Apparently, I was lucky to be in the first batch of beta participants for the 3 new Azure beta programs: I received the confirmation for the extra small instances rather fast Wednesday evening, I received confirmation for the Azure Connect beta program.  You can read my post on that here: Azure Connect: VPN as a Service, a quick introduction . And later that night, I received confirmation for the VM Role beta program. This post will demonstrate how to upload a virtual hard disk to the Azure...

Autostart is a really cool feature of Windows Server AppFabric. Recently I was asked about how you can do some kind of process initialization in your code with Autostart (which the documentation implies that you can do). This led to a discussion with...( read more ) Blog Post by: The .NET Endpoint : AppFabric

Auto-start is a really cool feature of Windows Server AppFabric. Recently I was asked about how you can do some kind of process initialization in your code with Auto-start (which the documentation implies that you can do). This led to a discussion with a number of questions that we want to address What does Auto-start really do? How much faster is the first call to my service if I use Auto-start? How can I write code that is called when the service is auto-started? endpoint.tv - WCF and AppFabric...

I just received a notification that my request to join the Beta Program for Azure Connect was approved.  And that immediately got me starting to test it out.  Things look very straightforward. I am using the phrase VPN as a Service for this feature, since it really explains it all. Virtual Network Configuration of Windows Azure Role Portal settings After logging in on the Azure Portal , you can click the Virtual Network button in the left corner at the bottom of the screen: After this,...

Recently I saw a message on the WF4 Forum where someone was asking for help learning how to consume a WCF service from a Workflow. In this post I’m going to walk through how you can consume a WCF service from a Workflow where both the service and the workflow live in the same web site. This should be simple, but unfortunately it is not as simple as it should be. Create an ASP.NET Web Application Start Visual Studio 2010 and Create a new ASP.NET Web Application Add a new WCF Service to the project...