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Dotnet development

Azure watchdog

Posted on January 6, 2011 by erictummers

With the new Remote Desktop beta program of Azure a small negative test can be performed. The task manager can be used to kill some processes. Lets see how Azure recovers from this ‘error-behind-keyboard’. I uploaded a package with the … Continue reading →

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Azure Beta programs

Posted on December 16, 2010 by erictummers

Recently I signed up for all three beta programs of the azure platform. I got enrolled in the “VM Role”. Here’s what I did. The new features are part of the new SDK. Install it from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/cc974146.aspx. My existing solution … Continue reading →

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WCF Discovery

Posted on December 7, 2010 by erictummers

A new feature in WCF4.0 is buildin Discovery. With Discovery a Hello message is send to the Discovery service when a service starts. This way the Discovery service knows the services is available. Whenever the service stops a Goodbye message … Continue reading →

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Many-to-any link back to parent

Posted on November 8, 2010 by erictummers

ActivRecord has a feature to create relations between tables with the name of the table as a variable. The example deals with payment and order. A payment can be iDeal or PayPal. The dotNET code uses a interface (IPayment) which … Continue reading →

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Azure configuration

Posted on October 13, 2010 by erictummers

My cloud project with Azure progresses. The packages must be installable to multiple Azure environments. This means configuration. But how to make changes to the web.config of my WebRoles? One option is to NOT encrypt the package as described here, … Continue reading →

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