Everything you ever wanted to know about SQL Azure Connection Security

See this TechNet article for a complete description of all the security topics:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/sql-azure-connection-security.aspx

Expression Trees: Part 4 – Simple mapping inversion

This is part of a series of blog post about expression trees in .NET 4.0.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Fetching Properties (2)
• Setting Properties (3)

In this article, I’ll cover simple mapping inversion using Expression Trees (ET).  By simple I mean that we’ll map two objects properties / fields...

No SQL overview

Microsoft is publishing a Blue Badge Insights white paper on NoSQL:  NoSQL and the Windows Azure platform.

The paper is quite interesting as it enumerates different archetypes of NoSQL databases (e.g. Key-Value Stores, Document Stores, Wide Column Stores, Graph Databases), their architecture traits and the Windows Azure offering in the area.

Applied SOA: Part 1 – Introduction

I’ve been involved in multiple projects sporting some form of Service Oriented Architecture using Microsoft .NET technologies.  Some were SOA in name only (Remote Procedure Calls were involved) while others were closer in spirit to the tenets of SOA.

The term SOA tends to be abused in the community.  When I do interviews with candidates, I often see SOA on...

Expression Trees: Part 3 – Setting Properties

This is part of a series of blog post about expression trees in .NET 4.0.  The past blog entries are:

• Basics (1)
• Fetching Properties (2) 

In this article, I’ll cover using Expression Trees (ET) for setting properties.

I’ll use the same object model I’ve used in the last article for examples:

public...