'Developer Support Series' PGI Sessions (Audio) - Channel 9

Would you rather migrate your resources onto the cloud or retain them On-Premise? How many times did you have to "SETTLE" for an on premise VM as you did not find efficient integration solutions to expand your business to the cloud? Let's assume your application accesses data from your on premise network e.g. from a SAP, ERP, SQL, Web Server or any other system. You may also want to access your virtual machines in your Azure VNET. This session will equip you with all you need to know about On Premise Integration solutions for Azure App Services covering VNET Integration and Azure Relay Hybrid Connections.Here is a brief agenda for this sessionHow to connect to your on-premise environment? via VPN or ExpressRoute?How to connect the App service to your virtual network at first.How to access all resources within a VNETHow to design your VNET so that you can integrate it with Azure App ServiceHow to connect to an on-premise environment even without a VNET.

Convert your desktop app to a UWP app and enhance it with features such as Live Tiles, notifications, Cortana, and more! In this webinar you'll learn how to enable existing desktop applications (such as Win32 and .NET) to become part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) ecosystem. Link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-root

In this session we cover the following concepts related to SQL Server ReplicationDifferent types of Replication in SQL ServerTransaction replication work flow and troubleshooting latency – tipsMerge replication workflow and troubleshooting agent failuresUnderstanding Merge replication metadataReplication with SQL Server Availability groupsDemos for replication issues

With this session we will talk about the cloud load testing, what are the benefits, why should we adopt it.You can scale your tests to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users and generate load from multiple regions worldwide. It is quick, provide real time charts and graphs, get deeper insights about performance and lot more. Why load test in the cloud?Quick: Just one click gets you a performance lab in the cloud, no setup needed. Scale up or down based on your needs.Free load testing: Get 20,000 virtual user minutes every month to load test at no extra charge.Real-time charts and graphs: Watch your app's performance while your tests run. Share the results when your tests are done.Test where your users are: Test from different locations to reduce latency and simulate local conditions. Get deeper insights about performance: Get full server and client diagnostics when you simulate real-life load patterns for your app.

With each release of Visual Studio and TFS, new features and enhancements are added to provide a valuable set of tools for Continuous Delivery. With version 2015, we give you an overview of the improvements to these tools (IDE, debugger, new code quality tools, unit testing, etc.). We cover some of the key improvements to TFS & Visual Studio Online to support development and Test teams. There are few rather good changes in the license model, agile planning, lot of nice development features, the build and release system is completely new and is accessible from TFS web access, a wiki included as part of the Team Project. In addition, we also look into how we can take advantage of Visual Studio's tight integration with Azure cloud for deploying applications automatically, running load tests & monitoring the deployed applications.

With each release of Visual Studio and TFS, new features and enhancements are added to provide a valuable set of tools for Continuous Delivery. With version 2015, we give you an overview of the improvements to these tools (IDE, debugger, new code quality tools, unit testing, etc.). We cover some of the key improvements to TFS & Visual Studio Online to support development and Test teams. There are few rather good changes in the license model, agile planning, lot of nice development features, the build and release system is completely new and is accessible from TFS web access, a wiki included as part of the Team Project. In addition, we also look into how we can take advantage of Visual Studio's tight integration with Azure cloud for deploying applications automatically, running load tests & monitoring the deployed applications.

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud applications. Service Fabric has built-in support for lifecycle management, stateless and stateful services, performance at scale, 24x7 availability, and cost efficiency. Service fabric in Azure is ideal for highly available and scalable services, computation on non-static data, distributed graph processing and data analytic and workflows etc. In this session we will cover architecture of Service Fabric, programming model, framework and how Service Fabric works in Azure.

Azure WebJobs provide an easy way to run scripts or programs as background processes in the context of an App Service web app, API app, or mobile app. You can use WebJobs to process logs, take actions based on storage operations, send emails, etc. In this session we will look at how easy it is to create, deploy and manage WebJobs seamlessly with integrated tooling in Visual Studio. We will also look at the WebJobs Dashboard on the Azure portal which provides powerful management capabilities that give you full control over the execution of WebJobs 

During this PGI we will discuss in-depth concepts of HTTP2 and how it is drastically different from HTTP 1.1. Also we help you understand how HTTP2 improves current generation web. We will also discuss about the support for protocol from server side (Microsoft Windows 10 and ASPNET5) and client side browsers (IE, Firefox and Chromium) with several demos using network traces and how we can dissect/troubleshoot HTTP2.HTTP Where are we HTTP 1.1 and world of optionsIncomplete implementations of RFCShortcomings of HTTP Inadequate use of TCPTCP slowstartLatencyHead of line blockingWhat have we done to overcome? Spiriting, inlining, concatenationShadingHow it all started (SPDY protocol)Goals of HTTP 2HTTP2 concepts TLS or notBinaryMultiplexingPrioritiesHeader CompressionRESETSERVER PUSHHow it affects Administrators/ application developers?Support for HTTP2 Firefox, Chrome and IEServer support windows 10, nginx, aspnet5How to troubleshoot?Critiques of HTTP2What is next after HTTP2?

This is a recording of a PGI for developer MVPs, presented by engineers from India Global Technical Support Center on "Detect ASP.NET Performance Bottlenecks in a Matter of Minutes with PerfView_HD"