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
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
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
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
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)
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
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…