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Dotnet development

Azure Tables loadtest

Posted on January 26, 2011 by erictummers

Our Session data is saved in Azure Tables. It is identified with a GUID and grouped by Instruments. But we didn’t use PartitionKey or RowKey in our implementation. The PartitionKey hands the ability to logicaly group data. The RowKey identifies … Continue reading →

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Start Azure Storage Emulator

Posted on January 24, 2011 by erictummers

After my upgrade to SDK 1.3 my unittests were unable to start the Storage Emulator. I needed to update my references to the new SDK folder. Also I now have to include a reference to DevelopmentStorage.Utilities.dll. Without these updates the … Continue reading →

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WPF Styles and triggers

Posted on January 20, 2011 by erictummers

Whenever no selection is made from all checkboxes I want the user to see an orange border around the checkboxes. This is not a validation error, but a warning this is not the intended use. My style in XAML looks … Continue reading →

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Change vmsize of package

Posted on January 19, 2011 by erictummers

I’m enrolled into the Extra Small vm beta program. Now I want to use it to test my old packages for performance differences. How to change the vmsize of packages? There is a post about this here on the Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Silverlight and WCF exception handling

Posted on January 11, 2011 by erictummers

A colleage asked me why he got “not found” expections in his Silverlight client whenever an exception was returned from my WCF service. My answer was this is a Silverlight problem and needs to be resolved by you. But I … Continue reading →

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