Archives for posts with tag: Azure

TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing

June 5, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Windows Live: Breakdown of Windows Live Essentials: Photo Gallery and Live Sync, including key features like Photo Fuse, Facial Recognition, tagging & search, better importing & more
Windows Azure - Windows Azure CDN Pricing Announced
Channel 9 Live at TechEd North America – Bob Muglia, Mark Russinovich, Jason Zander, Mark Minasi, Tony Scott, Jeffrey Snover
Jeff Wilcox: Silverlight Unit Testing for Windows Phone
AgUnit – Silverlight Unit testing with ReSharper
Jesse Liberty – Code Rush versus ReSharper
Brian Peek: The future of the Wiimote Library including the extension model Taiko Drum and DJ Hero support coming
Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx – Cloud Cover episode that shows how to swingify a song using Azure, Python and the Echo Nest API
Tim Heuer – Microsoft Translator client library for Silverlight

Picks of the week:

Clint’s pick: Phil Haack - Copy & Paste works over Remote Desktop (and Live Mesh)
Dan’s pick: GivingAPresentation – Extensible App on CodePlex to clean up your desktop, close Messenger, and more, via Blake Handler

Cloud Cover Episode 14 – Diagnostics

June 4, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn about the Diagnostics capabilities in Windows Azure.
Discover how to remotely configure each instance’s Diagnostics configuration.
Listen as we discuss debugging versus monitoring along with which techniques to use in Windows Azure.

Show Links:

Programming Windows Azure
Developing and Deploying with SQL Azure whitepaper
Windows Azure Architecture Guidance, Part 1
Announcing Windows Azure CDN Pricing
Web Role Crash Dumps

Cloud Cover Episode 13 – Running Python – The Censored Edition

May 28, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this special censored episode:

We show you how to run Python in the cloud via a swingin’ MP3 maker
We talk about how Steve debugged the Python application
Ryan and Steve join a boy band

Show Links:

SQL Azure Session ID Tracing
Windows Azure Guidance Part 2 - AuthN, AuthZ
Running MongoDb in Windows Azure
We Want Your Building Block Apps

Conversations with David Chappell about Windows Azure and Cloud Computing

May 25, 10 //

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David Gristwood engages David Chappell in conversation about Windows Azure and cloud computing, and explore which applications are great candidates for Windows Azure, and, interestingly which ones don’t, as well as discussing the differences between Infrastructure vs Platform as a Service, and the role of private vs public cloud.

Cloud Cover Episode 12 – Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication

May 21, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn how to host WCF Services in Windows Azure using public input endpoints as well as private internal endpoints (i.e. inter-role communication)
Discover how to get your WCF Services MEX endpoints working from behind the load balancer

Show Links:

Exporting Data from SQL Azure
Vertical Partitioning in SQL Azure: Part 1
Extending the Thumbnails Sample
Datacastle Brings Data Protection From the Cloud
2-hr Windows Azure class (includes free hours on Windows Azure)

Cloud Cover Episode 11 – Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core

May 14, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn about Windows Azure Drives
Discover how to use the IIS Hostable Web Core directly from a worker role
Find out how to efficiently transfer and store large page blobs in Windows Azure storage

Show Links:

Identity Training Kit Update (via Vibro.NET)
Windows Azure MMC v2 Released (via dunnry)
Window Azure storage abstractions and scalability targets
Connections and SQL Azure
Host Service Bus endpoints in IIS (via Wade)
IIS Hostable Web Core (via smarx)
Efficiently Transferring Page Blobs

TWC9: IE9 Dev Preview, Sync SQL to SQL Azure, & useful CSS tools for ASP.NET

May 8, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Second IE9 Developer Preview, with lots of performance improvements and updates on standards support including HTML 5
CloudPoll – Sample Windows Azure application for Facebook
Bing adds Windows PowerShell Cmdlets visual search, via Larry Larsen
Unity 2.0 now available for Desktop/Web & Silverlight
Coding4Fun – Dan Waters – Generating Sound Waves with C# Wave Oscillators
Secrets of SQL Server: Performance Tuning 5-hour virtual event, via Greg Duncan
Scott Hanselman – Help Viewer Power Tool Beta – a standalone tool that brings a simple experience, like the previous Help Viewer
Max Adams – How do I video on using the Sync Framework Powerpack for SQL Azure to sync a local database to SQL Azure
Miguel de Icaza – What if the CLI was natively embedded in a browser (the way JavaScript is)
Yochay Kiriaty - Windows Phone Application Lifecycle describes how you publish apps through the marketplace
Tim Heuer – Cool Silverlight Themes
Luke Lowrey – CSS Tools for ASP.NET including Blueprint CSS and Bundler, which now includes support for LESS a way to build logic into CSS files

Picks of the week:

Dan’s pick: Video of Mech warfare at RoboGames
Brian’s pick: Brian’s new book, Professional Application Lifecycle Management

To win a copy of Brian’s book:
To win an autographed copy of Brian’s book, be the first person to post a comment with the right answer to this question:

What was the original code name for the application lifecycle management capabilities which shipped in Visual Studio 2010?

Update: We have a winner! Mohammad Jalloul correctly guessed “Rosario.” Read more about the selection of this code name here.

Cloud Cover Episode 10 – Table Storage API

May 7, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Learn about the Table storage model – PartitionKeys, RowKeys, and more.
Walk around the API using the StorageClient library and learn how to query the service without first building a data model.
Hear the latest news and announcements for the platform.
Troubleshoot a common query error when using Table storage.

Show Links:

Windows Azure Guidance – Failure Recovery (via Eugenio)
SELECT INTO with SQL Azure
Application Infrastructure Virtual Learning
Windows Azure Firestarter videos
Protecting Blobs from Application Errors
Protecting Tables from Application Errors
Table Storage Backup and Restore on CodePlex

Cloud Cover Episode 9 – Blob API

April 30, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

In this episode:

Using the StorageClient library, take a lap around the Blob API and discover the common operations
Hear the latest news and announcements for the platform
Discover a quick tip/gotcha for running the AppFabric Service Bus in Windows Azure

Show Links:

Windows Azure self-paced training
OData under Apache 2.0 license
Filtering Diagnostic Events
New SQL Azure features are live
AppFabric Service Bus troubleshooting Tips
Blob API Upload Optimizations (via Rob Gillen)

Cloud Cover Episode 8 – Shared Access Signatures

April 9, 10 //

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Join Ryan and Steve each week as they cover the Microsoft cloud. You can follow and interact with the show at @cloudcovershow

Cloud Cover is off for the next two weeks, so we made this episode a bit longer than normal.

In this episode:

Learn how to create and use Shared Access Signatures (SAS) in Windows Azure blob storage
Discover how to easily create SAS signatures yourself.

Show Links:

Upgrade Domains and Fault Domains
DigiGirlz DeepZoom
Eugenio Pace’s Windows Azure Guidance
Handling Error 40552 IN SQL Azure (via Cihan Biyikoglu)
Upcoming Support for .NET 4 in Windows Azure

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