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The Windows Azure Platform has a rich diagnostics infrastructure to enable logging and performance monitoring in the cloud. When you run a cloud app locally in the DevFabric you can view diagnostics trace output in the console window that is part of the...
The Microsoft Enterprise Library has always been one of the most popular things to come out of the patterns & practices team. Yesterday p&p reached a major milestone by releasing version 5.0 of EntLib. The improvements are too numerous to sum...
Long before I joined the company, Brad Abrams was one of the first people for me that put a human face on Microsoft. I felt sad when I just read his blog post that Brad is leaving Microsoft . But at the same time I feel happy for all that he has accomplished...
in As you will probably know, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will RTM on April 12, 2010 and will be available for download on MSDN Subscriptions Downloads the same day. The Windows Azure team is committed to making .NET Framework 4 available...
Yesterday I worked on a new version of my FlickrMetadataSynchr tool and published the 1.3.0.0 version on CodePlex . I wasn’t really planning on creating a new version, but I was annoyed by the old version in a new usage scenario. When you have an itch...
I ran into an issue with a Windows Azure project created from scratch in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 with the May CTP of the Windows Azure Tools . When trying to create tables in the local development storage, I got the error “Invalid image format”...
Ever since the internal unveiling of Windows Azure as project “ Red Dog ” at our internal TechReady conference in July 2008, I’ve been very interested in this Software+Services platform. Technical strategist Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team recently...
A couple of months ago I received a license for NDepend to evaluate its usefulness. I was already convinced that NDepend is a very useful tool. But up to now, I hadn’t put NDepend to good use in a way that I could blog about it. Today I decided to bite...
Sometimes it’s attention to detail that excites me the most. I just noticed the beautiful rendering of PNGs with transparency in the Pictures Library view in Explorer in Windows 7 ( RC build ): You can get this view by selecting Arrange by Month in the...
If you watched the first keynote of PDC08 , either at PDC or through the live stream, you have seen the first public unveiling of Windows Azure . In short, it’s our OS for the cloud. A CTP of the Windows Azure SDK should be available shortly. In...
We have created a new logo for the Microsoft .NET brand. It will be used widely starting next week at PDC08 in Los Angeles. Expect lots of great announcements at this event. For those attending PDC08, have fun, I am sure you will be amazed! For the not...
It depends on the situation if I self-identify as a geek or not. Today, I thought it would be fine, so I signed up for the Geek Dinner organized by Scott Hanselman in Bellevue, WA . Quite a lot of people showed up. I went there with my colleague Erwin...
You probably already noticed that Microsoft has enabled access to the source code of parts of the .NET Framework 3.5. Here is the announcement of availability in case you missed it. And there are detailed instructions on how to enable this as well. This...
Best wishes to everyone for 2008! In the first day of the new year, I've released version 0.9.0.0 of my Flickr Meta Synchr tool . You can always find the latest version on CodePlex . I had been working on this new version for a while now, but didn't...
Microsoft used the keynote in the SOA & Business Process Conference in Redmond to present its vision on the future of Service Oriented Architecture on the Microsoft platform. That vision and the wave of technology that will come with it, is codenamed...
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