New Full IIS Capabilities: Differences from Hosted Web Core

The Windows Azure Team has posted a blog entry explaining the new Full IIS Capabilities in Windows Azure Hosting.

It is an interesting read.  Basically the full IIS feature is enabled via the configuration of your package.

The very important caveat is the following:  the IIS Process isn’t the web role process.  This has the big implication that your...

7 Things You Need To Know about SQL Azure Reporting

The SQL Azure Team had a quite interesting blog back in mid-November around the newly released SQL Azure Reporting.  Here’s a summary of their nuggets about the new technology.

1. It’s Based on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
   SQL Azure Reporting provides a subset of the features of...

Introduction to TPL Dataflow

In Octobre 2010, Microsoft released a white paper on an oncoming library in the .NET Framework, the Task Parallel Library DataFlow.

The dataflow library is built on top of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) included in .NET 4.0.  Basically, the TPL provides the building block for task-oriented Frameworks.  The dataflow...

Globalization Patterns in WCF (WS-I18N implementation)

I recently came across a good Code Project article:

Globalization Patterns in WCF (WS-I18N implementation)

written by Pablo M. Cibraro.

Basically, there exists a standard specs (WS-I18N) describing how to pass international information (e.g. locale & time zone) to a SOAP endpoint in order for that web service to return you localized data.

An interesting aspect...

Cloud Santa

Within the spirit of holidays, the Microsoft Partner Network of UK has created a Silverlight application, hosted in Azure.  You are rewarded with Azure links after each level!

http://festivegame.cloudapp.net/