Both Fall and Spring time each year mark times when Microsoft normally announces changes to the Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) program. It was 2 years…
Written by Charles Petzold, the “Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms” book is a 1200 page deep dive for C# developers who want to write applications…
There have been a few incarnations of the Microsoft Azure Management Portal over the years. The current state is a fairly easy to use Web…
It seems that pretty much everyone is getting in on the IoT Game these days. There is a plethora of IoT boards, devices, sensors and…
For years it’s been difficult to migrate a database that was built in SQL Server to Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Originally, the T-SQL support in…
Microsoft has been hard at work to integrate all the existing Service Management API based services (such as VMs, Storage, Service Bus, etc) over to…
It’s important for today’s decision makers to understand how to create a mobile app development strategy. This can be key to opening up new business…
There are many IoT hardware boards on the market today. Windows 10 IoT Core has some very specific hardware requirements, so only a few of…
Traditionally building Internet of Things (IoT) devices using a platform such as the Raspberry Pi required you to know a little about electronics. You needed…
All software has errors. The Microsoft Azure Portal is no different. When this happens you’ll receive one of two different alerts of the error; either an…
Fragments is an interactive crime drama for Microsoft Hololens, where you follow the clues to solve a mystery that take place in your real-world space.…
The Internet of Things hardware landscape is heating up. There’s tons of devices available with many new devices being released every few months. One of the…
The IoT hardware landscape is ever changing from the new Raspberry Pi 3 to various Arduino boards. One thing Raspberry Pi has offered that Arduino…
There are many excellent reasons to use Microsoft Azure to host applications and enterprise systems. There’s even plenty of criticisms on it being expensive to…
On Aug 17, 2016 I gave a “Getting Started with IoT” talk at the Milwaukee Azure group. In my talk I covered the basics of…
Windows PowerShell the new Shell (first released in 2006) for Windows that provides the ability to implement Task Automation, and Configuration Management via a Command-Line…
Want to get started with Power BI, but don’t know where to start? The “Introducing Microsoft Power BI” free eBook from Microsoft Press may be…
It’s been quite some time since we last heard details about the upcoming N-Series Virtual Machines (VMs). in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft recently announced further details on…
One of the many new changes with the release of the Windows IoT Core Anniversary Update was the addition of support for the official Raspberry…
Having difficulty figure out what SD Cards to use with Windows IoT Core? It’s not as straight forward as just picking up any SD card.…
