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Windows Azure Tools: Getting the right Run/Debug and Publish Functionality
If you're using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and you are finding that when...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/05/2008
How to Diagnose and Fix Windows Azure Development Storage Service Issues
On this thread in the forum Frank Siegemund posted some great guidelines on how to diagnose and...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/01/2008
F# Windows Azure Templates
Recently I posted about the Windows Live Tools Web Role Template that integrates with the Windows...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/01/2008
Windows Live Web Role for Windows Azure
In my prior post that talked about the difference between the Cloud Service templates and the Role...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/31/2008
PDC Hands on Labs
The Azure Services Training Kit - PDC Preview which contains the Hands on Labs that folks are doing...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/29/2008
Windows Azure Walkthrough: Blob Storage Sample
Please see the updated post for November 2009 and later. This walkthrough covers what I found to be...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/29/2008
ASP.Net MVC Projects running on Windows Azure
[For more recent information on using ASP.NET MVC with Windows Azure please see this post.] Before...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008
Try Windows Azure Now
Want to try Windows Azure right now? Install the following: Windows Azure SDK Windows Azure Tools...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008
Video Walkthrough: A Quick Lap around Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
Watch my screencast that introduces you to the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio....
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008
Windows Azure Walkthrough: Table Storage
Please see the updated post for November 2009 and later. This walkthrough covers what I found to be...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008
Submitting a Bug against the Windows Azure Tools and SDK
If you have questions you want to have answered, or want to participate in community discussions,...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/28/2008
MSDN Articles on Windows Azure Tools
I've posted a number of technical articles on MSDN that will help you to get acquainted with the...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008
Cloud Service Project Templates vs Role Project Templates
If you create a new Cloud Service project in Visual Studio but it doesn't contain a Cloud Service...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008
Using the Windows Azure SDK Samples in Visual Studio
The Windows Azure SDK contains a set of samples that will help you get started with and to learn...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008
Now: Cloud Computing
As some of you may have noticed, this blog has gone dark for a while. During that time it got an...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/27/2008
VSX Dev Con 2008 - Learn to Extend Visual Studio
Are you looking to extend Visual Studio? (or do you already and want more help? more Microsoft...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/07/2008
Thank you for your feedback on Silverlight Control Licensing
Recently a posted a set of questions around Silverlight Control licensing. I was really happy with...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 05/07/2008
Silverlight Licensing for 3rd Party Controls
For any of you building 3rd party controls for Silverlight - I really need your feedback! We are...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 04/30/2008
XAML Object Mapping and WPF XAML Vocabulary Specifications
XAML specification published, added to Microsoft's open promise Specs that are shared include the...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
How to: Sub-property editing in the Visual Studio 2008 WPF Designer Property Browser
Recently I saw a post on the forums asking about how to get subproperties to show up in the Property...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 03/03/2008
Cider (WPF and Silverlight Designer and Tools Team) is Hiring!
Want to work on the designer and tools for WPF and Silverlight? Here's your opportunity, and it's an...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/27/2008
Professional Developer and Designer tools for students at no charge
Check it out: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/ DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/27/2008
Divelements SandRibbon for WPF
Following up on the great design time experience that they developed for their SandDock for WPF,...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/21/2008
The WPF Designer for Windows Forms Developers
One of the things we've been working on as a team is a guide to help Windows Forms developers ramp...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 02/06/2008
Actipro WPF Studio - Updated with Improved Design Time Support
On 1/29/2008, Actipro released a new build of their WPF Studio. You'll recall that I blogged about...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/30/2008
Mincom Case Study
Here is a case study of one of the companies we've been working with, Mincom....
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/28/2008
Showing Attached Properties in the Cider WPF Designer
If you create a type that defines an attached property, you will notice that this attached property...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/17/2008
DevComponents DotNetBar Suite for WPF
DevComponents recently released their DotNetBar Suite for WPF and it is loaded with design time...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/09/2008
Workaround for Style.Triggers Design Time Issue
I've received two bug reports from Control Vendors regarding Style.Triggers not working correctly at...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/04/2008
Pistachio - “WPF Resource Visualizer”
There are definitely some cool 3rd party WPF tools coming out as of late -- for example, Mole. Here...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 01/04/2008
Actipro Ribbon - Office 2007 UI
Another great example of cool design time functionality in Cider (WPF Designer in Visual Studio...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/28/2007
SandDock for WPF by Divelements
Now that Visual Studio 2008 has been released, one of the real fruits of my job is to see how our...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/28/2007
Giving Focus to Adorners
If you add a TextBox as an adorner to your design time, by default you will not be able to give that...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/27/2007
Specifying a Toolbox Icon for a Control in the WPF Designer
Recently I had a customer point out the following from the documentation: Differences in Specifying...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/10/2007
Mole 2.1 - WPF Runtime Inspection Tool
Ran across this today and I thought I would pass it along as it is a very useful tool for WPF...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/07/2007
How to get the best out of the WPF designer when laying out your WPF app
Mark Wilson-Thomas is our resident WPF Layout expert and is leveraging my blog to get some great...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/04/2007
Visual Studio 2008 RTM Crashing when Creating a WPF Project?
We've been seeing some issues where VS 2008 crashes when creating a new WPF project. The underlying...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 12/04/2007
Visual Studio 2008 has shipped!
This is a pretty exciting day as Visual Studio 2008 has shipped. This is the first product I've...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/19/2007
Don't do that in the WPF Designer (Cider)!
One of the challenges of building a designer after the framework has shipped (as is the case with...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 11/08/2007
Bug in Finding Metadata Assemblies
As it turns out, we have a bug in finding metadata assemblies that will be in Visual Studio 2008...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/24/2007
How to get my XAML to show up in the WPF Designer: IMultiValueConverter
Recently I made a post about how to deal with Application.Current at design time. I thought I'd...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/11/2007
Problems with Nested ItemsControls
As we approach the end of the Orcas project schedule (Visual Studio 2008) I've been doing some app...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/09/2007
Change in Behavior of AdornerProvider Activate and Deactivate Methods
We made a change post Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta 2 in the way the AdornerProvider.Activate()...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/04/2007
.Net Framework Library Source Code
Scott Guthrie, a GM in the division I work in (Developer Division) has just made a great post about...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 10/03/2007
Have you seen the Toolbox Controls Installer?
A really cool new feature for Visual Studio 2008 is the Toolbox Controls Installer which as the name...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/26/2007
Dealing with Application.Current in Design Mode
There are a ton of WPF samples on MSDN which are really useful if you are developing in or learning...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/24/2007
Using a Design Time Adorner to Setup Bindings Between Controls
[One warning -- the code to set the binding via the Editing Object Model will not work in VS 2008...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/20/2007
Design Time Adorners
I've posted about design time adorners a few times in the past however there have been some API...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 09/19/2007
Cider Extensibility Help Documentation
One of our User Education writers who takes care of much of the Cider Extensibility documentation...
Author: Jim Nakashima - MSFT Date: 08/24/2007