As my Surface didn't arrive on launch day, I had nothing better to do on a Friday night so here’s a blog post on Azure configuration settings. Prior to Azure, web.config was the place ASP.NET devs would store settings. However, as you should consider web.config read-only in Azure, you should...

“Inspired” by a pub discussion with a mate last night, I finally got around to doing a “hello world” ASP.NET->SQL sample on Azure today. Unfortunately, I couldn’t leave it up as I don’t want it to start accruing charges. However, I included a screen capture of...

I noticed SQL updates (KB960089 but also SQL SP3) were failing to apply on the WSS Developer VM. After many hours of frustration, I located this great blog post that helped me to overcome the issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverfaq/archive/2009/01/30/part-1-sql-server-2005-patch-fails-to-install...