August, 2011

I am tremendously pleased to share that today we have released the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android! We announced our intentions to build a toolkit for Android back in May, and it had always been our intention to release this summer (we only missed by a week or so). In addition to this release of [...] Blog Post by: Wade

After a bit of prodding, finally getting around to finishing the blog I’d mentioned *cough* about a year ago, for using a SQL Server table as a source for reference data in a StreamInsight query.  The scenario we’d like to … More » Blog Post by: Mark Simms

This post was republished to AppFabric CAT at 6:29:39 PM 5/26/2011 WINDOWS AZURE SERVICE BUS & CONNECT: COMPARED AND CONTRASTED     Category ; Blog   Late last year I published a blog that compared and contrasted cloud and hybrid … More » Blog Post by: Suren Machiraju

Usually when I do travel posts it’s about good stuff. This one is not. This one is about a potentially catastrophic experience I had yesterday, I decided to post it because I’ve always wondered what this would feel like, and now I know. I’m advanced diver, over 300 dives in many parts of the world in many different conditions. In those dives I’ve my share of “exciting moments” (just like anyone driving a car might while driving). However, in the past, my exciting moments have always involved wildlife...

From time to time I’ll hear from somebody who is trying to use a WCF Workflow Service with Silverlight as the client and they are getting this exception. System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException was unhandled by user code Message=An error occurred while trying to make a request to URI http://localhost:49238/SecurityDoorService.xamlx'. This could be due to attempting to access a service in a cross-domain way without a proper cross-domain policy in place, or a policy that is unsuitable for SOAP...

If you are using Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting.XamlInjector to mock activities you may run into an error like this. Test method XamlInjectorRepro.Test.UnitTest1.TestMethod1 threw exception: System.Xaml.XamlObjectWriterException: Cannot create unknown type '{clr-namespace:XamlInjectorRepro}MyCustomActivity'. This error occurs when the XAML loader encounters a type that was declared in the same assembly as the XAML when it was created.  For example, I have project where MyWorkflow.xaml...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Richard de Zwart over MonoTouch, Objective-C, XCode en iPhone development.                                                                         ...

In a normal language like English we use verbs all the time to describe what we are doing. So I guess the designers of the HTTP specs must have thought why not do the same with the HTTP protocol. And that makes perfect sense. In the HTTP spec these are called methods but commonly these are also names verbs. For example when we are using a browser to display some data from the Internet we are getting that data so we use the GET method. And as most of the time we are just retrieving data it makes sense...

In this week’s episode of Cloud Cover, Steve and I covered Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure. Steve explored the first two topics while I looked into ELMAH in Windows Azure. You should make sure and take a look at his posts – they’re useful: Printf(“HERE”) in the Cloud Lightweight Tracing to Windows Azure [...] Blog Post by: Wade

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) - Custom Activity Designer sample demonstrates how you can build an activity and activity designer.  It includes three projects MyActivityLibrary - The activity library project MyActivityLibrary.Design - The activity designer project TestDesigner - A rehosted designer project useful for testing the activity Step 1: Create the Activity The first step is to build your activity.  Don't create a designer until you are satisifed with the interface to...

Integrating an on-premise process with processes running in Windows Azure opens up a wide range of opportunities that enable customers to extend their on-premises solutions into the Cloud environment. Based off real-world customer projects led by the Windows Azure Customer … More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met de SharePoint Chick, Mirjam van Olst, over SharePoint. Mirjam vertelt wat je allemaal kan doen met SharePoint en hoe je als ontwikkelaar met SharePoint aan de slag kan. http://dotned.nl/PodCasts.aspx?id=13   www.TheProblemSolver.nl www.dotnetevents.nl Blog Post by: Maurice

The sample 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. The code sample offer a complete solution, one that enables simplified, scalable, … More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

Curt Peterson is a Principal Group Program Manager in the Business Process Division at Microsoft where he leads the Microsoft Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT). This team specializes in implementing the most challenging customer Cloud applications worldwide. They use … More » Blog Post by: Curt Peterson

Today we released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit to include a new HOL: Introduction to Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications. You can download the updated Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August 2011 Refresh from download center or view online on MSDN. The important take away is that in this HOL [...] Blog Post by: Wade

The v1.2 release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS includes support for Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS).  The enables iOS developers to create applications that can use and rely on federated identity providers such as Windows Live, Google Accounts, and Facebook Connect.  This walkthrough document covers configuring the ACS service and creating a [...] Blog Post by: Wade

The Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS provides an easy and convenient way of accessing Windows Azure storage from iOS-based applications. The toolkit works in two ways – the toolkit can be used to access Windows Azure storage directly, or alternatively, can go through a proxy service known as the Cloud Ready package.  The Cloud Ready [...] Blog Post by: Wade

UPDATE: In publishing this post, I encountered an issue with the plugin. Originally I used OneNote to create screen clippings of all the images in the post, then I pasted them into Live Writer. This is my normal practice for blog posts. Unfortunately, when I published, there ended up being a mismatch between the files [...] Blog Post by: Wade

Introduction Some months ago I created a custom WCF protocol channel to transparently inject client-side caching capabilities into an existing WCF-enabled application just changing the its configuration file. Since I posted my first post on this subject I received positive … More » Blog Post by: Paolo Salvatori

  We are excited to announce the release of Windows Azure Storage Analytics.  This feature offers developers and operations the ability to track, analyze, and debug usage of Windows Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables and Queues).  You can use this data to analyze storage usage to improve the design of your applications and their access patterns to Windows Azure Storage.  Analytics data consists of: Logs Provide trace of executed requests for Blobs, Tables and Queues Metrics Provide...