Joshua Shapland - A Developer's Musings

Setting up SSL on an Azure App Service using Let's Encrypt

During this walk through I'll show you how I was able to generate a free and trusted Let's Encrypt certificate and use it to secure an Azure App Service Hosted website.

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Azure Service Bus Relay

Service Bus Relay (SBR) enables you to protect and store sensitive data on premises but still have it accessible to other components running in the cloud. SBR is a Microsoft

web services

Single Sign on with Azure Mobile Services in a UWP App

Migrating from Live SDK in Windows 8.1 Universal apps to UWP.

windows phone

Quickly Generate Design Time Data for Windows Phone

Generating sample / design data for your XAML view. It took me a bit of playing around to remember exactly how, so I decided to document the steps.

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Access Camera Roll in Windows 8.1 Universal App (WP + W)

In the past you'd use the MediaLibrary object in Windows Phone 7 . However, when writing a Universal Application using Portable Class Libraries this option is no longer available. I would argue that this is much easier to do now than it was previously, it just took a little time to figure out how.

development

Binding a ListPicker to an Enum

A common thing I find myself doing when using the MVVM pattern within Windows Phone development is binding an Enum to a list picker. Recently I took some time to expand my libraries to help with this.

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Localization of Windows Phone App Settings

I figure I should make the default value equal to whatever the current user's regional default is. This turned out to be much easier than I had expected.

windows

Why I Chose the Surface RT

I wanted to take the time quickly to write about my decision to purchase a Surface RT back in August and some of the factors that let me to my decision.

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Windows Phone Emulator Hotkey Resources

After becoming more serious about Windows Phone development I started digging into articles, books and other resources. Here are some great shortcuts I learned along the way, all I wish I would have known about sooner.

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Work around for the Unreliable GetGeopositionAsync()

My first application I developed for Windows Phone 8 relied heavily on the phone's current location, but I didn't need to track the location at all times. Naturally I tried to use the GeoLocator.GetGeopositionAsync() method found in all the documentation. However, I was

azure

Switching Blogging Platforms & Hosting in Windows Azure

Recently I decided to switch from my custom built MVC3 solution (which I developed while in College as a side project) to Ghost Blogging platform. This is largely due to the amount of effort it previously took for me to publish using my old platform.

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Easily Import External Data into a SQL Query Using SSRS 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010

I had a requirement to create an “exceptions list” on an extract to exclude certain employees from the extract. This exceptions list needed to be easily managed by non-technical business users, so it needed to have an easy to use interface. In addition to

SharePoint

Unable to Delete Content Type

Recently I’ve been doing a lot more work in SharePoint, specifically 2010. As anyone who has worked in SharePoint for any amount of time knows it has a lot of quirks! One that recently has been giving me some troubles is the error

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Fixing SQL Data Tools After VS11 Beta Uninstall

Recently after uninstalling Visual Studio 11 Beta from my machine I noticed that I was no longer able to work on Analysis Services cube projects or anything that utilized data visualization tools within Visual Studio 2010.

design

Open Source Design Resources

As a student free is nearly always the way to go, so today I want to share a couple free open source web design resources that I have come across while working on my site.