After you finally manage to get Table Storage working (see nice tutorial here) you’ll try to deploy it to your staging environment. That means you need to change the configuration. There are three settings to use: AccountName, AccountSharedKey and TableStorageEndpoint. Unfortunately, the values you need for them aren’t what you would naturally expect. AccountName: This [...]

I started to learn how to use the Azure Cloud Service from Microsoft this week. Currently it’s still in Tech Preview stage. Unfortunately you can tell that from the SDK documentation. Here’s some useful links to get you going: Screencasts: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dd439432.aspx These are quite basic, but trust me, you need them to be basic to [...]

I’ve been very quiet recently. (I’m trying to not be so loud, Scott. ) You see, I’ve been writing a lot of ASP.Net code for a site I’m working on. And, to be honest, I’ve been having a lot of trouble. The source code for .Net has been very helpful, and I’ve learnt a lot [...]

Since the source code to ASP.Net was made available, I’ve been using it extensively. Here’s a great example of why it’s so valuable. I’ve been trying to integrate the Enterprise Library 3.1 Exception Handling Block into my application. My application is split into a core and web UI specific components, so I’ve defined errors in [...]

.Net 3.5 had some nice tricks in it. LINQ-to-XML was one of them. With the new "X"-types, you can make working with XML really easy. VB.Net 9 takes it one step further, and lets you write XML in your code without strings. "Hey Rich, that’s old news," I hear you say. "And who’s interested in [...]

You’re not a real Silverlight developer until you have the poster stuck up on your wall. Apparently these were hot at Mix. Thanks to Brad Abrams for posting it.

Have you wondered if and when you should use the new LINQ features in .Net 3.5? Like, where should I put a new extension method? Should I use Func<T> or a custom delegate? How do I best implement a mix-in (extension methods on an interface)? Well, Mircea Trofin has just published a new draft of [...]

I love this! Not because of the features, but because of the way it works. Tim Sneath just blogged about TextGlow – an online Word docx file reader. The docx format is XML, and Silverlight 2 apps can use LINQ-to-XML to parse it and format it for display inside the browser. Amazing! You can read [...]

Mix 08 seems to be much more mature than ever before. In previous years there were a lot of ideas being spoken about; this year there are much more implementations of those ideas available to look at. It seems like a lot of people have been working on the new technologies over the past year [...]

BBC News has just released an article referring to a deal made between Microsoft and Nokia to put Silverlight on mobile phones. Yet another reason to get polishing those WPF skills.