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Figure out the Parameters! Calling Azure REST APIs via Powershell Commandlets

Posted on July 10, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

In this post we’ll walk through the process on determining the needed parameters for the Azure Powershell Commandlet wrappers for the Azure REST APIs. It’s sometimes tricky! This is especially helpful if…

Calling Azure Rest APIs from VSTS Build/Release Tasks

Posted on July 7, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

I recently learned that VSTS Build & Release tasks have a built-in way to leverage Azure Powershell – cool! I needed to automate a bunch of steps in Azure and already have…

FileNotFoundException (msshrtmi) starting debugging in Visual Studio LightSwitch

Posted on June 23, 2016June 1, 2018 by Pete

I dabble in a variety of technologies and have found several great uses for Visual Studio LightSwitch. Recently I was building a quick website site (HTMLClient) for admins to maintain some data…

Using Fiddler to Simulate Whitelisting URLs through a Proxy

Posted on June 17, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

There’s a customer I was working with who had a restricted network and was trying to determine exactly why a piece of software was failing. In their environment, they had a proxy…

Nifty and FAST ‘Tags’ in the browser using JQuery, HTML, CSS, and JS

Posted on April 28, 2016June 23, 2018 by Pete

On one of my recent ASP.Net projects, I needed to enable a user to pick an arbitrary set of things from a long list and wanted to do this WITHOUT any round…

Hints when joining a New Team (or changing roles, projects, etc)

Posted on March 9, 2015May 11, 2018 by Pete

I’ve moved teams in Microsoft many times and discovered it’s very important to ‘land’ well in your new team. First impressions usually stick around for awhile! Here are the basics that helped…

Good Questions to ask Your Manager

Posted on February 7, 2015May 11, 2018 by Pete

I’ve been a manager of various size teams since being at Microsoft and really appreciated when my team members would start the good discussions about their careers! I love the hard questions…