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UPDATE: Porting Silverlight RIA to Windows Azure (Data Access)
Given all latest changes to SDKs and tools, I think a significant update is needed for my old blog post on creating a data access layer for Azure Table Storage in Silverlight ( Porting Silverlight RIA to Windows Azure - Part 1 ). It is now a part of whitepaper Read More...
Posted 17 December 09 10:40 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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What is RCA (Rich Cloud Application)?
Rich Cloud Application (RCA) is a concept describing a new type of Rich Internet Application (RIA) served from the cloud. To the end user it would look exactly like RIA but with additional functions that take it to the next level - peer awareness, session Read More...
Posted 06 December 09 10:49 by alekseys | 2 Comments   
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AppFabric as a Foundation for Smart Grid
There's quite a lot of buzz around smart grid lately - many companies jumping on the green tech band wagon and investing resources in making all kinds of applications for smart grid - the next-generation energy infrastructure. Microsoft is no exception Read More...
Posted 29 November 09 12:21 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Scalable Duplex Messaging with Silverlight 3 and Windows Azure
Silverlight 3 comes with very good PollingDuplex library allowing two-way communication between a server and a client but it lacks scalability features allowing it to work from behind a session-less load balancer such as one in Windows Azure. This limits Read More...
Posted 22 September 09 10:05 by alekseys | 3 Comments   
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[Really] scalable Silverlight-Azure duplex implementation
Following up on my previous posts on this topic, this time I want to present really scalable solution to the problem of scaling client-server two-way communication in Silverlight 3 in the cloud. This solution is based on great implementation of HTTP polling Read More...
Posted 17 September 09 11:54 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Azure-friendly Polling Duplex in Silverlight 3
One of the most serious limitations of current implementation of PollingDuplex mechanism (one that allows server to talk to Silverlight applications in the browser) in Silverlight 3 is its lack of support for multiple backends. In other words, if your Read More...
Posted 23 August 09 09:34 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Porting Silverlight RIA to Windows Azure - Part 3: Implementing Service Bus Azure Proxy for Silverlight (SBAPS)
One major area where hosting RIA in Azure is significantly different from hosting in a regular web server is the use of the foundational piece of Azure platform itself - .NET Services Service Bus. Service Bus is an “intermediary in the cloud” allowing Read More...
Posted 26 July 09 08:14 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Porting Silverlight RIA to Windows Azure - Part 2: Efficient data access
Firstly, why is implementing efficient data access important for Azure RIAs in particular? The cloud databases in general are not the most performant databases in the world – they scale well but any given response by itself is probably going to be slower Read More...
Posted 30 June 09 11:16 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Porting Silverlight RIA to Windows Azure - Part 1
UPDATE: Please refer to an updated version of this post for up-to-date steps working with Azure SDK November CTP and Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 4 Beta. Windows Azure is a great platform for taking traditional web applications and rich internet applications Read More...
Posted 17 June 09 10:06 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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New Slides on Future of UX and Azure Overview (RU)
I've done couple of presentations for our partners in Europe recently and want to share the scrubbed slides with everyone. First one summarizes the UX Continuum story on Microsoft platform as it relates to software architects and decision makers and touches Read More...
Posted 02 June 09 10:31 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Product Support Online Architecture
Following up on my previous post - the reference application is now called PSO (Product Support Online). It will be developed in two phases to align features better with the changing nature of Azure and SDS APIs, but more importantly, to draw a clear Read More...
Posted 19 April 09 11:10 by alekseys | 4 Comments   
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"Product support in the cloud" reference implementation
Here’s new project I'm working on which is taking after my CPM pet project and various Azure and Silverlight projects I've done with partner ISVs. It is an easy-to-use application for providing basic product support in the cloud, collecting feedback about Read More...
Posted 10 April 09 11:21 by alekseys | 1 Comments   
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MIX09 Session comparing Flash to Silverlight
This week I attended a MIX09 session (well, the one that is supposed to be presented there in March anyway) by Rick Barraza, Senior Experience Architect at Cynergy . Rick is well known for his work on Flash, Flex, AIR, Silverlight and WPF projects and Read More...
Posted 01 March 09 02:40 by alekseys | 3 Comments   
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SharePoint SilverView 1.0 released to the web!
SharePoint SilverView 1.0 Guide Pack has finally been released to the web this week. It adds following few things to the beta releases: List View (shown below) - different from first view (Explorer) in that it lists all list items in their own cells in Read More...
Posted 08 February 09 06:03 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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Announcing SharePoint SilverView
I'm glad to announce that today Trent Swanson and I have published a beta of SharePoint SilverView Guide Pack (described in my previous posts). This is a pre-release software and it contains only one view so far (Explorer View), but we are planning to Read More...
Posted 23 January 09 02:09 by alekseys | 0 Comments   
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