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Would you like to give input to Microsoft?
Would you be willing to provide input & feedback that will help us make Visual Studio better for...
Date: 04/03/2014
Requesting feedback from business app developers and IT decision makers
I'm doing research for the Visual Studio team at Microsoft to better understand the needs and...
Date: 03/14/2014
Rapid Developer Deploy to Windows Azure
At PDC10, I did a session Building, Deploying and Managing Windows Azure Applications that covered...
Date: 10/29/2010
Hope to see you at PDC – live or online
Next week, I’ll be speaking at PDC. The sessions were published recently and I’ll be...
Date: 10/21/2010
Windows Azure Tools featured on Cloud Cover
Aside from the fact that I was setup and they took every opportunity they could to give me a hard...
Date: 07/23/2010
VerificationException from Windows Azure IntelliTrace
Kyle has posted about a problem you may see if you use IntelliTrace in the Cloud to debug your RIA...
Date: 07/22/2010
Windows Azure Tools Goes International
We’re happy to announce that the June 2010 release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft...
Date: 07/02/2010
Windows Azure Storage Browser in the Visual Studio Server Explorer
As part of the June 2010 release of the Windows Azure Tools, we now have a Windows Azure Storage...
Date: 06/10/2010
TechEd Session Takeaways - Using Visual Studio to build Windows Azure Applications
Thank you to all of you who attended my session at TechEd 2010 - COS307 | Using Microsoft Visual...
Date: 06/09/2010
Using IntelliTrace to debug Windows Azure Cloud Services
One of the cool new features of the June 2010 Windows Azure Tools + SDK is the integration of...
Date: 06/07/2010
June 2010 Release of the Windows Azure Tools + SDK
I’m pleased to announce the release of the June 2010 Windows Azure Tools + SDK. The Windows...
Date: 06/07/2010
Hope to see you at TechEd
If you are attending TechEd 2010 next week, I really hope to see you there. I’ll be at the...
Date: 06/03/2010
WCF on Windows Azure
One thing we’ve had for a while but I wanted to bring some attention to is our...
Date: 05/27/2010
MSDN Magazine Article on Windows Azure Development
I’m really jazzed because not only did I get an article published in Visual Studio Magazine a little...
Date: 04/07/2010
Visual Studio Magazine Article on Cloud Development
I recently co-authored an article for Visual Studio Magazine titled Cloud Development in Visual...
Date: 03/30/2010
“OutputPath Property is not set for Project” Error when building a Windows Azure Cloud Service in VS 2010
If you’ve even seen the following error when trying to build a Windows Azure Cloud Service Visual...
Date: 03/24/2010
Fixing the Silverlight Design Time in a Windows Azure Cloud Service
This is a workaround for the following configuration: Visual Studio 2008 (works fine on VS 2010)...
Date: 03/23/2010
GAC Listing for Windows Azure Guest OS 1.1
The following is a list of the contents of the GAC for Windows Azure Guest OS 1.1 (Release...
Date: 03/22/2010
Viewing GAC’d Assemblies in the Windows Azure OS
One of the main issues you can run into when deploying is that one of your dependent assemblies is...
Date: 03/22/2010
Channel9 Show - Cloud Cover
Since Steve and Ryan listed my blog as one of the daily tips and just interviewed me for their Cloud...
Date: 03/19/2010
Videos of the Windows Azure Sessions at MIX10
Had a great time at MIX10 this year, talked to a lot of customers and got a lot of great feedback –...
Date: 03/18/2010
Mix ‘10 Session - Building Windows Azure Applications is now online
My session at Mix ‘10 is now online: https://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/SVC09 If you want to...
Date: 03/17/2010
Mix ‘10: Building and Deploying Windows Azure-Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Thank you to all of you who attended my session at Mix ‘10 on Building and Deploying Windows...
Date: 03/16/2010
Hope to see you at my Mix ‘10 Windows Azure session
I’m really excited about Mix ‘10 this year. There’s going to be a lot of cool announcements and...
Date: 03/14/2010
Windows Azure RoleEntryPoint Method Call Order
I saw an internal discussion that had some information I thought would be useful to share. It’s...
Date: 02/11/2010
Where to Find your Windows Azure Billable Usage Info
This weekend I had someone email me asking me to blog about where to find the usage info used for...
Date: 02/08/2010
Migrating an Existing ASP.NET App to run on Windows Azure
This post has 2 main parts. The first part is an update to a post I wrote back in February 2009...
Date: 02/08/2010
Windows Azure Compute Hours include the time your Deployment is Stopped
One of my tenets on this blog is to not do posts that simply point to someone else’s post. I’m...
Date: 02/05/2010
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation,...
Date: 02/01/2010
February 2010 Release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio v1.1
I’m pleased to announce that the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 (direct link...
Date: 02/01/2010
Installing Certificates in Windows Azure VMs
A little while ago I posted How To: Add an HTTPS Endpoint to a Windows Azure Cloud Service which...
Date: 01/29/2010
Windows Azure Debugging: Matching an Instance in the DevFabric to its Process
One of the things I run into from time to time is the need/desire to match an instance I’m watching...
Date: 01/26/2010
Windows Azure Instance & Storage Limits
Recently, a colleague of mine wrote about the Windows Azure instance limits:...
Date: 01/22/2010
Windows Azure WCF Add Service Reference Patch and Windows 7
For those of you that watched my Tips & Tricks session at PDC or followed along on my blog post,...
Date: 01/21/2010
Windows Azure - Resolving "The Path is too long after being fully qualified" Error Message
When you run a cloud service on the development fabric, the development fabric uses a temporary...
Date: 01/14/2010
Walkthrough: Windows Azure Blob Storage (Nov 2009 and later)
Similar to the table storage walkthrough I posted last week, I updated this blog post for the Nov...
Date: 01/11/2010
Windows Azure Article in Visual Studio Magazine
Good article in Visual Studio Magazine this month on Windows Azure:...
Date: 01/08/2010
Walkthrough: Windows Azure Table Storage (Nov 2009 and later)
This walkthrough covers what I found to be the simplest way to get a sample up and running on...
Date: 01/06/2010
How to: Add an HTTPS Endpoint to a Windows Azure Cloud Service
Back in May I posted about Adding an HTTPS Endpoint to a Windows Azure Cloud Service and with the...
Date: 12/01/2009
Web Site Projects and Windows Azure
Currently (November 2009), the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio only support Web Application...
Date: 11/30/2009
Add and Vote for Windows Azure Features
[Changing title to be more clear] Mike Wickstrand, the director of Windows Azure product planning...
Date: 11/24/2009
ASP.NET Provider Scripts for SQL Azure
If you want to use the ASP.NET Providers (membership, role, personalization, profile, web event...
Date: 11/24/2009
Videos of the Windows Azure Sessions at PDC09
Here are the videos of the Windows Azure sessions at PDC09. Lots of useful content, the sessions...
Date: 11/19/2009
ASP.NET MVC and Windows Azure (November 2009 edition)
With the November release of the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, we’ve done some...
Date: 11/19/2009
Using the Sample Windows Azure ASP.NET Providers
Previously, the sample Windows Azure ASP.NET providers were included in the samples folder that was...
Date: 11/19/2009
Tips and Tricks for Using Visual Studio 2010 to Build Applications that Run on Windows Azure
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at PDC today. I really hope that you took something...
Date: 11/18/2009
Tools to Configure Windows Azure Service Definition and Configuration Files
One of the features we added to the November 2009 release of the Windows Azure Tools are tools to...
Date: 11/18/2009
3 Short Videos - Introduction to Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
[Update 2/10/2010 - These videos moved so I needed to update the links.] Straight from the halls of...
Date: 11/17/2009
November 2009 Release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK
Today we released several new features for Windows Azure through the Windows Azure Tools and SDK....
Date: 11/13/2009
Windows Azure Platform TCO/ROI Analysis Tool
We just released a tool to help you figure out how much money you can save by switching to Windows...
Date: 11/12/2009