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Greg Roe, Senior Application Development Manager, spotlights the exciting new opportunity that Windows 10 represents for developers and shares several great suggestions to help you get started!   By now you've likely heard Microsoft's recent  announcement of Windows 10.  This is an exciting new opportunity for developers to ri...

Scott Robinson, Senior Application Development Manager, walks us through a kickoff meeting with Premier Support for Developers and how we work with key technical and business stakeholders to build a delivery plan specifically for your business. There comes a point in every development organization when the decision is made to look into ...

Rick McGuire, Senior Application Development Manager, shares what many development teams are discovering in their effort to build better software: Agile has many advantages over traditional waterfall methodologies. Surprisingly there are still a lot of development teams clinging to the old Waterfall methodology for software development. ...

Rich Maines, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses how a strategic ADM relationship translates into business value for customers. What if you could have your own trusted advisor within Microsoft, a resource whose primary responsibility is to maximize the business value of your investments in Microsoft technologies? The basic...

I was able to work out a model for continued open source development of ImmutableObjectGraph -- at least in a limited way. This means that the 16 month silence on the public repo is over, and I was able to push a bunch of the commits I had been keeping internal to the public. For those of you not already familiar with the library/tool, you can c...

Derrick Sharpe, Senior Application Development Manager, talks about application compatibility and how to minimize the risk associated with OS end of life transitions. In case you haven’t heard by now Windows Server 2003 support ends on July 14, 2015.  Microsoft will no longer patch Windows Server 2003 for new security vulnerabilit...

Linkai Yu, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses his experience with enterprise applications that fail after being deployed in production and how Premier Developer works with customers to resolve and prevent these types of issues. Even though Applications Go Through Rigorous Tests It’s true that most applications go th...

When it comes to choosing a service provider to partner with in your business, the field is cluttered with countless vendors and possibilities.  With so many options to choose from, finding just the right fit for your organization can be a daunting task.  Even within Microsoft there are many different types of services offered and groups ...

Software is our era’s driving force of innovation.  It is constantly changing how we live and work, and businesses everywhere are adapting to mobile, connected, and global economies.  Cloud innovations that open new markets and optimize resources are creating competitive advantages on a daily basis – and these advantages are capitalized upon by a m...

When a method may throw for more than one reason, the thoughtful programmer might ask “which exception should be thrown?”Consider a method which performs argument validation, is cancelable, and also might throw based on the state of the object. What order should these validations occur so that the best exception is thrown? Here is my ow...