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With a couple of colleagues, I have started a new project: AzureGames . I was inspired by the Microsoft Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games , and was started as a CodePlex site. We are currently flushing out the bugs for the basic platform. As we don’t have time to also write the games to host...
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Yesterday we had a special Dutch BizTalk User Group meeting. The guys from the BizTalk product team were in The Netherlands because of the BizTalk summit tour and they came by to talk about BizTalk. Three presentations were given about the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2013: one overview and two...
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Tonight Microsoft announced the public download of BizTalk Server 2013 beta. I’m not going to relist the features because, they are perfectly described here on the blog of the Microsoft BizTalk server team . Formerly this release was known as BizTalk Server 2010 R2, but it was rebranded with a...
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Back in December 2011 Microsoft released the first CTP of the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI. It showed what direction Microsoft is heading with bringing BizTalk like functionality to the cloud. Or to quote Microsoft: “Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs provides integration capabilities for the Windows...
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When installing the Windows Azure AppFabric Tools for Visual Studio (found here ), you might get the error message shown on the right, stating that Windows Server AppFabric is installed and that it is not compatible with this release of Windows Azure AppFabric Developer Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio...
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Hi there! I am back from a well deserved vacation to Cyprus. Cyprus is quite nice, also in October. It’s still 25-30degrees. But if you decide to go to Cyprus I would advise to stay on the Greek side of the Island. It’s more fun for tourists there. The new fiscal year(FY11) already started...
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I was just watching Bytes by MSDN where Billy Hollis interviews Ron Jacobs , Sr. Technical Evangelist for the Microsoft Server AppFabric platform. Billy Hollis asked him if it’s a big cliff to start using this awesome power that is AppFabric. Here’s what Ron said: It’s not a big cliff. It’s similar to...
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Last Tuesday, may 18th 2010, I gave a presentation on Microsoft’s AppFabric. I explained that there are actually two themes of it; Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric. They both have their own products. Windows Server AppFabric Services and Workflow Management This is sometimes called...
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The Windows Azure platform AppFabric has transitioned to commercial availability yesterday, and is now a fully SLA-supported paid service. You can read more about this on the AppFabric blog, available here .
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Every year I do a blogpost around the sessions that I recommend for the Microsoft Developer Days in The Netherlands. I don't think I will be able to attend the event this year, but I will definitely watch some of the videos afterwards. This would be my agenda: Tuesday March 30: The key-note(9.15...
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I have recently installed the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK because I’m writing an article for the Dutch .NET Magazine. Problem is I try to do everything in Visual Studio 2010 these days, just because it’s so cool to have something that’s buggy. Seriously! Sometimes you get headaches...
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So finally they released some information on Azure pricing, or the Azure Business Model as it’s called… First, it’ll be commercially available from PDC09 in LA this year. Windows Azure SQL Azure .NET Services - Compute @ $0.12 / hour - Web Edition – 1GB @ $9.99 Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations...
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The Windows Azure and SQL Data Services team have been busy. Workflow was removed from .NET Services until they can support Workflow 4 and Access Control and the Service Bus got minor updates. Read more about it here . The SQL Data Services team has unfortunately not released anything yet, but they did...
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Last week at the SDN Event in Houten, I presented a session on Windows Azure and how you can develop applications on it. How it differs from developing for servers that run on premises. After the presentation, the question was asked if developing for Azure was a wise idea, as some stuff did not seem...
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Yesterday was a great day as the SDN Event took place in Houten. The location was really great and the food never has been better. The poll on the website shows others agree with me. Thanks to those who attended my sessions. Sorry to those who wanted to know more about SQL Data Services, but know that...