TFS on Azure

Today, Brian Harry blogged about his team’s effort to see what it would take to get TFS running on Azure. As he mentioned, it turns out that they didn’t have to change to much although they are not done yet and there are still some challenges up ahead. I hope you know the significance of this messa... [More]

Azure, WCF, X509 Certificates and errors

I have been struggling to get secure WCF services running on Azure, not because it doesn’t work, just because I am not up to speed on the combinations and sometimes fail to think it through before I start. Anyways, what I am trying to do in this post is instead of describing the end solution of ho... [More]

Windows Azure Deployment Issue

I was trying to get going with Windows Azure, just some simple thing as deploying a simple WCF Service. I am using Visual Studio 2010 Beta and the Azure tools and SDK’s. When I deployed my simple package I always get the following message “FabricInternalServerError..” bu... [More]

Windows Azure: Introduction

In this post I want to introduce the Windows Azure Platform. If you or your company is thinking about using “The Cloud” for either application hosting or integration purposes or for whatever reason, sooner or later you run into Windows Azure. It may not be a surprise that Microsoft follows the curre... [More]

Windows 7 RTM, first impression

You may have heard it by now, Mircosoft released Windows 7 RTM to select groups such as Vendors, OEM partners but also on MSDN and Technet. I am a technet subscriber and so I had to download the Windows 7 RTM version. I had tested Windows 7 in a VMWare environment before and I was happy about t... [More]

Review: NDepend 2.12.1, Code Metrics at your fingertips (Part 1)

A while ago I was approached by Patrick Smacchia, Lead Dev at NDepend, asking if I would be interested to review their product. I have used it since then off and on but never really sat down to fully understand its potential until a day or so ago. I am going to focus on NDepend in a few b... [More]

TFS Status TV a.k.a. InfoKiosk

In September of 2008 me and a colleague released InfoKiosk on CodePlex. The intention of the application is to inform development teams about the status of all projects in TFS. The application, made in Silverlight 2.0, looks like a continuous slideshow of various bits of information and is intended ... [More]

Passing values from Silverlight to WCF services in SOAP headers

I am working on a contract which uses Silverlight 2.0, WCF, Entity framework, LINQ and so on to provide remote insight in the drilling status in the mining industry. While the project is interesting the problem I faced is securing the WCF service as the Silverlight app is used in the field and the d... [More]

Error: 0020-80070643 when (re)-installing Windows Live OneCare

This blog entry discribes how to fix Windows OneCare general error 0020-80070643 but specifically a DIFXAPP driver signature verification error. [More]