3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 We’re well under 2 months to Prairie Dev Con – West in Calgary, and it appears some of you need an extra push to register. So why attend? Well, there’s the three days and over 80 sessions spanning software ... 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West 0 0 0
Trials and Tribulations of Organizing A Full Day Workshop Lori Lalonde, January 1, 0001 Today I was finally able to post the registration site for an upcoming full day workshop that our .NET User Group had been anticipating for quite some time. Although this seems like a trivial thing to ... Trials and Tribulations of Organizing A Full Day Workshop 0 0 2
Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 I have seen a number of questions lately regarding how SQL Azure handles throttling and how to determine why the throttling occurred. Sometimes those questions are followed by another question asking how ... Understanding SQL Azure Throttling and Implementing Retry Logic 0 0 6
Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Fieldnote Summary Windows Azure Drives [1] provide a means to represent a file based (disk drive) persistent storage option for the various role types within Windows Azure Compute. Each of ... Making Windows Azure Drive Letter Persistent 0 0 0
SQL Azure Federation – Features & Usage Shaun, January 1, 0001 This is the second post about SQL Azure Federation. In my first post I described a little bit about the theory of data partitioning, included the different between the horizontal partitioning and the vertical ... SQL Azure Federation – Features & Usage 0 0 12
DBDeploy.Net 2 Robert May, January 1, 0001 We’ve used dbdeploy.net on a number of projects and have found it to be a useful tool, especially around CI environments. We recently started a Windows Azure project that uses SQL Server and discovered ... DBDeploy.Net 2 0 0 1
'Microsoft.ServiceBus.TransportClientCredentialType' is obsolete Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 Once you upgrade to the Windows Azure SDK 1.6 you also get the updated Microsoft Service Bus assemblies (version 1.6.0.0) that you can use for working with Windows Azure Service Bus (yeah, no longer AppFabric ... 'Microsoft.ServiceBus.TransportClientCredentialType' is obsolete 0 0 12
Windows Azure Service Bus November 2011 Release Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 I have been working on Windows Azure Service Bus for the recently concluded Azure Camps Yes, it is no longer referred as “Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus”. All the 3 components i.e. Service Bus, Access ... Windows Azure Service Bus November 2011 Release 0 0 35
Azure Postings–10/01/2012 BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Platform How to Sort Azure Table Store results Chronologically How to upload your Excel and CSV data to the Cloud - Blob Storage SQL Azure Database Notification and Job Scheduling Service ... Azure Postings–10/01/2012 0 0 0
WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Developme... Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 I wanted to introduce to you all to a wonderful book that I came across recently by, Shawn Wildermuth “Essential Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”. I never bought a text book ... WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Developme... 0 0 0
SQL Azure Federation – Introduction Shaun, January 1, 0001 The SQL Azure Federation had been publically launched several weeks ago and this is one of the most existing features I’m looking forward. This might be the first post of SQL Azure Federation, and hopefully ... SQL Azure Federation – Introduction 0 0 8
Review of DiscountASP.NET TFS Hosting Service Tarun Arora, January 1, 0001 With TFS 2010 a basic installation of TFS has been reduced to a matter of clicks, the pain however lies in getting an appropriate environment provisioned from the Infrastructure team. There will be planned ... Review of DiscountASP.NET TFS Hosting Service 0 0 3
Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 subodhnpushpak, January 1, 0001 I presented two talks on windows azure recently. One among them was focusing on Windows Phone 7 app development. The other one was on MVC3 ASP .Net app. The idea was to introduce how Windows Azure can ... Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 0 0 0
Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 subodhnpushpak, January 1, 0001 I presented two talks on windows azure recently. One among them was focusing on Windows Phone 7 app development. The other one was on MVC3 ASP .Net app. The idea was to introduce how Windows Azure can ... Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7 0 0 0
A Holiday Gift for Windows Azure node.js users John Alexander, January 1, 0001 The awesome Azure team is at it again! Earlier this month, they released an early preview of the new Windows Azure SDK for Node.js. They have just released the December Update with several new features, ... A Holiday Gift for Windows Azure node.js users 0 0 4
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates Jialiang, January 1, 0001 Wishing a very happy and blessed New Year to you in advance! A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on December 29th. We expect that its 11 new code samples covering typical ... Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework December Sample Updates 0 0 0
A Great Holiday Season for Azure Developers Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 There are a lot of reasons why the 2011 holiday season is a great time to take a look at Azure development. There are a number of offers and releases that allow you to start to explore cloud-based development ... A Great Holiday Season for Azure Developers 0 0 0
Expressing the Power iOS and Sync Framework with Microsoft Azure Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 So we’ve been working on an iOS app, that makes use of awesome power of Azure coupled with the ability to write an app that works truly offline and syncs when a network connection is available. I am just ... Expressing the Power iOS and Sync Framework with Microsoft Azure 0 0 0
Microsoft BizTalk 2010 - Line of Business Systems Integration Paul Petrov, January 1, 0001 I just finished reading new book on Microsoft BizTalk 2010 written by BizTalk colleagues Kent Weare, Richard Seroter, Thiago Almeida, Sergei Moukhnitski, and Carl Darski. There are many good books that ... Microsoft BizTalk 2010 - Line of Business Systems Integration 0 0 0
EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data... Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 I was playing with the new Membership API (System.Web.Providers) for the upcoming Virtual TechDays While I was trying out a lot of options for using as DB store, one of the obvious choices was SQL Azure. ... EFProviders require MultipleActiveResultSets=True for System.Data... 0 0 8
BizTalk Server 2010 R2 Announced Charles Young, January 1, 0001 Yesterday, Microsoft announced the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2010 R2 on the BizTalk Server blog site. This is advanced notice, given that this new version will ship six months after the release ... BizTalk Server 2010 R2 Announced 0 0 0
Daytona - Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Daytona - Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure Overview MapReduce is a framework for processing highly distributable problems across huge datasets using a large number of compute nodes. It is a generic ... Daytona - Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure 0 0 2
Anyone catch the Sept 2011 WA Service Bus flick? Daemon, January 1, 0001 Build 2011 announced the September release of the Windows Azure Service Bus. For those of you who have just tuned in, the WA Service Bus is part of the AppFabric middleware that enables almost seamless ... Anyone catch the Sept 2011 WA Service Bus flick? 0 0 0
Microsoft Philippines Event - Windows Azure Cloud Camp Vincent Maverick Durano, January 1, 0001 The Microsoft team will be conducting an event in Cebu regarding Windows Azure this coming December 8, 2011 at 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. So if you are new to Azure and want to learn this new exciting developer ... Microsoft Philippines Event - Windows Azure Cloud Camp 0 0 0
The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Overview Windows HPC Server 2008 is infrastructure for high-end applications that require high performance computing clusters – i.e. for scaling out parallelizable across many compute nodes in a grid. ... The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK 0 0 1
Part 3–Load Testing In the Cloud Automating Test Rig Deploy... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs Is this blog post worth your ... Part 3–Load Testing In the Cloud Automating Test Rig Deploy... 0 0 5
Windows Azure Development Resources Kevin Grossnicklaus, January 1, 0001 On November 28th, 2011 I had the opportunity to give a presentation at the St. Louis .NET User Group on my experiences developing software for the Windows Azure and SQL Azure platform. Having been at PDC ... Windows Azure Development Resources 0 0 0
Been diagnosed with Acute Windows Azure Diagnostics Understanding... Daemon, January 1, 0001 I have had a total of 2 years, 3 months, 2 hours of Windows Azure developer experience and it humiliates me to suicidal extents to confess that I am hardly conversant with the platform’s native Diagnostics ... Been diagnosed with Acute Windows Azure Diagnostics Understanding... 0 0 0
Windows Azure: Caching xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 I was poking around today and found this great article on caching: http://www.cloudcomputingde... Caching is a great way to boost application performance ... Windows Azure: Caching 0 0 0
Azure Postings–29/11/11 BizTalk Visionary, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Platform How to Sort Azure Table Store results Chronologically How to upload your Excel and CSV data to the Cloud - Blob Storage SQL Azure Database Notification and Job Scheduling Service ... Azure Postings–29/11/11 0 0 0
SWAG & SWENUG Security in the Cloud & Julfest Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) and Sweden .NET User Group (SweNUG) will be hosting a “Security in the Cloud” and Christmas event this Thursday. Sergio Molaro and Robert Folkesson will be presenting ... SWAG & SWENUG Security in the Cloud & Julfest 0 0 0
Part 2–Load Testing In The Cloud Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs Welcome to Part 2, In Part 1 ... Part 2–Load Testing In The Cloud 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 -- #1174 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Michael Collier, Samidip Basu, Jesse Liberty, Dhananjay Kumar, and Michael Crump. Above the Fold: WP7: "31 Days of Mango | Day #16: Isolated Storage Explorer" Samidip Basu Metro/WinRT/W8: ... Silverlight Cream for November 25, 2011 -- #1174 0 0 0
Windows 8 Will be Here Tomorrow; but Should Silverlight be Gone T... andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 The software industry lives within an interesting paradox. IT in the enterprise moves slowly and cautiously, upgrading only when safe and necessary. IT interests intentionally live in the past. On the ... Windows 8 Will be Here Tomorrow; but Should Silverlight be Gone T... 0 0 4
Part 1 - Load Testing In The Cloud Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to http://aka.ms/loadtfs Azure is fascinating, but even ... Part 1 - Load Testing In The Cloud 0 0 0
Azure Florida Association Dave Noderer, January 1, 0001 Herve Roggero, SQL Azure MVP, has created a virtual community to focus on Azure. Here is the outline from Herve: User Group Name: Azure Florida Association Purpose: Start a virtual Florida user group that ... Azure Florida Association 0 0 1
You cannot do cross joins in SQL Azure but there is a way around ... SeanBarlow, January 1, 0001 So I was asked today how to do cross joins in SQL Azure using Linq. Well the simple answer is you cant do it. It is not supported but there are ways around that. The solution is actually very simple and ... You cannot do cross joins in SQL Azure but there is a way around ... 0 0 0
Azure Florida Association: New user group announcement Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 I am proud to announce the creation of a new virtual user group: the Azure Florida Association. The missiong of this group is to bring national and internaional speakers to the forefront of the Florida ... Azure Florida Association: New user group announcement 0 0 1
Now Available – Windows Azure SDK 1.6 Shaun, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has just announced the Windows Azure SDK 1.6 and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 1.6. Now people can download the latest product through the WebPI. After you downloaded and installed ... Now Available – Windows Azure SDK 1.6 0 0 3
Windows Azure AppFabric: ServiceBus Queue WPF Sample xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 The latest version of the AppFabric ServiceBus now has support for queues and topics. Today I will show you a bit about using queues and also talk about some of the best practices in using them. If you ... Windows Azure AppFabric: ServiceBus Queue WPF Sample 0 0 1
Getting started with the Azure Hosted TFS (aka TFSPreview): Conne... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 The updates are installed, all you want to do now is get connected, authenticated and get going. The first step needed here is to open Visual Studio 2010, once opened then you need to get to Team Explorer. ... Getting started with the Azure Hosted TFS (aka TFSPreview): Conne... 0 0 0
Azure: Fault Tolerance for apps xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 Check out the Fault Tolerance Framework: http://windowsazurecat.com/... This is really sweet. You can download the source code, then open it in VS and build it. ... Azure: Fault Tolerance for apps 0 0 0
Reminder that this blog has moved and check out www.sixweeksofazu... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Just a gentle reminder that this blog has moved to http://ericnelson.wordpress... (as I still get folks contacting me via here) and a shout out for a great initiative (probably!) I’m pulling together ... Reminder that this blog has moved and check out www.sixweeksofazu... 0 0 0
Using Windows Azure table storage Shervin Shakibi, January 1, 0001 The Azure Table service, provides a semi-structured storage in the form of tables that contain a collection of entities, these entities have primary keys and set of properties. A property is a name, typed-value ... Using Windows Azure table storage 0 0 19
Creating a Windows Azure VM Role Shervin Shakibi, January 1, 0001 I wanted to have a VM that I could access remotely and thought why not take advantage of the VM role. So I just documented my steps, for those of you might be interested, but more importantly for myself, ... Creating a Windows Azure VM Role 0 0 17
Windows Azure for the ITPro presentation at MCT Summit Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Azure for the ITPro View more presentations from Enrique Lima ... Windows Azure for the ITPro presentation at MCT Summit 0 0 0
Working with the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit–Web In... Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 We have gone through several iterations of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit in the past, and while it was not a complex process to get up and running for me, well that was not the story for many. ... Working with the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit–Web In... 0 0 0
How to Detect If You Are Connected To A Federation Root Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 If you develop applications in SQL Azure, you may end up in a situation where your code needs to know if it is operating in the root database or in a Federation Member, or if it is connected to a regular ... How to Detect If You Are Connected To A Federation Root 0 0 0
Deadlettering in Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve just published an article on deadlettering on “Deadlettering in Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging”. It looks at how deadlettering can be used to handle poison messages, and messages that ... Deadlettering in Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging 0 0 0
SolidQ BI Center of Excellence xamlnotes, January 1, 0001 I am really proud to be part of the SolidQ BI Center of Excellence and work with Carl and others on the team. Check out the press release on Carl and the COE. In the future there will lots more info I ... SolidQ BI Center of Excellence 0 0 1