In a previous post I talked about how diagnostics by default are turned ON for Azure roles, and that you should turn them OFF if you don’t want to incur a ton of Azure storage transaction charges. I finally spent some time diving into the various configuration settings and now understand how to leave diagnostics [...]
I thought I’d start a blog series all about Azure – things I’ve learned while getting a few web sites up and running in the (Microsoft) cloud. First up – billing. Microsoft offers a “free” 90-day trial to get your feet wet, but BE CAREFUL, may not be free, especially when you quickly go over [...]
Let there be no mistake made that it’s pretty exciting that Microsoft is starting to release early bits for some of its products for us to test out. Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), VS2010, VS11, Win8, etc. are just a few that come to my mind. These early releases are full of bugs and [...]
Along with 5000 other developers, I attended //BUILD/ in September and came home with the Samsung pre-release hardware loaded with Visual Studio 11 and the Win8 bits. Since then, I’ve been writing a few apps, getting my feet wet writing code for Metro / WinRT apps in C#. Here are some early impressions on the [...]
This post is a continuation off of this post on Up and Running with Git and Visual Studio, if you have no idea what Git is, or how to setup git and git-extensions on windows I recommend you start there. So you’ve installed git and git extensions, written a sweet hello world application, made some [...]
The links to the pptx & Silverlight 4 reference app from the Silverlight Intro session, that I did at TechEd South Africa on October 18th, 2010 The PowerPoint Deck with all the links on guidance and such can be found here. The InterKnowlogy AdventureWorks Silverlight 4 reference application solution and source code: Source code can [...]
This is just a quick guide for those on windows using Visual Studio and wanting to start tinkering with GIT. If you want to know why Git is better than (Insert source control management system here), click this link. Or, if you more in the mood to hear why every other source control system in [...]
The Atlas CTP is out with some very interesting and positive changes. To get an overall picture of the new changes read Nikhil Kolthari’s latest blog posts Quick Tour of December Atlas CTP and Atlas Script Manager Control. The atlas server controls like are now gone. This in my opinion is a good thing. The use [...]