One of the best career decisions I’ve made was to join the Windows Azure Platform Evangelism team last July.  Yes, it was a lot of work to uproot the family and move to Seattle, but it was absolutely worth it.  I pinch myself nearly everyday to make sure that it’s not just a dream – [...] Blog Post by: Wade

Earlier in October, at our Professional Developer Conference (PDC), we made some exciting announcements regarding the future and roadmap of Windows Azure AppFabric. If you want to learn more regarding these announcements you can visit the Windows Azure AppFabric website , and also read content and watch sessions from PDC . Today, we wanted to highlight a paper the leading analyst firm Gartner published following PDC regarding these roadmap announcements. Here is a quick summary and link to the paper...

This blog post is for those folks comfortable with creating a data stream from an IEnumerable, IObservable or StreamInsight adapter data source.  If you’d like more details on creating those, have a look at this blog post, which covers creating … More » Blog Post by: Mark Simms

Following on the heels of my last query pattern blog post, I started to dig into creating a custom data context for use with StreamInsight and LINQPad.  The default contexts supplied out of box with the StreamInsight driver (including the … More » Blog Post by: Mark Simms

I couldn't leave this one alone. While I was making the last episode I said that there was possibly another strategy for detecting states and transitions and that was to use Tracking data. In this episode I'll show you a better way to implement our WPF UI using the Model View View-Model (MVVM) pattern that does not require the state machine to have actvitivities to notify the model of state changes. The source including some really cool unit tests that make use of Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting...