SOAP API to REST with Azure API Management and Visual Studio Code

A SOAP WSDL (Web Service Description Language) is an XML-based interface description language that is widely used by older APIs. With the modernization of Web standards, most APIs today use REST (Representational state transfer) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).  In some cases, there may...

Dataverse for Business Applications

With the improvements to the Microsoft 365 platform, there are ongoing changes and new concepts added to the platform. The former Common Data Service is now branded as the Dataverse.  This is a cloud-based solution that provides database and integration services to business applications hosted...

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with JavaScript

On production environments, most websites are running under Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). This is an encrypted channel that is designed to keep the data between a client browser and server secured.   When deploying a new website or application, we need to ensure that all traffic...

TypeScript TS7016 Could not Find Declaration Implicitly has any type

When building TypeScript modules, we may come across the TS7016 error. This error indicates that the modules being imported has no strongly typed definitions, and we are trying to use them in a project where type declaration is required. This is a more detail description of what this error may look...

Feature Branching and Pull-Request Strategy with Git, GitHub and VSCode

When a software development team grows, and we have multiple people working in parallel. Or  even if the team is small, but there are multiple feature changes, the source control versions can quickly become unmanageable with code conflicts. A way to solve this problem is to have developers work...