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I recently had an ISV that took advantage of the new Mastering Silverlight 3 training from Wintellect. They raved about how it took their devs and archs from novice to expert in less than a week. When ever I here that I try to let everyone know about it. So here’s the skinny on the training: You can find the flyers for the Silverlight 3 training courses on the Wintellect website. Here’s the two courses they have: Mastering Silverlight 3 for Developers (taught by Jeff Prosise) Mastering Silverlight ...
I recently had to run down some content and a video on SQL Azure for one of my ISVs. The topic they were looking for more info on was SQL Data Services with TDS / TSQL support. The CTP for SQL Azure is currently available. It become available in August. You can read about the release on the SSDS team blog. Note that SQL Azure was formerly SQL Data Services. Jared Bienz, one of the Architect Evangelists on my team, pointed me to this great Channel 9 video that talks about the changes in SQL Azure ...
If you like to migrate your Web tier or the ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure, check my new posts Part I and Part II In the previous post we had examined on getting access to SQL Azure, creating your first database, accessing it with SQL Server Management Studio and then migrating the Northwind database schema to SQL Azure using the SQL Azure Migration Wizard Beta. UPDATE: The latest version of SQL Azure Migration Wizard migrates both Data and Schema. You can download the same from http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.... ...
If you like to migrate your Web tier or the ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure, check my new posts Part I and Part II SQL Azure is the latest buzz around Cloud Computing and the ability to take relational database to the cloud as is, is something most would welcome compared to the earlier model of ACE (Authority, Container, Entity) that was there when SQL Azure was SSDS. Well, like others, I also got interested and wanted to explore the SQL Azure. SQL Azure is currently in CTP and offers token ...
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day five (The last day): Play, play, play with the technology. PART DONE Produce outline skeleton demo sequence for both sessions PART DONE Produce a backup VM “just in case” :) DONE Run through both presentations for rough timing (mainly to figure out talk to demo ratio) PART DONE Look into this annoying bug which appeared to have started after I installed Silverlight ...
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan vs actual for day four (Thursday): Produce final drafts of each deck and post them so delegates can check out what I’m covering. DONE (link below) Play, play, play with the technology. DONE (a little) Read, read, read DONE And… produce outline skeleton demo sequence DONE (a little) The good bit: The best bit was getting the drafts of both decks “done” – done in the sense that I ...
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day three: Nearly got it all done. However I ended up spending more time on EF4 than I had planned as … there is a lot of it! Gather up good posts and samples for EF 4 (will likely blog this out) DONE Play with EF 4 as much as my day allows DONE Revisit EF 4 deck post play DONE And a late night re-read of the three Azure storage documents from way back (will add links in the ...
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. [Initual release 22nd Sept 2009] [Updated 23rd Sept, with links from Julie Lerman] [Updated 2nd Oct, with slidedeck section] [Large Update 15th Dec – including PDC09 content, my new posts and plenty of stuff from Julie L, Tony and others] This is my attempt to pull together all (ok – most) of the improvements in Entity Framework 4.0 and aggregate useful resources against each. It is very ...
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. The plan for day two: The Tuesday plan vs actual was … 100% spot on. Install Entity Framework CTP on Windows XP Mode. SUCCESS Install VS2010 into a Boot from HD Windows 7 VHD (Yep… back to plan A as I would much prefer to use VS2010 without a VM but also without installing it direct on my host Windows 7 which I want to keep reasonably clear) SUCCESS Revisit both decks. DONE Play with Entity ...
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. One of the things that has been added to Windows Azure while i have been “elsewhere” is the Service Management API which the team introduced on the 17th of this month (Sept 2009). This is a REST-based API which allows: Deployments – Viewing, creating, deleting, swapping, modifying configuration settings, changing instance counts, and updating the deployment. Listing and viewing properties ...
This is the second in a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software Architect 2009. In case you don’t want to skim through the whole post, the main things I learnt in day one are: 1. Never forget that install errors can be caused by something as simple as a corrupt file! (My “battle” outlined below) 2. Virtual PC RC for Windows 7 isn’t perfect. It doesn’t like working with a VM created on an older version. (Details below) 3. There are some nice storage explorer tools ...
Next week I am presenting two sessions at Software Architect 2009. Both sessions are new, new in the sense that I am creating them this week and new in the sense that whilst they are on topics I have experience with, in each case there is a significant new element for me to learn. I thought it would be fun and interesting (to me anyway!) to keep a diary of my preparations to get these sessions in good shape. The two 90minute sessions are: Design considerations for storing data in the cloud with Windows ...
What, Why and How Windows Azure 2009 Platform…… What is an internet-scale cloud service platform hosted in Microsoft data center a platform which provides operating system, a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. a platform for running Windows applications and storing their data in the cloud. a platform where all services (.NET Services, SQL Server, Live Services) installed which can be used by the applications a platform where the code and/or data live in the cloud ...
I’ll be very busy over the coming weeks wrapping up a big project for a client so I won’t have much time to write. Here is a brief update on happenings. This week I was able to purchase my PDC 2009 ticket. I am very much looking forward to this event as there are a LOT of exciting topics with the upcoming releases, Office 2010, VSTS 2010, and .NET 4.0. I’ll be pretty busy after this event doing presentations at work, for clients, and a few user groups in the area after learning more at the PDC. Next ...
At last i got some time to work on long pending “project: i have thought of. This one is about listing all twitter friends in a connected graph and see their statuses. It uses Twitter API and WCF service to feed the silverlight. WCF acts as an adapter to twitter service. The idea is to connect to other services like “orkut”, “facebook”, “Mayspace” etc in future. It uses SL 3.0; so you must have it installed to run this: Here are the snapshots of the running application.(Running in flock)!! You may ...
Someone asked me about cloud computing and Azure platform and then asked me the future of MEWA in light of Silverlight 3 offline application. While i have my own thoughts on them and both do target different application segments, i will first like to demo on a Silverlight MEWA ; then SL 3 offline – online thing and of course the difference… (along with similarities) Here is step by step procedure: 1. Down load Live services… 2. Make a new project in Live services .. choose Silverlight template 2. ...
I’ve just published a “Behind the Scenes” webcasts on CloudCasts. It’s the first in a series of webcasts that will look at the project and how it is developed, tested, and hosted in Windows Azure. In this webcast I’ll run through the deployment of a new version of the CloudCasts website. I’ll start by showing the project structure and how I have configures the application to use local or cloud based storage in the development phase. I’ll give you a few tips on hosting your Azure applications in IIS ...
One of the downsides to Azure is that it’s error messages need a LOT of work. I just installed the July CTP of Azure. After doing so, even the simplest cloud project would fail. I’m talking “Create New Project” then F5… wait 30 seconds… bomb. I kept getting the ubiquitous “Role instances did not start within the time allowed. Please try again. If you continue to encounter this behavior please try shutting down the Development Fabric." message. Nice and descriptive. Digging into the problem, it looked ...
I’m participating in the Microsoft Gemini CTP (Gemini is the self-service BI component cooperatively provided by the forthcoming SQL Server 2008 R2, Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010) and the SQL Azure CTP. I found intriguing the question of whether these two CTP technologies could be used together. Turns out they can! I successfully got Gemini to import data from a SQL Azure Database (after migrating the AdventureWorksDW2008 dimCurrency table into an Azure database called AWCloud)! I set up the connection ...
In this Issue: David Justice, Tim Heuer, Christian Schormann, Shawn Wildermuth, Matthias Shapiro, and Colin Blair. Shoutout: Shawn Wildermuth reports that his Silverlight Data Examples Have Been Updated! From SilverlightCream.com: XAML Default Button Want a default button on your Silverlight or WPF page? Have you tried? Well, David Justice has, and he's got one working, and you can too with the attached property code he's provided.Compiling pixel shaders for Silverlight How about builging your own ...
A little while back I posted a question on Channel 9 wanting to know more about SQL Server ‘Madison’ project. Well Charles Torre being the extremely nice bloke that he is (Thanks Charles I owe you another beer, perhaps not London Pride next time!) got on a plane from Redmond down to Orange County and went to pay the Madison development team and in particular Christian Kleinerman for is the Product Unit Manager for the Madison development, a visit The video is a good introduction into Madison, it ...
So lets say you want to test early development builds in a continuously integrated system. You want to take all your developers code and execute it on a seperate box and be able to test client access to your system remotely. Yeah you could put it up in staging on Azure but maybe you dont want to do that yet. Maybe you just want some testers bangin away at it from some remote client. Well right now thats kinda hard since the development fabric carries a restriction to deny request from non-localhost ...
To help developers and architects better understand how to leverage the cloud, Microsoft is offering two "train-the-trainer" sessions for user group leaders and influentials. Here's a great opportunity to learn more and present back to your user groups. Sessions are: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 5:00 PM-6:00 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:00 AM-9:00 AM (UTC-8:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Here's What You'll Learn Development tools for Visual Studio ...
Before we had Azure and the various bits and pieces that became Azure at PDC 2008 Microsoft had a number of disparate groups working on various ‘cloudy’ projects. these included BizTalk Services, Red dog, Mesh and the Live framework to name a few. Then at PDC 2008 with the wave of a marketing teams wand they all be became Azure or Azure Services or Azure platform or …well anyway the over-arching message was that they were all part of Azure!! Furthermore we were presented with the vision below… Now ...
IDG News Service — Microsoft on Tuesday released technology previews of SQL Azure, the database for its Azure cloud infrastructure platform, and SQL Server StreamInsight, its entry in the CEP (complex event processing) arena. Microsoft issues SQL Azure, CEP platform previews | ITworld ...
In this catching-up Issue: Brad Abrams, Matthias Shapiro, Jesse Liberty, Walt Ritscher, Erik Mork, Gavin Wignall, Tim Heuer, Rob Zelt, Jeff Prosise, and Dan Wahlin. Shoutouts: The Expression Blend and Design blog reports All Expression Blend Samples Posted to the Expression Gallery! Rob Zelt reminds us to Remember the Silverlight Toolkit! In case you missed this one, it's huge: Sunday Night Football - Powered by Silverlight congrats to all involved with that one!! From SilverlightCream.com: Business ...
Microsoft has released a trial version of SQL Azure DB. Get more details
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I’ve spent a bit of time with CloudCasts (formally Cloud TV). I changed the name for a couple of reasons, primarily because the domain name cloudcasts.net was available. I’m still hosting in Azure, and the original links will work as long as its Azure hosted, but you should update the links to use www.cloudcasts.net so they don’t break if I move it to another platform. I’ve added a couple of new webcasts, Visual Studio 2010 WCF Project Templates and Book Review - SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server ...
BizTalk WCF adapter and multipart messages - The discussion http://icio.us/itsrcp Charles Young : Complex-Event processing (CEP) Explained for BizTalk Users http://icio.us/ynmuwp BizTalk Azure Adapters SDK - Home http://icio.us/45rlk4 Sending Messages From Azure Service Bus to BizTalk Server 2009 « Richard Seroter’s Architecture Musings http://icio.us/cnxkbg Issue 7 of BizTalk HotRod is Out http://icio.us/h520f1 ...
BizTalk Hotrod Magazine Issue 7 is out there. This issue has articles about Azure, BizTalk WCF Adapters, Book review, Unit Testing, Management with WMI and Dynamics AX Integration with BizTalk. Download Link: http://biztalkhotrod.com/Do... ...
It’s been a couple weeks since it was first announced that the Engineered Experiences team won Microsoft’s newCloudApp() contest and it’s about time I got around to blogging about it. First things first, I couldn’t start this post without congratulating the other team members: Scott Densmore and Dwayne Brown, you guys rock! What Is IMPULSE? Check it out: http://www.myimpulselive.com As a software developer I am all about reuse so here’s the copy+paste from our newcloupapp.com description: IMPULSE ...
In this Issue: Karl Shifflett, Jafar Husain, Hannes Preishuber, Tim Heuer, Deep Zoom Blog, Joel Neubeck(2), and Gerard Leblanc. Shoutout: The Expression Blend and Design Blog have reported: Deep Zoom Composer Updated to Fix an Export Related Bug ... and they're saying it was a serious bug. From SilverlightCream.com: Updated – INotifyPropertyChanged – How to remove the Property Name String Code SmellKarl Shifflett discusses up-coming goodness he worked on during his Alaskan cruise (!) and then shows ...
A long overdue “brain dump” of stuff that I found interesting. Development related: WPF vs Silverlight A detailed look at the differences (and similarities) between the two. “Size vs features, full trust vs sandboxed” Changes to the compatibility modes in Windows 7 – new to me. Meet “RunAsHighest” A nice drill down into Azure Table Storage, REST and the ADO.NET Data Services Story - Interested in ORM? Then IMHO you have two main choices right now. The ADO.NET Entity Framework (.NET 3.5 SP1 and above) ...
In this Issue: Rabeeh Abla, Laurent Duveau, Jesse Liberty, Davide Zordan, Brad Abrams, Scott Marlowe, and Jafar Husain. Shoutouts: New today from Silverlight SDK: Expression Blend 3 released!. Go get your 60-day trial! Shawn Wildermuth posted his My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets. Others have taken him up on the "what are yours" question, so this could become a good reference post. Corey Schuman followed his SketchFlow Controls screenshot up with a Silverlight 3 app: SketchFlow Control ...
My presentation on the Windows Azure Platform is online on MSDN Chopsticks. See http://www.microsoft.com/be... In this presentation you get an overview of the Windows Azure Platform, the ideas behind it and the business value of using this platform. The vision of Microsoft on cloud services and the implementation towards developers will become clear. We will discuss the architecture of Azure and the paradigm shift from building traditional on-premises applications ...
I recently heard a presentation from David Chappell talking about how SOA is failing in many organizations. Below is not a summary of what he talked about but my own new thoughts on a subject I am still learning much about while listening to his presentation..... I have to give it to David Chappell. He has a way of bringing together concepts in a very simple and engaging way. At a recent architecture conference ( video http://channel9.msdn.com/po... ...
The future is in Cloud Computing, was Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's main message at the Think Next convention in Tel Aviv last month. During his keynote speech, Ozzie said we are experiencing the most exciting time of the PC era thanks to the proliferation of a wide range of PCs in many shapes and sizes and an increase in the number of PCs bought per person and family. Meanwhile, cellular phones are also expanding their capabilities and will be soon supported by a large range of ...
This show is a bonus edition. It includes a brief overview of the announcements this week around Azure at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans and then a 30minute interview recorded at Qcon 2009 in London earlier this year. This time around, I am the interviewee for a change. Many thanks to Ryan Slobojan and InfoQ for letting me take the original video interview and create a podcast from it. If you prefer, you can watch the video on the InfoQ site. I was asked the following: Eric, what's ...
We answered a lot of questions on Azure at day 2 of the Worldwide Partner Conference yesterday (Tues 14th July 2009). The conference is being streamed live this week (or at least parts of it) at http://www.digitalwpc.com/ Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and .NET Services will be available for purchase before end of calendar 2009 and Windows Azure will be available at PDC 2009 in November. (I’m stroking my lucky rabbits foot – but we seem confident). It will be available in 21 countries at launch (including ...
Visual WebGui is announcing that its rich Internet application platform can now enables customers to build and deploy applications to Microsoft’s cloud computing environment, Windows Azure. Gizmox will demonstrate to customers and partners an extremely fast and low-cost method to port line of business (LOB) applications to the cloud using the Visual WebGui Cloud platform, at the WPC in New Orleans this week. There is more information about the Visual WebGui platform as a cloud solution in the official ...
In this Issue: Modesty Zhang, Damian Schenkelman, Michael Wolf(2, 3), Andrea Boschin(2, 3, 4, 5). Shoutout Bill Reiss reported an update to SilverSprite on Codeplex. If you're doing games with Silverlight and you haven't checked this out, now is a good time! From SilverlightCream.com, another all-submittal all-submittal post: Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage Modesty Zhang has combined .NET RIA Services, Azure, Silverlight3. Starting with a discussion ...
Gizmox's Visual WebGui Web & Cloud platform will be presented at Microsoft's WPC in New Orleans between July 13 to July 16 within the Windows Azure booth. Visual WebGui can now enable the development & migration of applications to Microsoft's Cloud computing environment - Windows Azure. Visual WebGui’s virtualization technology also dramatically reduces customers’ cloud bandwidth and CPU usage, offering a more cost effective runtime environment for native Azure applications. You can read ...
NewCloudApp is a challenge (some kind of developers contest) for Azure based applications. See www.newcloudapp.com My application (for Ordina.be) called SHPH as submission for this is running on shph2.cloudapp.net. SHPH is an application in the cloud running on the Microsoft Azure Services Platform. Using this application allows sending pictures taken during holidays from a PC in your hotel to PC’s at home via the cloud. The idea is to share your holiday experience directly with family and friends. ...
In March 2008 we announced SQL Server Data Services. In October 2008 we renamed it to SQL Data Services, part of SQL Services. In July 2009 we renamed it to SQL Azure Database, part of SQL Azure. Same technology, same team – smarter naming :-) Smarter because people were getting confused between SQL Data Services and ADO.NET Data Services (totally different “things”) and the OS you will use in front of SQL Azure is Windows Azure. I wonder what will happen to .NET Services ...
Being ASP.NET based Visual WebGui is coded, parsed and executed on top of .NET and is most native application nature for Windows Azure, Amazon and other cloud providers. Having an optimized received & sent data actually concludes in lowering the transportation and the costs when it comes to cloud deployment. The highest request-per-second compared to any other AJAX infrastructure proves the simple fact!, the CPU is much less occupied with allocations & disposals of objects and results again ...
In this Issue: SmartyP, Mark Monster, Nigel Sampson, Manish Dalal, Steve Commisso, and Kevin Dockx. Shoutouts: Jonathan van de Veen has a screenshot of his CodeEmbed4Web project up: The birth of CodeEmbed4Web part #2 and he's looking for opinions... I like the UI. Jim Lynn did a Deep Zoom image of a mosaic novelist Neil Gaiman did with pix sent by his twitter followers: A Deep Zoom celebration From SilverlightCream.com: IPhone Style Drag and Push Panel in Silverlight SmartyP has an excellent IPhone-style ...
Mother of all Blog Posts Building expertise in WPF / Silverlight · Core Programming Concepts: Declerative programming, Dependency properties, DataBinding, Commands, Triggers, VSM, Control templating, the inheritence model , XAML extensions and control templating · Transforms and animations - SVG experience helps · Comprehend the core differences in SL and WPF- lack of Commands and Triggers (Behaviours and VSM are superior anyway), Calling different types of services (WCF, Sockets, Duplex, ADO.NET ...
I’ve been looking with Windows Azure for a months now, and thought it would be about time to launch my own Azure hosted site. Cloud TV is a community based website for hosting webcasts relating to Microsoft technologies. The idea for the Cloud TV project is to develop a cool application using Windows Azure that can show off the potential of Azure and the ease of use for existing .net developers and to create a community site for developers to contribute content in the form of webcasts. It’s along ...
This is the first post in a series to demonstrate how to use the standard MSFT technologies to implement a CRUD data application in Silverlight. This post is beginners stuff - there’s nothing advanced here. Most readers with some experience of Silverlight will learn nothing from this post, but I want to start at the beginning so those of you who are relatively new to Silverlight can see how analogous building such an app in Silverlight is to say building it in ASP.NET, Win Forms or WPF. This app ...