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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...
Wow, April 2010 proves to be a jam-packed month of releases from Microsoft. A short list, that is bound to be incomplete: .NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 Office 2010 SharePoint 2010 Data Protection Manager 2010 System Center Essentials 2010 Dynamics...
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...
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...
Last week we published a new major version of the Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide . The effort of creating this document was lead by Geoff Gray. Geoff is a senior consultant in the Microsoft Services Labs in the US that specializes...
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”...
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...
Microsoft SQL Server finally gets a logo! Check out the revamped homepage of SQL Server 2008 . We have just released the Release Candidate 0 for download . I say "we", because I work for Microsoft since May 1, 2008 ;)
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...
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...
WPF comes with great support for animation using XAML without needing to code this in for example C#. With Silverlight (fka "WPF/E") you can also do animations from XAML. If you want to perform custom animations in code that you can't do using XAML, you...
Microsoft has some great news today: the new Expression Web (already RTM) and Expression Blend (RTM later in Q2 2007) tools will be included in the MSDN Premium Subscription. Soma announced this on his blog . This is the result from strong feedback from...
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