Big day for Azure announcements Windows Azure/Windows AppFabric/WCF February 2010 release of Windows Azure Tools and SDK - Blog announces the release the February 2010 (v1.1) release of the Tools and SDK today. This release supports a couple of new features in the platform, namely Windows Azure Drives...
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ESB/WCF/REST/BizTalk/Azure/Identity NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available - Congrats to Udi for shipping 2.0 about a year after 1.9. As he explains it's a service bus, like an ESB - just an open source one which gives you an easy way to integrate transactional messaging into your applications...
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Some mostly old Windows Azure links for me to bookmark, from oldest to newest New Training Kit for the Holidays Sign up for a Windows Azure platform offer today and get visibility into your usage Announing Windows Azure commercial offer availability and updated AppFabric pricing Now Available: New Identity...
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Hosting Enhancements in .NET4 and Windows AppFabric - This blog post drills down on the various hosting capabilities of WCF and WF in .NET 4 and for Window Server AppFabric as introduced in in the Introduction to AppFabric blog entry. Virtual Labs for AppFabric and .NET 4 - Ten labs for AppFabric and...
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WCF/Azure/BizTalk/Oslo WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon - Kent highlights the work, showcased in the PDC booth, for WCF's interoperability through the WS-* protocols. In particular, they highlighted the Apache project Stonehenge, where Microsoft worked together with WS-* vendors...
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I'm not at PDC, but I ordered Roger Jennings' (king of the Azure links) Windows Azure book which was delivered today. Looks good!...
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My Dublin category has been totally empty since August 2008, when Dublin was announced at the SOA Conference. Well, today it finally became public in the form of Windows AppFabric. As my good friend, Brian Loesgen writes , "Today at PDC Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools Business, introduced...
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It's here! The version that works with VS 2010 Beta 2 . Lots of changes and new features in the November 2009 release: Service Model UI: A redesigned and significantly more complete interface for manipulating Role configuration information. To access, double-click on a role node in the Solution Explorer...
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Windows Azure Content Delivery Network - Microsoft just announced the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to deliver Windows Azure Blob content. Windows Azure CDN offers developers a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content. Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 11/2.2009...
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First time I have been up at 5AM in a very long time. BTW, the new Starbucks Via Ready Brew coffees are amazing. They are whole bean instant coffees. They say it took them 20 years to come up with it. All I know, is that it is the first instant coffee I have ever had in my life that doesn’t taste...
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ASP.NET and Web Programming Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu produces his 7th in the series and the first covering a few runtime features. This particular one is pretty cool: the ability to automatically startup and proactively initialize a web application without...
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REST/Azure Services/Astoria/WCF Building a RESTful application with SQL Azure Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/7/2009+ ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 Feature: Projections Big Huge Objects and WCF Software Development Tools MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 1: We go cross-platform - Miguel de Icaza announces...
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Assorted Review: Three Technical Podcasts I Subscribe To - Steve Sanderson, of ASP.NET MVC book fame, reviews three great technical podcasts Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package - Part 4 - In this fourth part, Keyvan covers the differences between an add-in and an integration package, and highlight...
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Azure Services/Astoria/Service Oriented Design ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP Now Available Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/2009+ WSCF.blue Beta-2 Other Rhino Mocks 3.6 Multi-Monitor Support (VS2010 and .NET 3 Series)...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Building Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Hydrating Entities Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache Talking about StoryTeller and Executable Requirements Measuring Agile Performance with the Agile...
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Software Design Refactoring Day 18: Replace exception with condtional Refactoring Day 19: Extract Factory Class WCF/Azure Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/19/2009+ One Minute Survey: WCF PDC Topics - your inputs are needed Other My good friend Jason has updated his Reflector.Babel Addin OAuth in...
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Silverlight 3/RIA Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 - Pros and Cons Moonlight 2 Beta 1 Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Contains Features from Silverlight 3.0 - Moonlight, the open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight for Linux and Unix/X11 systems, has reached version 2...
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Software Development Tools/Agile One of the best tools in the world , and one I install just after VS on a new machine has received a new update. In the first post on TestDriven.NET 2.23 Beta , Jamie talks about how if you are using TD.NET 2.23 on a 64-bit system, running tests is almost twice as fast...
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Windows Azure New Storage Feature: Signed Access Signature Summary and Transcript: First Windows Azure Lounge Chat Software Design Refactoring Day 11: Switch to Strategy Software/Silverlight SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available Today StyleCop update 4.3.2.1 is released Business Apps Example for Silverlight...
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Software Design The Presentation Patterns Wiki is live! Refactoring Day 6: Push Down Field Refactoring Day 7: Rename (method, class, parameter) Refactoring Day 8: Replace Inheritance with Delegation Refactoring Day 9: Extract Interface Refactoring Day 10: Extract Method xUnit.net 1.5 Beta Released Windows...
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ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET 4.0/ASP.NET MVC Get early access to ASP.NET AJAX in Action, Second Edition - This was THE ASP.NET AJAX book per ScottGu and others in the original ASP.NET 4.0 Series Index Post ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Enhancements Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 available on Amazon Windows Azure/WF/WCF/Identity...
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WCF/WF/Azure Developer Introductions to WCF and WF in .NET 4 Beta 1 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/3/09+ Agile Refactoring Day 3: Pull Up Method Silverlight Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update Summary Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM...
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NHibernate/Linq/Entity Framework Ayende has released NHibernate Linq 1.0. LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/20/2009+ Data Access Guidance project ASP.NET and Web Programming ARCast.TV - Scott Hanselman on scaling websites with caching ASP.NET Performance - Windows Update - a great example for setting...
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This post from the Windows Azure Blog... The July CTP of the Windows Azure SDK and Tools was just released. Download them here . (Links are still being updated… give it a few minutes if you’re still seeing the May CTP.) What’s new in the Windows Azure SDK? The Windows Azure SDK supports...
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Windows Azure Microsoft Revealsd Windows Azure Prices Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/13/2009+ Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model Some Slides from Microsoft's Partner Conference That Focus on Azure Windows Azure and ISVs: A Guide for Decision Makers CLR/.NET...
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Agile Launch of the PMI Agile Community Relearning: The Productivitry Problem We're Not Supposed to Talk About Web Programming Event Aggregation with jQuery Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers Azure/BizTalk/Oslo/SOA/WOA Microsoft .NET Services July 2009 CTP Release Windows Azure and Cloud Computing...
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ASP.NET/Web Programming Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know JavaScript for the ASP.NET Developer WPF Rick Strahl's WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex Connected Systems (WCF, WF, Azure Services, etc) Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell Using FindBySubjectDistinguishedName...
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ASP.NET MVC/Web Programming How we do MVC - View Models VS2010 Beta 1 Web Application Project Database package and SMO Options ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls C# Community Convergence LI Connected Systems (Azure, WF, WCF, etc) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/29/09+ Passing data...
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Connected Systems (Azure Services Platform, .NET Services, WCF, WF, BizTalk) Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Links for 6/22/09+ "Joint Venture": New Azure Multi-Business Enterprise Application (MEBA) The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective NDC 2009 - Get the Code ! - various CSD...
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BizTalk/Oslo/Windows Azure Announcing the Availability of the BizTalk ESB 2.0 Toolkit MGraph Object Model - This paper describes the newly revised object model for dynamic (programmatic) parsing of MGraph output as it exists in the "Oslo" May 2009 CTP. It is the lowest-level runtime model to...
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ASP.NET/ASP.NET AJAX/ASP.NET MVC/jQuery Creating a Simple .NET 4.0 Web App using Visual Studio 2010 ScottGu's May 30 Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Azure Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features An Update to Introducing the Azure Services Platform Entity Framework POCO in the Entity...
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Software Design/Architecture Jeremy Miller - The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase - The Video Jeremy Miller - More Persistence Patterns in MSDN Interviewed by Scott Hanselman on Software Metrics Why Occasional Connectivity Could Affect Scalability and How to Deal With It CSD - Oslo/WF/WCF/Azure...
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Agile Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be: Scott Ambler talks about his new ebook; The goal of the Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for...
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Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4.0 Scott Hanselman - CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! - Whirlwind Tour Around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 Scott Hanselman - Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions - Whirlwind Tour Around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 (Beta...
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C#/VS2010 Null is Not Empty VS2010: On Triangles and Performance - It sure looks like the *very* soon Beta 1 will exhibit some great work on Outlining and Performance Parallel Tasks - new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window ASP.NET Tip #61: Did you know...How to create an ASP.NET Dynamic Data Site? Entity...
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Windows Azure/Azure Service Framework (including .NET Services)/BizTalk David Pallmann has released 2.1 of Azure Storage Explorer with the new feature of modifying what is in storage including create or delete blob containers, blob items, queues, queue messages, tables, and table items. Microsoft has...
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Windows 7 The Windows 7 RC is now available to all . Software Development and Tools Great news from Ayende that Castle Windsor has been released as a 2.0 RTM despite never having a 1.0 release. I would love to see Castle ActiveRecord released. Jeremy has great pratical advice on Revitalizing a Technical...
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Azure/Cloud Computing I was just getting ready to blog David Pallmann's Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 2: Developing a Grid Application and Part 3: Running a Grid Application when... ... David announced the release of Neudesic's Grid Computing Framework, Azure Grid , the community...
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Windows Azure/Azure Services Platform/WCF Christian Weyer has his slides and demos from his Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform talk at DevWeek He also his slides and demos for WCF Tips and Tricks The CSD folks just published a set of WCF samples on Azure + wiki with known issues/workarounds at...
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.NET Services/Windows Azure Clemens continues with The .NET Service Bus REST Protocol - Some Questions, Some Answers and . NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers and Queues - Part 4: The REST Queue Protocol in Code Snippets , and .NET Services March 2009 CTP - Service Bus Routers and Queues...
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.NET Services/CSD/WCF/Oslo .NET Services March 2009 CTP Is Released - There are many exciting improvements in cross-platform interoperability, Services Bus and Workflow Service capabilities and the developer experience. Speaking of said release, Clemens has a number of posts on the Service Bus portion...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Dave Pallmann's Azure Application Monitor is now on CodePlex Windows Azure Mix '09 Videos Cloud Computing Links March 25, 2009 Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/23/2009+ Christian Weyers slides and app from DevWeek 2009: Azure Services Platform Mix '09/ASP.NET...
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Windows Azure/Cloud Computing The Azure Fabric Controller - read What Is: The Azure Fabric and the Development Fabric first Cloud Computing Links March 22, 2009 Silverlight Mix09: Silverlight for Business Apps and .NET RIA Services talks posted Introducing the New Silverlight Blog - new team blog REST...
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Lots of catching up to do. Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Windows Azure Tools and SDK March 2009 CTP Released David Chappell has a new whitepaper on Introducing Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC/AJAX ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is Now Live! Phill Haack's post ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released! Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available...
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing April CTP update of the Live Framework SDK and Tools Connecting to Live Mesh with the Live ID Client SDK Live Services - List Cloud Computing Links March 14, 2009 The Anatomy of Cloud Computing Software Architecture/Software Design S#arp Architecture 1.0 RC2 Released...
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ASP.NET MVC Scott Hanselman, among other authors of their upcoming ASP.NET MVC book, announce the inclusion of ScottGu as an author on the book, the first 185 pages of the book as a free PDF download licensed as Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives . They also announce releasing the NerdDinner...
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News of the day: Ingo is back!!!!! I write a lot about how he helped me start blogging in 2002 and when there were only two other .NET Bloggers . In fact, my very first blog post, on March 20, 2002 (7 year aniversary coming up!) was in response to Ingo Rammer, who had suggested the use of Radio to start...
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A milestone of sorts today with #300!! Windows Azure/Cloud Computing What is the "Cloud?" - Steve defines what the cloud means for him and how it impacts the "Above the Cloud" blog. Steve also spends some time fleshing out the differences between the Live Mesh Beta, Live Mesh CTP...
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ASP.NET MVC Phil Haacked announces that the Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC available for download. Stephen Walter releases Chapter 6 - Understanding HTML Helpers from his MVC book Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Avanade: 2009 Global Survey of Cloud Computing Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts...
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Dublin/WCF/Windows Azure (Red Dog) Jesus Rodriguez on Extending Dublin's Forwarding Service with a custom WCF message filter Mary Jo Foley - Red Dog: Ray Ozzie Casts a Long Shadow Earlier in the week, she landed an (email) interview with one of my personal heros: Dave Cutler ASP.NET MVC Steven continues...
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Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 2/23/09+ Azure Service Platform Webcast Series Agile Martin talks about TechnicalDebt Oslo/REST Jon has his Oslo and REST demos from VSLive jQuery VSDoc for jQuery 1.3.2 Now Available...
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This edition comes from near Washington DC, where Sue and I, proud parents of son Jonathan have brought him down for the People to People World Leadership Forum for students that his school recomended him for. He gets to spend the week in Washington DC! Windows Azure David Pallmann with Introduction...
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Cloud Computing/Windows Azure Pat Helland recomends the folks at UC Berkeley RAD Lab who have written a wonderful paper on Cloud Computing. It can be found (with a video interview and some other stuff) at http://abovetheclouds.cs.berkeley.edu . Steve Marx reports on What Happens When You Deploy on Windows...
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CLR/Framework/WPF Brad Abrams continues the book excerpts with Framework Design Guidelines: Serialization Technology Scott Hansleman on Porting WPF Applications to the Microsoft Surface Prism/Silverlight Shawn reports that Prism now supports Silverlight 2 Windows Azure/Cloud Computing Azure and Cloud...
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DDD/ALT.NET Casey has written a bunch more in his DDD series since my last update 4) DDD: There Is No Database 5) DDD: Command Query Separation as an Architectural Concept 6) DDD: Entities and Value Objects 7) DDD: Where is the Code? 8) DDD: Download an eBook of the Series Aggregates and Aggregate Roots...
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In last night's/early morning notes I posted , I talked about that Windows Azure itself does two main things: Compute (runs apps) and it stores their data. In this post, I discover more Running Applications and their tie to configuration, and how that manifested in the Hello Azure application that I...
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Note: If you went to the PDC, you might get nothing from this post. You probably saw it all but I wasn't there and I am getting real passionate about learning it on my own. These are my notes on learning Azure and trying to keep things straight. Now, that I figured out that the Azure tools will NOT work...
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A fantastic list here. Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta! (does not work - need VPC of another OS)...
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Finally got enough snow to delay school for a couple of hours. Oslo/CSD/Queing/Azure/WCF Charles Young takes a closer look at the new CTP of Oslo that I reported the other day He also references this post for what's new and changed in the Oslo CTP Brian Prince has an extensive post on Queues in Azure...
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Just came back from Jonathan's Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. The original car was so light (2.6 ounces instead of 5) that we had to gle so much metal to it and he won an original award for "Most Armor Plated" car ASP.NET MVC Not even a day old and there is a refresh for the ASP.NET MVC RC ASP.NET...
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Agile/ALT.NET Scott Ambler on Criteria for a Disciplined Agile Team Scott Bellware - Good Design is Easily Learned Mike Cohn on Establishing a Common Baseline for Story Points Hanselminutes Podcast 146 - Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word on TDD Windows Azure/.NET Services/BizTalk/CSD...
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Azure Cloud Services/Oslo/M/WCF David Pallmann, architect of Neudesic's Neuron ESB, has simplified example of using Azure to have a Hello Cloud app that is Twitter like James Clark has some thoughts on the Oslo Modeling Language as well as finding MGrammer having some interesting features Dr. Nick, in...
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