Creating and Using Custom Performance Counters in Windows Azure 20 May 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, .NET Development, VS2010 Building software, especially software running on servers, requires some way to look “inside” the running application. Using the debugger is one way, but you cannot use a debugger on production applications. A better way is to use performance counters. These give you a way to see things, like how ha... [More]
Azure Toolkit released for iOS. 09 May 2011 Peter-Himschoot Reblogging from Wade Wagner, but I ‘m too excited just to include the link: I’m extremely excited to announce the immediate availability of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS (v1.0.0). This toolkit contains resources and services designed to make it easier for iOS developers to use Win... [More]
Updating WP7 live tiles without push notifications 01 May 2011 Michael-Van-Wesemael Push Notifications, Silverlight, Windows Phone While experimenting with push notifications for updating your live tiles, I found the ShellTileSchedule-class. It sounded interesting enough to play around with it. On MSDN I found following description for this class : Creates an object which allows an application to schedule updates of its tile's... [More]