IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

I wrote this short article for the 27th of January edition of the  UK MSDN Flash newsletter . I thought it would be useful to sneak it in here as well especially as it will be the basis of a number of upcoming blog posts – probably about seven of them...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/ ] I have been asked this one a few times recently. The question is often driven by the...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink As part of Microsoft UKs Azure Awareness Week in February (2010) we have three training workshops for partners taking place. I have added them over on the new Fans of UK Azure community...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/ ] Fellow UK Azure Evangelists David just published an interesting interview with Factonomy...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On January 7th 2010 I kicked off a survey on Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform (Now closed). I promised to share the results which I will do over four posts. This is the...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink A colleague just pointed me at something a little different. Ivar Jacobson International are delivering their first training using Visual Studio 2010 in Reading next month (March 18th...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/ ] [ Check out my other QandAs ] A common question I get is “Do I get charged compute...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [Advert: Interested in Azure? Based in the UK? Be amongst friends -> http://ukazure.ning.com/ ] I just stumbled upon some work by my US colleagues and CodeProject to create a competition...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Stonking good news. The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is now available to all MSDN Subscribers. It will be available to my dad (who is not an MSDN Subscriber...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On January 1st I switched focus to 100% Azure. My friend and colleague David Gristwood has been firmly focused on Azure through 2009 working with early adopters. We decided to record...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Something a little different. No mentions of web roles, nodes or queues – but interesting nevertheless. Brad Smith gave Microsoft’s vision of cloud computing devoted to the economic...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Blatant repost alert from the ADO.NET team blog ! But important IMHO. The Microsoft data team are looking for help to prioritize future work. Is there a feature that you’ve always wanted...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink If like me your are interested in Azure and want to use Visual Studio 2010, then you probably: Removed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Installed the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate ...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Just getting a few interesting cloud links “down on paper”. I last did one of these on Azure in Dec 2009 . Not everyone seems to know that Roger Jennings does a rocking job of collating...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Great to see the MSDN Flash Podcast I host has made it onto Zune.net – even if I can’t access it myself as I’m in the UK :-( However a US colleague pinged me about it and sent me the...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I did a session yesterday on Entity Framework 4 using Visual Studio 2010 RC. Unfortunately VS2010 crashed on me 4 or 5 times during my presentation whilst editing code (I resolved it...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink On Monday 15th Feb 2010 I gave an overview session on Entity Framework 4 for the Developers Group . A big thanks to those who attended and asked great questions. My slide deck from...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I have previously posted on the area of Test Doubles and Mocking under the guise of Project NEric . I also have blogged on specific tools such as Pex and TypeMock – but I wouldn’t claim...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink This is the second guest post from Gil Zilberfeld who works at TypeMock and kindly agreed to do a couple of guest posts on Mocking . The first was an Introduction to Mocking . Typemock...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink While I was on holiday last week we announced Tech Days . Tech Days is shaping up to be something rather good. It is a week-long series of free events run by Microsoft and technical...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Just a brief note about events where you can expect to see me over the next few months in the UK (and TBH this post will be helpful reminder to me!) February DotNetDevNet - Thursday...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I am currently (Feb 2010) moving lots of Azure samples originally built in Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010 RC. I just realised there is a simple mistake folks can fall into...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink Every so often I Wordle my delicious account to see “where I’m at”. This is a spookily accurate depiction of my online life at the moment :-)   Therefore… Related Links: UK Azure Online...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I previously posted on when you get charged with Windows Azure as it is contrary to many folks expectations. Today (25th Feb 2010) I was pleased to see a new warning on the portal....

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink The Windows Azure Platform includes a status dashboard as well as RSS feeds for individual services and regions. You get to see the current status: As well as the history of an individual...