July, 2011

Blog Post by: Sudhirh

  In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Scott Hanselman about web development. They discuss the move of Scott Guthrie to the Azure team and what this will mean for the average web developer. They also talk about WebMatrix, iCloud and scalability amongst other things.   The first English language podcast for the DotNed community   http://dotned.nl/PodCasts.aspx?id=11   Enjoy!   www.TheProblemSolver.nl www.dotnetevents.nl Blog Post by: Maurice

Another great solution build on BizTalk RFID by S3Edge. BloodCenter of Wisconsin Blood Center Expects to Automate Product Tracking, Cut Costs with RFID Solution BloodCenter of Wisconsin provides blood and blood products to hospitals for patients in need throughout the state. In consortium with partners, the center wanted to create an automated, efficient way to reconcile and track blood products and containers. It plans to deploy a radio frequency identification solution based on Microsoft BizTalk...

Are you a SQL Express user? We would like to understand your usage of SQL Express database and your interest in cloud through a very short and simple survey. Survey Link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/580520/sql-express-customer-market-research If you are not a SQL Express customer just blog/tweet/facebook the above link and help us reach as many folks as you can. Thanks a lot for your help. Blog Post by: Sudhirh

Article in Windows 7 News on Light Switch. Light Switch is really awesome…   Microsoft’s LightSwitch to Launch on July 26. This program will give developers a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family. Create Custom Business Applications Microsoft may not be winning the Mobile Phone war, but it is certainly on top of the PC war. With LightSwitch Microsoft hopes to let developers...

Introduction The Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Azure AppFabric that was released in May 2011 introduced Queues and Topics that constitute the foundation of a new cloud-based messaging and integration infrastructure that provides reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

  The NuGet team has recently added the ability to store the package icon URL in the nuspec file. Now I need to have a public copy of the icon available somewhere on the web.  I tried putting it on CodePlex but the URI uses QueryString parameters and Nuget chokes on the “=” when parsing the package file. So, I’m putting the icon image here on my blog so I can point to it with a public URL. Blog Post by: Ron Jacobs

This article provides information on working with the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus from the Ruby programming language. This article assumes that you are familiar with Ruby, and have access to the Windows Azure AppFabric labs site (AppFabricLabs.com.) For more … More » Blog Post by: Suren Machiraju

When designing and building REST services the URL’s used take on a rather important part. So it pays to think a lot about the URL structure up front.   Basically a URL is used to identity a recourse. So it kind of behaved like a primary key in a database. There are a few big differences to keep in mind. Unlike a primary key a resource can have multiple URL’s pointing to the same resource. Another difference is that we often have a URL for a collection of the same items. So for example: http...

A reader posted a question in my blog post about REST services and URL’s about modeling search and login as a resource. As this is an important concept I decided not to add a comment but write another blog post about this.   About using http://localhost/login as a URL in a REST service The URL http://localhost/login suggest that there is a resource login while login clearly is an action, not a resource. You don’t create or delete logins. Now you might create user sessions and in that case you...

Sorry Dutch language only.   Mijn artikel over het ontwikkelen van REST services met de WCF Web API is nu online. Het is hier te vinden.   Enjoy!   www.TheProblemSolver.nl www.dotnetevents.nl Blog Post by: Maurice

Found this good article on Windows Azure Storage Architecture. Good read if you are planning use storage in cloud. In this posting we provide an overview of the Windows Azure Storage architecture to give some understanding of how it works. Windows Azure Storage is a distributed storage software stack built completely by Microsoft for the cloud. Before diving into the details of this post, please read the prior posting on Windows Azure Storage Abstractions and their Scalability Targets to get an understanding...

When we build services, or write any code for that matter, error can occur and we have to cater for those. With SOAP service we gibe a calling application information about the error by returning a SOAP fault. This SOAP fault is just another piece of XML informing the calling application about whatever was wrong. Now the HTTP protocol also contains a way of sending status information back to the client but when using SOAP that is mostly ignored, all we use is a 200 OK or an 500 Internal Server Error...

Just released yesterday folks… imagine… here’s a rough plan: write a game, sell it for $2 each sell 20 million copies go shopping in your brand new Lamborghini Enjoy! http://watgames.codeplex.com/ Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

  The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games allows you to quickly get started building new social games in Windows Azure.  The social gaming market continues to grow and become more profitable, and eMarketer predicts it will increase to $1.32 billion in revenues by 2012 (up from $856 million in 2010).  To help you quickly tap into this market, the toolkit includes accelerators, libraries, developer tools, and samples that you can use in your own .NET or HTML5 game.   The...

[updated 7/21: added Wade’s tip as Tactic 4] I have multiple Windows Live IDs (WLID), which has caused some confusion when I try to use the Windows Azure portal as I may have already signed in using another WLID, one that is not linked to my Azure account. I know this won’t be a common problem out there, but I am sure other people are in the same situation, so I thought I’d do a blog post about how to make this easier. Tactic 1: Co-admin [Thanks to David Aiken for this simple and effective approach...

You know those little tools you build to help in your development?  The ones that you slapped together in a hurry and might not work all the time but you put up with them because you don’t want to take the time to fix them?  Well CleanProject.exe is one of those tools that I’ve had for a long while.  Years ago I think I shared an earlier version of it but when I mentioned this tool in an episode of AppFabric.tv I had some people ask if they could get the tool.  I didn’t want to...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Dennis Vroegop over de nieuwe Surface 2. Dennis vertelt ondermeer hoe anders het is een Surface applicatie te maken omdat je rekening moet houden met meerdere gebruikers die aan verschillende kanten van de tafel staan. Ook dat bij veel applicaties mensen zonder enige uitleg toch met de surface moeten kunnen werken maakt dit niet eenvoudiger. Hier te beluisteren.   Links: Dennis Vroegop: http://www.destrato.com/ DotNed: http://www.dotned.nl/ Microsoft...

Today we released an update to our Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS that provides some significant enhancements – in particular, we now provide support for using the Windows Azure Access Control Server (ACS) from an iOS application.  You can get all the bits here: (updated) watoolkitios-lib (updated) watoolkitios-samples (updated) watoolkitios-doc (new) watoolkitios-configutility (new) cloudreadypackages We [...] Blog Post by: Wade

Great video of how Microsoft runs its datacenters. Blog Post by: Sudhirh