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Today I’ll show you how to create a small console application with a Step by step: .NET Core, Azure Service Bus and AMQP example. First be aware of the following prerequisites: **OS** **Prerequisites** Windows Windows: You must have .NET Core SDK for Windows or both Visual Studio 2015 Update 3* and .NET Core 1.0 for Visual Studio installed. linux, mac or docker checkout .NET Core You will also need an Azure Service Bus namespace, topic and subscription with the correct set of credentials. (Start here: How to use Service Bus topics and subscriptions if you don’t know how to configure the Service Bus)

Today I’ll show you how to create a small console application with a Step by step: .NET Core and Entity Framework Core example. First be aware of the following prerequisites: **OS** **Prerequisites** Windows Windows: You must have .NET Core SDK for Windows or both Visual Studio 2015 Update 3* and .NET Core 1.0 for Visual Studio installed. linux, mac or docker checkout .NET Core Now let’s start:

Last week .NET Core was released, and the first thing I tried to solve was how to Add Swagger to your .NET Core Web API: Dependencies # At the time of writing you should add the following dependency to your project.json file

I’ve been working on a small IoT project where we expose a simple REST API and use RavenDB Embedded as the database. Once we enabled Swagger on our project we noticed that the generated documentation was not only showing our API but those exposed by RavenDB too. So the question came up: how can we Remove RavenDb’s API from Swagger Documentation?

Stop or Start all WebApps in your Azure subscription with Stop-Start-All-WebApps.ps1 a simple PowerShell workflow runbook that will help you automate the process of stopping or starting every single WebApp (Website) you’ve deployed. The script receives two required parameters: Stop: If set to true stop the WebApps (Websites) otherwise start the WebApps (Websites) CredentialAssetName: The name of a valid Credential Asset (AutomationPSCredential) you must have previously configured. As you can see below, the script is quite simple and uses the following PowerShell Activities and Cmdlets:

Backup your Team Services Git Repositories with VSTS Vault: A simple windows service or console application designed to keep a local copy of all your code. Since January 2016 we’ve moved the source code of more than 30 projects to Git repositories hosted by Visual Studio Team Services. Moving to the cloud has some downsides and one thing that kept us thinking was the need to be sure that in the event of an internet connection failure or a Team Services outage we would be able to access our code and deploy hot fixes for our applications as part of our data protection plan.

Let’s talk about NHInsights an OracleManagedDataClientDriver for NHibernate and Application Insights If you use Oracle and NHibernate and you are trying to use Application Insights to diagnose issues with your database calls you will notice that for ASP.NET applications the out-of-the-box dependency monitor currently reports calls to these types of dependencies:

In this post I’ll just show the list of PowerShell commands needed to Create an Azure Site to Site VPN and give you some tips when using a Check Point Security Gateway. First things first! so if you have not installed and configured Azure PowerShell go for it: How to install and configure Azure PowerShell

En esta sesión: Cloud Design Patterns: Prepara tu aplicación para Azure discutiremos los beneficios de aplicar patrones en el desarrollo de aplicaciones para la nube y los problemas que estos intentan resolver: disponibilidad, escalabilidad, resiliencia, seguridad, etc.. Esta es la agenda: Design for the Cloud Problem Areas in the Cloud Availability

One of the great things about Azure is the possibility to Export Azure Resource Groups Templates. Each template is a json file containing the exact configuration of the services you’ve provisioned in a Resource Group. Using this templates you can treat your Infrastructure as code and repeatedly deploy your application during every stage of the application lifecycle in the same way, each and every time.

Yesterday I cleared the **70-532 Develping Microsoft Azure Solutions **exam, and I want to share with you tips about the exam and the resources I used to study: Should you take the exam? If you are a Developer or Software Architect looking to validate your Microsoft Azure skills then this exam is for you. Also note that Microsoft expects you to:

For the last couple of months I’ve been using Application Insights to monitor, detect and diagnose performance issues in our applications. Last week I noticed that the Analytics button on the Application Insights blade was working: Once you click it, your browser will open the Application Insights Analytics page with the following taxonomy:

Over the last couple of months, I’ve noticed that a lot of companies are trying to hire DevOps Engineers or DevOps Experts and I have to ask what are these companies looking for? Reading some of the job descriptions I found out that some are looking for experts on the tooling associated with infrastructure automation such as Chef or Puppet while others search for Developers with infrastructure knowledge.

A couple of years ago I started to work with one of my clients to implement an on-premises Service Bus solution. While investigating the options I discovered a nice library, EasyNetQ: an easy .NET API for RabbitMQ, which inspired me to create a very similar project to simplify the use of pub/sub messaging with Service Bus 1.1 for Windows Server.

I recently passed the 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions exam, and I want to share with you tips about the exam and the resources I used to study: Should you take the exam? If you are a Solutions or Software Architect looking to validate your Microsoft Azure skills then this exam is for you. Also note that Microsoft expects you to:

Four months ago I cleared the PMP exam as part of a program launched by @SogetiSpain and I want to share with you that the book: “PMP Rapid Review" by Sean Whitaker was key to success. "#PMP Rapid Review" by @SeanWhitakerPM was like an ETL placed between the #PMBOK & my brain. Guess what? I cleared the exam! cc @MSLearning

Since the year started I’ve been working hard with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) with Git as source control. I was getting tired of entering my git credentials on each clone, pull or push, on Windows or Mac OS X, so this weekend I decided to surf the web and look for a multi-platform solution.

You just inherited someone else’s code and you feel like the task is going to be impossible. You are overwhelmed by the lack of documentation, you also find out that there are no tests in place and you wonder how on earth you will make the requested changes without breaking things. Yes you are scared!

Maybe I was 12 when I listened to ‘Mr Roboto’ by Styx for the last time. The song was recorded for the album ‘Kilroy Was Here’ in 1982. That was 11 years before the first release of the Mosaic web browser, 17 before the term ‘Internet of Things’ was coined and approximately 30 years before the rise of IoT.

Any application that is critical to running the mainstream operation of a business can be considered a mission critical application. These applications should be sustainable, maintainable, flexible and adaptable to keep up with the pace of today’s evolving nature of business. “Change is the essential process of all existence.” — As aptly stated by Mr. Spock in Star Trek: The Original Series.