I am a strong believer in claims-based security - those who've read my postings over the past years know that, already. At this year's Basta 2012 Spring Edition I've been giving a presentation on that topic again. It was primarily based on experience...

In my previous posting I outlined a number of thoughts, considerations and technical options for building hybrid-cloud solutions. This types of applications and services operate and run assets on public cloud platforms such as Windows Azure while keeping...

In the past two months several of our partners and customers confronted me with the topic “hybrid cloud”. Seems that due to my experience from the last 2 years in a sensitive public sector organization as an enterprise architect people think about me...

After a little bit more than 1.5 years as a Microsoft enterprise architect working for a United Nations organization with its headquarters based in Vienna I decided to take on the next big challenge in my career. This month, November, I started my new...

Reading books such as “ The Process of Software Architecting ” you will see statements such as “architecture focus on significant elements” a lot. Given my recent experience I can’t tell you more how important this is! Therefore I thought it’s worth posting...

My last blog entry is quite a while ago… November 2011 after my two sessions and Track Ownership at TechEd Europe in Berlin. Indeed now that the Austrian Big>Days 2011 are over and some people were wondering and asking my colleagues why I was not part...

As promised in the last session of this year’s TechEd Europe which I had today on WCF Data Services, here you find the complete demo-code for download. Click here to get to the session demo-downloads. Please consider the following notes to make the demos...

I was just coming back from my first session at TechEd on parallel programming before I started blogging again. That might be because I fell much better after this first session at the conference. It was such a great fun doing it, I was in a room that...

Wow, it was a busy time the past months since I switched from Developer&Platform Evangelism to Microsoft Services for becoming a senior architect working with the largest enterprise accounts. At the same time I delivered this presentation at JAOO...

Im my last posting I published the first set of downloads on my sessions at TechDays 2010 in Switzerland, Basel . Basically I delivered two sessions at the conference: Designing and implementing Claims-Based Security-Solutions with WIF see my last posting...

Well, I know, it’s a few weeks ago, already when we had TechDays Switzerland in Basel. Finally now I was able to publish the material of the two sessions I delivered there: Designing and Implementing Claims-Based Security-Solutions with WIF - Presentation...

…and it’s my baby. Today the conference web site for the 1st architecture conference in the history of Microsoft Austria went live – and I am responsible for this conference. Together with Andreas Hejl from Siemens we were able to organize superb speakers...

As many of you might know, in Austria we are currently running a Windows Azure Contest where it’s possible to win a Samsung flatscreen TV together with an XBox 360 as well as 10 external 500GB hard disks for all participants successfully completing the...

At my session on parallel computing at BigDays 2010 during my first demo I mentioned a potential trap with lamda-expressions and ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(). Thanks to Philipp Aumayr from timecockpit.com – based on a question he asked when he watched...

Wow, what I time was that the past four weeks – BigDays 2010 preparations and rehearsals, then two-week long BigDays-tour through Austria with four sessions + key note demos on each location and now I am sitting at the airport in Zurich heading back from...

If you're experiencing problems upgrading your MVC-projects, check out this blog post. It shows a solution for the upgrade-problems you typically run into: http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2010/03/02/asp-net-mvc-1-0-visual-studio-2008-project-will-not...

Recently at my home machine I ran into a strange issue while developing an application for our Windows Azure winning game with the development fabric. I added a WCF AJAX Service and tried to use it. Everything compiled fine and when running the ASP...

Today we watched the opening key note of MWC in Barcelona where Steve Ballmer shared the first details of Windows Phone 7. As some of you might know, last November I bought a Zune HD and I love this device:))) ... I just can say – if what they showed...

In my last posting on the MSDN Briefing I outlined, that I migrated a sample that uses ASP.NET Membership API and Roles API for authenticating and authorizing users. Unfortunately the ASP.NET Membership and Roles API database as we know it does not work...

On January 26th I presented at our MSDN-Briefing on Cloud Computing and Windows Azure . During the session I introduced our (and my) point-of-view on Cloud Computing. Within the demos I migrated my good old MicroBlog sample I created for a presentation...

Today I am ill and lying in the bed with a medium temperature… but honestly, I can’t lie in bed the whole day doing nothing, even when being ill… so I tried something… First of all, I haven’t invented this article, I just modified it to match a Windows...

Well, one none-technical article as an exception;) Since last Friday right after the press-conference in New York and the official announcement during Redbull’s media evening in Kitzbühel, Robert John , Lukas Cudrigh and I are especially proud of http...

Yesterday someone during our Cloud-Computing chat at derstandard.at (see here ) someone asked me why his JavaScript and HTML work in any browser but not IE incl. IE8... See the problem in his code and a solution below (you can download the solution here...

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of giving a session on Microsoft’s strategy on modeling, model driven architecture and it’s software factories idea. As last year it was great giving the session and I had much fun with it. Note: I’ve included screen...

If you’ve read my previous post on Windows 7 God-Mode, there are a number of further special folder short-cuts you can use in a similar way. The complete list of GUIDs for the special folder short cuts can be found on MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft...