On Friday, Microsoft posted a security advisory about a recently discovered ASP.NET vulnerability.  More details are available in a blog post by Scott Guthrie , including a workaround. This vulnerability applies to all ASP.NET applications, including...

One of the challenges you face in running a highly secure SQL Azure environment is too keep your connection string to SQL Azure secure. If you are running Windows Azure you need to provide this connection string to your Windows Azure code, however you...

This is the third part in a multi-part blog series about securing your connection string in Windows Azure. In the first blog post ( found here ) a technique was discussed for creating a public/private key pair, using the Windows Azure Certificate Store...

This is the fourth part in a multi-part blog series about securing your connection string in Windows Azure. In the first blog post ( found here ) a technique was discussed for creating a public/private key pair, using the Windows Azure Certificate Store...

An important part of my charter on the Windows Azure marketing team is to help customers, partners and developers be successful on the platform. Over the last few months, I've heard from many partners and customers that they would like to identify...

This week I’ll be spending some time diving into using Entity Framework with SQL Azure. The Entity Framework provides the glue between your object oriented code and the SQL Azure relational database in a framework that is fully compatible with your skills...

This is the second part in a multi-part blog series about securing your connection string in Windows Azure. In the first blog post ( found here ) a technique was discussed for creating a public/private key pair, using the Windows Azure Certificate Store...

To make it easier for Windows Azure customers to keep track of their compute hours usage, we are now sending customers emails notifications when their compute hour usage exceeds 75%, 100% and 125% of the number of compute hours included in their plan...

The Windows Azure Domain Name System (DNS) is moving to a new globally distributed infrastructure, which will increase performance and improve reliability of DNS resolution. In particular, users who access Windows Azure applications from outside the...

One of the great uses for ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0 that ships with .NET Framework 4.0 is to use the model first approach to design your SQL Azure database. Model first means that the first thing you design is the entity model using Visual Studio and...