A Visual Studio Release Grows in Brooklyn andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Yesterday, Microsoft held its flagship launch event for Office 2010 in Manhattan. Today, the Redmond software company is holding a local launch event for Visual Studio (VS) 2010, in Brooklyn. How come ... A Visual Studio Release Grows in Brooklyn 0 0 0
Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC 2 Role with Silverlight GeekAgilistMercenary, January 1, 0001 I was working through some scenarios recently with Azure and Silverlight. I immediately decided a quick walk through for setting up a Silverlight Application running in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Application would ... Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC 2 Role with Silverlight 0 0 1
My History with Agile Robert May, January 1, 0001 I’m going to write my history with Agile here. That way, in future posts, I can refer back to it, instead of typing it out in the post that contains information you may actually want to read. Note that ... My History with Agile 0 0 1
Excellent Windows Azure benchmarks Sarang, January 1, 0001 The Extreme computing group has released a fairly comprehensive set of benchmarks for almost all aspects of WA. They have also provided the source code to alleviate all doubts that may surface with the ... Excellent Windows Azure benchmarks 0 0 1
Getting Windows Azure SDK 1.1 To Talk To A Local DB Richard Jones, January 1, 0001 Just found this, if you’re using Azure 1.1, which you probably will be if yo'u’ve moved to Visual Studio 2010. To change the default database to something other than sqlexpress for Development Storage ... Getting Windows Azure SDK 1.1 To Talk To A Local DB 0 0 0
Free Windows Azure training in Reading, UK on the 25th of May for... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 The 6 weeks of Windows Azure training is full (500 registration in around a week) but it turns out we have a few places free on the 25th if you can make it to Reading. 14 places when I last checked (today, ... Free Windows Azure training in Reading, UK on the 25th of May for... 0 0 0
Azure – Part 6 – Blob Storage Service Shaun, January 1, 0001 When migrate your application onto the Azure one of the biggest concern would be the external files. In the original way we understood and ensure which machine and folder our application (website or web ... Azure – Part 6 – Blob Storage Service 0 0 3
FREE Online Azure Workshop includes a **FREE Azure Account** Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 My friend and all around good guy, Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Carolinas, Brian Hitney, along with fellow Microsofties Jim O’Neil and John McClelland will be presenting a FREE Windows Azure ... FREE Online Azure Workshop includes a **FREE Azure Account** 0 0 1
IronRuby rocks at IronRuby-rocks.com Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 My colleague Edd (who wrote two great guest posts for me on IronRuby) just pointed me at a new site ironruby-rocks.com. It is early days for the site but I felt it was worth some additional exposure even ... IronRuby rocks at IronRuby-rocks.com 0 0 0
SyncToBlog #11 Stuff and more stuff Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Just getting more stuff “down on paper” which grabbed my attention over the last couple of weeks. http://www.koodibook.com/ is live. This is a a rich desktop application built in WPF by some ex-colleagues ... SyncToBlog #11 Stuff and more stuff 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2010 -- #851 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Carlos Figueira(-2-), Subodh Pushpak, Gergely Orosz, John Papa, Mike Snow(-2-), Rishi, Tim Heuer, Stefan Olson, and David Anson. Shoutouts: Josh Holmes blogged about a cool app the City ... Silverlight Cream for April 29, 2010 -- #851 0 0 0
Miami 311: Built on Windows Azure Josh Holmes, January 1, 0001 This is a cool use of Azure. The city of Miami tool their “311” data around potholes, trash pickup issues, recycling issues, broken sidewalks and the like and put that data in Azure. The next step is that ... Miami 311: Built on Windows Azure 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2010 -- #850 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Giorgetti Alessandro, Alexander Strauss, Mahesh Sabnis, Andrea Boschin, Maxim Goldin, Peter Torr, Wolf Schmidt, and Marlon Grech. Shoutouts: Koen Zwikstra announced a SL4 update: Silverlight ... Silverlight Cream for April 28, 2010 -- #850 0 0 0
Very Cool – Miami 311 System for tracking citizen service r... Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Having grown up in South Florida this short, but very enlightening, video explaining how the City of Miami has implemented a 311 citizen service request system using Windows Azure, Silverlight and Bing ... Very Cool – Miami 311 System for tracking citizen service r... 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2010 -- #849 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Mike Snow, Kunal Chowdhury, Giorgetti Alessandro, Alexander Strauss, Corey Schuman, Kirupa, John Papa, Miro Miroslavov, Michael Washington, and Jeremy Likness. Shoutouts: Erik Mork and crew ... Silverlight Cream for April 27, 2010 -- #849 0 0 0
Windows Azure and Server App Fabric – kinsmen or distant re... kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 If you are into Windows Azure then it would be rather demeaning to ask if you are aware of Windows Azure App Fabric. Just in case you are not - Windows Azure App Fabric provides a secure connectivity service ... Windows Azure and Server App Fabric – kinsmen or distant re... 0 0 1
Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure: Free self-paced Microsoft cl... Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Here is a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of some FREE Microsoft Learning content on SQL Azure. This self-paced 2 hour class is broken down into 4 segments each with a self test at the end. Class ... Introduction to Microsoft SQL Azure: Free self-paced Microsoft cl... 0 0 0
Azure eBook Update #1 – 16 authors so far! Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I just wanted to share with folks where we are up to with the Windows Azure eBook (Check out the original post for full details) I have had lots of great submissions from folks with some awesome stuff ... Azure eBook Update #1 – 16 authors so far! 0 0 3
45minute video on introduction to Windows Azure and running Ruby ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Last week I presented at Cloud and Grid Exchange 2010. I did an introduction to Windows Azure and a demo of Ruby on Rails running on Azure. My slides and links can be found here – but just spotted that ... 45minute video on introduction to Windows Azure and running Ruby ... 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 Launch Events Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn about the new features in Visual Studio 2010. Check out the MSDN Events page and find out when the talented folks of the Developer & Evangelism group will ... Visual Studio 2010 Launch Events 0 0 0
Slides and links for Looking at the Clouds through Dirty Windows ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Tomorrow (Friday 23/4/2010) I am delivering a session at the Cloud Grid Exchange in London at SkillsMatter (A top training company and superb supporter of development communities). To be perfectly honest ... Slides and links for Looking at the Clouds through Dirty Windows ... 0 0 0
May 2010 Chicago Architects Group Meeting Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on May 18th. Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Scott Seely Topic: Azure For Architects ... May 2010 Chicago Architects Group Meeting 0 0 2
SyncToBlog #10 Lots of Azure and Cloud Links including MIX10 vide... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Just getting a few interesting cloud links “down on paper”. I last did one of these on Azure in Feb 20010. Cloud Links: Article on Debugging in the Cloud http://code.msdn.microsoft.... A sample ... SyncToBlog #10 Lots of Azure and Cloud Links including MIX10 vide... 0 0 1
Microsoft Townhall, An Example for Azure and MVC Shaun, January 1, 0001 Microsoft just released an example named Microsoft Townhall which was built and deployed on Azure. It uses ASP.NET MVC as its webiste framework and the SQL Azure plus LinqToSQL as its the database and ... Microsoft Townhall, An Example for Azure and MVC 0 0 2
Data and Secularism kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 Ever since we’ve been using Data we’ve been religious. Religious about the way we represent it and equally religious about the way we access it. Be it plain old SQL, DAO, ADO, ADO.Net and I am just referring ... Data and Secularism 0 0 0
Call for authors for new eBook on the Windows Azure Platform Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I intend to pull together a FREE eBook on the Windows Azure Platform – but I need your help to make it rock! If you have detailed experience of any aspect of the Windows Azure Platform and can spare a ... Call for authors for new eBook on the Windows Azure Platform 0 0 0
SQL Azure Security: DoS Part II Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Ah! When you shoot yourself in the foot... a few times... it hurts! That's what I did on Sunday, to learn more about the behavior of the SQL Azure Denial Of Service prevention feature. This article is ... SQL Azure Security: DoS Part II 0 0 0
Introducing .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 by Alex Mackey - Boo... Malisa L. Ncube, January 1, 0001 Alex (http://simpleisbest.co.uk/) does a very good job in covering the new features of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. His focus is on the developers that have experience in development using previous ... Introducing .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 by Alex Mackey - Boo... 0 0 0
Register now for the FREE UK Windows Azure Self-paced Interactive... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Suggested twitter tag #selfpacedazure] We (myself and David Gristwood) have been working in the UK to create a fantastic opportunity to get yourself up to speed on the Windows Azure Platform over a 6 ... Register now for the FREE UK Windows Azure Self-paced Interactive... 0 0 0
User Group Meeting Summary - April 2010 Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Thanks to everyone who could make it to what turned out to be an excellent SBUG event. First some thanks to: Speakers: Anthony Cooper and Elton Stoneman Host: The various people at Hitachi who helped to ... User Group Meeting Summary - April 2010 0 0 0
Creating a Simple PHP Blog in Azure Josh Holmes, January 1, 0001 In this post, I want to walk through creating a simple Azure application that will show a few pages, leverage Blob storage, Table storage and generally get you started doing PHP on Azure development. In ... Creating a Simple PHP Blog in Azure 0 0 0
Easy Setup for PHP On Azure Development Josh Holmes, January 1, 0001 I just got back from the JumpIn Camp in fantastic Zurich, Switzerland. I’ll blog about that whole experience shortly. In the meantime, however, I thought I’d get some resources out here that would have ... Easy Setup for PHP On Azure Development 0 0 0
SQL Azure Security: DoS Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Since I decided to understand in more depth how SQL Azure works I started to dig into its performance characteristics. So I decided to write an application that allows me to put SQL Azure to the test and ... SQL Azure Security: DoS 0 0 2
Microsoft TechEd 2010 - Day 3 @ Bangalore sathya, January 1, 0001 Microsoft TechEd 2010 - Day 3 @ Bangalore Sorry for my delayed post on day 3 because I had to travel from Blore to Chennai So I couldnt write for the past two days. On day 3 as usual we had lot of simultaneous ... Microsoft TechEd 2010 - Day 3 @ Bangalore 0 0 1
Web Camps by Microsoft Shaun, January 1, 0001 Just knew from Wang Tao that Microsoft will launch the Web Camp event in many cities to share their technologies and experience on web application building. The topics of this Web Camps would focus on ... Web Camps by Microsoft 0 0 1
Links from UK TechDays 2010 sessions on Entity Framework, Paralle... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [I will do some longer posts around my sessions when I get back from holiday next week] Big thanks to all those who attended my 3 sessions at TechDays this week (April 13th and 14th, 2010). I really enjoyed ... Links from UK TechDays 2010 sessions on Entity Framework, Paralle... 0 0 0
Great event : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch @ Microsoft Tec... sathya, January 1, 0001 Great event : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch @ Microsoft TechEd Blore I was really excited on attending the day 1 of Microsoft TechEd 2010 in Bangalore. This is the first Teched that am attending. ... Great event : Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch @ Microsoft Tec... 0 0 0
Slalom Consulting San Francisco Custom Dev Challenge is live! PeterTweed, January 1, 0001 The Slalom Consulting San Francisco Custom Dev Challenge is live at www.slalomchallenge.com!!!!! Slalom Consulting employs world-class technical consultants who take on ground breaking projects. Please ... Slalom Consulting San Francisco Custom Dev Challenge is live! 0 0 0
An end to the static … Dave Oliver, January 1, 0001 Last October I learnt my company wanted to put together a new blog/social networking policy. I decided that out of respect for my employer I wouldn’t blog until this was sorted out. This was perhaps was ... An end to the static … 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 -- #833 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Alan Mendelevich, Siyamand Ayubi, Rudi Grobler(-2-), Josh Smith, VinitYadav, and Dave Campbell. Shoutouts: Jordan Knight has a demo up of a project he did for DigiGirlz: DigiGirlz, Deep ... Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 -- #833 0 0 0
Troubleshooting SQL Azure Connectivity kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: Rituraj,Connectivity Issues with SQL Azure Troubleshooting SQL Azure Connectivity How to resolve some of the common connectivity error messages that you would see while connecting to SQL ... Troubleshooting SQL Azure Connectivity 0 0 0
Windows Azure Event Blog Author, January 1, 0001 Get cloud ready with Windows Azure The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we’re flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, ... Windows Azure Event 0 0 0
CloudMail kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 In Web Applications, we often come across requirement of sending and receiving emails through our application. So same can be for the applications hosted on Azure. So Do you want to send email from an ... CloudMail 0 0 0
Open Source on .NET evening at UK Tech Days April 14th #uktechday... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 That fine chap http://twitter.com/serialseb is pulling together an interesting evening of fun on the Wednesday in London and I for one will definitely be there. Lots of goodness to learn about. If you ... Open Source on .NET evening at UK Tech Days April 14th #uktechday... 0 0 0
Slides and Links from SQL Azure session at BizSpark Azure Day in ... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 A big thanks to all who attended my two sessions on SQL Azure yesterday (29th March 2010). As promised, my slides and links from the session. SQL Azure Overview for Bizspark day View more presentations ... Slides and Links from SQL Azure session at BizSpark Azure Day in ... 0 0 0
Microsoft Generation 4 Datacenter using ITPACs Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 Microsoft is continuing to make significant investments in Datacenter technology and is focused on solving issues such as long lead times, significant up-front costs and over capacity. Enter the world ... Microsoft Generation 4 Datacenter using ITPACs 0 0 0
EntLib for Windows Azure kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 Enterprise Library popularly known as EntLib is a collection of Application Blocks targeted at managing oft needed redundant tasks in enterprise development, like Logging, Caching, Validation, Cryptography ... EntLib for Windows Azure 0 0 1
VS 2010 IDE Features in a nutshell Rajesh Pillai, January 1, 0001 Going through a VS 2010 IDE Features. We will explore each feature in subsequent posts. The post are documented as being reviewed by me. Breakpoint Labeling Breakpoint Searching Breakpoint Import/Export ... VS 2010 IDE Features in a nutshell 0 0 1
How to: Add an HTTPS Endpoint to a Windows Azure Cloud Service kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 The process to add an HTTPS endpoint is a 3 step process. Configure the endpoint Upload the certificate to the Cloud Configure the SSL certificate (and then point the endpoint to that certificate) Reference ... How to: Add an HTTPS Endpoint to a Windows Azure Cloud Service 0 0 0
Windows Azure Roles stuck in ‘initializing’, ’b... kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: windows azure,roles,stuck,initializ... If you have worked on Windows Azure you are bound to have faced this gnawing and dreaded issue – Your Web/Worker role goes from ... Windows Azure Roles stuck in ‘initializing’, ’b... 0 0 2