MSAL, or Microsoft Authentication Library, is an essential tool for developers aiming to implement robust authentication systems efficiently. It streamlines the integration of security protocols into applications, supporting various authentication methods such as OpenID Connect and JWT (JSON Web Tokens). MSAL enables developers to concentrate on application functionality while maintaining high security standards. Security in Technology The importance of robust …
.NET in the Cloud: How to Leverage AWS/Azure for Scalable Solutions
As enterprises increasingly adopt cloud technologies, the importance of scalable and efficient solutions like Microsoft’s .NET has never been more evident. This platform, compatible with leading cloud services like AWS and Azure, is ideal for both modernizing legacy systems and creating new applications. By leveraging AWS/Azure, businesses can enhance application performance and boost developer productivity. Explore how to leverage AWS/Azure …
The Visual Studio Experience with C# in VS Code
There is no doubt that VS Code is one of the most popular development IDEs around these days. With clean layouts and a broad library of extensions that cater to an amazing list of development languages, it’s easy to imagine why it’s so popular. However, when it came to C# development, there were comforts that could be found in Visual Studio but not in VS Code. That is until recently…
This year, Microsoft released an extension for VS Code that helps bring those missing comforts of developing C# in Visual Studio to VS Code: the C# Dev Kit extension, which is approaching 1 million downloads with active updates. If you are an API and UI developer looking to stay in a single IDE, or maybe a Linux developer who is not able to install Visual Studio, this should excite you.
In this post, we’ll walk through some of the features that this extension brings to VS Code.
Temporal.IO and Workflows in Enterprise Applications
In every software application I’ve ever worked on, no matter the industry or maturity of the team or number of weeks in a sprint, there have been three questions that always come up: What is the best way to center a
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? Should we use tabs or spaces? How should we implement complex workflows?
It was with that third question in mind that I stumbled upon a link in HackerNews a few weeks back on Temporal.io announcing that its .NET SDK is now in alpha.
If you aren’t in the know, Temporal is a library that lets you describe workflows as code. It’s available in multiple languages, but the Python flavor is the most popular.
So, I took a leap of faith, tried out the Temporal .NET SDK, and decided to recap my thoughts for you all as a blog. I’ll walk through, at a high level, what the Temporal approach is, the implications of workflows at the different zones of enterprise architecture, and where I see Temporal being useful in a large organization’s software strategy.
Code Tutorial: Integrating Avaya Agent For Desktop With React And SignalR
Keyhole Software gives readers an in-depth code walkthrough and tutorial for how to integrate Avaya Agent for Desktop using React and SignalR.
This integration allows the web-based application to asynchronously receive information about an inbound call, which enriches agents’ experiences and protects against context switching and double documenting. As for technology, AAfD (Avaya Agent for Desktop) is used as the softphone, React as the library to compose the SPA (Single Page Application), and SignalR as the bi-directional message hub.
The hypothetical scenario in this tutorial can be extended to many other use cases where there needs to be coordination between disparate systems, with an end user’s web browser being informed of the traffic without needing to do any long polling or other methodologies.
Asynchronous data flow is useful to many different business verticles, and SignalR is a powerful tool that will likely become a larger part of the custom Application Development enterprise ecosystem in years to come.
