10-second summary In your Azure start-up code, you use the ServerManager class to modify your IIS settings. Some of your web role instances in the development fabric don’t come up and stay ‘unhealthy’. This article describes a possible cure for that....

In this article, I describe how to run a Perl script in a Windows Azure worker instance. One of our partners in our e-Science research project VENUS-C heavily relies on Perl for scientific computations, so I was curious to see through how many hoops I...

Recently, I developed some business objects that I needed to use both in WPF world (with vanilla data binding), as well as within a WCF web service. Of course, from the WPF books we learn that a DependenyProperty can only be directly accessed from the...

I noticed that Jason's ( http://blogs.msdn.com/thehoggblog/archive/2007/08/20/swiss-army-knife-of-x-509-certificate-tools.aspx ) and Justin's ( http://blogs.msdn.com/justinjsmith/archive/2007/07/10/new-wcf-security-examples.aspx ) blog entries refer to...

A colleague asked me about XML Signature, and I just remenbered that my old Ph.D. thesis ( " Confidentiality of XML documents by pool encryption " ) is online, which contains (besides theoretical nonsense) a nice introduction to XML Signature in chapter...

WS-Policy and WS-PolicyAttachment are republished: http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy/

We (European Microsoft Innovation Center) are still looking for new colleagues, software devs and program managers, all preferrably with a researchy touch: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/emic/joboffers.mspx

Videos interviews from EMIC employees (European Microsoft Innovation Center) are here: Mark Gilbert https://blogs.msdn.com/dginside/archive/2005/03/29/403303.aspx Wolfgang Manousek https://blogs.msdn.com/dginside/archive/2005/02/15...