May
16
2012
Exchange Web Services // SMS Gateway // SignalR // Office365 // Windows Azure // Development

Integration with 911 dispatch center using Azure and SignalR (part 1)

People who know me know me as passionate about software development and being a volunteer fire fighter. As a developer you always find a way to mix one passion with another. At our fire hall (http://www.langdonfire.ca) in Langdon AB we have been long waiting for the integration of technology into t... [More]
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Apr
8
2012
Development // Windows Azure

Cannot get entity '{queue name}' because it is not of type QueueDescription.

While working on a new project where we are using the “new” Azure Queues and Topics I ran into the error below when the code was checking if the queue exists : Cannot get entity 'adminmessages' because it is not of type QueueDescription. I was sure that the other part of the system was using the “... [More]
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Mar
15
2012
.NET Framework 4 // ASP.NET 3.5 // ASP.NET MVC 4 (Beta) // Visual Studio 2010

Mixing Existing ASP.NET 3.5 Web Forms Site with ASP.MVC 4 (Beta)

I am currently working on a project where there is a need to improve slow performing web pages on a ASP.NET 3.5 Web Form based web application. The goal is, to migrate the web application to the latest version of the ASP.MVC 4, when available. ASP.NET MVC 4 (Beta) currently has been released under a... [More]
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Sep
23
2011

Windows Azure Tools & SDK Summary

UPDATED: 06-12-2011 The thing about technology is that it develops fast, really fast and to keep up with new releases of your tool set is not an easy task.. The thing I think is lacking on the windows.azure.com site is a clear summary of the latest tools, the things you need and where to get them.... [More]
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Apr
18
2010
TFS 2010 // Windows Azure // Development // General

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]
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Feb
1
2010
WCF // Windows Azure

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]
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Aug
28
2009
Development // Windows Azure

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]
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Aug
25
2009
Development // Review // Windows Azure

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]
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Aug
13
2009
New Releases // Windows 7

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]
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Jun
12
2009
Development // Review // Tools

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]
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