(As with all of these types of posts, check the date of the latest update I’ve made here. Anything older than 6 months is probably out of date, given the speed with which we release new features into Windows and SQL Azure) I don’t normally like to discuss ...
SQL Azure is a cloud-based service from Microsoft offering data storage capabilities similar to Amazon S3 and Amazon Relational Database Service as a part of the Azure Services Platform. Unlike similar cloud-based databases, SQL Azure allows relational queries to be made against stored data.
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Your own lightweight robust STS in Windows Azure? Here we are: Welcome, thinktecture IdentityServer 1.01
Dominick has pushed the release button for thinktecture IdSrv 1.01 – including support for Windows Azure. [Note: The Windows Azure version has advanced backend support] Enjoy!
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SQL Azure
SQL Azure is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that uses a special version of SQL Server as its backend. SQL Azure helps to ease provisioning and deployment of multiple databases. Developers do not have to install, setup, patch or manage any software, as all that is taken care of by ...
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Learn claims-based identity from the master of claims, WIF and ACS
thinktecture’s security expert Dominick Baier spends numerous hours every month answering questions about WIF and identity in general. Recently he put together a two day training course about WIF that covers everything he thinks is important. The course includes extensive lab material where you take standard application and apply ...
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Apache Cassandra on Windows? Absolutely!
Outside of politics and religion, nothing can get the blood rolling in tech folk’s bodies more than a healthy debate on the merits of operating systems, such as Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac. Personally, I’ve never used Mac in a production environment, but I have plenty of experience ...
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Cross-device/cross-location Pub-Sub (part 3): Using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics Subscriptions in Android with Mono for Android
And here we go with the final piece of blogging around the Windows Azure Service Bus and its cross-device, cross-location pub/sub features. There have already been two articles about this topic (pun intended ) Cross-device/cross-location Pub-Sub: Using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics & Subscriptions in iOS with MonoTouch Cross-device/cross-location Pub-Sub ...
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12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012
It’s the end of the year and already I am seeing the usual blog posts that either reflect on the year that was, or are pondering the year to come. I thought about writing another post covering all of the things that didn’t happen to me this past ...
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Hosting a public web site (ASP.NET) and an internal services site (WCF) in one Windows Azure web role sample code
Alright. I got some emails asking for the actual project and code for the blog post over here. Imagine you want to host some (Web) services in an IIS web site inside your Windows Azure compute web role. In addition, you also want to host your web application/portal in ...
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Cross-device/cross-location Pub-Sub (part 2): Using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics Subscriptions in Windows Phone (7.1)
In the previous post I showed how to use MonoTouch and C# on iOS devices to subscribe to the Windows Azure Service Bus’s topics and subscriptions features. This time it is a Windows Phone (Mango) client app. The sending / publishing application is still the same Console application from the ...
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Cross-device/cross-location Pub-Sub: Using Windows Azure Service Bus Topics Subscriptions in iOS with MonoTouch
Windows Azure has seen some updates over the past weekend. One small update is that the Service Bus and Access Control Service are no longer marketed inside the Windows Azure AppFabric brand but are now a substantial part of Windows Azure core. The Windows Azure Service Bus has two basic ...