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Overall, this year has been a pretty good TechEd. I’ve always thought ‘05 & ‘08 (both in Orlando) were the best I’ve attended and ‘10 was probably my least favorite (this was more due to the weather than anything.) This one is right in the middle, maybe leaning towards good rather than bad. There’s a lot of really excellent content on Windows Phone and Azure, plenty of interesting side events (including the WP7 Hackathon – which overall was awesome.) The facilities are nice and OMG huge. Until ...
So, as one of the OneTAP leads for Windows Azure focusing on the BizSpark folks, I run into many questions regarding HOWTO and in areas of Auto-Scaling, provisioning, authentication. The folks at Full Scale 180 (http://www.fullscale180.com) have created a nice sample application that demonstrates the following: Key Features Metering Automated Scaling Federated Identity Provisioning Contents Sample source code Design document Setup guide Sample walkthrough CloudNinja - Windows Azure Multi-tenant Sample ...
It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted about TechDays. Today I completed the final review of all the decks for the Windows Azure developer tracks for Monday and Tuesday. All except for the keynote (always troublesome) and the roadmap session (equally troublesome) are now final – which gives me a warm and likely misplaced feeling that we are in good shape. Yesterday we had the T-1 week meeting in which everyone was smiling. Good stuff. In my case, it was also my first experience of using ...
In case you missed it, the Windows Phone Hackathon was last night. TechEd attendees and community folks from around Atlanta showed up to get some free training on Windows Phone development (Silverlight, XNA, Azure) and have some Q&A with various subject matter experts (and free help with their projects.) We had a really good turnout, with most people in the Silverlight room learning about making apps. We had a few folks in the XNA room, some who were brand new to XNA and others who were already ...
We are pleased to announce Tech·Ed on the Road, where we put together the best sessions from Tech·Ed India 2011 and bring them to your city. These events are not only about content and sessions – they also provide an opportunity for you to interact with and have your questions answered by the very people who work on these technologies day-in and day-out, and who can help you plan the features and architecture to support your business goals. The content for this 10-city series of events will be targeted ...
At the UK Connected Systems User Group meeting yesterday we had a good session from Imran on Azure AppFabric. We ran out of evening before the end of the session, so I didn't get to raise this question, but it's a crucial point for me. The Service Bus exists to easily expose internal services to the outside world. It's an easy sell to tech guys, but I haven't yet worked with a client's security team who are open to the concept. I think the security guys have a good point: the status quo for exposing ...
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon Monday, May 16, 2011 6:00p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Register: http://bit.ly/RegWP7Hackathon Don't miss this opportunity to get hands on help with your Windows Phone 7 app, from the experts! This is a "hands on" hackathon where you will learn from Windows Phone 7, XNA and Azure experts how to build, scale and publish your Windows Phone 7 app or game. If you are just a beginner, or already have apps in the Marketplace this event will should not be missed. BYO Laptop! RSVP ...
Let’s focus on Exam 70-583 this time. This exam is PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. This guide itself will be a different approach to preparing for the exam itself. Instead of just taking the individual topics, let’s review the topic in as much information as we can. Here is a set of resources to get started. This is the topic I will be presenting at TechEd North America 2011, so expect more information after 5/18/2011. Here is the link to the session: http://northamerica.msteche... ...
The published SQL Azure documentation indicates that authentication may require the suffix "@servername" attached to your username (where servername is your SQL Azure server name), but there is little additional information provided to differentiate the required scenarios from the non-required. I recently attended a user group chat with David Robinson, Program Manager for SQL Azure. During his presentation, he also mentioned the occasional need for "@servername", but didn't get into detail. When ...
Today's $10 Deal Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com is Introducing Windows Azure "Everything you need to get started with Microsoft Azure and apply it across a range of situations. Author Henry Li provides a carefully measured learning curve for surmounting the architectural and coding challenges that need to be faced when building a well-balanced Windows Azure service." More ...
The very first thing that needs to happen is the need for a Windows Azure account. Try it free! http://www.microsoft.com/wi... The Learning Plan http://learning.microsoft.c... The Training Kit http://www.microsoft.com/do... The General Toolset Assessment and Planning ...
I have mentioned I will be speaking on a Cram 4 exam session at the upcoming TechEd North America 2011 in Atlanta. The topic is the prep for exam 70-583: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. This is a PRO Level exam. There are two other exams needed to get the MCPD Azure credential, those exams are TS level exams. Those exams are: EXAM 70-513 TS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 EXAM 70-516 TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework ...
Windows Azure Cloud Computing Scenarios Notes: (http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.... Things to consider for architecture: Does It improve bottomline? http://azureroi.cloudapp.net/ http://www.microsoft.com/wi... Does it improve strategy? Independent scaling break down components into the smallest unit When increasing capacity, cost doesn't go up much, when scaling down, capacity doesn't suffer a huge drop ...
Windows Azure Boot Camp: Diagnostics (http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.... Remote desktop MonAgentHost.exe starts Auto, listener wired up in app/web.config Need to define a storage account User can set quota Source to Storage: Example: Trace log to Azure Table; IIS Logs to Blob; Windows Event to Azure Table, Crash dump to Blob, ... Load Diagnostic Agent <Imports><Import moduleName="Diagnostic" /></Imports> OnStart({DiagnosticMonitor.... TransferFilterLogLevel and ...
Windows Azure Boot Camp Note: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Queue name must be lower case Unlimited number, but limited to 8kb in size must be serializable as XML GC runs once a week Producer to Consumer Example: WebRole PutMessage() to Queue, WorkerRole GetMessage(optional Timeout), (or/then, this part is unclear as to why I have to do this) RemoveMessage() (Q: Does this mean GetMessage, after successful, puts the message back on queue? That should not be right. From the notes I get, there is no ...
Notes from Windows Azure Drives: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Why use this? One example is to satify PDF requirement (PDF files require a local temp drive) Durable NTFS drives Can be up to 1TB Commands: CloudDrive.InitializeCache() account.CreateCloudDrive() Must use Flush() to persist data Guidance: store key in config, encrypt it wrap key with service ...
Notes from Windows Azure Boot Camp: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/ Blob: Metadata, not searchable, must loop through to check Block Blob, 200GB limit Page Block, 1TB limit Upload block blob PutBlock (bloblName, blockId1, block1Bits) PutBlock (blobName, blockId2, block2Bits) ... PutBlock (n...) PutBlockList(blobName, blockId1, blockId2, ..., blockIdN) Currently no data validation Page Block Random Read/Write Work with random chunks (so can work with smaller chunks, but can over-write data) Container ...
2 months ago I learned that there is going to be a Windows Azure Boot Camp, free, 2-day, code-intensive. The only catch at the time for me was that I didn't have a laptop, a requirement for this camp. Thanks for my beautiful and tolerant wife, we provisioned and I got my dream machine. Waited and shopped for a long time to get a reasonable price, but I got the following spec: 8GB ram Necessary for me to run my virtual environments i-5 4-Core CPU Want 4-core for virtual environments, but not a fan ...
This is Day 2 of Microsoft Windows Azure Boot Camp. Yesterday was excellent, can't wait for the events today. One thing I do regret was not writing blogs about each topic yesterday; a mistake I will not repeat today.
For people who missed it, here is the link: http://wabcdemos.cloudapp.net/
In this Issue: Kunal Chowdhury, Peter Kuhn, David Anson, Rob Tiffany, Paul Sheriff, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Mike Taulty(-2-), and Andrea Boschin. Above the Fold: Silverlight: "Performance Optimization of Silverlight Applications using Visual Studio 2010 SP1" Jeremy Likness WP7: "The Reactive Snake for Windows Phone 7" Andrea Boschin From SilverlightCream.com: Step-by-Step Using ImplicitDataType in Silverlight 5 Beta Kunal Chowdhury has a good tutorial up on Silverlight 5 Beta's ImplicitDataType ...
Tomorrow (Wednesday 4th May 2011) I’m lab proctoring at the first of the Windows Azure Bootcamps taking place over the next month. Steve has created these Bootcamps to enable developers to get hands on experience of much of the Windows Azure Platform in a half day. If you are a follower of this blog then you are likely working for a UK ISV. If you also happen to be attending on the 4th then please say hi when you see me. Hopefully you are attending one of the labs (there is still spaces) but if you ...
April was maybe the busiest month I have seen. Projects are closing but many are going strong. Many lessons came with it. A deeper and stronger involvement with Windows Azure. Specially around System Center Operations Manager and Windows Azure. Also, that brings me to the next chapter in the Windows Azure adventure. I will be presenting a Cram 4 Exam session at TechEd North America 2011. More details to come on this soon. May, then, looks exciting and with many lessons to learn. For those going to ...
There’s a lot of buzz about cloud computing right now: how it works, how you develop for a cloud platform, how you deploy your applications, what are the gotchas and nuances, etc. For those wondering these things about Microsoft’s cloud offering, Azure, the upcoming AzureFest event will answer those questions for you! Occurring May 19th from 5:30 – 9:00 at Online Business Systems, and featuring Microsoft Developer Evangelist John Bristowe, this FREE event will give you a solid grounding for developing ...
If you are: a senior technologist (Application Architect, Senior Developer or similar) with strong experience in developing solutions using the Windows platform (Visual Studio, SQL Server, IIS etc) fancy working for Microsoft UK and are not put off by these pictures of my team (and it is before 1st May 2011) then I would highly recommend you check out the job posting for two positions as Architect Evangelists in my team. My personal ideal “new colleague” would also: Enjoy online FPS gaming and be ...
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Many time developer required specific port for development when he/she using Visual Studio for asp.net application development. They specify port by taking Properties of the Web Site and select Web option. Under Server option select Use Visual Studio Development Server and then set port in Specific Port option. Ok when Windows Azure developer need to set a specific port to the WebRole application they need to take different approach. From Solution Explorer Window select open WebRole Section in my ...
The list provided below is my “Best-Of” FREE Frameworks, Tools and Controls for Windows Phone 7. I have used everything listed below in an my WP7 applications. Most of them are in the marketplace at this point and some are still in development. Let’s get started. If you are developing WP7 Applications, this is one that you have probably heard of already. It is Microsoft’s official set of controls that comes complete with full source code of course. Project Description: Welcome to the Silverlight ...
After several months of research, review and revision, a white paper I wrote for the SQL Azure team, “NoSQL and the Windows Azure Platform”, has been published by Microsoft. If you go to http://www.microsoft.com/wi... and do a find within the page for “NoSQL” you’ll see a link for it. If you’d rather download the PDF directly, you can do so by clicking here. The 25-page (not including cover and TOC) paper provides an introduction to NoSQL database technology, and its major subcategories, ...
I have to admit, I was really excited to have the opportunity to talk about SQL Azure at an Oracle conference. Microsoft invited Scott Klein to COLLABORATE 11 (on 4/13/11), but at the last minute we switched (just a week earlier). The conference was in sunny Orlando at the convention center; I don't know how many people attended the conference, but it must have been in the thousands. Of course, as you can expect, Oracle had the largest booth by far. But not too far... oh... perhaps just out of reach ...
It seems that Microsoft has made available a runtime update for the .Net Framework 4.0 that allows a developer to create State Machine Workflows (event-driven workflows). This is great news for everyone that had this feature available back in WF3. They are also providing support for usage of SQL Workflow Instance Store together with SQL Azure. LInks: Download link List of new features can be found here. Ron Jacobs has a great article about this update here. WF4 State Machine User Experience article ...
A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on April 16th. This blog introduces 14 ASP.NET and Azure code samples in the release. The rest new samples will be introduced next week. Download address: http://1code.codeplex.com/r... Alternatively, you can download the code samples using Sample Browser v3. The new Sample Browser gives you the flexibility to search samples, download samples on demand, manage the downloaded samples in a centralized place, and automatically ...
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In this 2nd Post-MIX11 Submittal Issue: John Papa, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bart Czernicki, Kunal Chowdhury(-2-, -3-), Kevin Dockx, Manas Patnaik, Michael Crump. Above the Fold: Silverlight 5 Beta: "Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and the Silverlight.net Redesign" Pete Brown and "Silverlight 5 Beta–A guide to the new features" Tim Heuer WP7: "Getting started with Windows Phone 7 and Azure" Michael Crump From SilverlightCream.com: Lightning Strikes at MIX11! UX Lightning, That Is John Papa ...
Every year, as the spring turns to summer there is a gathering we all want to make it to, TechEd North America. Here we are coming from a cajun experience last year ( I actually decided to drive from Indianapolis to New Orleans). And it was a great event, and great to see New Orleans. This year I am going to make the trip again, but not driving this time around. It will be a great event, no doubt. I will be presenting a Cram 4 exam session, helping prep for the Azure MCPD Certification. I will provide ...
Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh proporciona WebDeploy, una tecnología que permite actualizaciones rápidas de un Web role sin tener que publicar de nuevo toda la aplicación en Azure para facilitar las tareas de desarrollo. Es un procedimiento de IIS descrito aquí hace algún tiempo por Wade Wegner. Cuando la instancia se recicle todos los cambios realizados a través de WebDeploy se perderán. Ahora WebDeploy se incluye en el SDK. No he podido encontrar ninguna información explicando como utilizarla, pero ...
Singapore .NET User Group - April UG Meeting UG Meeting will be held on 18th April 2011 on next Monday, at Level 21 Auditorium from 1900hrs – late. Light refreshments will be served before the session. From the trenches: Lessons learnt working on Azure Mahesh Krishnan, Principal Consultant, Readify 1900 hrs – 2000 hrs Mahesh Krishnan, from Melbourne, Australia speaks about the lessons learnt working on one of the largest Azure projects in Australia. The application which is set to go live soon uses ...
This post is extension to BRE Data Services how to expose the On-Premise REST based service thru Azure appfabric service bus to your partners outside your enterprise securely. We at Tellago have created numerous REST based service for monitoring and managing for BizTalk Server, BRE and RFID Data services etc. Want if your enterprise wants to leverage the service to be accessible outside your enterprise in secured manner by external parties or mobile apps. So by using Appfabric Service Bus you’re ...
If you are: Involved in developing software products (aka an Independent Software Vendor) or Considering a “move to the cloud” or both! Then you should consider joining one or both of these Microsoft UK created LinkedIn groups intended to foster discussion amongst your peers in the industry. Both groups are fairly new but growing and there is already some great discussion happening on them. UKISVDEV - Developers, Software Architects and CTOs in UK ISVs This group is for UK based developers, software ...
[These days I’m mainly active on my teams blog – but I will highlight the best over here] This webinar series is designed for traditional on-premise ISVs navigating the internal business changes necessary to be successful in the cloud with SaaS applications. They provide best practices, key metrics, and examples from ISVs already using the Windows Azure Platform. Each is accompanied by recommendations for further reading. Find out more ...
After the excellent Azure news from MIX 11 yesterday, I thought now would be the best time to release a brand new article about how you can get started with Azure and Windows Phone 7. Intro I’m sure by now you have heard of Windows Azure. Now before we get started learning about it, let’s take a look at the definition: The Windows Azure Platform[2] is a Microsoft cloud platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft datacenters. Windows Azure Platform is thus classified ...
I saw lot of geeks confused about the development environment for Windows Azure applications. Lot of discussion on the forums and blogs is going on. Here I want to share a wonderful information about preparing Windows Azure Compute Emulator.
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Client + cloud computing is a disruptive, new computing platform, combining diverse client devices – PCs, smartphones, sensors, and single-function and embedded devices – with the unlimited, on-demand computation and data storage offered by cloud computing services such as Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft’s Windows Azure. As with every advance in computing, programming is a fundamental challenge as client + cloud computing combines many difficult aspects of software development. Orleans is a software framework ...
How to: Build a Windows Azure Application How to Configure Virtual Machine Sizes How to Configure Connection Strings How to Configure Operating System Versions How to Configure Local Storage Resources How to Create a Certificate for a Role How to Create a Remote Desktop Protocol File How to Define Environment Variables Before a Role Starts How to Define Input Endpoints for a Role How to Define Internal Endpoints for a Role How to Define Startup Tasks for a Role How to Encrypt a Password How to Restrict ...
Imagina que tenemos una aplicación corporativa para completar tareas como el registro de los gastos del empleado por ejemplo. Todo parece indicar que esta aplicación va a utilizarse mucho durante la semana y poco durante el fin de semana. Se puede ahorrar bastante dinero en la factura mensual de Azure reduciendo el número de instancias en ejecución dependiendo del calendario. Esta clase de escalado es fácil de implementar en Azure utilizando cmdlets PowerShell y el programador de tareas incluido ...
Bindi forwarded on this picture of me “talking Azure” at the Biztalk event we held in London on the 25th of March. Made me chuckle :) David and I had a great time with the afternoon session – which ended up pretty much a two hour Q&A. Related Links: Tell us what you are doing (or plan to do) with Windows Azure on the Microsoft Platform Ready site and in return get free technical help and more ...
Si tenemos un Sharepoint 2010 corporativo tras los firewalls, con LightSwitch Beta 2 podremos publicar cualquiera de sus listas en Azure sin una línea de código. Los pasos necesarios. 1. Crear una lista con Sharepoint 2010, por ejemplo AzureSpainTasks: 3. Sharepoint 2010 publica sus listas en un endpoint WCF Data Services que utiliza protocolo OData para hacer consultas y actualizaciones de datos a través de web. Sharepoint publica una lista en la siguiente URL http://<spserver>/_vt... ...
Just found the email and knew that I’m award the Microsoft MVP 2011 of the Windows Azure. I’m very exciting as this is my first time to become a MVP. Here I would like to say thanks for the recommender, Ray Zhang, my colleague Wang Tao, Chen Pu who shares the experiences with me about Windows Azure and all technical stuff, the teachers and friends Terry Lee, Kidd Lee, Jeff Zhao, Ninputer, Yongjing Li, etc. I also would like to thank to the GeeksWithBlog.net which give me a wonderful place and platform ...
This is a lesson that did not come easy but it sure was helpful to discover. When creating an Azure deployment package as a developer because you will hand-off to a deployment group within IT, pretty much you published your Azure component to generate the package and configuration files. When deploying to enable RDP, in my conversation with many developers the concern in the end was, I have to do the deployment through Visual Studio to enable those options. The answer is both Yes and No. The items ...
As I posted earlier on getting the Azure PowerShell CmdLts to install and such on Windows 7, working with the Azure MMC is also another item that requires a tad of a workaround to get it going. If you attempt to install, you will run into the first roadblock of the OS being a non-supported OS. The way around that is to find the working installation folder for Azure MMC (normally, C:\WindowsAzureMMC). Once there, then we need to look for the setup folder, inside the setup folder we will look for Dependencies.xml. ...