Azure Api Management acts as a security proxy to 1 or more web services (hosted separately). The intention is that developers will request resources via Azure API Management that will forward the request onto the appropriate web API given appropriate permissions. It is important that the underlying Web Service cannot …

The output window in Visual Studio shows lots of useful information; but it doesn't link it to the time. Sharepoint deployments take ages and I’m quite often distracted and forget whether I have triggered the deploy or not. I want to quickly check the output window and see when I last triggered the deploy. I found 2 …

It was good to see that an updated framework for Prism that works with WinRT available. We've used it now on a couple of Win8 app's and it has worked reasonable well. It's focus is on rapid app delivery and it has useful features to cater for some Win8 specific concerns; such as assembling Flyouts and handling …

I blogged previously about the difference when accessing Resources within a .net for Windows Store app as compared with a classic .Net application. Recently I included a 3rd party assembly into my app and received the exception: ‘ResourceMap Not Found’ This indicates that a request for a particular resource has failed …

Code coverage with TFS Build can be enabled by editing the build definition and modifying the Automated Tests settings. Unfortunately this may instrument more assemblies than you want it to. For example, Unit Test projects will appear as part of the code coverage results. To solve this there is a filter mechanism that …

On a recent TFS consultancy job, I was asked to monitor how long some builds spent waiting in the Build queue before Starting. My plan was to use the TFS API to query all builds with a status of ‘Queued’ and monitor the wait times. I wrote the code and everything seemed to work fine. However, after capturing a number …

The new Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 has taken me some getting used to. When working with source control in VS2012, there is no longer a ‘Pending Changes’ View that is independent of team explorer. I missed it because now I must navigate 3 menus into Team Explorer to find out what files I have modified. That was …

I installed Visual Studio 2012 release candidate yesterday. My quick n dirty conversion of Prism failed to compile. I’ve fixed the issue and released a new version on Codeplex http://metroprism.codeplex.com/releases/view/87705 During my original conversion, I used ‘CoreWindow.Current.Dispatcher’ (to try and dispatch a …

So Visual Studio 2012 RC is out …time to open up all our projects and see what no longer works. Hit an issue with my unit test projects, the namespace in these projects, ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting’ has been renamed to ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.UnitTestFramework’ A quick ‘Find & …

Quick Answer: It has a hidden file attribute applied. Changing the folder options to ‘Show Hidden Files and Folder’ revealed the SUO file adjacent to the solution file . When you open a Visual Studio Solution file, i.e. MySolution.sln, a corresponding MySolution.suo file is generated. This file is constantly updated …