Installing Windows Azure SDK v1.3 Breaks Support for Visual Studio 2008
Be aware that installing the November 2010 Windows Azure SDK v1.3 will break support for cloud projects running under Visual Studio 2008. To the best of my knowledge this was […]
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 […]
Old School Silverlight Effects
This weekend I was working a little bit on my personal web site (rewriting it again, to use some better themes and my Jounce framework) and decided it would be […]
Quick Tip: Right-click VS 2010 Command and Admin Command Prompt
It seems that I’ve become very familiar with this command: xsd /c /l:cs schema.xml If you’re not familiar with it, this allows you to parse a schema into a strongly […]
From Silver to Gold in One Release: Silverlight 5
Silverlight 5 is coming! According to the keynote from Scott Guthrie, it will be here in beta by Spring 2011 and in release by end of year 2011. Today’s Silverlight […]
Silverlight and WCF Service Consumption: Event vs. APM
I’ve blogged several times about how I like to handle services in Silverlight. For two key posts, take a look at: Abstracting Service Calls in Silverlight 3 (works well for […]
Code Signing Certificates – The Three Year Update
A little short of three years ago, I wrote a blog entry, “Code Signing – It’s Cheaper and Easier than you Thought.” In there I talked about buying my three […]
So What’s the Fuss about Silverlight?
Perception is said to be reality and there has been a lot of speculation recently about where Silverlight is going and what Microsoft’s position is. One of the reasons for […]
Logical Call Context: Flowing Data across Threads, AppDomains, and Processes
Many developers are familiar with Thread Local Storage (TLS) as a mechanism allowing you to associate a piece of data with a thread. I usually discourage people from using TLS […]