Charles Petzold’s free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7
Charles Petzold just released the second draft of his ebook on Windows Phone 7. It contains the following chapters: Part I – The Basics Chapter 1 Hello, Windows Phone 7 Chapter 2 Getting Oriented...
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Belgian eID and .NET - Part 2: Modify the middleware and remove the...
In my previous post I talked about how you could build the eID middleware and create a sample application that uses the eID. When you start an application that uses the middleware you’ll see the...
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Belgian eID and .NET - Part 3: Using the eID in Dynamics CRM 2011
Dynamics CRM 2011 allows you to manage all kinds of data (xRM) but when you start working with actual people it might come in handy to work with eID cards. Especially in healthcare, education, … where...
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Domain names in Office365 using Combell
Finally… I decided to buy an Office 365 account and after playing around with the platform I’m happy I did! In this article I’ll show an easy to follow guide on how you can link your Office 365...
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The Belgian eID in Windows Azure – Part 1: Authentication and Identification...
If you follow my other blog you might have noticed that I’m really into the Belgian eID. Needless to say I had to look at how we can use the Belgian eID in Windows Azure. In this series I’ll show you...
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Upgrading to the Windows Azure 1.7 SDK
The Windows Azure 1.7 SDK has been out for a little less than 3 months, and with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 it might be a good opportunity to upgrade your existing applications to the new...
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Controlling your instances in the Windows Azure Compute Emulator
This is a follow-up post for a question I answered on StackOverflow. There might be times where you would want to control the instances in the emulator as if you were really running in Windows Azure....
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ASP.NET Universal Providers and the Windows Azure Service Configuration
Since Scott Hanselman introduced the ASP.NET Universal Providers last year we learned that these providers should be used when working with SQL Azure. Version 1.2 of the providers were released just a...
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Backup and restore your SQL Azure database using PowerShell
Today there are a few good options to backup from SQL Azure, restore to SQL Azure or even migrate to SQL Azure: Announcing SQL Azure Import/Export Service Now in Production (with client) Enzo Backup...
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Continuous Deployment with Windows Azure Websites and Bitbucket
A little over a month ago Scott Guthrie announced support for continuous deployment in Windows Azure Web Sites with GitHub and CodePlex. Yesterday while I was browsing the azure tag on StackOverflow, I...
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IIS 8.0 Application Initialization module in a Windows Azure Web Role
Back in 2009 the IIS team announced the beta release of the Application Warm-Up Module as a downloadable extension. Today this module was renamed to Application Initialization andis included in IIS8....
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DictionaryTableEntity: Working with untyped entities in the Table Storage...
About 2 weeks ago Microsoft released the new version of the Windows Azure Storage SDK, version 2.0.0.0. This version introduces a new way to work with Table Storage which is similar to the Java...
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Better internal documentation with GitBook, Express and Auth0
GitBook is a great tool for writing books but also for writing documentation. It's being used by great projects like Redux. The way it works is simple, you just write your content in markdown and then...
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Posting successful SSH logins to Slack
I use Slack for many things and it's great to see how many integrations are available out of the box. But building integrations yourself is extremely easy using Incoming Web Hooks. Wouldn't it be nice...
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Let Slack notify you when SSL certificates are about to expire
A few days ago Ryan from serverlesscode.com posted how you could use AWS Lambda, Cloud Watch and a few other things to get notified of expiring SSL certificates. Great idea! Now the only issue is that...
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