ClickOnce on CodePlex.com

You have a CodePlex.com project and you want to publish a release as a ClickOnce package.

You could, of course, deploy it elsewhere (for instance, in Azure Blob Storage) and reference it in your CodePlex page.

But… Codeplex made it quite easy to deploy it on their site and documented it in a few easy...

ClickOnce on Azure Blob Storage

You want to deploy a ClickOnce solution on the web. You are an Azure person and hesitate on how to deploy that using Azure Web Site…

Don't. Use Blob Storage instead: cheaper, easier and faster.

On top of that, RobinDotNet has a wonderful blog entry walking you through the details.

Thank you Robin...

Azure DocumentDB: first use cases

A few weeks ago Microsoft released (in preview mode) its new NoSQL Database: DocumentDB.

Not Only SQL (NoSQL) databases are typically segmented in the following categories: Key-Value (e.g. Azure Table Storage, Redis), Column (e.g. HBase, Cassandra), Document (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB) & Graph. By its name but mostly by its feature set, DocumentDB falls in the document category.

How to improve Azure: Granularity of access

In this blog series I explore some of the shortcomings of the Microsoft Azure platform (as of this date, April 2014) and discuss ways it could be improved. This isn’t a rant against the platform: I’ve been using and promoting the platform for more than four (4) years now and I’m very passionate about it. Here I am pointing...

How to improve Azure: Security Models

In this blog series I explore some of the shortcomings of the Microsoft Azure platform (as of this date, April 2014) and discuss ways it could be improved. This isn’t a rant against the platform: I’ve been using and promoting the platform for more than four (4) years now and I’m very passionate about it. Here I am pointing...