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Un servicio de hospedaje en Windows Azure, consiste en una aplicación diseñada para correr en la Nube de Microsoft y unos ficheros XML de configuración que definen cómo debe funcionar.El modelo del servicio es determinado por la configuración almacenada en los ficheros ServiceDefinition.csdef y ServiceConfiguration.csfg y que son utilizados por Windows Azure para saber como la aplicación ha de funcionar. Y los cuales hemos visto en las entradas sobre Gestión de Servicios Azure. ¿Qué es un Rol?Para ...
El Instituto Nacional de Estándares y Tecnología y su laboratorio de tecnología información, NIST por el acrónimo en idioma inglés, han definido Cloud Computing de la siguiente manera:“Cloud Computing es un modelo para habilitar acceso conveniente por demanda a un conjunto compartido de recursos computacionales configurables, por ejemplo, redes, servidores, almacenamiento, aplicaciones y servicios, que pueden ser rápidamente aprovisionados y liberados con un esfuerzo mínimo de administración o de ...
I’ve just published a CTP version of “The Developers Guide to AppFabric”. Any feedback on the content would be great, and I will include it in the full release next week. “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric” is a free e-book for developers who are exploring and leveraging the capabilities of the Azure AppFabric platform. The goal is to create a resource that will evolve and mature in parallel with the Azure AppFabric technologies. The use of an electronic format will allow sections to be added as ...
Download a working demo (below): No showing off, this has been developed in VS11 using MTM11 and version controlled in TFS Azure Working Demo = Download-Testing Scorecard In this blog post I’ll be showing you how to use the TFS API to build a testing scorecard. In this testing score card, I’ll be going through each of the test plans programmatically looping through test suits (yes, the test suits can be nested) looking for test cases and querying their status and further going in at the test step ...
Very Good introduction video on how Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) works together for claim base application in cloud
Join me and Oleg Sych from AgileThought at Tallahassee Code Camp this weekend! Register for this FREE event online: TallyCodeCamp.org Design Language of Windows Phone & Windows "8" by Nikita Polyakov Prototyping w/ SketchFlow by Nikita Polyakov Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data by Oleg Sych Introduction to Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio by Oleg Sych Agile Estimation and Project Planning by Oleg Sych Many other exciting sessions are being presented this year including Windows Phone ...
On October the 15th, the Montreal .NET User Group will hold a special event... a full day of conferences and workshops on Azure ! The speakers for the special event will be our very own Guy Barrette, Azure MVP, Sébastien Warin also and Azure MVP and Cory Fowler who just happens to be yet another Azure MVP ! Ain't that just amazing to see how many of them Azure MVPs we managed to pack in the same room for you to learn from? All this for one low price... 10$.... and you have to be a registered and ...
At last, I can announce that ‘BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed’ has been published and is available through major booksellers in both printed and electronic form. The book is not a new edition of the old ‘BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed’ book from several years ago, although Brian Loesgen, our fearless team leader, provided continuity with that title. Instead, this is entirely new content written by a team of six authors, including myself. BizTalk Server is such a huge subject. It proved a challenge to ...
In this Issue: Shawn Wildermuth, Ollie Riches, Oscar Agreda, Samidip Basu, Dan Wahlin, Walt Ritscher, Laurent Bugnion(-2-), Andrej Tozon, András Velvárt, Vikram Pendse, Michael Crump, Andy Beaulieu(-2-), Michael Sync(-2-), Above the Fold: Silverlight: "The MVVM Dashboard" Oscar Agreda WP7: "SurfCube on Mango Part 4 – fighting with the ListPicker control" András Velvárt Windows 8: "Why I’m Excited About Windows 8" Dan Wahlin LightSwitch: "Creating LightSwitch Custom Controls" Michael Washington Shoutouts: ...
If you want to get up to speed on Azure AppFabric brokered messaging there are a couple of resources you should check out. SB CTP Messaging User Guide This is a 30 page word document put together by the AppFabric dev team. It’s a great read to get an introduction to Queues, Topics and Subscriptions. If you are working in the AppFabric Labs environment using the May or June CTP the code will work fine. There have been significant changes in the API in the September 2011 release, so don’t expect any ...
In Windows Azure, we have the DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener which can be used for writing diagnostics to Local resource (like a local storage in the Worker or Web Role) which can then be ultimately stored in Windows Azure Table/Blob storage (transferred automatically by the Diagnostics Monitor in Windows Azure based on config settings). We could either configure the Diagnostic Monitor using Code (in Role Startup) or we can use a config file for the same (called diagnostics.wadcfg). The code configuration ...
Windows Azure Storage med Björn Eriksen. Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM Windows Azure Storage är en tjänst i Windows Azure som rör olika typer av lagring. Blobs, Queues, Tables och är begrepp som många garanterat känner till, och säkert har en uppfattning om hur de ska bete sig, men finns det mer än det som syns på ytan? Utvecklare är vana att jobba med filsystem, databaser och köhanterare så varför skapa en ny modell? Skalbarhet och pålitlighet är det korta svaret! Register ...
Matthew Kerner’s session at BUILD covers many of the patterns and approaches that a well designed and highly scalable solution can do to make the most efficient use of the platform. Truth is many of the areas Matthew covers should be for on Premise too – including use of Windows Azure CDN. At about ~30:00 in Matthew references one of my posts on Windows Azure CDN and using it with your Compute role (hosted service) as an CDN origin… ...
What a week it has been! The BUILD Conference just concluded http://www.buildwindows.com... and there were tons of announcements. This is one of the reasons I am passionate about this company. Even when I was outside Microsoft, the momentum and the focus they have on Developer audience simply amazes me and they continue to do it, years later. Windows Developer Preview BUILD is a developer conference which premiered the first Windows Developer Preview bits. Clearly, the developers ...
We are happy to announce two new Azure Boot Camp dates: Charlotte, NC - October 27th and 28th Mountain View, CA - November 7th and 8th These boot camps are a FREE two day deep dive class to get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. Stay tuned for dates in the following locations: Hawaii, Irvine CA, Denver CO, New York NY, Portland OR, and Seattle WA. Information and Registration information about all Azure Boot Camps can be found here: http://www.azurebootcamp.co... Scott ...
I’ve added a second AppFabric Walkthrough based on the Azure AppFabric Service Bus September 2011 release. The second one looks at using the NamespaceManager class to create, list, get and delete queues in an AppFabric service bus namespace using a simple C# console application. Feel free to expand on this scenario to create more sophisticated management consoles. As with the first walkthrough there have been a lot of changes in the classes used to interact with the service bus, so don’t expect this ...
One benefit of my recent experience on a BA flight was that I got plenty of time to read through “Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration”. I’d promised the publisher weeks ago that I would take a look and publish some comments, but August has been such a busy month for me, and they have had to be patient. I should point out that, for the sake of transparency, that with another BizTalk book about to be released (next week) which I helped co-author, I have an urgent and obvious ...
Microsoft has officially launched the TFS Azure service preview also known as TFS in the cloud. I am sure not all of us would be upgrading our base machines by installing Visual Studio 2011 which is still in preview to work with TFS Azure. The good news is that it is possible to work with TFS Azure using Visual Studio 2010. In this blog post, I’ll be showing you how to set up a developer machine with Visual Studio 2010 and connecting to TFS Azure. => Set up a new machine with Visual Studio 2010 ...
To connect and authenticate with the Team Foundation Service Preview you need to install the hotfix KB2581206. While setting up a new machine to work with TFS Azure (#TfsService) i encountered a problem after installing service patch KB2581206. Reason: if you fail to install service pack 1 before installing the hotfix you might see strange behaviour with Visual Studio. Thanks to Trevor from Microsoft for confirmation. => How can I tell if i have Visual Studio Service Pack 1 installed? If you have ...
I’ve published a basic walkthrough of using the new brokered messaging capabilities in the Azure AppFabric service bus September 2011 release. If you have not used queues in AppFabric before this will get you started with a basic application that you can build upon. If you have used queues in the May or June CTP releases then this walkthrough will be useful to highlight the changes in the management portal and service bus API. (Quite a lot has changed, for the better, but I have a lot of rework to ...
I have been part of the Azure TFS Technical Access Preview (TAP) since March 2011. TFS Azure has been previewed and officially announced as TFS Service in the 2011 Build Conference, California. The Non-Disclosure Agreement has been lifted from the participants of the TAP program. The below excerpt from bharrys blog encourages early adopters to provide feedback. "We’ve been running the service for months now and it’s been working reliably. I suspect now that they can talk about it, you’ll be able ...
Programming for Metro Metro is the future http://zd.net/rnT9VZ .NET is for old apps. WinRT replaces WPF & WCF. XAML is big. There were no Silverlight sessions. HTML 5 and Javascript ( Blend for HTML) are back in fashion – I wont dwell on this because web apps are (inconsistently) simplistic in concept and over-complex in development. Yes, all those XAML skills are portable, Silverlight (RIP) apps can run as Metro apps with a bit of fidgeting with namespaces – you just need to know what controls ...
The Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging functionality has shipped to production, and is available in Azure data centers across the world. This means that we now have point-to-point queuing and publish-subscribe messaging available in the cloud in the form of Queues, Topics and Subscriptions. Be aware that there are substantial changes in the classes in the Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging namespace, which means I will have to re-record webcasts and repost blog posts. I’ve spent quite a bit ...
In the BUILD event, Microsoft had just announced the latest Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Visual Studio Tool for Windows Azure SDK 1.5, and the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK 1.5. You can find them simply from the Web Platform Installer. One thing I found for now is that, the database had been changed for the local storage emulator in this version. That means you need to recreate the storage database by running the DSInit command from the folder (let’s say you installed the SDK in driver C) C:\Program Files\Windows ...
This week I’m at the Microsoft Build/Windows conference. Now I’ve been to many conferences throughout the years and this is the first conference where I literally knew nothing about including the agenda. When I signed up for my badge on arrival we got a conference guide with all the hours of the session but no sessions. Very secret, very cloak and dagger. This created a huge buzz but also upped the expectation quite a bit… So with the tabled laid out and the expectation high I sat down and waited ...
As an MCT it is always exciting when I travel to conferences because it becomes a reunion. Well, one more chance this year to make it so, but this time (unlike the last MCT Summit) I am also presenting. Thanks to Chris Harrison (@GeekTrainer) for the gentle nudge! Follow @MCTSummitNA too! The topics I will be presenting are (at least the ones I got confirmation on): Requirements Management: From Vision to Mission to Success Session Level: 300 Team Foundation Server and SharePoint Technologies have ...
I’ve started to take a look at the Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS), and have started an ACS sectionon Cloud Casts. The first webcast looks at using social identity providers to provide authentication for websites. I’m going to focus on ACS for a bit and wait for the AppFabric messaging capabilities to be released before returning to them and looking in more detail. I have a few webcasts on AppFabric messaging here ...
On the 9th Sep, the SQL Azure team announced that the new version of SQL Azure had just been release. In this version not only the SQL Azure engine had been upgraded, the SQL Azure Management Portal had been upgraded massively. Below are the features and improvements available in this release: Foundational updates for scalability and performance. Co-administrator support, which enables customers to specify multiple database administrators. Increased capability for using spatial data types, which ...
The ability to write scale out applications for SQL Azure will soon become much easier, thanks to the upcoming SQL Azure Data Federation capabilities. In an earlier post, I outlined specific steps developers can take to prepare for this key enhancement. Some of the key capabilities of SQL Azure Data Federation is to distribute large data sets across multiple databases, hence providing a mechanism to avoid the current database size limitations of SQL Azure. While it may be tempting to look at this ...
While testing the performance characteristics of the SQL Azure backup tool I am building (called Enzo Backup for SQL Azure), I decided to try Spotlight (R) on Azure in order to obtain specific performance metrics from a virtual machine (VM) running on Microsoft's data center. Indeed, my backup solution comes with a cloud agent (running as a worker role in Azure) that performs backup and restore operations entirely in the cloud. Due to the nature of this application, I needed to have an understanding ...
After an incredible trip to Chattanooga, TN (my first trip to Tennessee, by the way), I finally made it back home to Pittsburgh and found some time to upload my two DEVLINK talks (slides and code). I tried something a little different this time by adding my code to GitHub and my slides to SlideShare. We’ll see how that works out – but I’m optimistic. So without further adieu, I present to you my 2011 DEVLINK talks. Talk #1: Greenfield Development with CQRS (and Azure, and MVC, and a bunch of other ...
SQL Server “Denali” is at CTP3 – and would therefore very much welcome feedback. SQL Azure continues an aggressive cycle of release - and would therefore very much welcome feedback. Which is why we have https://connect.microsoft.c... A great place to give feedback and to to see what others care about. For SQL Azure (and the Windows Azure Platform in general) we also have http://www.mygreatwindowsaz... Thanks in advance… ...
This post on the Windows Azure blog caught my eye as a) it includes UK early adopter eTVMedia and b) its an interesting look at the wider picture of adopting Windows Azure – including coming up with the business strategy and transitioning a traditional company to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It touches on: organizational structure: Looking at the trend to create new entities to pursue SaaS packaging and pricing: A SaaS app does not necessarily mean a move away from upfront billing changing from ...
Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun are offering a free on-line course on AI later this year in conjunction with Stanford University. The course is broadly based on Peter Norvig's book "Artificial Intelligence: A modern Approach" written jointly with Stuart Russell. Along with my colleagues on the Rules Fest committee, we have been following this with interest. In a few days, well over 100,000 people have signed up (112,774 at the time of writing, and still increasing fast). The course broadly overlaps ...
For a period of time, I have access to both an MSDN and a TechNet subscription. Both offer Microsoft software for download. I wondered what the similarities and differences were between the two subscriptions. I copied the two download lists into Excel and aligned them. Most of the material I would never use. Some products I have never heard of. I present the lists, current as of today, for your reviewing pleasure. TechNet MSDN Applications (63) Applications (79) Access 2.0 Access 2003 Access 2003 ...
MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! Microsoft Learning hosted a Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (plus an update course) last year and it was an absolute smash. Now that "Mango" has made such a huge splash, they have put together another great course. This two-day live virtual class, Building Applications for Windows Phone Mango Jump Start, is specially tailored for developers looking to build cool applications and games for the new Windows Phone Mango Platform. Get in the pizza/popcorn/healthy fruit, ...
While developing applications for Windows Azure, we are all aware that we need to create Web and Worker Roles and use the Azure Compute Emulator (previously known as the Development Fabric) for running and testing applications in the local IIS server. However to run unit tests against libraries that are being consumed from your web/worker roles we need to perform some preliminary steps before we can start using the CloudStorageAccount class within our Unit Tests. The First step is to start the Storage ...
I’ve just published three webcasts looking at AppFabric Messaging, Introduction to Azure AppFabric Queues, AppFabric Duplicate Message Detection and AppFabric Messaging Message Expiration. There are more webcasts on the AppFabric June CTP here. This article will take a look at the code used in the duplicate detection webcast and explain the concepts involved. Bear in mind that this code is based on the AppFabric June CTP, things may change when the production version is released. AppFabric Duplicate ...
In September we will start to deliver monthly workshops on the Windows Azure Platform to help Microsoft partners who are developing software products and services and would like to explore the relevance and opportunities presented by the Windows Azure Platform for Cloud Computing. Overview: The workshops are designed to help partners such as yourself understand what the Windows Azure Platform is, how it is being used today, what resources are available and to drill into the individual technologies ...
I often get asked about how we are using Windows Azure internally and under NDA I can share some of the details – but its great to be able to point publicly at some of the excellent work that has been going on. And they are genuine technical case studies … hurrah! :-) How Microsoft IT Deployed a Customer Facing Application to Windows Azure in Six Weeks Learn how the Microsoft IT Volume Licensing team gained experience with Windows Azure by focusing on a straightforward, isolated customer-facing application ...
Occasionally I write a rant or two and this one has been boiling for ages. First off you need to read Mike Watson’s Blog Post on Silverlight Ambiguity in Office 365: http://jmikewatson.wordpres... So now let’s get started. First off this post has been boiling since I have heard the question in one of my sessions last year “What do you think will happen to Silverlight now that HTML 5 exists?”. I brushed it aside. I ignored it when ...
A couple of other bits of advice about getting Sync. Framework applications up onto Azure. Azure now supports new startup commands. This makes it way easier to install the necessary managed and unmanaged dll’s you need. Based on yesterdays post, I then followed - http://social.msdn.microsof... The other thing I just found out, is that you get GDI+ errors if you try and save a bitmap to a stream as a PNG on Azure. Use JPEG’s instead… ...
The new version of Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 i.e. the August 2011 release just got out. You can read and download it from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/win... My favorite pick is the ability to add MVC3 Web Roles. In the past we had to do certain work-around for running MVC3 Applications. Now, there is an ability to add MVC 3 Web Role There is now support for Universal ...
So in the process of going live on a mobile solution that uses Microsoft Sync. Framework, on Azure. I came across this really useful guide on how to package up the various elements of the Sync. Framework to get it running on the Azure servers. http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... If you follow it to the letter, you’ll be up and running in no time ...
Just an update .... I'm currently working on the next presentation in the multi-part of a series on the Applied Design Patterns project called “AdventureWorksDesignPatterns” . It has been a busy summer both at work and home. Summer is "DIY" time at my house as I'm building a 16 by 20 foot raised deck. Work wise ..... Some of my team and I have been updating some of our "Demonstration" and "Proof Of Concept" applications to test out Microsoft's Windows Azure, SQL Azure and AppFabric. This is turning ...
This is very cool Just found this fab, tool to generate all the insert statements you need from a SQL database. If you have SQL Server 2008 R2 Installed - Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Publishing\... This lets you select individual tables, views, stored procedures and script out both data and schema structures. Perfect for populating SQL Azure, when migrating from on-Premise databases ...
This morning I got the information that the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010 - August 2011 Upgrade had been released. The version of this new upgrade is 1.4.40727.1601 with the Windows Azure SDK v1.4.20407.2049. This upgrade includes some awesome features that I was looking forward for a long time, which are: Profiling the application running in Windows Azure. New ASP.NET MVC 3 web role template. Multi-configuration files in one cloud project. More validation in the service package and ...
Recently, I have found myself using Visual Studio LightSwitch more and more. And needless to say, it got me thinking about a strategy for LightSwitch in a SharePoint environment. Yes, the product positions itself as a tool to develop LOB apps in a rather fast fashion. There will be those that will deem it as a prototype tool, many RAD tools end up being that. But, LightSwitch had this “je ne sais quoi” about it. Actually, I feel I know what it is. If you are still with me, step into this thought ...