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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...
Scott Guthrie did a major announcement on his blog yesterday: Microsoft will be releasing the source code for most .NET Framework libraries with the release of Visual Studio 2008. There will even be integrated support for debugging into framework classes...
Today I encountered a problem with accessing the metadata for a WCF service that was deployed on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The WSDL part worked just fine for the metadata exchange endpoint ( url ?wsdl, url ?wsdl=wsdl0, etc.). These WSDL files refer...
After a long day and night of coding, I released version 0.8.0.0 of my Flickr Metadata Synchr tool on CodePlex this morning. I finally solved the long-standing problem I was having with the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) to update metadata. So this is...
If you are interested in the history of LINQ to SQL and how it works internally, go watch Charlie Calvert's video with Matt Warren and Luca Bolognese . The first 30 minutes of this video are primarily about the internals. The last 10 minutes focus...
Back in January 2006 I wrote a blog post about a way to add input validation to declarative query string parameters in ASP.NET 2.0. This involved adding code to the code-behind of each ASP.NET page to hook an event handler. This quickly becomes tedious...
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