There are a couple of things that have been on my mind for over a year now. If I were working in an educational institution I think I'd pick one of them for a thesis. The first item is flow equations as it relates to data. Think about it, electrical...

In my March column entry I go through combining several cloud services using ACS to authenticate via Facebook and build a demo application. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg650655.aspx

In February's issue I take a further look at the Sync Framework using Services in Windows Azure to sync corporate databases lets you scale to many more end nodes than are possible with direct-to-database synchronization. http://msdn.microsoft.com...

The latest installment to my column is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg535668.aspx . It is a primer on architecture and code using Sync Framework and SQL Azure. Look for February's installment to delve into data synchronization...

Check out my latest column about pushing content from SharePoint up to Azure Storage and providing a working link still in SharePoint: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg490343.aspx.

Check out my latest column regarding SQL Azure and Windows Azure Storage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309178.aspx

We (Microsoft Technology Center) and Neudesic recently held an Azure migration workshop. The goal was to bring in some interested customers and (or) ISVs and see what it would take to migrate some of their applications to Azure (Compute, SQL, & Storage...

For a recent project I needed to collect performance counter data for the Web Roles that I had running. There are various blog and forum posts and some documentation on how to accomplish this, but I was still getting a little caught up on how to get the...

It isn't, by any measure, the prettiest code or cleanest code in the world, but I've published a sample solution that contains the code used to upload blobs, fetch and cache them to a web role LocalResource, and subsequently serve them as requested via...

I made some changes to my sample code after receiving some feedback (thanks Aleks) on best practices and ways that I could better write the code that I had used as a sample for the upload piece in the post Using BLOB Storage: Azure Storage and GAE Blobstore...

[ Updated Azure Storage Sample Code : the code used for Storage in this post has been scrubbed and updated and posted] Anyone that has read my recent posts, or posts by many others out there, can see examples how to upload single and multiple files...

Directly related to a couple of my recent posts we (Jared Bienz and myself) talked about it with Joshua Kurlinski from Symon. You can see the screen cast here .

In my work with Symon Communications we had to move the pieces of their solution from their current Windows Services implementations to something that would work well in the cloud. These services would run in the background to collect, transform, and...

In my last post I outlined a mechanism to provide some flexibility in updating web site content while by keeping those resources in Azure Storage, but reducing the per transaction costs associated with Azure Storage by caching the resources locally in...

UPDATE: Sample solution now available on Codeplex. It is under AzureFileCache . It still has a lot of rough edges and needs work, but might serve as a good starting point. I’ve been working with Symon Communications on a Proof-of-Concept for porting...

This is the last of my posts on this topic and promises to be rather short. The previous post covered the functionality to join or leave and the one before that covered determining group membership via EWS. In this post I will cover the idea that I want...

Continuing on from my initial post I want to cover the bit of code needed to join or leave a group. As before a reference to and using statement for System.Directory services is required, but in this instance Exchange Web Services (EWS) is not used and...

What and how on what to use to create a join/leave link for group membership....

Left to my own devices and not having good clear documentation this is my observation on how it works, but as it is just an informed guess I may be inaccurate.  This is targeted at people that are just starting to learn WPF Technorati Tags: WPF 4...

By default there is no rotation (or zoom for that matter) behavior for a single touch point. However, working on my laptop I am limited to a single touch point. So, I wanted to see what I could do. Borrowing from a friend and co-worker’s example I created...

Story goes something like this (btw, autonumber in Live Writer won’t let me start at 0): Install the tools and sdk to do some Azure development. I decide to install a non-Express version of SQL Server 2008. I decide I no longer need the SQL Express installation...

If you are trying to setup a handler to respond to an HTTP PUT unless you already know how to do it you are likely receiving and HTTP 405 Method Not Allowed error.  This is one of those things that is actually pretty easy once you figure it out. ...

I was creating a simple service to return some data from a Pubs (yes, Pubs) instance on my machine. The service was created to serve data to a SilverLigh client that I am creating. In my first attempt I used SQL Classes to generate entities against which...

I was asked for a sample of how to do this and it is not difficult, but since someone asked I thought I'd go ahead and drop it out here, because it might show up in someone's search result and help. The problem was that the person with whom I was working...

Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan have put together a book that provides a thorough coverage using, configuring, and developing applications using the Business Data Catalog. In addition, there are sections dedicated to Oracle, SAP, and Siebel. Take a look...