure Event Hub

Update 04.02.2017: As theMicrosoft.Azure.EventHubs NuGet package since two days finally support every .NET platform, this post go obsolete. Azure Event Hubs provide a neat way to collect loads of data that is pushed against them and holds it until its processing. Microsoft offers an SDK

Robin-Manuel Thiel Oct 8, 2016 • 3 min read

android

Analyze a photo with Microsoft's Cognitive Services Vision API on Xamarin.Android

Microsoft’sCognitive Services are intelligent machine trained APIs that analyzed text, images, videos and more for you in the cloud and sends you back meta information about the provided content. They are free to use until a specific threshold and a nice easy to use thing to integrate in

Robin-Manuel Thiel Jun 23, 2016 • 1 min read

Cloud

Your own game server on Azure - Create a dedicated Counter Strike server

It is nearly every gamer’s dream to have an own server that 100% fits his needs and where he canplay god. When I were younger, there were only two waysto get such a personal playground: Installing a server on my home machine and making sure to never

Robin-Manuel Thiel Mar 22, 2016 • 4 min read

Cloud

Want to create Xamarin.iOS apps without buying a Mac? Rent one!

As a mobile developer you will know that a MacOS device is stringently requiredto build and run iOS apps. Same is with Xamarin: You can write your code wherever you want but when it comes to compiling you need aMac. Fortunately Xamarin ship a tool called Build Host

Robin-Manuel Thiel Nov 2, 2015 • 3 min read

Cloud

Upload your UI Tests to the Xamarin Test Cloud

Whenever app development gets more serious and your code becomes more complex, testing your application automatically is a step you need to go to survive.Xamarin provides two neat ways to write UI Tests for your applications. Calabash is a framework you can write tests in Ruby with and Xamarin.

Robin-Manuel Thiel Aug 13, 2015 • 3 min read