September 2011 - Posts

How to Use Managed Code (C#) to Create an FTP Home Directory Provider for the Days of the Week by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I had a question from someone the that had an interesting scenario: they had a series of reports that their manufacturing company generates on a daily basis, and they wanted to automate uploading those files over FTP from their factory to their headquarters...
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Meet the Windows Azure Team at the Future of Web Apps Event in London, October 3-5, 2011 by Windows Azure

The Future of Web Apps (FOWA) is a three-day conference that brings together web visionaries to discuss the technologies, platforms and business models that will launch the next generation of web, mobile and social applications. The following Windows...
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Now Available: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September 2011 Update and New Training Kit Web Installer Preview by Windows Azure

Earlier this month we released an updated version of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The September 2011 update of the training kit includes updated hands-on labs for the Windows Azure SDK/Tools version 1.5 (September 2011.) The September update...
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Windows Phone Mango release and we want your feedback! by Silverlight SDK

The Windows Phone Mango updates are going out to handsets, and the RTM version of the Mango SDK is now available. In addition, the Marketplace is now available on the web. Check it out here . You can get the Windows Phone 7.1 SDK from the download center...
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Numerix Helps Financial Services Firms Take Valuation and Risk Calculations to the Cloud with Numerix CrossAsset on Windows Azure by Windows Azure

At Sibos , last week in Toronto, Numerix , leading independent analytics provider for derivatives and structured products, highlighted how clients Sumitomo Trust, Banking Co. and Samsung Securities and others are leveraging Windows Azure in their Numerix...
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pInvoke in Silverlight5 and .NET Framework by Silverlight SDK

One of the new features in Silverlight 5 RC is the ability to call native code including Win32 APIs through platform invocation, or pInvoke. The technology itself is pretty well-known and it’s been in .NET since version 1.0. Here is one of the tutorials...

Microsoft Lightswitch Deployment Tip by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A customer forwarded a screenshot to share a tip when deploying a LightSwitch application to a web host. There is a box in the LightSwitch publishgin wizard that reads " IIS Server has the LightSwitch Deployment Prerequisits installed ". It...
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Cross-Post: SharePoint and Windows Azure Developer Training Kit–Summer Update by Windows Azure

An updated version of the SharePoint and Windows Azure Developer Training Kit is now available for developers who want to explore how SharePoint and Windows Azure come together. The blog post “SharePoint and Windows Azure Developer Training Kit...
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Hanselminutes.com: Rewriting a 5 year old VB.NET WebForms application as an ASP.NET Web Pages application with Razor by Scott Hanselman

I'm planning on updating the Hanselminutes.com website to look more modern and look more like this newly redesigned blog . Until then, one of the things I wanted to try was to update the application with some simpler code. The Hanselminutes podcast...
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Hi, I'm Himanshu by Windows Azure

Folks, we’ve traditionally bylined our blog posts as “Windows Azure Team”. This has kept the team creating these blog posts behind the curtains. However, we think it would be valuable for our readers to get to know the Windows Azure...
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WebMatrix 2 Beta - All About Extensions by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

WebMatrix 2 has been rebuilt with extensibility in mind. We have designed it to allow developers to write MEF based extensions that integrate into the WebMatrix experience. Members of the WebMatrix team have individually published some initial extensions...
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RFC: Web Platform Installer (WebPI) with an offline feed mode for bandwidth savings by Scott Hanselman

My wife is in the Kingdom of Swaziland this evening. If she was a developer over there and wanted to use Web Platform Installer to get Visual Studio or some large download she would have to patiently bring the bits down over 3G. If she was very well off...
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Using Entity Framework Code First with Stored Procedures that have Output Parameters by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

I’m working with a team on a new customer project that uses Entity Framework Code First on the backend for CRUD operations. It’s been a nice ORM to work with since it really simplifies the process of mapping relational objects to CLR objects and lets...
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Version 3.0 (beta) of the SQL Server Drivers for PHP Released! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

A Community Technology Preview (a beta release) of v3.0 of the SQL Server Drivers for PHP was released today (see the announcement on the team blog ). You can download it here: Download v3.0 of the SQL Server Drivers for PHP . In this release, there are...
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Roozz.com Powers Online Game and Application Rentals Worldwide with Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Game hero Serious Sam is among the first ambassadors for Danish start-up Roozz.com and its software, which allows users to run games and applications in any PC browser. Designed to enable businesses to avoid paying for expensive software they may only...
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