AppFabric AutoStart feature is built on top of IIS 7.5 AutoStart feature. IIS 7.5 provides an extensibility point where you can specify your custom initialization providers which will be executed as part of application start-up and gives you the ability...

Our next SoundByte is: "Identity in the cloud: Access Control Service usage scenarios" It is charged at the rate of 1 hour from your ADM contract. For this price you may have up to 2 Live Meeting connections, and you are of course free to...

It looks like the R2 documentation is either wrong, or simply doesn’t apply when you’re trying to change the account for reporting services Sql 2008. I also found the online docs for 2008 didn’t match what I was seeing (detailed here...

Been looking at writing RML utilities for Analysis services, and having some success, however, the function that kept coming up was generating the datetime as a bigint -> all I really need is the number of zeros for each value. For my own sanity here...

So, what do you do when you’ve been running a stress test, Sql CPU has been maxing out, and you’ve not been running profiler (to analyze in RML Utils) so have got no record of what happened – ans, provided te DMVs haven’t been...

Our next SoundByte is: "A lap round the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)". It is charged at the rate of 1 hour from your ADM contract. For this price you may have up to 2 Live Meeting connections, and you are of course free to use...

When configuring WS-Reliable messaging, you would notice that even though number of retries (MaxRetryCount) is configurable but the interval in which retries are attempted is NOT configurable. This is because WCF uses an exponential back-off congestion...

This is part of a short series of posts following my presentation ‘ Getting Good at Parallel ’ for the NxtGenUG Southampton user group. This post is all about the subtleties of Task cancallation in the TPL. The expectation is that you’re...

To start login into ACS Portal and create a new namespace: Once the namespace is activated, click on the manage link to open the ACS management portal: Switch to “Application Integration” page which list various endpoints exposed...