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I was planned to have a great speaking gig on the Azure Services Platform in Poland at the TechFest09 conference.
But - too bad - the whole conference is cancelled (economic situation, other reasons, ....)
Sorry for me, the other speakers and people from the Polish community.
Devweek is my fave multi-day developer conference in the UK and attracts great speakers such as Aaron Skonnard, Neal Ford and Tim Ewald. Which is why I always feel a little humble that I get the chance to present there. This time around I delivered three sessions (See my discussion of what to expect + slides and links posts) and I also did something completely new to me – I interviewed fellow speakers during the conference with a view to getting the best bits published “somewhere”. A big thanks to ...
I previously posted about the fantastic conferences which the UK Developer Community lay on under the brand of “DDD”. Today I spotted that WebDD (Saturday 18th April) is now taking registrations – act swiftly, I expect this to fill. I also spotted that the rest of my group have finalised the speakers and agenda for the annual Architect Insight Conference in London on May 8th. This is IMHO the must attend event in the UK if you are an Architect in the UK (Be that an Enterprise Architect, an Infrastructure ...
As BizTalk Server 2009 is due for release in the not too distant, I thought I’d take the time to run off a few more BizTalk webcasts. I’ll be starting with a basic one looking at calling WCF services from an orchestration using the Service Aggregator pattern, and then look at improving the design to make it more efficient and reliable in future webcasts. This webcast will look at implementing a service aggregator pattern to call three WCF services that will book a hotel, flight and conference for ...
[UPDATE 30th March: VB and C# code samples for Azure can be downloaded from MSDN] Just finished the last of my three www.devweek.com sessions. Today was SQL Data Services and Windows Azure and yesterday was Entity Framework v1 and v2. Some useful links: www.azure.com starting point for sdks and sign ups http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds/ blog of the SQL Services team http://blogs.msdn.com/windo... blog of the Windows Azure team MIX sessions – videos to watch, especially SQL Data Services and Azure ...
We got snowed out in March, so Jeff Brand has graciously agreed to try again in April!! Developing and Deploying Your Windows Azure Application In this session we will take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform, “Windows Azure”, by building and running an application using the platform SDK. The sample app highlights some of the features of the platform including UI, service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience. This is a demo-heavy session. April 14, 2009 ...
I previously posted about the change to the approach we would be taking with SQL Data Services to deliver a “database in the cloud” capability to the Azure Service Platform. MIX09 has a session on this and the ppt and video is now available to stream/download. Check out: What's New in Microsoft SQL Data Services from Friday at MIX09 I will be doing a similar session this Thursday at www.devweek.com as I described before ...
I’ve just added a new webcast to BloggersGuides.net, on an introduction to MGrammar. I have another one in the pipeline which I hope to get out next week that will look at a more real-world example of using MGrammar. I found MGrammar confusing at first, and thought it would be one of the least used features of Oslo, but after having had the time to experiment with it a bit and get to know how it works I can think of a lot of scenarios where I will consider using it. At the MVP summit I met up with ...
Don't miss the opportunity to be at the first local meeting of the Twin Cities Cloud Computing User Group. Cloud Computing encompasses a variety topics including Software + Services, Windows Azure (Microsoft's cloud computing platform) and Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). At this meeting, you'll hear about Microsoft's vision of Software + Services and what it can mean for you. In addition you will see a presentation on Microsoft’s BPOS software services. Learn more and register ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:00 PM - Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:00 PM Central Time Welcome Time: 12:30 PM Theater - Regal Brooklyn Center 20 6420 Camden Avenue North Minneapolis Minnesota 55430 United States Event Overview: Enhance your coding capabilities with new tools, tips, and inside secrets from MSDN Events. We’ll start with an overview of the Azure Services Platform, which can help you build cloud-based applications and solutions that offer the best of online and on-premises functionality. Next, ...
Next week (23rd March 2009) I am speaking at DevWeek 2009. DevWeek is a great conference which attracts top notch speakers (plus me – I feel such a fraud whenever I present there!). It is IMHO the best developer focused conference we have in the UK and I can’t wait to get there and soak in the great sessions + catch up with familiar faces + meet plenty of new ones. Be warned. There is a rumour that we are being given some new toys (Flip video cameras) to play with while we are there. However don’t ...
Check out John Papa’s blog for much more detail and camera work… I’m just doing highlights. Web… Each of the tools can be used independently or integrate with each other or open source tools Expression Web 3: Standards based web authoring, Multi-laguage, Secure FTP, CSS Diagnostics, SuperPreview Erik Saltwell demoing Expression Web 3 SuperPreview – split screen or full, and can pick the browser to view it in, also can side-by-side the various browsers, or layering them one over the other to see problems. ...
Here's what's happening: Attendees: 428 Sessions: 73 Speakers: 49 Tracks: 15 Sessions: ASP.NET Make your Data Dance with ASP.NET Dynamic Databy Shawn Weisfeld + Show Description ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a framework that lets you create data-driven ASP.NET Web applications easily. It does this by automatically discovering data-model metadata at run time and deriving UI behavior from it. A scaffolding framework provides a functional Web site for viewing and editing data. You can easily customize the ...
The SDS team have announced their updated plans for SQL Data Services. There are plenty of changes to take in – but it looks to be a very positive step in response to feedback from folks who looked at the current CTP. Essentially SDS becomes a full relational database (SQL Server!) in the cloud which we access using familiar programming models such as ADO.NET and ODBC – you get stored procedures, triggers, views etc. As such it will become fairly trivial to “re-platform” on-premise applications to ...
My past experience with WCF services has followed a slightly unusual path. For a variety of reasons, most of the services I've written have consisted of an interface and an implementation. Pretty straight-forward thus far. However, where it gets a little unusual is in the hosting mechanism. We're using Windows services to host of WCF services. This works out well for us, since these services live on intranets, and aren't publicly exposed. When looking at Azure, services are a little different. It's ...
On Monday I gave a session on “Windows Azure and a little SQL Data Services” for the .NET Developer Network in Bristol with the main focus being on storage. Thanks to all those who attended – and I hope to be back in the audience next month :-) The main links I wanted to share were: www.azure.com and specifically the downloads: Windows Azure SDK Visual Studio tools and templates The table sample I showed using StorageClient is available for download along with a walkthrough screencast Code sample ...
I'll be presenting on Azure here in Fort Collins tonight, and again in Boulder on March 24th.
The talks will focus on providing an introduction to Azure, including working through some of the common pain points (such as debugging). I will, of course, be posting tips and tricks here as I get them in a coherent format.
Doug Hauger, General Manager Business Strategy, recently spoke at the Thomas Weisel Partners 2009 Technology & Telecom conference. The wide ranging discussion covers an overview of the Windows Azure service and cloud technology more broadly. He gave some good answers to a number of topics: On describing Azure... "What we've done is to come out with a set of services that we believe simplify the life of the developer, and make it easier for them to build applications that scale..." On how cloud ...
I have been messing around with a number of the MS initial cloud offerings, not the Azure stuff but offerings that are ‘real today’. So in no particular order: Skydrive: 25GB of free online storage Live Mesh: Sync, share and Access files across multiple devices – 5GB of online storage Live Sync: Sync, share and Access files across Windows. MAC, Linux systems – no storage So putting it simply: if you want to have ‘in the cloud’ storage use Skydrive, if you simply want to sync files across machines ...
ArcReady For our next ArcReady, we will explore a topic on everyone’s mind: Cloud computing. Several industry companies have announced cloud computing services . In October 2008 at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced the next phase of our Software + Services vision: the Azure Services Platform. The Azure Services Platforms provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on premises environments or the internet. Session 1: Cloud Services In our first ...
*Moved to: Windows Azure Training KitMicrosoft has just released a new Training Kit for Windows Azure that updates the one released at the PDC. Not since Windows Communication Foundation and WPF have I been so exited about a new technology, but Windows Azure is it. Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
As well as official Microsoft UK events, the UK team often appear at user group meeting and 3rd party conferences. We have plans to make it much easier for you to find all the events we are speaking at but in the meantime I have created a UK gig list for the next few months – which currently represents 20 sessions on everything from Parallel FX to Windows Azure. Hope to see you there ...
Spaceblock now supports Azure: Jim Nakashima (Cloudy in Seattle) reveals all. Deploying a Service Package from Cloud Storage: Jim again blogs about the the new features in the latest Azure Services Development Portal Easy messages in Windows Azure: Neil Kidd’s blog around adding functionality to queues in StorgeLib common code Passing Objects via the Azure Message Queue: Read more in Dominic Green’s blog… ...
If you deploy 10 instances of a web role. e.g. your website on 10 servers for scale and availability purposes. You wouldnt want to put all ten on one rack just in case that rack gets hosed. You'd want to follow some best practice and maybe host them across two racks. 5 on one rack in location X and 5 on another rack in location Y. If one server goes down on the rack in location Y you are good, theres 4 others still working and the Azure fabric will bring up the 5th as soon as it can. If the whole ...
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Cloud services that is. Windows Azure, .NET Services, Live Services…. If you looking for the spoon fed variety of information, a bunch of HOWTO vides have been released – see below. These are small little “nuggets” – like those MSDN Nuggets out of Microsoft UK. Get Started Developing on Windows Azure? If you’re a developer and you’re new to Windows Azure, start here! You’ll see what you need to download and install, and how to create a simple “Hello World” Windows Azure application. Deploy a Windows ...
The NYC Azure Cloud Computing Group meets again February 23, 2009 Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th floor, NYC, NY 6:00 - 8:00 pm http://www.clicktoattend.co... BE SURE TO REGISTER... Space fills up fast and Building Security Requires it. This month... Chris Rolon, Architectural Consultant Neudesic LLC will be presenting on... Azure Cloud Storage When trying to build services that are highly scalable, durable and always available, the storage of data is critical. In this session ...
get it here... http://www.microsoft.com/do... The Azure Services Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Azure Services Platform. The February release includes the following updates: 19 demo scripts that walkthrough several of the services 10 presentations covering the entire Azure Services Platform ...
Just thought I'd summarize what I've learned so far ... a particular slide stood out for me.... Box in white around everything is the service and everything outside of it is the public internet. LB is a load balancer which takes input off the public internet and feeds it to the webrole ‘N’ = as may copies of the webrole you want all distributed behind the load balancer. This is the only way that input is coming into the system. No one in the world can hit and IP address of one of your boxes directly. ...
Read or watch ============ Read “What is Azure” web site http://www.microsoft.com/az... Read the white paper by David Chappell http://download.microsoft.c... Watch the PDC 2008 session “A Lap Around Windows Azure” by Manuvir Das http://channel9.msdn.com/pd... He has an alternative presentation (40 minutes) here http://channel9.msdn.com/po... Install ...
At PDC this year, Microsoft announced a major release of the Windows Workflow Foundations (WF); WF4.0 WF4.0 promises better performance, scalability, control, visibility, and usability than its predecessor. Gone are code-asides and the dreaded code activities, replaced with 100% XAML markup and custom activities. MFST has seriously stepped up its tooling to make custom activities easier (including defining a custom WF syntax which gets “compiled” to XAML), an improved designer and debugging support. ...
Applied for the Windows Azure Live services CTP and received your token, but can't find the download? You're not alone. Following the download links for me, even after I received and entered my token, took me in a circular loop. That is, it took me into a loop until I actually started to create a Live-enabled cloud app. Dariusz Parys blogs about this issue, and how to actually get the download links to work in this blog post. Thanks, Dariusz ...
I have been allocated an account in Windows Azure Developer Portal for CTP - and very excited. Now i'm looking into the corridors of Windows Azures and downloading the SDKs. Am looking at these sites Deploying a Servce on Windows Azure http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Windows Azure SDK http://www.microsoft.com/do... Microsoft SQL Data Services SDK http://go.microsoft.com/fwl... Using ...
This is a subject I am just starting to understand. I talked with Dave Bost the other day at the February CAG meeting about Azure. This morning the subject came up again as I was listening to the Thirsty Developer podcast. These got me thinking about where does cloud computing fit in? As I understand it the difference between ASP model and Azure is that an ASP is hosting their application for you to use and what Azure offers hosting your application. Now this differs again from normal hosting companies ...
I find it very therapeutic to “sync to paper” on a regular basis. Yesterday I was grumpy as I had way too much in my head and in my Inbox. Late last night I grabbed my trusty Moleskine and wrote it all down – I “synced to paper”. I slept well and woke up grump free. I also realised while “syncing to paper” last night that I carry around a lot of links in my head to stuff I find in my job which I keep meaning to share but never quite do. The sort of stuff I might mention to you if we met in the staff ...
In this issue: Rob Houweling, Mike Taulty, Andrej Tozon, Kevin Dockx, and Jobi Joy. Shoutouts (and wow... there are more than SL postings!): First off, Tim Greenfield has a very nice Azure post up about issues in building and running in general. Not sure how many of you SL Devs are also doing Azure, but I'm keeping my eye on it. Tim's post is a good one to read if you're heading that way: Windows Azure Hosting impressions and debugging hurdles Andy Beaulieu has a video hosted on his site of someone ...
For anyone who still hasn't seen the announcement, the January 2009 CTP for the Windows Azure tools were released. See the official blog post here. Go grab the latest bits and start leaning Azure today.
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of going down to a local theatre to watch through the MSDN event for Azure, debugging, and mobility. The event itself was refreshing, and I always enjoy hearing Zain speak. We have similar passions, and also similar personalities. The event started off with a brief look at Azure, which is Microsoft’s very beta cloud computing platform. The technology itself seems straightforward and easy to use, although Zain warned about a tedious process of getting the tokens necessary ...
In this issue: Jonathan van de Veen, David Justice, Andrej Tozon, Patrick Keating, Timmy Kokke, Shawn Wildermuth, Alex, Golesh, and Mike Snow. Shoutouts: Robby Ingebretsen has a new version of Kaxaml out: New Version of Kaxaml with Support for Silverlight 2 RTW ... if you don't know what it is, you owe it to yourself to go look! If you ever sit around and wonder "what is Corey Schuman up to?" :) ... never fear, he's involved in lots of things, for instance: HSN.tv video player and Video slider control ...
In this issue: Tiago Andrade e Silva, John Bruin, Tim Greenfield, Jeff Wilcox, Michael S. Scherotter, and Terence Tsang. Shoutouts: Michael S. Scherotter reports: Deep Discounts on Microsoft Expression until January 31, and shows off some of his great Silverlight. Tim Heuer blogged about Scott Cate's new venture: Visual Studio tricks in video form... looks great, Scott! This was supposed to go out on the 20th, but I had some problems posting to GWB. Consequently, the APress eBook deal of the day ...
For 12 of my years in Microsoft I worked with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). ISVs get their own site, http://www.isvinnovation.com/ which from time to time contains some great online webcasts. If you are a developer and you are new to Azure Services Platform, then there are five great Webcasts to take a look at. Part: 1 Azure Services for Developers: Fundamentals Part: 2 Azure Services for Developers: Developing a Windows Azure Application Part: 3 Azure Services for Developers: .NET Services ...
In my previous post I explained a little history of why this blog has come about – but now I wanted to explain why the heck you might read it :-) You should expect: Information on the very latest developer related technologies for building applications for Windows – client, server and cloud. A strong bias towards data - Object Relational Mapping, “Data in the Cloud”, Syncing data, RDBMS systems, N-tier data etc. Specifically I will be initially covering the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data ...
In this issue: Dean Chalk(2), Alex Golesh(2), Nigel Sampson, and Jesse Liberty(2). Shoutouts: CigDem reports Experience Silverlight in Eclipse Robby Ingebretsen is spending a lot of time at MIX09 speaking and says Help Me with MIX09 From SilverlightCream.com: Silverlight ‘Loading’ Spin Icon in XAML Dean Chalk submitted a couple links, and I've added him to my watch list. This first one is a 'how-to' on a 'loading' Icon all done up in XAML and ready to roll! ObservableCollection Base Class With Expression ...
Yesterday morning came earlier than usual so I could trek to Reston, VA for the Washington DC MSDN Developer Conference, however, it was WELL worth it! Stephen Walther gave the keynote, hitting all the high-points of Azure and how it will play such a prominent role in future .NET development. I spent the rest of my day in the Client and Presentation room hearing Dave Hoerster present on ASP.NET and jquery, Frank La Vigne present on WPF DataGrid and Ribbon Controls, Pete Brown present on Building ...
In this issue: Quadra Silverlight Outsourcing, Denis Dollfus, Karsten Januszewski, Tim Greenfield, Alex Golesh, Jeff Wilcox, Jaime Rodriguez, Mike Snow, and the Swiss MSDN Team Blog. Laurence Moroney gives a reference to Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :) From SilverlightCream.com: Dialog Control Quadra Silverlight Outsourcing sent in another link, and this one for a very nice-looking Dialog Control. Keep this stuff coming guys... it's all good :) Silverlight : Sealver Algea ...
I was impressed with my first taste of ADFS on my last project. Specifically solving for Web SSO. Geneva, (aka Zermatt) is now the single federated identity platform. And it sits in the Cloud. At the PDC 1 Day (MSDN Dev Con) the presentation on Azure noted this. This is wonderful. It may be new to us at this point, but it will be the same framework in the enterprise as in the cloud. A Security Token Service (STS) will exist in the cloud, a portal to manage the access control rules will exist in the ...
For those of you that may know, and those of you that don’t, I was scheduled to go to PDC 2008. The the inevitable happened. We ended up having issues with a third party vendor the week before I was scheduled to go. We also ended up having other issues and scheduling conflict that all came together to mean one thing, I MISSED PDC! I was so excited, I had never been a part of an organization that was will for me to go to one of the top conferences. But, the world’s aligned to keep me from my dream. ...
This week in the Twin Cities we have Jason Olson (Microsoft), coming all the way from Redmond, WA to talk to three of our local User Groups. If you get the chance, come check them out. TONIGHT: 1/12/09 6:00PM @ New Horizons Twin Cities Developers Guild (http://www.twincitiesdevel... for directions to New Horizons) Topic: .NET Framework 4.0 Overview With every successful release of the .NET Framework, more features and changes are introduced into our development lives. But what is being ...
Silverlight makes creating compelling Rich Internet Applications fairly easy. That said the cut down version of .Net means some things that you would do within an application have to be relegated to Web Services which can benefit from the full .Net library. One of these is of course Azure, after all that is the whole point - an online store of Business Logic and data. The application I'm working on uses Silverlight on the front end, and Azure will provide the bulk of the backend. There are reasons ...