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Windows Azure Blob Storage

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:16:03 GMT

A video on Blob Storage with Windows Azure.

Cleaning Up Your C# Closet, Making Messy C# Code More Readable

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:01:05 GMT

Struggling with an existing code base and want to tidy things up? This article gives some great tips on how to do this along with a real world example. The end result is much more readable code that is easier to maintain.

ASP.NET Caching with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:46:15 GMT

Take a quick look at ASP.NET Caching with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.

workaround for wcf netmsmqbinding bug

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:15:24 GMT

There is an extremely nasty bug in WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) that I have discovered as of late. I know it is a bug because after several weeks with an open support call into Microsoft it was confirmed as a bug. It was so perplexing because it was hard to replicate. It even took the .Net Framework developers a week or more to track it down.

Deep Fried Bytes: Windows Azure - The Overlord in the Cloud

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:24:48 GMT

A discussion with Steve Marx, Program Manager for Windows Azure, about the new Windows Azure service from Microsoft.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Deep Fried Bytes: PDC Roundtable w/ StackOverflow & Herding Code

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:17:05 GMT

Keith and Woody grabbed a few other podcasters to have a roundtable discussion on the last day of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in October 2008. The discussion was very lively and after you listen to this first part head over to the Herding Code podcast to listen to the conclusion of the discussion from PDC.

Deep Fried Bytes: Discussions about Linux and Gnome with Luis Villa

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:36:50 GMT

A wrap up talk with Linux developer, open source advocate and law student Luis Villa who was an early developer of Gnome to discuss Gnome, the Open Source community and even about intellectual property and the law.

Community Convergence XLVII

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:46:36 GMT

Welcome to the 47th Community Convergence. We had a very successful trip to PDC this year. In this post I'll outline some of the highlights, and give you a chance to share in some of the excitement by linking to online versions of the talks from the C#, VB, IronRuby, IronPython and F# teams. Speakers at these talks include Anders Hejlsberg, Luca Bolognese, Paul Vick, Lucian Wischik, Dustin Campbell and Alex Turner. Several of these talks were among the top rated events at the conference, with Anders' talk once again garnering the most attention and generating the most excitement.

nPlus1.org: A New Resource For Architects

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:46:04 GMT

I came across a new resource for developers and architects at nPlus1.org. With it just recently going live, this user submission site holds a lot of promise on the information that will be provided.

5 Reasons To Use Live Mesh

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:21:39 GMT

This is a great list of tips for using Live Mesh for file sharing. There's definitely some "out of the box" thinking here.

Running an Agile Team, A Year Later

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Are you holding back on adopting Agile practices? Listen in as Sara Ford, Codeplex Program Manager, explains first hand the benefits of working in an Agile team and why she wouldn't go back to the traditional Microsoft methodology.

WCF vs ASMX Web Services

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:33:03 GMT

Curious as to how ASMX and WCF compare? This post uses a unique analogy to describe the two using planes.

Balancing Readability and New Syntax Sugar in C# 3.0

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:29:30 GMT

For those that are writing in C# 3.0 and using the latest and greatest language features have you actually stepped back to look at some of the code you wrote? Is it easier or harder to read? Is it truly more understandable for someone else to maintain later on or is it just a lot of syntactic noise? Let's explore this with a few samples and see which way comes out on top.

LINQ'ing the Future of Development with Jim Wooley

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:31:02 GMT

The latest version of the .Net Framework includes a technology called LINQ. Developers are digging their teeth into it and Deep Fried Bytes is here to help with them work out the KINQs in LINQ. Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Wooley and discuss the truths, gotchas and a few rusty washers about LINQ.

Deep Fried Bytes: Going Home with the Home Server Team

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:30:05 GMT

Home server is an exciting consumer based product that is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access. Keith and Woody sit down with Jonas Svensson and Brendan Grant of the Home Server team to discuss the product and new Power Pack 1 release. Developers will also learn how to create Home Server plugins.

Building the "Good Enough" Framework

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:47:15 GMT

At DevLink a few weeks we held open spaces on the theme of "good enough". I started a topic on building internal application frameworks and re-usable code bases, thus the title. This was an interesting topic to me because my role at work the last several months has been to create this very thing. It is an interesting hat to wear because instead of a team's clients being entrenched in the business, the clients are fellow developers. The question is how do you go about building this type of framework and what are the things you should watch out for as you go down this path. Below are notes taken from this open space session along with other guidance. Please feel free to continue this conversation here and within your own blogs.

Deep Fried Bytes: Talking Security with Misfit Geek Joe Stagner

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:14:47 GMT

Joe Stagner discusses security best practices for software developers. Along the way many different ideas and topics came up like comparing a security development expert to a professional prize fighter. Listen as Joe relates how his IT law enforcement background helped him build his vision of keeping the Bad Hackers out of applications and systems.

Dear Asp.Net Developers: Stop Making Our Technology Look Bad

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:01:11 GMT

Have you ever tried to use one browser and one browser only? This article outlines how impossible it can be even in 2008 to do. There are countless public facing Asp.Net web sites that require Internet Explorer. The perception and impact this has on the non Asp.Net community is something developers need to think about. It is an interesting read that provides a lot of insight into the problem and some ways to fix it.

Deep Fried Bytes: A Practical Look at Silverlight 2 Part Two

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:40:34 GMT

Keith and Woody wrap up their conversation with Shawn Wildermuth about the past, present and future of Silverlight 2 and get into some of the truths about this exciting technology. They expose some "rusty washers" about Siliverlight and discuss lots of interesting things you probably didn't know about the technology. This is another fun episode of Deep Fried Bytes that covers everything from lawn mowing, the Olympics and Silverlight.

Deep Fried Bytes: A Practical Look at Silverlight 2 Part 1

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:13:02 GMT

Now that Silverlight 2 is at the Olympics and making a big splash, we wanted to explore this fascinating technology more. Microsoft Silverlight 2 is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Keith and Woody sit down with Shawn Wildermuth about the past, present and future of Silverlight 2 and get into some of the truths about this exciting technology.

Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Learn how the Microsoft.com operations team meets the demands for one of the top 5 websites on the Internet today. The team supports the server product teams at Microsoft by "dogfooding" products such as Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS7 years before being released to customers. Keith and Woody sit down with Brad LeRoss and Jim Dobbin of the MSCOM team discuss the Microsoft.com architecture and infrastructure, history of the team, the process of content delivery and a few funny stories.

Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 2

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee wraps up his discussion with hosts Keith and Woody about the growing design practice and how it can be used with the .NET platform.

Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 1

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:31:06 GMT

Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee sat down with the hosts Keith and Woody to discuss this growing design practice and also discuss how it could be used with the .NET platform.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.