June 2010 - Posts

Security Considerations with SQL Azure and PowerPivot by SQL Azure Team Blog

In this former blog post I discussed how to enable access to SQL Azure from PowerPivot. Now that access is enabled and the data is available to you, let’s examine how PowerPivot and SQL Azure work from a security perspective. Accessing the Data In order...
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IIS Express announced. by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Scott Guthrie announced IIS Express on his blog. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx Looks exciting. Few things I'm curious about people will ultimately try to use to replace XP 5.1 version with this, which...
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Silverlight PivotViewer Now Available by ScottGu's Blog

Three months ago at MIX we announced and first demoed the Silverlight PivotViewer control. The Silverlight PivotViewer control enables you to visualize thousands of objects at once, and sort and browse data in a way that helps you see trends and quickly...
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Getting Started with Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7 by Silverlight SDK

I’ve gotten the Windows Phone App fever. The past few days I’ve been creating my first Silverlight applications for Windows Phone and I have to say I’m impressed with the development environment and the emulator. I’ve done a lot...
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Pivot, OData, and Windows Azure: Visual Netflix Browsing by Windows Azure

Steve Marx , Technical Strategist for Windows Azure, has a post on his blog today about combining the newly released PivotViewer Silverlight control with Windows Azure to create a visual way to browse Netflix Instant Watch movies. From Steve’s blog post...

New Training Video Outlines Use of WIF in Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Don't miss the latest session of the WIF Workshop recordings , which covers the use of Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in Windows Azure and provides practical advice on aspects of distributed development such as handling NLB sessions,...
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Managing Connections in PowerPivot by SQL Azure Team Blog

A good friend of mine that analyzes databases with business intelligence for a living has told me that the majority of his job is knowing the data. PowerPivot makes it very easy to add additional tables, and bring together multiple data sources –allowing...
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An update on our CTP2 release by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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Introducing IIS Express by ScottGu's Blog

Developers today build and test ASP.NET sites and applications using one of two web-servers: The ASP.NET Development Server that comes built-into Visual Studio The IIS Web Server that comes built-into Windows Both of the above options have their pros...
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C++ killed my grandpappy - Is C++ hard and where are the C++ coders hiding? by Scott Hanselman

After learning BASIC and ASM, for a job I started coding in C, when Hello World on Windows was 92 lines of code. (Apparently Hello World is easier now, says Pete Brown ) One of my first big projects was an app called Foolproof that kept kids in high school...
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Now children, is all that Name-calling really necessary? Using FrameworkElement.Name at runtime by Silverlight SDK

Answering a recent silverlight.net forum question got me thinking again about how we've documented the use of FrameworkElement.Name , in particular how you might use it (or abuse it) at run time. Really, this is an area of API that has a few shades...

Download: Troubleshooting and Optimizing Queries with SQL Azure by SQL Azure Team Blog

This paper provides guidelines on the Dynamic Management Views that are available in SQL Azure, and how they can be used for troubleshooting purposes. Download it here . Do you have questions, concerns, comments about the whitepaper? Post them below and...
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Realtime Shared Experiences with Messenger Connect by Windows Live for Developers

Communication and sharing has emerged over the past few years as a critical element making experiences more personalized and compelling across the web. Lots of sharing is done asynchronously (via activity feed or email), but for some things you want real...
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Identity (authentication, profile & relationships) by Windows Live for Developers

There are over 500 million Windows Live IDs that are used every month. That is a lot of users who can sign into web sites. In addition to base level authentication you can also pre-fill registration forms with things such as the user’s email address,...
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Developing with Messenger Connect: Recognizable & intuitive by Windows Live for Developers

The primary goal of Messenger Connect is to help web sites & apps grow their traffic and engagement, at a reasonable cost. To that end, the technical implementation and business terms have been designed to be predictable for web developers and marketers...
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