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    Posts by Giles Davies, Giles Davies helps customers with Application Development for Azure, in particular areas such as moving to Platform as a Service, Dev/Test, DevOps and implementing microservices with serverless and containers.

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    5 areas in which Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise extends Visual Studio 2017 Professional 

    08/06/2017
    • By Giles DaviesAzure Application Development Specialist

    Giles Davies takes a look at what Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise provides in each of five key areas, over and above what Professional offers….Read more

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    17 Reasons To Use Visual Studio 2017 

    14/03/2017
    • By Giles DaviesAzure Application Development Specialist

    Giles Davies takes a look at what’s new and why you should be using Visual Studio 2017 – 17 reasons for VS17!…Read more

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    6 differences between VS 2015 Enterprise and Pro 

    16/03/2016
    • By Giles DaviesAzure Application Development Specialist

    As we like to change edition names and move functionality around from time to time, here’s a concise summary of the differences between Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and Visual Studio 2015 Professional….Read more

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