Comodo SSL Certificate Breach’s Potential Impact on Security Token Services and their Identity Providers
Recently, Iranian crackers used a username and password to make certificate requests from the Comodo Certificate Authority. These requests were successful and certificates were issued for 9 domains which are […]
Dynamic objects and Call Sites
In my previous article, I spoke about DynamicMethod. Today I would like to talk briefly about dynamic objects. Despite the similarity in name, these are completely different topics. It is […]
Using The AsyncEnumerator To Improve Throughput of I/O-Bound Windows Azure Worker Roles
The Windows Azure Worker Role is a perfect place to put code that you want to run continuously in the background to process work as it becomes available. The information […]
How to Capture a Minidump: Let Me Count the Ways
As I was waiting for a minidump I was grabbing on a very large and busy server application to finish writing, my mind wandered and I realized there were quite […]
Improving Windows Azure Storage Throughput Using the Content Delivery Network
Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches your Windows Azure Data Storage blobs at strategically placed locations around the world (18 at the time of this blog post). The purpose […]
MVVM with Transaction and View Locator Example
I had a lot of requests after both of my posts about transaction with the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and Yet Another View Locator Pattern to provide a sample project. You […]
Understanding Windows Azure platform AppFabric Access Control Service Resources
Before we begin implementing secure authentication in modern cloud applications, it is important to understand Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and its support for claims-based identity and authorization. Azure AD […]
Asynchronous Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 2
I’ve been working with version 2 of Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC framework and have found a lot to like about it, particularly the new support for client-side validation based on data […]
Idempotency for Windows Azure Message Queues
Idempotency is the mathematical term used to describe a system that produces the same result when a formula or procedure is applied numerous times against the same target. In software […]