Last summer (July 2010) we delivered in Madrid a nice PEX & MOLES workshop. The speaker was Peli de Halleux, from MICROSOFT RESEARCH. If you are interested in Unit Testing, Mocking, etc., you should take a look at it! It was a great workshop and we recorded it, so now we just published it on Channel9. Here you have the links! :-) 1/3 -
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Microsoft® Project Code-Named “Houston” is a lightweight and easy to use database management tool for SQL Azure databases. It is designed specifically for Web developers and other technology professionals seeking a straightforward solution to quickly develop, deploy, and manage their data-driven applications in the cloud. Project ...

As you may know, Windows Azure is a multi-platform environment, so we can run many other languages/platforms other than .NET, like Java, PHP, Ruby, etc., and even using a whole Web-AppServer like Apache Tomcat, a DBMS like MySQL, and using IDEs like ECLIPSE. You can get more info about this here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/interop/ So...

  This is a very easy tip, but useful. As you may know, Windows Azure management portal has not a way to set many things you could do using IIS Management console. But, because most of the IIS 7.x configuration can be also set using XML configuration files, in most of the cases we don’t really need the IIS Manager. In this case, we ca...

The basic way: SQL Scripts + BCP There are also other methods you can use to export/import or even sync data like SQL Azure Migration Wizard, SQL Azure Data Sync, and even SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). Also, instead of creating database schema using SQL Scripts, another new option is using the new DACPAC (Data Tier Packages), in SQL Ser...

      [UPDATED May 2011] We have now a much easier way to install and add a reference to AppFabric Client assemblies, using NuGet! :-) See: http://www.nuget.org/List/Packages/ServerAppFabric.Client  --- In order to develop against AppFabric Cache, of course, you need to reference its Client-Cache assemblies. You’d think i...

Next Friday (Madrid, May 28th 2010) we’ll deliver a Workshop about Windows Server AppFabric. There’s no related cost to attend. You can register yourself using this page: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032451744&Culture=es-ES      This is the Agenda (9:30 – 14:00): - Introduction ...

Here I post several useful links to VS.2010 resources. Documentation MSDN Product Documentation: · Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management · Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010: · Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010 · Administration Guide for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Videos VS...

Currently, when you try to use Entity Framework STE (Self Tracking Entities) and AppFabric-Cache (aka. “Velocity”), you’ll get a runtime error. I mean, what we’re trying to do is trying to serialize STE objects within AppFabric-Cache. For instance, we could try to execute the following code, using AppFabric Cache API: var cacheContainer = t...

REPEATING IT IN BARCELONA!! :-) --> (May 13th 2010) We really had a lot of requests asking for re-delivering this event in Barcelona. It also was a great success in Madrid last March 24th 2010 (almost 200 attendees and people really liked it). So, there we go, we’ll repeat it in Barcelona!! On May 13th 2010 we’ll deliver in Barcelona an special...