Sample download: C# version: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSWP7AzureVideoStory-2b9c3e12 VB version: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VBWPAzureVideoStory-ed1d5acc   Today’s code sample is a big sample application that combines many hot technologies such as Windows Phone 7, Windows Azure, HTML5 , etc.  This sample solution is a story creator for Windows Phone 7. You can use it to create photo stories on your phone, and send the stories to a Windows Azure service to encode them into...

Sample download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSCreateProcessAsUserFromSe-b682134e Today’s code sample demonstrates a very frequently asked programming scenario for Windows developers: how to create/launch a process interactively in the session of the logged-on user from a Windows Service application. The sample was written by Microsoft Support Engineer Ashish Thakur. You can find more code samples that demonstrate the most typical programming scenarios by using Microsoft All-In...

Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CppCheckProcessType-1f81439d Today’s code sample demonstrates how to list process type information for all running processes in C++, such as Is a Console Application or Is a Windows Application Is a Managed Application or Is a Native Application Is a .NET 4.0 Application Is a WPF Application Is a 64 Bit Application or Is a 32 Bit Application These topics are frequently asked and needed by developers, so Microsoft All...

  Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSDsWriteAccountSPN-95c31397 Today’s code sample is related to Active Directory .  It demonstrates how to write/add Service Principal Name (SPN) to any user or computer account object in Active Directory. This sample must be run on domain environment and under the Domain Admin privileges. The sample was written by Microsoft Support Escalation Engineer: Shaleen Thapa . You can find more code samples that demonstrate the most typical programming...

  Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Customize-VS-status-bar-in-0990ed78 Today’s code sample demonstrates customizing the status bar of Visual Studio.  The Visual Studio status bar, the horizontal region at the bottom of the Visual Studio design surface, provides a convenient way to convey information about the current state of the integrated development environment (IDE). In this sample, we will demo: 1) Write highlighted text in its feedback region 2) Read text from the feedback...

Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSAzureChangeAppPoolIdentit-27099828 Today’s code sample demonstrates changing AppPool identity programmatically in Windows Azure . Most of customers test their applications to connect to cloud entities like storage, SQL Azure, AppFabric services via compute emulator environment. If the customer's machine is behind proxy that does not allow traffic from non-authenticated users, their connections fail. One of the workaround is to change the...

Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSTFSAddCheckOutEventType-673d0536 Today’s code sample demonstrates accessing the Windows Clipboard and retrieving a Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) and saving the DIB to a file in Silverlight 5 . If you are developing Silverlight applications or learning Silverlight 5, we hope that the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework sample would reduce your effort in this typical Silverlight programming scenario. The sample was written by Microsoft...

Last week we discussed RESTful services, as well as how to create a REST service using WCF Web API. I'd like to remind you what's really important is the concepts, not how to implement the services using a particular technology. Shortly after that, WCF Web API was renamed to ASP.NET Web API , and formally entered beta. In this post, we'll discuss how to upgrade from WCF Web API to ASP.NET Web API. We'll create a file uploading/downloading service. Before that, I'd like to give you some background...

Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSD2DServerSideRendering-2d099ab6 Today’s code sample demonstrates how to use Direct2D to render images in ASP.NET web applications. Some server applications need to render images and send back the generated bitmaps to users connected through web clients. GDI+ and System.Drawing are not supported in a service or web application. Direct2D is the appropriate technology for rendering images to a bitmap on disk in a service context. Direct2D is...

Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSTFSAddCheckOutEventType-673d0536 Today’s code sample demonstrates how to enable checkout notification in TFS2010. In TFS2010, when a user sends a Check out (PendChanges) request to server, the server will send a PendChangesNotification before the items are checked out. If we subscribe this notification, we can deny the request or fire some custom check out events. If you are customizing your TFS workspace for your team projects or if you...

Sample Download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSAzureSSLForPage-e844c9fe Today’s code sample demonstrates how to configure SSL for specific page(s) while hosting the application in Windows Azure . If you are developing applications in Windows Azure or if you are learning Windows Azure, we hope that the Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework sample would reduce your effort in this typical Windows Azure programming scenario. The sample was written by the Microsoft Escalation Engineer Narahari...

Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something new. Learn one sample every day, be coding master in a year! Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework offers " Sample of the Day ". "Sample of the Day" introduces one amazing code sample every 24 hours that demonstrates the most typical programming scenarios of different Microsoft technologies. If you are curious about and passionate for learning something new, follow the “Sample of the Day” RSS feed or visit the "Sample...

Introduction This is the first article in a planned series of blog posts. There will be two or three posts in all. Today the All-In-One Code Framework sample Story Creator has a web role, which contains a RESTful service that allows you to upload stories to Windows Azure. One of the potential features in the next version of Story Creator is to use Windows Azure ACS (and possibly Windows Live Connect) to protect this service. So this post talks about how to work with RESTful services, and...

One of the new features we plan to add to the next version of story creator is to add caption text support for each photo. This includes related settings such as text font and color. Adding font support isn't too difficult. But color is another story. It is easy enough to provide a static list to allow users select some pre-defined colors. But the experience may not be very good. Windows Phone supports 32 bit colors (2^32). Why limit the user experience to about 10 colors? This may be fine for...

A while ago we released a sample called Story Creator: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CSWP7AzureVideoStory-2b9c3e12 . It combines several technologies, such as Windows Phone, Windows Azure, WCF, and C++. It is a complete application that you can use and extend. But we're also aware of some limitations. For example, it is based on Windows Phone 7.0, not the latest Mango release. It doesn't offer too many features. However, do not worry. We don't stop here. We want to continue to improve it, and provide...

A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on Feb 6th. We expect that its 8 new code samples covering typical programming scenarios in Windows Azure, Directory Services, Hyper-V, TFS, WDK, and Windows SDK would ease your development work. You can download the code samples using Sample Browser or Sample Browser Visual Studio extension . They give you the flexibility to search samples, download samples on demand, manage the downloaded samples in a centralized place, and...