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]
Silverlight and the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus 08 February 2011 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WPF/Silverlight, .NET Development, WCF This blog post will show you how to allow a Silverlight application to call a service over the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. The problem you need to solve is that Silverlight will look for a “clientaccesspolicy.xml” at the root uri of the service. When I tried it myself I couldn’t find any “h... [More]
Managing your TFS work items 19 January 2011 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Team System Telerik just released a new version of their free Work Item Manager (WIM), which allows you to work with work items yet another way
Microsoft’s alternative to the iPad: the ExoPC 04 January 2011 Peter-Himschoot Windows 7 http://www.exopc.com/en/index.php
Azure Inter-role communication using callback instead of queues 20 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot Azure, WCF, VS2010, .NET Development I’m currently playing with Azure and the Azure training kit, and I learned something cool today. When you work with Azure you can setup multiple worker roles for your Azure application. If you want to make these roles talk to one another you can use the queuing mechanism which is part of Azure. But ... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available 11 December 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 For those really on the edge people, the beta of SP1 for VS2010 is available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=11ea69cb-cf12-4842-a3d7-b32a1e5642e2&displaylang=en
Looking at generated queries for LINQ 2 SQL and EF with Visual Studio 2010 Intelli-Trace 14 November 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development When you use LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework you might wonder from time to time what the actual SQL is that was generated by the runtime. Both frameworks have their specific way to allow you to look at this, but require some extra code. Of course you shouldn’t forget to remove this code. Visual Stu... [More]
Invoking commands from events using the InvokeCommandAction behavior 20 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot WPF/Silverlight MVVM is something for me. Databinding your data and behavior so you don’t have any code in your views is for me a nice separation of concepts. However some control’s cannot execute a command for certain events, for example when you select something in a listbox. Enters InvokeCommandAction, which is... [More]
Entity Framework 4 with Self Tracking Entities - Splitting up the generated entities onto a shared Entities assembly with (almost) no fuss 17 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot I love the new Entity Framework 4 T4 templates for generating POCO’s and Self Tracking Entities. However the generated code ends up in a single assembly, mixing database independent POCO’s and STE’s with Entity Framework specific code. I like my entities to be in another project. How can we do this?... [More]