In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Adrian Hall, Principle Program Manager on Visual Studio Mobile Center and Azure Mobile Apps. Adrian joins us to go over how you can debug Azure Mobile Apps locally and while running in Azure, how you can view log events as they come in, as well as to talk about his free online book on developing Xamarin apps with Azure Mobile Apps. After detailing how you can access and read his book, including how you can do it offline, Adrian walks though some handy tips for debugging issues you may run into with Mobile Apps. Links from the show: [01:10] - How to Develop Mobile Apps with Azure and C#[03:30] - Debugging Azure Mobile Apps[05:47] - Turning on Diagnostics[08:16] - Using PostMan to access your backend[10:42] - Enabling debugging through Visual Studio[17:30] - Monitoring your app backend with Live HTTP Traffic[20:48] - Debugging Locally[25:38] - Debugging AuthenticationAdrian's Book on Developing Xamarin Apps with AzureUsing the Visual Studio DebuggerDebugging AuthenticationDebugging Offline CacheRunning Azure Mobile Apps with Azure FunctionsLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @nzthiagoFollow @fizzyinthehall

In this episode Chris Risner and Hannah Krager are joined by Chetan Agarwal, Principal Program Manager on the Azure Compute Team. Chetan joins us to talk about Managed Disks, a greatly simplified way of managing storage accounts used with VM disks. When using Managed Disks, you just specify if you want Premium or Standard storage and the size of disks you want and the service handles everything else for you. Managed Disks also offers new features such as availability set isolation, snapshots, and images. Links from the show: [00:53] - Basics of Managed Disks[05:08] - Availability Set Isolation[10:22] - Managed Disks in the portal[17:50] - Quick Start Templates with Managed Disks support[23:15] - CLI 2.0 and Managed DisksAnnouncing Managed DisksManaged Disks OverviewAzure Quickstart Templates on GitHubTemplates with Support for Managed DiskUsing Managed Disks with Azure ACSMigrating to Managed DisksAPI Reference: Creating and Updating Managed DisksCreating Managed Disks from the 2.0 CLIPowershell updates for Managed DisksSwagger Docs for Managed DisksManaged Disks on Tuesdays with CoreyLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @nzthiagoFollow @chagarw

In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Brady Gaster, Senior Program Manager focusing on Microsoft's technical documentation and the new docs.microsoft.com site. Brady joins us to talk about an Azure Tools extension he's been working on for Visual Studio Code which enables developers to create and access Azure resources from within VS Code. We walk through installing the extension into VS Code, authenticating against Azure, and then using several of the different capabilities of the tools. Links from the show: [00:58] - Brady's presentation[07:34] - Features of the Azure Tools extension[10:53] - Installing and logging in with the tools[13:50] - Starting to use the toolsAzure Tools for Visual Studio Code extension in the marketplaceVisual Studio Codedocs.microsoft.com our new unified tech doc centerExtension source code on GitHubLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @nzthiagoFollow @bradygaster

In this episode Haishi Bai and Ryan Volum are joined by Josh Caplan, Senior Program Manager on the Azure Analysis Services team. Analysis Services has typically shipped with SQL Server on premises, but now it has been implemented as a fully managed service in Azure. It allows you to manage data modeling and create BI solutions from tabular data in the cloud or on-premises. Links from the show: [01:21] - Intro to Analysis Services[07:01] - Creating a model[11:22] - Viewing the model in Power BI Desktop and Excel[18:31] - Loading data and refreshing the cache with an Azure Function[23:17] - Pricing[26:00] - Security modelAnnouncing Azure Analysis Services previewAzure Analysis ServicesLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @haishibai2010Follow @NotABotRyanFollow @JoshCaplan1984

In this episode Chris Risner and Lucas Huet-Hudson are joined by Jason Shaver, Program Manager on the Azure Open Source Tools Team. On that team, Jason works on the new Azure Command Line Interface 2.0. The new CLI was built to be cross-platform and work well with tools that many people are used to using (VSCode, Emacs, grep, grok, etc). This includes the ability to change the format of the data the CLI prints out from tabular (very human readable), to JSON, TSVs, and more. Another great aspect of the new CLI is the ease of installation and distribution. You can now install the CLI through appropriate package installers on every OS. One of the reasons for the ease of installation of the new CLI is that it is built with Python. Links from the show: [01:48] - Demoing the new CLI[04:56] - Outputting data to JMESPath[09:50] - Why we built a new CLI[11:35] - Productivity featuresAnnouncing the 2.0 PreviewInstalling the CLI 2.0 PreviewAzure CLI 2.0 on GitHubLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010

In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Anton Babadjanov, Program Manager on the API Management team. Anton joins us to go over some of the new features API Management has released since the team was last on the show over a year ago. Anton starts with a brief review of API Management and then jumps into the new features, starting with it's presence in the modern Azure portal including adding new APIs, examining the steps and policies used with individual APIs, testing API calls, and more. Included in this is a look at the new VNet support for API Management. Anton then goes over one of the more highly requested features: support for SOAP web services. Next we take a look at how Role Based Access Control has been set up to map to capabilities within API Management. Anton finishes by showing how you can now alter the look and feel of your developer portal using templates. Links from the show: [07:20] - API Management in the Modern Azure Portal[08:15] - VNet Support[18:16] - Properties support[22:43] - Working with Soap Services[25:30] - Testing API Calls[27:24] - Role Based Access Control[31:02] - Modifying Configuration through a Git repo[33:20] - Modifying Developer Portal TemplatesAzure API Management Landing PageAzure API Management BlogAPI Management RoadmapAPI Management DocsAPI Management User VoiceLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010Follow @nzthiagoFollow @antonbaa Follow @azureapimgmt

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Thomas Dohmke, Group Program Manager on Visual Studio Mobile Center (now Visual Studio App Center). Thomas joins us to go over the features of the new service and the features it provides mobile developers. App Center combines numerous other features including: HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, Azure Mobile Engagement, Xamarin Insights, Azure App Service, and CodePush. App Center combines these features into one easy to use offer that is capable of building your mobile apps (including iOS apps without needing your own mac), automating beta app distribution, automating UI Tests, providing usage insights and crash reports, and much more. Links from the show: [04:36] - Visual Studio App Center demoVisual Studio App Center landing pageRequest an invite to App CenterApp Center documentationLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010Follow @ashtomFollow @mobilecenter

In this episode Haishi Bai is joined by Jean Lozano, Sergiy Chernets and Stanley Chen from MediaValet. Jean, CTO of MediaValet, shares MediaValet's journey to Azure, and reviews how MediaValet's system evolves with the platform. Then, Sergiy reviews several key concepts and principles in Domain Driven Design (DDD), and how MediaValet maps these concepts to Microsoft Service Fabric Actor programming model. The team also discusses how they implement the Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern and Event Sourcing on Service Fabric. Finally, Stanley walks through some conceptual codes showing how to implement a Process Manager using reminders that allow actors to communicate in an asynchronous fashion. As we see more and more customers using Azure for their large-scale, mission-critical workloads in production, we try to bring more patterns & best practices episodes into the Cloud Cover show to help you to get the most out of Azure. Please let us know if you want to see more of such episodes! Links from the show: [01:32] - Jean Lozano: MediaValet's journey to the cloud[14:28] - Sergiy Chernets: DDD principles and concepts [24:03] - Sergiy Chernets: Mapping DDD concepts to Service Fabric actors[38:16] - Stanley Chen: Conceptual code demoMediaValetLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010Follow @MediaValet

In this episode Haishi Bai and Romit Girdhar are joined by Swaroop Krishnamurthy, Senior Program Manager of Azure Active Directory B2C. After a brief introduction of Azure Active Directory B2C, Swaroop shows a couple of use cases of B2C. Then, he shows the end-to-end process of creating a B2C tenant, registering an application, configuring different policies, and customizing the user experiences. Links from the show: [04:04] - Use case: Real Madrid[06:29] - Use case: State of Indiana[07:40] - Demo: Creating and using an Azure Active Directory B2C tenantAzure Active Directory B2C pricingLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010Follow @swaroop_kmurthyFollow @azuread

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai do a review of recent news and announcements for Azure. They cover the following topics: Azure App Service: App Service with Linux SupportAzure App Service: MySQL in-app PreviewAzure App Service: Logic Apps GAMicroservices: Service Fabric on Linux PreviewMicroservices: Windows Server Containers on ACS PreviewMobile: Azure Mobile Apps Node Server SDK v3Mobile: HockeyApp Data in Application InsightsMobile: Notification Hubs enables APNS PriorityMedia: Face RedactionMedia: Motion DetectionSearch: New Search Tiers GAIaaS: N, F, L, H Series VMsIaaS: Large Instances for SAP HANAIaaS: Expiration Dates for VMs in Azure DevTest LabsTooling: Azure CLI 2.0 PreviewPricing: Decreased VM costsExpansion: Germany, UK, FranceData: JSON Support in Azure SQL Database GAData: Azure AD in SQL Database / Warehouse GAData: Azure Storage Node.js SDK GASecurity: Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database GASecurity: Storage Service Encryption for Blog Storage GASecurity: Encryption at REST with Azure Site Recover GASecurity: Azure Active Directory B2C in North America GACompliance: New White PapersCompliance: PCI AoCCompliance: Microsoft Cloud behind Privacy ShieldLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010