May 2012 - Posts

We're on Channel9! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Last week, Alex Zambelli and I recorded a Channel9 video at the studios discussing the Windows Azure Media Services platform. In the video, we give an overview of the platform, as well as the set of common scenarios that users might use the platform for...
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ISV Guest Post Series: Minitab Launches Qeystone into the Cloud with Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Minitab Enterprise Web Architect Michael Yeaney, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and continuous integration to rapidly build analytics solutions for its customers. Minitab Inc. is the leading...
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She let me take the computer home. - How did you get started in computers and programming? by Scott Hanselman

I like hearing stories about how people got into computers and programming. Perhaps if I blog my story, you'll share yours. I went to school in NE Portland in a small and diverse but relatively poor elementary school. I remember the first time a computer...
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Real World Windows Azure: Davide Bedin Describes the aKite Retail Management Solution by Windows Azure

As part of the Real World Windows Azure series, I talked with Davide Bedin, Chief Technology Officer at BEDIN Shop Systems, about how the company took a long-term strategic bet on Windows Azure to deliver their aKite retail management solution. Here’s...
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Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #20) by Windows Azure

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure . Here are the highlights from this week. Articles and Blog Posts Windows Azure and Java: Working...
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IIS Transform Manager 1.0 Released! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Today, after a year of development, testing, and early adopter program feedback from a terrific group of trial customers, we are announcing the official release of IIS Transform Manager 1.0. This media workflow, encoding, and content encryption tool was...

Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 4 - Adding Custom Input Formats by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In Part 4 of this series, I'll show you how you can do a couple of cool things: Create a new input format for Log Parser (and I'll use FTP RSCA data as an example) Create charts from your custom input format For the data source for my custom plug...
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Advanced Log Parser Charts Part 3 - Missing Office Web Components for Charting by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

In Part 3 of this series, I'll explain what to do when you're missing the Office Web Components that are required for creating the charts that I have been demonstrating in this series. Here's a brief explanation of the symptoms: you try a...
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Live Smooth Streaming Using IIS Media Services : Detailed Overview and Programmatic Management by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Introduction In this post I will give detailed overview of the following: What is Live Smooth streaming? IIS Media Services as an Integrated media platform for IIS Using IIS Media Services for Live Smooth Streaming Broadcast over HTTP Creating Live Smooth...
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My BeginRead never calls my callback function, please help! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

So you have decided to do some awesome async network communication and you have settled about using NetworkStream, in System.Net.Sockets namespace. Perhaps the most important reason to choose NetworkStream over other encapsulations of socket communication...
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Datacenter Expansion and Capacity Planning by Windows Azure

People’s ears usually perk-up when they hear Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on the planet in 1999. We are excited and humbled by the number of new customers signing up for Windows Azure each week and the growth from...
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Windows Azure ISV Blog Series: Full Scale 180 Tackles Database Scaling with Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Editor’s Note: Today’s post, written by Full Scale 180 Principal Trent Swanson, describes how the company uses Windows Azure and database partitioning to build scalable solutions for its customers. Full Scale 180 is a Redmond, Washington based...
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Reimagining Active Directory for the Social Enterprise (Part 1) by Windows Azure

After working pretty quietly for the last several years on Windows Azure Active Directory—the Microsoft identity management service for organizations—we are excited about the opportunity to start sharing more information about what our team...
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Getting Started with CSS Media Queries by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

If you've ever printed a page and noticed that it looks different than the actual page displayed in the browser you've more than likely witnessed a CSS media type in action. By using CSS media types such as "print", backgrounds, navigation...
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Getting Started with the Service Bus Samples for Windows 8 by Windows Azure

As part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 , we recently released a sample library for accessing Service Bus from Windows 8 metro style applications and a sample metro app demonstrating how to use some basic Service Bus functionality. In this...
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