At the very outset much of this was learned through trial and error and with the video help of people like Steve Smith, Nick Chapsas, Julie Lerman and others.  Useful links to some of their work is at the bottom of this post. I'm writing this up because someone thought

Writing these damn queries always makes me feel stupid. Here's a sample where we need to filter on the values in an object and other values in a list contained inside the object, but need access to the parent object and associated child object when we're finished. var location = userAccountSummaries

This is the accounting of a hunting trip that nearly ended badly.  This document was found during a cleaning up exercise and has been reproduced here in its entirety.  Some of you will know these individuals.

Using Enums 1. Always declare a zero value, valid enum 2. Use ResourceDictionary to localize them. 3. For flags, remember there is a limit of 31 for an int and 63 for a long. 4. Microsoft docs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/enumeration-types] To create a normal

I have officially lost my mind. I've never run into so many roadblocks in my life on a single concept. Everything seems to be about halfway there, nothing works completely out of the box. And since the effort crosses so many platforms, frameworks and concepts, and since nothing holds still

I thought I'd write this all down before I forget it. Really hard to remember it after stepping away for a second. I'm using the Microsoft Azure Mobile App platform and I want to support a number of different identity providers and platforms. This is basically how it works: 1.

Adrian, Thanks so much for listening to these suggestions. I think some of them might be a little bit of an edge case (multiple users on a single device) but others seem to get a lot of play on various forums which suggests lots of folks are wrestling with them.