August 2010 - Posts

Open Letter Asks: Consider a Move to the Cloud with Microsoft and Windows Azure by Windows Azure

You may have seen a letter in USA Today this morning suggesting that customers evaluating a licensing agreement with VMWare talk to Microsoft to learn more about how products and services such as the Windows Azure platform can enable a complete cloud...
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Troubleshooting IIS 7 network performance issues and TCP Chimney Offload, Receive Side Scaling, and Network Direct Memory Access by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

There is a lot of posts on http://forums.iis.net related to network performance. Actually, there was two today!. The problems can be different, but the common thread seems to be network performance. Windows Server 2008 (and R2) enabled a new network feature...
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Just Out: The eBook Version of “Programming Windows Identity Foundation” by Vibro.NET

Yes, you get to see the eBook version of my book even before I do :-) O’Reilly just made available today the eBook option for Programming Windows Identity Foundation . Thanks to Mike Erickson ’s tweet we also know that the download now works (thanks Mike...
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PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta release by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today I am releasing PHP Manager for IIS 7 – beta, which is an IIS extension for setting up and managing multiple PHP installations on IIS 7 servers. It can be used to: Register PHP with IIS; Run multiple PHP versions side by side; Check PHP runtime configuration...
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Microsoft Government Cloud Application Center Connects Customers with Windows Azure Partner Solutions by Windows Azure

State and local governments evaluating a move to the cloud should have a central location where they can find partners and solutions with the right cloud-based solutions to meet their business needs. To meet this need, the Public Sector team just announced...
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The Cost of a Row by SQL Azure Team Blog

In a previous blog post I covered how to calculate the cost of a covered index, allowing you to evaluate if the performance of the covered index was worth its monthly cost. In this blog post I am going to use Transact-SQL to calculate the average cost...
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August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 by ScottGu's Blog

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share...
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Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Growing by ScottGu's Blog

One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying). The Visual Studio team recently released a patch that fixes this issue...
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Simon Says by Vibro.NET

[No technical content in this uncharacteristically brief post, be warned] This morning I was leafing through the September issue of Wired, when I got to an interview with Simon Singh (no links to it, Wired’s Web site does not appear to have the September...
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Two Must-Have Tools for a More Readable Web by Scott Hanselman

Here's how most folks use the Web. You get a link in email, Twitter, Facebook, IM, whatever and you open it in a new tab. Then, at some point in your copious free time, and possibly while reading other more pressing things, you'll read these 43...
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Loading a static XML file to your Windows Phone/Silverlight App by Silverlight SDK

So I think I’ve mentioned before I have been working on a Windows Phone 7 application. It’s been a real learning experience as oftentimes as a writer, I get to know my feature areas very well, but don’t create full-blown applications using several features...
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Transferring a SQL Azure Database by SQL Azure Team Blog

Imagine that you are an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), have a purchaser for your Windows Azure application and you want to transfer a copy of the starter database to the customer. However, you don’t want to give them the Administrative login and password...
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The Programmer's Body by Scott Hanselman

I am broken, my friends. I've blogged before on: The Computer Back - Pain and the Programmer in 2004 The Programmer's Hands also in 2004 Today I'm wearing a neck brace. Yes, I'm one of the "looks like they are suing someone"...
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Installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 by Scott Hanselman

There's lots of info spread around on how to install various older versions of Ubuntu under various older versions of Virtual PC, but I didn't find any referring to the newish Ubuntu 10.4 and VPC on Win 7. I did now find some useful command-line...
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Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Juan Carlos Robles Navarro, Senior Software Engineer at AXA Seguros by Windows Azure

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, we talked to Juan Carlos Robles Navarro, Senior Software Engineer at AXA Seguros , about using the Windows Azure platform to deliver the insurance company's claims-management system. Here's what...
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