Exposing your Azure API App to PowerApps and Flow 04 May 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Flow, PowerApps Since some time Azure allows you to expose your API apps to PowerApps and Flow in an easy way. Just go to your API definition (make sure CORS is enabled) and click on the export-button. This gives you a dialog where you can download or get a link to your Swagger metadata-file. Download it, and clic... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 3 – More triggers) 03 May 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Azure, Flow, Logic Apps So, let's recap: we had regular connectors, we had poll triggers. So, we're still missing the push triggers. A poll trigger needs to be polled regularly by the logic app to see if it can continue. A push trigger does not have to be polled, it will tell the logic app when it needs to continue, passin... [More]
Deciding when to do a differential backup 02 May 2017 Nico-Jacobs SQL Server SQL Server allows for differential backups, which only backups extends modified since the last full backup. The advantage of these differential backups is that if only a small portion of your data has changed since the last full backup, you need less time and storage for your backups! The disadvanta... [More]
Angular Language Service 02 May 2017 Diedrik-De-Mits One of the best extensions you can find for your Angular programming needs is called the "Angular La [More]
Release management with different configurations 26 April 2017 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Azure, Team System So Visual Studio Team Services now has this automatic deployment option, where you can checkin your [More]
Watch out with calculated DateTime fields in CSOM 25 April 2017 Robrecht-Van-Caenegem SharePoint Development var localDateOnlyValue = ctx.Web.RegionalSettings.TimeZone.UTCToLocalTime((DateTime)item.FieldValues["DateOnly"]); ctx.ExecuteQuery(); I recently came across a baffling issue when using CSOM to connect to a SharePoint Online list to retrieve values from a Date and Time field and another field ca... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 2 – Triggers) 07 March 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael API Apps, Azure, Flow, Logic Apps In part 1, we saw how to add regular connectors for using in Azure Logic Apps. Remember: the purpose of these blog posts is just for pointing out some gaps in the documentation you'll find on the internet. Next to regular connectors, we can also create connectors to be used as connectors, i.e... [More]
Using Azure VMs as remote R workspaces in R Tools for Visual Studio 02 March 2017 Nico-Jacobs R, Visual Studio Running R on your local laptop is easy: you just download one of the R distributions (CRAN or Microsoft) and kick off RGui.exe. But if you’re a Microsoft oriented developer or data scientist you are probably familiar with Visual Studio. So you download and install R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) an... [More]
Creating connectors for your Logic Apps/Flow (Part 1–regular Connectors) 24 February 2017 Michael-Van-Wesemael Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, Logic Apps, API Apps, Flow Azure logic apps have been around for a while now, most of the time as a preview. These apps allow you to create workflow-like apps, by connecting so called Connectors together. These connectors are actually just REST-services, with some extra's, like the exposure of metadata by using Swagger... [More]
Using Microsoft Fakes with mscorlib.dll 29 January 2017 Peter-Himschoot Microsoft Fakes is a tool that allows you to replace any method of any .NET class. This makes it ide [More]