Windows Azure Mobile Service
Windows Azure Mobile Service was just announced. This service adds more capabilities to Windows Azure. The new capabilities: Easily store structured data Integrate user authentication Use push...
View ArticleWindows Azure AD
Windows Azure Active Directory (Windows Azure AD) is an identity service that can be accessed through RESTful services. This means that there can be one identity service for Windows Azure, Windows...
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Choosing a VM Size in Windows Azure
When starting a new project that will be hosted in Windows Azure, you have to select a VM Size. The sizes range from extra small to extra large. These sizes are a fixed package. For example, when a...
View ArticleImproving Exception Handling
I came across a post from Clemens Vasters “Are you catching falling knives?“. The hearth of the article is when certain errors occur the best course of action it to reboot the process. For example,...
View ArticleHands-on Labs for Windows 8 Released 10 September 2012
An updated version of the Windows 8 Hands-on labs was released on 10 September 2012. There are two versions of the labs. The first version is using C# and XAML while the other set is using JavaScript...
View ArticleHealthcare As A Service (HaaS)
At the end of July, Microsoft announced that they are offering customers and partners a HIPAA Business Associated Agreement for Windows Azure. This makes is it possible for companies that build...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces Enhancements to Windows Azure SQL Database
There was a recent announcement (19 Sept. 2012) from Microsoft for enhancements to Windows Azure SQL Database. Summary of Enhancements Windows Azure SQL Database can be used in Linked Server and...
View ArticleVideos from Build 2012
Channel 9 has posted videos from Build 2012. The following is a list of talks involving Windows Azure. Building data centric applications for web, desktop and mobile with Entity Framework 5. Connecting...
View ArticleA different way to view setting options in Windows 8
The other day, I came across a blog post “How To Activate Windows 8 GodMode” on the C# Corner website. The blog shows a way to create a special folder that allows the user to see various setting...
View ArticleVideos from Windows Azure Conf 2012
Channel 9 has the videos from the Window Azure Conference occurred on the 14th of November. I am so looking forward to watching several of these videos. Windows Azure Overview Build Speedy Azure...
View ArticleWindows Azure Media Services go GA
On the 22 of January 2013, Microsoft announced that general availability (GA) for Windows Azure Media Services. One work flow is to upload a raw video file, encode into a web consumable format, make...
View ArticleA quick look at Cloud OS and related terms
I have seen the words Cloud Operating System (Cloud OS), Web OS, and web desktop in blog posts and news articles recently. With the way the terms are kicked around one could easily assume that they...
View ArticleLearning about NoSQL
For most of my programming life, when I needed to store data I turned to an old friend the relational database. Over the years, I have used many different databases like MS Access, MS SQL Server,...
View ArticleLearning about CouchDB
To continue my learning about NoSQL databases, I decided to try CouchDB on a Ubuntu 12.10 system using MonoDevelop for an IDE. Using the Synaptic Package Manger, I installed MonoDevelop. This installed...
View ArticleTaking a look at Parallelism
The other day I needed to improve the performance of an application. I spent some time reviewing the code and found a place where the application needed to loop through several hundred to several...
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