Before we get started with RavenDB we need to install the required parts. There are several ways we can do this and one of the easiest is using the NuGet Package manager from within Visual Studio 2012 with the available RavenDB NuGet packages.   Which package to install? As should be obvious from the screenshot above there are quite a few NuGet packages to choose from. It turns out we need to use two packages to get started, the client and server part. Adding them is easy, just open the NuGet...

This post aims to provide you with an introduction into monitoring the health and activity of your WCF- and WF-based applications with Windows Server AppFabric. More specifically, the post will outline the AppFabric tooling features that are built into IIS Manager as well as outline some basic strategies in using these features to monitor your applications. Introduction At the center of AppFabric’s monitoring tools is the Dashboard, which provides a centralized gateway to view the health of WCF and...

As I blogged about here , CodeCamp Fullerton is this weekend. I signed up for 3 sessions. My friend, author and Azure MVP David Pallmann will also be doing Azure session there (as well as many others). The way the organizers have laid things out on Saturday is a thing of beauty if you’re an Azure person. You can basically camp out in room UH246 at 10:00am and get the “Brian and David” show all day long. Saturday - Room UH 246: 10:00am - Brian - Windows Azure Overview 12:15pm - Brian - Windows Azure...

This blog post 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. This post and its associated code sample offer a complete solution, one that enables simplified, scalable, loosely coupled communication between role instances on the Windows Azure platform. More » Blog Post by: Valery Mizonov

Today we deployed an incremental update to the Access Control Service in the Labs environment. It's available here: http://portal.appfabriclabs.com/ . Keep in mind that there is no SLA around this release, but accounts and usage of the service are free while it is in the labs environment. This release builds on the prior October release of the Access Control Service, and has a few changes: Improved error messages by adding sub-codes and more detailed descriptions. Adding primary/secondary flag...