Deploying a Static Web App via DevOps
If you are building an application or a website today, all the rage is to create your site with Continuous integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to make life easier. And why wouldn’t you want to do this? It is all about automation,…
Deploying Socket.IO to Azure Web App
Building applications in today’s world requires real-time web functionality to applications. This used to be considered an extra, a nice to have, but in todays development world it is now considered required. So what is a real-time web functionality? The…
Taking a Spin With the Teams Toolkit
At Microsoft Build 2020, the Teams Development team announced the preview version of the Teams Toolkit. I have been fortunate to see this go from napkin stage all the way to general availability. I thought it would be fun to…
The Web API Series
Creating amazing applications in Microsoft Teams is getting easier and easier each day. There is an ever increasing number of code samples and more on the internet. One area that doesn’t get a lot of attention is the backend development…
Microsoft Teams installs as a VDI Client – But Should It?
Microsoft has done an amazing job of detailing how the Microsoft Teams VDI client is installed to the workstations. On the Microsoft Docs page they also detail all of the limitations of the VDI Client. This list of limitations has gotten smaller…
Microsoft Releases Typescript 4.0
Microsoft has announced the release of TypeScript 4.0. The latest version of its open-source JavaScript superset. For those unfamiliar with TypeScript, Microsoft’s Daniel Rosenwasser explains it, “If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of JavaScript by…
Bookmarks
Front-end web UI/Framework KendoUI – Ultimate JS UI Components Bootstrap – Layout, JS, CSS and More Skeleton – Super lightweight alternative to Bootstrap Javascript fullPage.js – To create fullscreen scrolling websites / single page websites lunr.js – Simple full-text search Trip.js – Help you customize a…
About The Argyle MVP
TheArgyleMVP is the home of the SkypeValidator Website, The Validator Teams App and general information and community blog. SkypeValidator can be found at https://skypevalidator.com and was created for the planning, documenting and validation of your Skype and Lync deployments. The…
Using KendoUI Template with External Files
Many years ago when I started my journey into the development world I was all about VB. Somewhere along that journey, I jumped over to C# because it made sense and all of my websites quickly transitioned to ASP.NET Web…
Update Your Phones (Soon!)
UPDATE: The can has been kicked down the road. You now have till January 2020. On Thursday of last week, Microsoft dropped a post on the Tech Communities page with pretty much no context. Here is the announcment: “To provide…