Recording of Microsoft Graph Toolkit session from Valo Fest 2020 💛

https://youtu.be/YNimSWQ72UE YouTube hosted recording of Building Apps Super Using The Microsoft Graph Toolkit session by Cameron Dwyer You can also view all the other awesome sessions from Valo Fest 2020 on YouTube

How to report on serialized JSON object data in Application Insights/Azure Monitor using Kusto

Application Insights is great for collecting telemetry from your application. You have a lot of control and in addition to the telemetry automatically collected you can also make your own calls to log custom telemetry events and collect variable/state data from your application. This type of data can be very useful for troubleshooting and diagnosing... Continue Reading →

How to use Application Insights Custom Properties in Azure Monitor Log (Kusto) Queries

Azure Application Insights is great for easily adding telemetry to your application across a variety of languages (.Net web apps, Azure functions, .Net Framework / Core apps, JavaScript SPAs and more). The telemetry is logged back to an Application Insights instance in your Azure tenant. You can then view all the reported telemetry via the... Continue Reading →

Building Apps Super Fast using the Microsoft Graph Toolkit

I had the pleasure of virtually emerging from my COVID bunker to present at the amazing M365 May event. This was my first virtual presentation experience and although a little weird to not have people to talk to and interact with, I still had a lot of fun. Thank you to everyone that joined the... Continue Reading →

Office 365 Developer News from Microsoft Ignite 2019

30,000+ people at a single conference amazes me. The shear size of the food halls prepped and ready to go is epic. Navigating the conference schedule is daunting - there's over 1000 sessions and it's so easy to be present at the conference and yet miss a lot of announcements. While I don't pretend to... Continue Reading →

2019 Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp Sydney

We recently ran the Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp at the Microsoft Reactor in Sydney, and it was a sold out event! A room full of eager developers made for a fun day. The major subjects covered were Microsoft Graph API, SharePoint Framework Extensions and Microsoft Teams. We naturally saw a lot of interest from... Continue Reading →

Why I believe Office Add-ins are the underrated productivity enabler

We are living through the age of digital transformation, where businesses are finding new and novel ways to embrace technology to change processes and gain competitive advantages. This has seen almost all of our once paper based documentation make it's way into digital form. The core Office product suite of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook... Continue Reading →

Top 6 Fiddler tips for developers

Fiddler is one of those development tools that makes me wonder what I did before it was around. If you've been hiding under a rock for the last decade (or just getting into web development) Fiddler is a web debugging proxy and it's super useful for developers to see all the HTTP network traffic. Once... Continue Reading →

Azure App Service: My Experience with Auto-Scale Out

I was recently testing the automatic scaling capabilities of Azure App Service plans. I had a static website and a Web API running off the same Azure App Service plan. It was a Production S1 Plan. The static website was small (less than 10MB) and the Web API exposed a single method which did some... Continue Reading →

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