Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part One

First test - TeamViewer VPN   In this first test, we are connected via TeamViewer VPN (specification of this technology at the last post) to an Azure VM (Virtual Machine). This...

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Intro

  In these series of posts, we’re going to compare different ways of connecting to Azure. We’ll setup a web service and a client. We’re going to see which architecture...

Azure Search Index with 2 datasources

Recently I had the need to index documents stored in Azure Storage Blobs. Additionally I wanted to use the blob storage metadata also to add some information to those...

Azure Blob Storage Metadata 400 Bad Request

I was getting a 400 Bad Request when inserting blobs in Azure Blob Storage because I was setting metadata with non-ASCII characters. // Retrieve storage account from connection string. CloudStorageAccount storageAccount =...
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100 hours of fun: Tuga IT 2017!

Tuga IT is surely one of the best and biggest tech events happening at Portugal. Look at this: A three-day event with a full day of workshops and two full days...

Cloud Pro Pt – Meeting #3

Registration for Cloud Pro PT next meeting is open. Check out the awesome agenda: 18:30 - Welcome - Snacks 19:00 - Service Fabric - The Magic Happens Here - Luís Rato 20:00 -...

Cloud Pro PT: Game is on!

I'm extremely thrilled to announce the beginning of a new technical community Cloud Pro PT, which I am co-founding with André Vala, Ricardo Costa, Niko Neugebauer and Tiago Costa. We want it to be a dynamic and...

Speaker at Collab 365

Hi, I'm proud to announce that I was selected to present a session at Collab 365 Global Conference 2016. This is a global online conference delivering sessions about SharePoint, Office...

Add scheduled adaptive live tiles to your UWP app

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Today I'll help you add some bling to your UWP apps (and maybe something useful) with scheduled live tiles using the built-in features on the W10 SDK and some Azure...
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Playing with Azure Functions: Creating a Slack bot

Past March, Microsoft launched the preview of Azure Functions, often referred as an Amazon Lambda competitor. This being my first post about this topic, I will briefly introduce Azure Functions...