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Azure Service Fabric Cluster Behind A Firewall
Hosting a Service Fabric cluster on Azure for internet hosted clients requires it to be deployed...
Date: 07/07/2015
Azure Service Fabric Sessions at Ignite 2015
Some useful Azure Service Fabric sessions: Building Resilient, Scalable Services with Microsoft...
Date: 05/11/2015
C# Tool to Simulate IOT Sensor Telemetry for OpenTSDB
tsdbwriter is a simple .NET solution that writes a single metric (e.g. LivingRoom.Temperature,...
Date: 04/21/2015
TypeC - Why?
I didn't expect such a strong reaction and hence wanted to offer clarification; I was looking for a...
Date: 04/02/2015
TypeC - A Simple .NET Dependency Injection / IoC Container
TypeC is a simple .NET type container for resolving interfaces/abstract base classes to their...
Date: 03/28/2015
Building Mission Critical Systems using Cloud Platform Services
Overview Mission critical systems will often have higher SLA requirements than those offered by the...
Date: 12/19/2014
Microsoft Azure VNET-to-VNET Connectivity Timesaver
If you are setting up VNET-to-VNET connectivity between two virtual networks using...
Date: 06/24/2014
Building Reliable Cloud Systems on Microsoft Azure
Sometimes mission critical systems may have higher SLA requirements than those offered by the cloud...
Date: 05/14/2014
Setting up Debugging Environment for ASP.NET Katana and Windows Azure Active Directory
The process described in this post was tested on 01/13/2013 using Katana 2.0.2, Visual Studio 2013...
Date: 01/20/2014
Clearing Stored Credentials in Windows 8.1 using PasswordVault
If you ever have to test Windows Store applications with multiple OAuth providers interactively, you...
Date: 01/19/2014
Preparing Oracle Linux VHD for Windows Azure Cloud
At the time of this writing (December, 2013) Windows Azure supported Linux distributions from...
Date: 12/11/2013
Which Windows Azure Cloud Architecture? PaaS or IaaS ?
Overview Those who have been associated with cloud computing for some time knows how to select a...
Date: 12/03/2013
Generating SSH keys for Linux on Windows Azure –updated
This is a modification to the post I did a while ago:...
Date: 10/29/2013
Data Binding in Windows 8 compared to Android
In data driven apps, developer has to write a lot of boiler plate code to bridge the impedance...
Date: 05/29/2013
Enabling USB Debugging for Nexus 7 on Windows 8
While preparing for my BUILD talk that introduces Windows 8 to Android developers, I went to the...
Date: 05/24/2013
Introducing Windows 8 for Android Developers - Part 2
Part 1 covered a few fundamental aspects of Android and Windows 8 development from the perspective...
Date: 04/18/2013
Introducing Windows 8 for Android Developers–Part 1
Introduction This two-part series (Part 1 & Part 2) is aimed at the Android developers who are...
Date: 04/18/2013
Windows Azure’s Flat Network Storage to Enable Higher Scalability Targets
Brad Calder, a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, recently blogged about higher scalability...
Date: 11/04/2012
Setup SharePoint Farm on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Many of you may be thinking of deploying SharePoint farms on Windows Azure Virtual Machines… here...
Date: 06/21/2012
Managing Your Windows Azure Services from OS X, Linux, or Windows Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
A colleague of mine, Aaron Stannard, posted an excellent article on managing Windows Azure...
Date: 06/08/2012
Generating SSH key pair for Linux VM deployment on Windows Azure
Linux deployment on Windows Azure requires PEM or DER encoded x509 public key at the provisioning...
Date: 06/07/2012
Sign-up Process for Azure Virtual Machines Preview
Here is the process for signing up to the Azure Virtual Machines feature: Step 1: Log into the...
Date: 06/07/2012
Top Benefits of Running Node.js on Windows Azure
Introduction This post is inspired by Tomasz’s Hosting Node Applications on IIS write up that...
Date: 05/04/2012
3rd Party ISV Tools for Windows Azure Application Monitoring and Load Testing
Here are a list of products, in no particular order, which will help improve the quality of end user...
Date: 04/11/2012
Service Bus demo from Brian Loesgen
A colleague of mine Brian had put together this nice Azure Service Bus demo:...
Date: 03/05/2012
Getting Started with SQL Azure
My colleague Peter put together the following list of useful SQL Azure resources:...
Date: 02/28/2012
$3,700 worth of Windows Azure Compute and Database Resources for MSDN Subscribers
MSDN subscribers get to try Windows Azure through this free offer:...
Date: 01/28/2012
ECM / CMS Systems on Windows Azure
Here is a list of CMS systems that are available on Windows Azure from various ISVs: Ektron CMS for...
Date: 01/28/2012
Windows Azure Social Gaming resources
Just come across the following resources and thought these might be useful for others as well:...
Date: 07/27/2011
Microsoft Cloud/Azure Security Resources
Technical Overview of the Security Features in the Windows Azure Platform:...
Date: 07/27/2011
Microsoft System Sweeper
When network administrators shutdown your internet access due to a bot or rootkit infection and...
Date: 06/02/2011
Windows 8 to be showcased at the BUILD event–Sept 13th to 16th (Anaheim, CA)
Microsoft press release is located here:...
Date: 06/02/2011
Azure Throughput Analyzer from Microsoft Research
Just come across this tool from Microsoft research:...
Date: 05/24/2011
Few interesting TechEd 2011 Sessions for On-Demand Viewing
Keynote Tech·Ed North America 2011 Keynote Address Don't miss the opportunity to hear from...
Date: 05/20/2011
10 Reasons Why Architects and Developers Should Care about Cloud Computing
Benefits of cloud computing are often outlined at a great detail as understood by business leaders...
Date: 05/11/2011
Windows Phone 7 vNext “Mango” Announcements at MIX 11
Joe Belfiore announced the Mango features including the following at MIX 11 : IE9 support leverages...
Date: 04/13/2011
Windows Azure Traffic Manager (WATM) CTP announced at MIX 11
Microsoft just announced Windows Azure Traffic Manager CTP (Community Technology Preview) during the...
Date: 04/12/2011
Windows Azure CDN for IIS Smooth Streaming
At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference today, Microsoft announced IIS Smooth...
Date: 04/12/2011
Cloud Deployment Experience from Microsoft IT
My colleague Bart Robertson has posted a nice blog about his deployment experiences on Window Azure...
Date: 04/06/2011
Microsoft Product Training Courses all at one Location
Finally we have a landing page on MSDN from which you can access all self-paced Microsoft training...
Date: 03/16/2011
IE9 Global Release
IE9 was available for download globally at www.BeautyOfTheWeb.com at 9PM PST today. The following...
Date: 03/14/2011
Windows Azure Migration Assessment Tool (MAT)
I was impressed with the MAT tool that encapsulates all the information one has to be aware...
Date: 02/05/2011
Designing for Cloud-Optimized Architecture by David Chou
A colleague of mine David Chou, who I have great respect for, has written an excellent blog post on...
Date: 02/02/2011
Windows Azure Capacity Assessment
Windows Azure being a Platform as a Service (PaaS), abstracts away the OS, storage, networking and...
Date: 02/01/2011
Windows Azure Storage Pricing
When I wrote Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises in MSDN magazine in February 2010, the Azure...
Date: 01/16/2011
Learn About Cloud Computing Online and Off
Our audience team is spinning up our next round of Windows Azure Boot Camps. If you aren't familiar...
Date: 12/03/2010
Sync Framework 4.0 CTP now supports clients like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight
Previously Sync Framework required a Windows machine with Sync runtime installed...
Date: 11/02/2010
Windows Azure PDC 2010 Announcements
Windows Azure PDC Announcements Here is a list of PDC announcements (excluding AppFabric) made by...
Date: 10/28/2010