Introduction to iBeacons with Xamarin – Rod Howarth

Developers have been using GPS and WiFi location detection to enhance their mobile applications and reduce the amount of input required by users by detecting where the user is at a given point in time. However these location detection techniques can only give an accuracy of approximately 10 metres, and are unreliable when the user…

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Project Management with Visual Studio Online | Dev Superpowers Episode #5 | Damian Brady

In this session Damian Brady (SSW Solution Architect) will show you how to use Visual Studio Online to manage all aspects of your development project. Topics covered include: Getting started with visualstudio.com Source control features Agile project management features Team collaboration features Development and testing Application deployment Monitoring your application Pricing Sign up now to be…

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Using Virtualisation to Debug Mobile Applications | Craig Woollett

Virtualisation is the core of cloud technology but it also provides an opportunity for developers to simulate production environments for ease of testing and debugging. This presentation demonstrates debugging Web API for an Android mobile application using Genymotion and Visual Studio as part of a virtual test network. Also there will be a demonstration of…

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ASP.NET Identity using vNext | Dev Superpowers Episode #11 | Ben Cull

Previous versions of ASP.NET Membership have left a bad taste in many developers mouths, and some are now dangerously out of date. In this episode of Dev Superpowers, Ben Cull will take you through the latest, greatest and safest way to get your membership system up and running using ASP.NET Identity, OWIN and Dependency Injection.…

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Controlling NuGet packages in your solutions with Marcel de Vries

SSW’s Danijel Malik speaks to Marcel de Vries at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle. They talk about two very important things when dealing with NuGet packages; licensing and vulnerabilities. Many people just pull in new packages being unaware of potential traps they might walk into. Marcel explains how to deal with these kind of…

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Visual Studio extensibility & Web Essentials with Mads Kristensen

SSW’s Danijel Malik speaks to Mads Kristensen at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle. They talk about Visual Studio extensibility and Mads’ Web Essentials extension. Mads explains the pain he had to go through to abstract the code so that others can easily contribute to the project. In less than 10 minutes he demonstrates its…

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AngularJS and keeping up to date with John Papa and Ward Bell

Damian Brady speaks to John Papa and Ward Bell at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle. They discuss how developers can keep up with the constant change in the industry, as well as the upcoming changes to Angular JS and industry reactions to it. Links: • Breeze JS and Breeze • Angular Style Guide •…

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