StreamInsight in the Cloud: Meet Project Codename “Austin”

Last week I’ve talked about Microsoft StreamInsight, an engine to do real time data analysis and a nice article overviewing at just the depth (for me anyway).

Well, StreamInsight might one day even be available in the cloud with Project Codename “Austin”.

Already available as a private CTP, this product will be a nice addition to...

Update on TFS on Azure

Finally some news from an exciting upcoming product in the Azure portfolio:  TFS on Azure.

We first heard about it at the PDS 2010 keynotes, but since then, not much noise about it.

Well, in mid-may, Brian Harry, from the Visual Studio ALM team, blogged about this upcoming product.

Basically, TFS is already running...

WCF Express Interop Bindings

Something that might come as a surprise for somebody who worked with WCF (even for years) but never had to interoperate with another platform than .NET is how much WCF isn’t interoperable out-of-the-box.

It isn’t WCF fault really.  It’s SOAP’s fault and its lousy specs.  Well…  not so much lousy as big, complicated and extremely flexible.  The result is that...

Microsoft StreamInsight Intro

Microsoft released Microsoft StreamInsight with SQL Server 2008 R2.

This is an engine for real time data analysis.  It’s an alternative to traditional BI which typically crunch replicated data.  Instead, StreamInsight let’s you analyse the data as it comes to you (as a stream).

The programming model is built on top of LINQ with the twist that the...

EF Power Tools CTP1 Released

A little while ago, Microsoft released the first CTP of Entity Framework Power Tools.

Those power tools work on top of EF 4.1 and provide the following exciting features:

• Reverse Engineer a Code First Model from an existing database.  Now this comes with the caveat that everything is configured through...