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 DevFabric UI. For example, say I have the line System.Diagnostics. Trace .TraceInformation( "Old
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 GP 2010 Enterprise Library 5.0 SQL Server 2008 R2 The trial versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 are now
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 up here, but let me mention one: this release has full .NET 3.5 SP1 and .NET 4 compatibility and works
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 for the company. Check his blog post for all that he has been involved in. Not on the list,
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 in Windows Azure within 90 days of the RTM date. A lesser known fact is that the latest available
[ Updated 2010-04-25 : The lightweight view for MSDN has been fixed, so the content of this post is no longer relavant] [ Updated 2010-04-07 : Updated one screenshot, because the lightweight view has changed] MSDN has recently switched the default online view mode to “lightweight view”. Although this dramatically improves loading times for
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 in performance testing using Visual Studio. I was part of the Rangers team that contributed articles
I don’t write much for public consumption these days, i.e., this blog has gone really quiet ;) Most of my work is for clients that don’t like it if I blog about that. But I did write an article about cloud computing and Windows Azure for the Dutch TechNet Magazine with my colleague Dennis Mulder. It wasn’t until today that I had an actual hardcopy in
My first blog post with the title UPC sucks is the #1 hit on Bing and the #5 hit on Google. Unfortunately it is time to add another such post. UPC is a cable company that has a monopoly on cable tv in large parts of the Netherlands. I have two UPC mediaboxes for watching digital tv and using the UPC On Demand service. When they work, the picture quality
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 you have to scratch it! And it is always good to catch up on some programming if recent assignments