Before we get started with RavenDB we need to install the required parts. There are several ways we can do this and one of the easiest is using the NuGet Package manager from within Visual Studio 2012 with the available RavenDB NuGet packages.   Which package to install? As should be obvious from the screenshot above there are quite a few NuGet packages to choose from. It turns out we need to use two packages to get started, the client and server part. Adding them is easy, just open the NuGet...

This blog post demonstrates how Windows Azure developers can leverage the Windows Azure Service Bus to enable asynchronous inter-role communication in cloud-based solutions using Service Bus topics and subscriptions. This post and its associated code sample offer a complete solution, one that enables simplified, scalable, loosely coupled communication between role instances on the Windows Azure platform. More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

Today we deployed an incremental update to the Access Control Service in the Labs environment. It's available here: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com/ . Keep in mind that there is no SLA around this release, but accounts and usage of the service are free while it is in the labs environment. This release builds on the prior October release of the Access Control Service, and has a few changes: Improved error messages by adding sub-codes and more detailed descriptions. Adding primary/secondary flag...

As I blogged about here , CodeCamp Fullerton is this weekend. I signed up for 3 sessions. My friend, author and Azure MVP David Pallmann will also be doing Azure session there (as well as many others). The way the organizers have laid things out on Saturday is a thing of beauty if you’re an Azure person. You can basically camp out in room UH246 at 10:00am and get the “Brian and David” show all day long. Saturday - Room UH 246: 10:00am - Brian - Windows Azure Overview 12:15pm - Brian - Windows Azure...

When VS 10 RC/.Net Framework 4 RC is installed, the previous version of VS 10 Beta2/.Net Framework 4 Beta2 is uninstalled. If you have Windows Server AppFabric Beta1 installed (Shows up as “Application Server Extensions for .NET4” on the machine that it has been installed), ideally you would uninstall AppFabric Beta1 before uninstalling VS 10 Beta2/.Net Framework 4 Beta2. If you already uninstalled VS 10 Beta2/.Net Framework 4 Beta2 or upgraded to .Net Framework 4 RC before uninstalling AppFabric...