Sign In
Blue Collar Software Architect
My job gives me opportunities to create solutions using a broad array of technology. I will post here based on that exposure and the related technology experiences.
Translate This Page
Translate this page
Powered by
Microsoft® Translator
Options
Email Blog Author
RSS for posts
Atom
RSS for comments
OK
Search
Advanced search options...
Search In:
Everything
Blogs
Forums
People
Groups
Places
Pages
Date range:
All Time
Last Year
Last 6 Months
Last 3 Months
Last Month
Last Week
Last Two Days
Tags
ACS
Active Directory
Azure
Azure Storage
Bing Maps
Blob Storage
Blobstore
c#
Caching
Entity Framework
Exchange
Facebook
File Caching
GAE
HttpModule
LINQ
MSDN
Optimization
Performance
SQL Azure
Sync Framework
Visual Studio 2010
WebRole
Windows Azure
Workflow .NET 4.0 connected framework CCF
Archive
Archives
February 2012
(1)
March 2011
(1)
February 2011
(1)
January 2011
(1)
December 2010
(1)
November 2010
(1)
October 2010
(1)
June 2010
(1)
May 2010
(2)
April 2010
(3)
March 2010
(5)
July 2009
(4)
June 2009
(1)
May 2009
(1)
April 2009
(6)
MSDN Blogs
>
Blue Collar Software Architect
Posts
Subscribe via RSS
Sort by:
Most Recent
|
Most Views
|
Most Comments
Excerpt View
|
Full Post View
Blue Collar Software Architect
Research Topics
Posted
3 months ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
March MSDN: Cloud Services Mashup
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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
Blue Collar Software Architect
Branch-Node Sync Part 2: Service Based Sync
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Branch-Node Synchronization with SQL Azure
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Integrating SharePoint and Windows Azure Storage
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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.
Blue Collar Software Architect
Choosing Azure Data Storage
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
Check out my latest column regarding SQL Azure and Windows Azure Storage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309178.aspx
Blue Collar Software Architect
Azure Migration Workshop
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Querying Azure Perf Counter Data with LINQ
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Sample Solution for for Azure Web Role Caching
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Using BLOB Storage: Updated Sample Code
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
2
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Using BLOB Storage: Azure Storage and GAE Blobstore
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
[ 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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Channel 9 Screencast with Symon Discussing Azure Deployment Architecture
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
1
Comments
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 .
Blue Collar Software Architect
Migrating Windows Service to Azure Worker Role: Image Conversion Example using Storage
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
3
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Performance Serving Resources from Azure Storage versus WebRole Local Storage
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Caching to and Serving Files from WebRole's Local Storage
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
2
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Implementing Join/Leave (part 3): The RESTful Services
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Implementing Join/Leave link (part 2): Join/Leave a Group
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
1
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Implementing Join/Leave link (part 1): Group Membership
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
What and how on what to use to create a join/leave link for group membership....
Blue Collar Software Architect
Basic Understanding of Matrix Transformation
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
1
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Implementing Rotate with Single Contact Point in WPF4 & Windows 7
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Azure Development Storage Database Deleted
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
0
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Enabling The PUT Verb with Handlers and IIS 7.0
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
3
Comments
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. ...
Blue Collar Software Architect
WCF Service with SQL Classes vs Entity Framework
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
1
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
Dynamically loading loose XAML for styles in WPF
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
1
Comments
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...
Blue Collar Software Architect
MOSS BDC Development Book
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Joseph Fultz
1
Comments
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...
Page 1 of 2 (30 items)
1
2