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]

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]

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]

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]

Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”

  Today, Microsoft released the Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) of “Velocity” the project code name for a .NET caching solution which could significantly improve your applications performance. The following is the excerpt from the Microsoft web site: Microsoft project code named “Ve... [More]

Valuable Tools you need in your Tool box

I found some tools which you just need to take a look at. XAML Power Toys 4.0 The first one is XAML Power Toys 4.0, this is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-Id that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. XAML Power Toys generates .NET 3.5 SP1 WPF compliant XAM... [More]

Automated White Box Testing for .NET (Pex)

Microsoft research is working on another interesting project which might help us in the future with testing and I am sure you agree that we developers need all the help we can get when it comes to testing. Although the Pex (Program Exploration) project has been in existence for some time now, ... [More]

Code Contracts

The .NET Framework 4.0 is introducing a new feature to help us write more stable and trustworthy code. This feature is called "Code Contracts", and it provides a language-agnostic way to express coding assumptions. The contracts are used to improve testing via runtime checking, enable stat... [More]

Know your tools when diagnosing a problem

I spend the last four days on solving a problem I had with a WCF service. The message I got was really clear; the client authenticates anonymously while the server expected Windows authentication. [MessageSecurityException: The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Ano... [More]