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As you’re probably aware, Windows Azure IaaS went general availability recently. There are three BizTalk images in the gallery that you use to create a new BizTalk virtual machine. This was too much for me to resist, I wanted to do something cool and distributed as a proof-of-concept. The result is this...

My wife does a lot of work volunteering at our school.  No, check that, she does a metric ton of work. The school was planning a silent auction to raise money for various programs. As part of this, the group decided to hold an online auction allowing people to bid on various activities offered by...

BizTalk Server 2013 (the 8th release!) has released to manufacturing, and is available NOW for download at MSDN for MSDN subscribers. You can read the team blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2013/03/21/biztalk-server-2013-is-now-rtm.aspx A list of enhancements can be...

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Marcel Meijer over huidige stand van zaken bij Windows Azure. Ze blikken even terug op de eerste versie van Azure en wat je toen allemaal wel en niet kon. Het grootste deel van de podcast gaat over hoe Azure veranderd is en wat je tegenwoordig allemaal kan...

As we have seen in previous blog posts getting data from a RavenDB database is easy. Either use the IDocumentSession.Query<T>() function to load a series of documents or the IDocumentSession..Load<T>() function to load a document using its identity. However sometimes we want more control...

In a previous post I explored various options of hosting RavenDB . While using RavenDB as a Windows Service or hosted in IIS is probably the best way to go in most cases there are a number of cases where the embedded option is great. And one of the places where I really like the embedded option of hosting...

  In case you missed it, the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery now contains an image for BizTalk Server, letting you create an Azure Virtual Machine with BizTalk installed. It was super-easy to do. I had to run the BizTalk configuration wizard and turn on SQL Agent, but that’s all. In a few...

This is easy to do, IF you have the right pieces. For the connection string, you can use the JDBC connection string presented in the portal (see below). For the JDBC driver, you need to be using Version 4. The reason is that earlier versions had problems with wildcard SSL certificates. You can download...

This is the third in a series of video case studies I am doing with some of the ISVs I work with. The video is available here . Enjoy! ==================================================================== When MOC1 Solutions wanted to move their applications supporting automotive dealerships to the cloud...

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...

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)...

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...

Here’s where you go to sign up for the just-announced preview features…. Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

Back here I debunked the myth that Azure is “a .NET thing”. Should there be *any* lingering doubts, just take a look at the new SDK downloads page (that’s the EN-US version)! Our goal is to be the best cloud platform, bar none, regardless of choice of development tools or languages.   Blog Post...

Coming up next Thursday. Live stream starts at 1:00PM pacific time. Hear from Scott Guthrie and other senior technologists from Microsoft and the Bay area who will introduce you to Windows Azure and the latest in Microsoft's cloud-based development technology. Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

This is the second in a series of video case studies I am doing with some of the ISVs I work with. The video is available here . Enjoy! ==================================================================== iVoteSports Baseball Edition makes you part of the action of a live Major League Baseball game using...

I’ve been busy making videos of a few of the ISVs that I’ve had the pleasure of working with. This is the first of those video case studies. The video is available here . Enjoy! =============================================================== Most consumers are unaware of the extent of publicly available...

Recently Steve Marx and I spent a few hours working on a best practices document for Windows Azure. As expected, this was a fun and educational experience – plenty of goofing around, but also some really good discussion on things to think about when building applications for Windows Azure. One of the...

I’m not sure how many other people on the planet may want to do this, but I developed a technique which I thought was really cool, and is somewhat non-obvious, so I thought I’d blog about it. When I develop, out of years of habit, I always install my development environment in a virtual machine, leaving...

I’ll be at DevCamp:Cloud this Friday at the UC Irvine campus. The L.A. event was sold out, and most stayed all day. Lots of good info. See you there? Register here at https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032507377&Culture=en-US Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

When a single appdomain is opening two (or more) service bus relay endpoints that have the same path (what is added after the servicebus.windows.net), but have a different namespace, the following exception is raised: A registration already exists for URI xxx

In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Patriek van Dorp over zijn TechDays presentatie over NuGet packages voor Windows Azure. Links: Blog: http://patriekvandorp.net TechDays presentaties: http://www.techdays.nl/AgendaDetail.aspx?cid=2271 Wazug: http://www.wazug.nl/ NuGet: http://nuget.org/ Presentatie...

I’ll be at DevCamp:Cloud tomorrow March 30th in Los Angeles. See you there? https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032507376&Culture=en-US Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

There was an Azure outage on Feb 29th. While these things can happen, it was really refreshing to see the openness and degree of detail in the explanation of the root cause analysis and the events that followed. The post will also give you some technical insights into what goes on behind the scenes....

This post outlines the various extensibility options of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and how this can be integrated with the Azure Service Bus to integrate with on premises applications. This is part 1, focusing on the out of the box capabilities.