There are many scenarios where you will need to do interrole communication when creating a solution using Windows Azure platform such as multiple web roles that need to recycle when a controller triggers an event. One way to achieve this goal is to create...

Kevin D’Souza and Duncan Millard from Microsoft MCS will be speaking at the BCS event “'Testing Then and Now - How Testing has changed over our 21 years”. Conference Details can be found at: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9264 Details of the presentation...

Windows Azure Diagnostics enables you to collect diagnostic data from a service running in Windows Azure. The data collected is highly configurable and can include Windows Azure logs, IIS 7.0 logs, Windows Diagnostic infrastructure logs, Failed Request...

Recently the Azure and security community published the “ Security Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Application ” paper outlining the security considerations developers should consider when building a service on Windows Azure. As I have worked...

Listed below are the community projects that are currently being undertaken by the Solution Development Team and posted to the CodePlex site. Project Name Description Coordinator(s) WCF Load Test This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy...

In most applications these days there will always be some form of backend database. So hopefully over the coming months I thought it would be a good idea to share some TSQL bits, starting with using Common Table Expressions (CTEs) for managing DELETE...