Advanced Home Realm Discovery in Azure AD B2C
Home Realm Discovery. Or "The Many Ways of Guiding a User Through an Azure AD B2C Login Experience" if you will. Having the login experience taking you to the right endpoint for signing in instead of you clicking a number of times is smooth. Let's go over the options we have for doing so with Azure AD B2C.Using Azure Notification Hubs in Apache Cordova and Ionic Apps
Many of our customers use Apache Cordova or the Ionic Framework for their mobile apps as a way to deliver cross-platform mobile apps to their customers and employees. While Azure Notification Hubs doesn’t directly support these frameworks, Ionic supports most Apache Cordova plugins and there’s an official PhoneGap Push plugin you can use as well as a community-built plugin for Azure Notification Hubs apps running on Apache Cordova. This article shows you how to use these frameworks with Azure Notification Hubs.A Visual Introduction To Azure Fundamentals
Are you a visual learner? Do you like to see "the big picture" before you dive into details? Does seeing visual notes or metaphors help you understand new concepts better, and retain or recall them more effectively? Then this is for you. A Visual Introduction To Azure Fundamentals - the first in a series of visualized modules that I hope will be helpful for anyone exploring Azure Fundamentals, or preparing for the AZ-900 exam! Want to learn more? Check out this accompanying article at A Cloud Guru! Have questions, or want to see other modules visualized similarly? Leave me a comment on this post!
Introducing Microsoft Power Fx: the low-code programming language
Today the Power Platform introduces its formula language for low-code, Microsoft Power Fx. This language originates from Microsoft Excel and is already the foundation of the Microsoft Power Apps canvas. You may wonder, why does a low-code platform need a programming language? The truth is, point-and-click tools are great for quickly assembling experiences and workflows, but many apps need a layer of logic that goes beyond what is practical to drag and drop, for example: Show a list of customers who signed up in the last 7 days within 15 miles of this location. Highlight the newest entries in green. When a user clicks for more details, if the record has outstanding action items associated with it, pop those to the top of the screen. Custom logic traditionally needed to solve such problems is where low-code platforms have “hit a cliff” requiring traditional code, where the Low-code application development on Azure solution has stepped in. Power Fx enables 200+ million people globally who build with Microsoft Excel syntax to build custom logic, reducing much of the “cliff”. However, this does not reduce the integration capabilities of Azure and Power Apps but enhances them. Developers will cut their development time and cost by using Power Fx where the complexities of async coding are taken care of, Dataverse, Power Apps’ underlying data platform, entities and data types are first class objects, and guard rails prevent run away code and other common pitfalls. Additionally, developers can use Power Fx with tools they are already familiar with such as VS (Visual Studio) Code, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and their own build scripts and tools. Power Fx works with “pro-code” components created in JavaScript, C#, or other professional languages. Read the entire Power Fx announcement here.Azure Advocates Weekly Round Up - Web Developers Beginner Curriculum!
Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum all about JavaScript, CSS, and HTML basics. Each lesson includes pre- and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, an assignment and more.
