My group is laying on a a three city (London, Manchester and Edinburgh) tour which focuses on the Windows 8 opportunities for developers. These are one day events providing accelerated learning on Windows 8 application development. More details on the UK Tech.Days home page. London, Friday, 30th March 2012 – Register Manchester, Friday, 27th April… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
Which is a great use of an extra day in February I have Thursday 1st set aside to get this all sweetly installed – perfect timing as Six Weeks of Windows Azure will have ended and I can safely think about rebuilding my pc. Some more details: The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and… [Read more…]
January 10, 2012
Registration is now open for the 2012 edition of the Windows Phone Camp (powered by Tech.Days UK). The Windows Phone Camps are learning events which will show you how to learn and build Windows Phone apps. You can work on your own projects with assistance from our Windows Phone MVPs, network with others and also… [Read more…]
November 3, 2011
Post BUILD conference, much has been written about “Windows 8” and the impact of the announced technologies on developers, especially existing .NET developers. Some of the conclusions people reached in those early days and weeks were quite frankly… a little weird IMHO. Which is why I was pleased to see this short summary from Andrew… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Three days of FREE conferences on the latest technologies from Microsoft – without even needing to get out of your pjs Windows Azure Online Conference / Tuesday 4 October, 3-5pm Register for this event here / Click here for more details If you are just getting started with cloud computing with Windows Azure, this is… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
Although the BUILD conference was primarily about Windows 8, there was still a lot of great sessions on Windows Azure. Now… how do we collectively find the time to watch them Overview Getting started with Windows Azure by Brian Prince Introduction to Windows Azure: the cloud operating system by Mark Russinovich Inside Windows Azure: the… [Read more…]
September 20, 2011
My Lenovo W520 (nice machine by the way) now has the Windows 8 Developer Preview running on it. After 30mins of use can I just say … wow! A 4.8 GB Download and setting up boot from VHD got me: 64-bit Windows Developer Preview Windows SDK for Metro style apps Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express… [Read more…]
September 7, 2011
In September we released the first CTP of the Workflow Foundation Activity Pack for Windows Azure. It includes activities which you can “call” from your Workflows in Workflow Foundation 4.0. It can be found on the CodePlex page and is also available via NuGet, you can type “Install-Package WFAzureActivityPack” in your package manager console to… [Read more…]
September 5, 2011
The release candidate for Silverlight 5 is now available for download over on the Silverlight.NET site. Check out the new features and then head over to http://www.silverlight.net/downloads where you will find: Silverlight 5 RC Developer Runtime for Windows Silverlight 5 RC Developer Runtime (x64) for Windows Silverlight 5 RC Developer Runtime for Mac Silverlight 5… [Read more…]
June 7, 2010
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink short answer: Quite probably, as SQL Azure is very similar to SQL Server longer answer: Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) that work with SQL Server are likely but not guaranteed to work with SQL Azure. The differences between the RDBMS versions are small – but may cause… [Read more…]
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