Improvements in Hosted Service In-Place Upgrade Shaun, January 1, 0001 Today the Microsoft announced that the In-Place Upgrade feature had had some improvements. The major one would be, now the user could be able to change the VM Size by In-Place Upgrade, without redeploying ... Improvements in Hosted Service In-Place Upgrade 0 0 0
Deployed Azure ValidateUser failing LEV, January 1, 0001 I have been developing an MVC3 application with the intention of deploying to the Cloud. It was configured to use Forms Authentication with SQL Membership on SQL Azure. Everything seemed to be working ... Deployed Azure ValidateUser failing 0 0 0
APress Deal of the Day - 19/Oct/2011 - Introducing .NET 4.0 With ... TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 Today's $10 Deal of the day book from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Introducing .NET 4.0 With Visual Studio 2010 "You may know what's happening in C#, but what about the Azure cloud? ... APress Deal of the Day - 19/Oct/2011 - Introducing .NET 4.0 With ... 0 0 0
Azure Storage Client using Async API Rohit Gupta, January 1, 0001 When using the storage client library to access Azure Storage, it is recommended that we make use of the Async calls to execute queries against the Azure Tables/Blobs. TableClient and BlobClient expose ... Azure Storage Client using Async API 0 0 0
Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) meeting on Thursday 27th Octobe... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ll be presenting a session on “Extending to the Cloud” at the Sweden Windows Azure User Group next week. Extending to the Cloud Extending to the cloud involves developing hybrid applications that leverage ... Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) meeting on Thursday 27th Octobe... 0 0 0
Putting the “BI” in Big Data andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Last week, at the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Summit in Seattle, Microsoft held a coming out party, not only for SQL Server 2012 (formerly “Denali”), but also for the company’s “Big ... Putting the “BI” in Big Data 0 0 3
My Session on TechED 2011 Beijing Shaun, January 1, 0001 On 13rd Oct, I had had a presentation on TechED 2011 Beijing. It was about how to build a multi-tenant application on top of Windows Azure platform. Thanks to the people attended my session, and special ... My Session on TechED 2011 Beijing 0 0 5
Enzo Backup for SQL Azure Released! ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 Blue Syntax is pleased, and very excited, to announce the general availability of Enzo Backup for SQL Azure. It took a monumental effort to put this product together. The hardest part was designing the ... Enzo Backup for SQL Azure Released! 0 0 0
Configuration Section Designer Tool for Visual Studio Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style ... Configuration Section Designer Tool for Visual Studio 0 0 7
Azure Appfabric Cache connections throttling issue Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 Error: There is a temporary failure. Please retry later. (The request failed, because you exceeded quota limits for this hour. If you experience this often, upgrade your subscription to a higher one). ... Azure Appfabric Cache connections throttling issue 0 0 19
Microsoft Virtual Academy - My Thoughts Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 Hi Everyone, This is a place for .NET lovers like us can go and learn more about all Microsoft Cloud technologies. This website makes it more easy, simple and actually fun to know what the technologies ... Microsoft Virtual Academy - My Thoughts 0 0 1
Welcome to my .NET Loftings Blog Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 Hi Everyone, The only and main purpose of this blog is to educate all .NET pre-Beginners, who love to do .NET Programming but don't know where, what and how to do. Now you have a place to share and ask ... Welcome to my .NET Loftings Blog 0 0 1
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Welcome back once again, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective, in part 2 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a Testers ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 3 0 0 16
What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft officially released the preview of Vnext i.e. VS 2011, TFS 2011 and TFS Azure (also known as TFS Service) at the Build conference on 13th September 2011 @ California. It wasn’t too long ago I ... What is new in VS TFS 2011 Part 1 0 0 1
Honolulu Hawaii Azure Boot Camp Dates ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 Just confirmed the Azure Boot Camp dates for Honolulu Hawaii. November 14th and 15th. See http://www.azurebootcamp.com/city/Honolulu. Honolulu Hawaii Azure Boot Camp Dates 0 0 0
Solving Schema Separation Challenges Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Introduction To save on hosting costs and simplify maintenance, Software as a Service (SaaS) providers typically rely on schema separation to host multiple customers' records. This implementation relies ... Solving Schema Separation Challenges 0 0 0
Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? Alfredo Delsors, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure AppFabric ofrece servicios en dos areas distintas. La primera la forman servicios de middleware como Service Bus, Access Control, Caching e Integration. La segunda está formada por un servicio ... Como componer aplicaciones Windows Azure AppFabric ? 0 0 0
Windows Azure Storage REST API Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Los servicios de almacenamiento de Windows Azure, son expuestos nativamente desde una interface REST lo cual permite su uso desde cualquier tipo de aplicacion y plataforma.Los servicios del API REST permiten ... Windows Azure Storage REST API 0 0 0
Windows Azure y ALM Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) permite la gestion y control de los procesos involucrados en el desarrollo de soluciones dentro de una empresa, estableciendo buenas practicas y un marco medible, ... Windows Azure y ALM 0 0 0
Windows Azure Extra Small Instance Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 En el PDC10 del año pasado se realizaron una serie de anuncios alrededor de la Plataforma de Windows Azure, entre estas se incluyo el anuncion de una beta privada para la instancia ExtraSmall de Windows ... Windows Azure Extra Small Instance 0 0 0
Roles en Windows Azure Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 Un servicio de hospedaje en Windows Azure, consiste en una aplicación diseñada para correr en la Nube de Microsoft y unos ficheros XML de configuración que definen cómo debe funcionar.El modelo del servicio ... Roles en Windows Azure 0 0 0
Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing Juan Mestas J. (aka gotchas), January 1, 0001 El Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología y su laboratorio de tecnología información, NIST por el acrónimo en idioma inglés, han definido Cloud Computing de la siguiente manera:“Cloud Computing ... Definicion del NIST Sobre Cloud Computing 0 0 0
CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve just published a CTP version of “The Developers Guide to AppFabric”. Any feedback on the content would be great, and I will include it in the full release next week. “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric” ... CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric 0 0 0
MTM Testing Scorecard using TFS API Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Download a working demo (below): No showing off, this has been developed in VS11 using MTM11 and version controlled in TFS Azure Working Demo = Download-Testing Scorecard In this blog post I’ll be showing ... MTM Testing Scorecard using TFS API 0 0 45
How ADFS with Azure ACS works Saqib Ullah, January 1, 0001 Very Good introduction video on how Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) works together for claim base application in cloud ... How ADFS with Azure ACS works 0 0 2
AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp #7 on October 1st 2011 Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 Join me and Oleg Sych from AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp this weekend! Register for this FREE event online: TallyCodeCamp.org Design Language of Windows Phone & Windows "8" by Nikita Polyakov ... AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp #7 on October 1st 2011 0 0 0
A full day of Azure conferences... Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 On October the 15th, the Montreal .NET User Group will hold a special event... a full day of conferences and workshops on Azure ! The speakers for the special event will be our very own Guy Barrette, Azure ... A full day of Azure conferences... 0 0 0
Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed Charles Young, January 1, 0001 At last, I can announce that ‘BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed’ has been published and is available through major booksellers in both printed and electronic form. The book is not a new edition of the old ... Announcing BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed 0 0 9
Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2011 -- #1147 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Ollie Riches, Oscar Agreda, Samidip Basu, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Andy Beaulieu(-2-), ... Silverlight Cream for September 24, 2011 -- #1147 0 0 0
Two Great AppFabric Resources Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 If you want to get up to speed on Azure AppFabric brokered messaging there are a couple of resources you should check out. SB CTP Messaging User Guide This is a 30 page word document put together by the ... Two Great AppFabric Resources 0 0 1
Registration links are up for Charlotte and Mountain View Azure B... ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 The Registration links for the Charlotte, NC and Mountain View, CA Azure Boot Camps are now up on the Azure Boot Camp site: http://www.azurebootcamp.co... See you there ... Registration links are up for Charlotte and Mountain View Azure B... 0 0 1
Using Logging Application Block with Windows Azure Rohit Gupta, January 1, 0001 In Windows Azure, we have the DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener which can be used for writing diagnostics to Local resource (like a local storage in the Worker or Web Role) which can then be ultimately stored ... Using Logging Application Block with Windows Azure 0 0 0
Windows Azure Storage Session at Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 Windows Azure Storage med Björn Eriksen. Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM Windows Azure Storage är en tjänst i Windows Azure som rör olika typer av lagring. Blobs, Queues, Tables och ... Windows Azure Storage Session at Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG... 0 0 0
Building scalable web applications with Windows Azure (ed. and on... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Matthew Kerner’s session at BUILD covers many of the patterns and approaches that a well designed and highly scalable solution can do to make the most efficient use of the platform. Truth is many of the ... Building scalable web applications with Windows Azure (ed. and on... 0 0 0
Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues... Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Nice table comparing Windows Azure Queues vs. Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus – note the comment regarding in WAZ SDK 1.5 Queue message size is now 64KB Of course, I like the name of the blog too. ... Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues... 0 0 0
The BUILD Conference Harish Ranganathan, January 1, 0001 What a week it has been! The BUILD Conference just concluded http://www.buildwindows.com... and there were tons of announcements. This is one of the reasons I am passionate about ... The BUILD Conference 0 0 5
New Azure Boot Camp Dates and Locations ScottKlein, January 1, 0001 We are happy to announce two new Azure Boot Camp dates: Charlotte, NC - October 27th and 28th Mountain View, CA - November 7th and 8th These boot camps are a FREE two day deep dive class to get you up ... New Azure Boot Camp Dates and Locations 0 0 0
AppFabric Walkthrough: Creating a Simple Queue Management Tool Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve added a second AppFabric Walkthrough based on the Azure AppFabric Service Bus September 2011 release. The second one looks at using the NamespaceManager class to create, list, get and delete queues ... AppFabric Walkthrough: Creating a Simple Queue Management Tool 0 0 0
Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Inte... Charles Young, January 1, 0001 One benefit of my recent experience on a BA flight was that I got plenty of time to read through “Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration”. I’d promised the publisher weeks ago that ... Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Inte... 0 0 0
TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft has officially launched the TFS Azure service preview also known as TFS in the cloud. I am sure not all of us would be upgrading our base machines by installing Visual Studio 2011 which is still ... TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure 0 0 6
TFS Azure - KB2581206 causes VS2010 with SP1 to stop working Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 To connect and authenticate with the Team Foundation Service Preview you need to install the hotfix KB2581206. While setting up a new machine to work with TFS Azure (#TfsService) i encountered a problem ... TFS Azure - KB2581206 causes VS2010 with SP1 to stop working 0 0 2
AppFabric Walkthrough: Simple Brokered Messaging Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve published a basic walkthrough of using the new brokered messaging capabilities in the Azure AppFabric service bus September 2011 release. If you have not used queues in AppFabric before this will ... AppFabric Walkthrough: Simple Brokered Messaging 0 0 0
TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I have been part of the Azure TFS Technical Access Preview (TAP) since March 2011. TFS Azure has been previewed and officially announced as TFS Service in the 2011 Build Conference, California. The Non-Disclosure ... TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! 0 0 6
Build - Not all it could be. JoshReuben, January 1, 0001 Programming for Metro Metro is the future http://zd.net/rnT9VZ .NET is for old apps. WinRT replaces WPF & WCF. XAML is big. There were no Silverlight sessions. HTML 5 and Javascript ( Blend for HTML) ... Build - Not all it could be. 0 0 3
Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 September 2011 – Brokered Messag... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 The Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging functionality has shipped to production, and is available in Azure data centers across the world. This means that we now have point-to-point queuing and ... Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 September 2011 – Brokered Messag... 0 0 2
Windows Azure SDK 1.5 Arrived Shaun, January 1, 0001 In the BUILD event, Microsoft had just announced the latest Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Visual Studio Tool for Windows Azure SDK 1.5, and the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK 1.5. You can find them simply from the ... Windows Azure SDK 1.5 Arrived 0 0 0
Perspective from BUILD Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 This week I’m at the Microsoft Build/Windows conference. Now I’ve been to many conferences throughout the years and this is the first conference where I literally knew nothing about including the agenda. ... Perspective from BUILD 0 0 0
Speaking at the MCT Summit in San Francisco, Oct. 19th-21st Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 As an MCT it is always exciting when I travel to conferences because it becomes a reunion. Well, one more chance this year to make it so, but this time (unlike the last MCT Summit) I am also presenting. ... Speaking at the MCT Summit in San Francisco, Oct. 19th-21st 0 0 0
AppFabric Access Control Service Webcast - Using Social Identity ... Alan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve started to take a look at the Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS), and have started an ACS sectionon Cloud Casts. The first webcast looks at using social identity providers to provide authentication ... AppFabric Access Control Service Webcast - Using Social Identity ... 0 0 0
New Release of SQL Azure Shaun, January 1, 0001 On the 9th Sep, the SQL Azure team announced that the new version of SQL Azure had just been release. In this version not only the SQL Azure engine had been upgraded, the SQL Azure Management Portal had ... New Release of SQL Azure 0 0 0