Blue Collar Software Architect
Automating Process Dump for Azure Functions using Kudu and Alerts
Recently I was asked how I might programmatically dump the w3wp process for a Function App. Jeremy...
Date: 05/07/2018
Creating Service Principal and New Roles Using AzureRM Powershell
I started working on a few scripts to provision new roles using Azure Resource Manager (ARM). While...
Date: 08/10/2016
Recursive Upload from Disk to Azure Storage
2016 Aug 15 - Updated to work with latest C# libs using System; using System.IO; using...
Date: 10/20/2014
BreezeJS - One query to rule them all and with the data bind them
Recently we've started working with BreezeJS in a SPA that will essentially serve as a kiosk...
Date: 04/24/2014
Research Topics
There are a couple of things that have been on my mind for over a year now. If I were working in an...
Date: 02/06/2012
March MSDN: Cloud Services Mashup
In my March column entry I go through combining several cloud services using ACS to authenticate via...
Date: 03/06/2011
Branch-Node Sync Part 2: Service Based Sync
In February's issue I take a further look at the Sync Framework using Services in Windows Azure to...
Date: 02/13/2011
Branch-Node Synchronization with SQL Azure
The latest installment to my column is available at...
Date: 01/05/2011
Integrating SharePoint and Windows Azure Storage
Check out my latest column about pushing content from SharePoint up to Azure Storage and providing a...
Date: 12/05/2010
Choosing Azure Data Storage
Check out my latest column regarding SQL Azure and Windows Azure Storage:...
Date: 11/08/2010
Azure Migration Workshop
We (Microsoft Technology Center) and Neudesic recently held an Azure migration workshop. The goal...
Date: 10/21/2010
Querying Azure Perf Counter Data with LINQ
For a recent project I needed to collect performance counter data for the Web Roles that I had...
Date: 06/30/2010
Sample Solution for for Azure Web Role Caching
It isn't, by any measure, the prettiest code or cleanest code in the world, but I've published a...
Date: 05/06/2010
Using BLOB Storage: Updated Sample Code
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Date: 05/04/2010
Using BLOB Storage: Azure Storage and GAE Blobstore
[Updated Azure Storage Sample Code: the code used for Storage in this post has been scrubbed and...
Date: 04/29/2010
Channel 9 Screencast with Symon Discussing Azure Deployment Architecture
Directly related to a couple of my recent posts we (Jared Bienz and myself) talked about it with...
Date: 04/08/2010
Migrating Windows Service to Azure Worker Role: Image Conversion Example using Storage
In my work with Symon Communications we had to move the pieces of their solution from their current...
Date: 04/02/2010
Performance Serving Resources from Azure Storage versus WebRole Local Storage
In my last post I outlined a mechanism to provide some flexibility in updating web site content...
Date: 03/26/2010
Caching to and Serving Files from WebRole's Local Storage
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Date: 03/25/2010
Implementing Join/Leave (part 3): The RESTful Services
This is the last of my posts on this topic and promises to be rather short. The previous post...
Date: 03/15/2010
Implementing Join/Leave link (part 2): Join/Leave a Group
Continuing on from my initial post I want to cover the bit of code needed to join or leave a group....
Date: 03/08/2010
Implementing Join/Leave link (part 1): Group Membership
Recently in a Proof-of-Concept I need to implement functionality that would identify one's...
Date: 03/08/2010
Basic Understanding of Matrix Transformation
Left to my own devices and not having good clear documentation this is my observation on how it...
Date: 07/31/2009
Implementing Rotate with Single Contact Point in WPF4 & Windows 7
By default there is no rotation (or zoom for that matter) behavior for a single touch point....
Date: 07/29/2009
Azure Development Storage Database Deleted
Story goes something like this (btw, autonumber in Live Writer won’t let me start at 0): Install the...
Date: 07/22/2009
Enabling The PUT Verb with Handlers and IIS 7.0
If you are trying to setup a handler to respond to an HTTP PUT unless you already know how to do it...
Date: 07/22/2009
WCF Service with SQL Classes vs Entity Framework
I was creating a simple service to return some data from a Pubs (yes, Pubs) instance on my machine....
Date: 06/15/2009
Dynamically loading loose XAML for styles in WPF
I was asked for a sample of how to do this and it is not difficult, but since someone asked I...
Date: 05/18/2009
MOSS BDC Development Book
Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan have put together a book that provides a thorough coverage using,...
Date: 04/28/2009
Designer and Type Reflection Issue in early WF 4.0 bits
While I was working out some samples using WF 4.0 I ran into a tuple of bugs (yes, that is a soundex...
Date: 04/27/2009
Problems in building WF 4.0 based Service
I created a sample service use WF 4.0 XAML only. When I tried to run it I got an error telling me...
Date: 04/27/2009
Adding Items to the Toolbox in WF 4.0
I was working through a HOL not following directions (as usual) and I hit an error. The code block...
Date: 04/27/2009
Web Part Connections and Page Life Cycle
This post won't be particularly detailed, but I hope to post an actual sample in the future that...
Date: 04/27/2009
New List or Not in MOSS (workflow association)
The other day developing a sample state machine workflow and related custom Association and...
Date: 04/27/2009