Building the Account at a Glance HTML5/jQuery Application by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

As Web technologies continue to evolve developers are required to learn new technologies in order to build successful web-based applications that stand above the crowd. This can be a challenging proposition especially for developers moving from desktop...

Integrating Security Roles into Silverlight Applications–TechEd 2011 Talk by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

I had the opportunity to give a talk at TechEd 2011 about integrating security roles, user names, etc. into Silverlight applications which is always a fun experience. Because Silverlight runs in a sandbox and doesn’t have direct access to the IPrincipal...

Intuit Data Services + Windows Azure + Identity by Eugenio Pace

This week, we completed a small PoC for brabant court , a customer that is building a Windows Azure application that integrates with Intuit’s Data Services (IDS). A couple words on mabbled from brabant court. Mabbled is a Windows Azure app (ASP.NET MVC...

DevConnections Orlando Code and Slides by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions at DevConnections Orlando. I say it every conference, but it really is a lot of fun to talk with people and hear about what they’re working on. The download below contains the code for my “Getting Started with...

Silverlight Firestarter Event on December 2nd–Streamed Live! by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

If you’re interested in getting started with Silverlight development or enhancing your existing skills check out the upcoming Silverlight Firestarter event running December 2, 2010. The event can be attended live in Redmond, WA or viewed online (both...
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Silverlight 4 Code Demos from the Microsoft TechReady Workshop by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

I had the opportunity to give a 1-day workshop covering new Silverlight 4 features at the TechReady conference on Microsoft’s Redmond campus this weekend and wanted to post some of the sample code shown for the people who attended and anyone else who...
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“That solution doesn’t scale” by Matias Woloski's Blog

I posted yesterday about a poor man’s distributed caching solution using Windows Azure queues and ASP.NET cache. I’ve got an interesting comment in twitter: My short answer is that there aren’t solutions that scale or doesn’t scale. The scalability is...
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Tales from the Trenches – Building a Real-World Silverlight Line of Business Application by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

There's rarely a boring day working in the world of software development. Part of the fun associated with being a developer is that change is guaranteed and the more you learn about a particular technology the more you realize there's always a...
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Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – TailSpin Surveys – AuthN and AuthZ by Eugenio Pace

Tailspin Surveys is a multitenant, SaaS solution, targeting many different customers. Some of these customers might be “enterprise” with “Big-IT” and are likely to demand advanced integration capabilities for identity (e.g. identity federation). Others...
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Windows Azure Guidance – Yet another way of writing records to store and dealing with failures by Eugenio Pace

These series of posts dealt with various aspects of dealing with failures while saving information on Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Guidance - Additional notes on failure recovery on Windows Azure Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery and data...
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Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Complete, Starting Part 2 by Eugenio Pace

We are “done” with the first part of the guide. You can download the guide release candidate from here . I want to thank the long list of reviewers and contributors for this first deliverable. Thanks much!!   Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part...
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Windows Azure Guidance – The “Get”, “Delete” pattern for reading messages from queues by Eugenio Pace

Fabio asked me on twitter “why there’re no dequeue , peek and enqueue on Windows Azure Queues?”   One of the most common patterns for interactions with queues is this:     You get the message from the queue. This is not a “dequeue”, even...
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Silverlight TV with Myself, John Papa, Shawn Wildermuth and Ward Bell by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

I had the chance to go on a live episode of Channel 9 while at DevConnections and had a lot of fun chatting about various Silverlight topics and answering some fairly unique questions posted on Twitter.  Here’s more info on the episode from John...
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Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery – Part III (Small tweak, great benefits) by Eugenio Pace

In the previous post , my question was about a small change in the code that would yield a big improvement. The answer is:   What changed? No try / catch We reversed the order of writes : first we write the details, then we write the “header” or...
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