Azure SQL Reporting goes live. Finally we have started taking our core assets into the cloud. Summary: Microsoft’s reporting services for Azure is finally generally available. Microsoft’s announcement of its Windows Azure spring update included a lot of moving parts. One that didn’t get as much attention as it deserved was the the general availability of reporting services for the Azure cloud. Windows Azure SQL Reporting is the new name of the reporting services component (which was formerly known...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Matt Milner over zijn TechDays presentaties. Ze hebben het onder meer over REST service en waarom je die wil gebruiken ipv SOAP services. Daarnaast komt Windows Workflow Foundation aan bod en wat daar allemaal nieuw is. Verder spreken ze over Windows Azure en de Azure Service Bus. Links: TechDays presentaties: http://www.techdays.nl/SprekerDetail.aspx?cid=2229 Blog: http://mattmilner.com/blog/ Met dank aan onze sponsor RedGate .   Hij is hier te...

Recently saw this question in the MSDN Workflow Forum Is there a (SetState) in the new StateMachine Activity? Many users of Workflow in .NET 3.5 took advantage of the StateMachineWorkflowInstance class to determine what state a workflow is in, and also to force it to a new state.  Some people use this class as a way to enable/disable controls in the UI of an application. I recall a conversation I had with some developers from a bank that wrote an application for their tellers that used this...

CodeCamp San Diego is next weekend. I will be presenting “What’s new in Windows Azure” in a demo-loaded session. I will also do an espresso triple shot beforehand so I stand a chance of fitting all the Windows Azure goodness into a single session! There are also lots of other great Azure (and other) sessions. It’s always a great **FREE** event, hope to see you there! All the details are at http://SoCalCodeCamp.com Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

Azure Virtual Machines are still new to everyone, and I got a great question from a partner a few days ago: “I have an Azure Virtual Machine set up just the way I want it, now I want to spin up multiple instances, how do I do that?” In the “picture is worth 1,000 words” category (and I don’t have time to write 1,000 words ), please see the following sequence of screen shots for the answer. Things to note: run sysprep (%windir%\system32\sysprep) with “generalize” so each machine will have a unique...