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WP7 Takenapplicatie–Startpagina
Dit is een eerste posting over de takenapplicatie tutorial. De tutorial bestaat uit: – Startpagina - Navigatie - Data - Model View ViewModel - DataBinding - Resources - Styles - Controls - Panorama en...
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Introductie Windows Azure
CloudSourcing is voor vrijwel iedereen inmiddels een bekend begrip. Kostenvoordeel en time-to-market zijn hierbij de grootste voordelen. Een kostenreductie op infrastructuur van zestig tot tachtig...
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LightSwitch application consumes OData service from the Windows Azure...
Nederlandse versie To get some hands-on experience with the Windows Azure Marketplace I decided to use a free data source and to build a LightSwitch application on top of it. Having some LightSwitch...
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SignalR – Event notification for the web
As a developer, I always used to implement the observer pattern in software. The principle of the observer pattern is that there is a weak link between the subject and the observers. As a result of...
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Nieuw in Windows Azure – november 2012
Op de Microsodft //build conference in de Verenigde States begin november 2012 was er veel aandacht voor Windows 8 maar heeft Microsoft ook diverse nieuwe features op Windows Azure gepresenteerd en...
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LightSwitch Windows Azure Website using OData service
In a previous post I created a LightSwitch application that consumes an OData service that provides vehicle registration information. Users can enter a license plate and technical information is...
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LightSwitch Cloud Service using OData service
In 2 previous posts: LightSwitch application consumes OData service from the Windows Azure Marketplace LightSwitch Windows Azure Website using OData service I created a LightSwitch application that...
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Monitoring Azure Cloud applications
There are many tools to monitor cloud applications. Some examples are AzureWatch and SCOM 2012 (System Center Operations Manager). But the new Azure management portal, which recently got out of the...
View ArticleTableStorageAppender for Log4net
Logging to the new Table Storage in the cloud is a very common case when you’re working with Azure projects. There are various ways to do this. You can setup log4net to use the Trace log that is...
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Session state in Windows Azure
Windows Azure uses load balancers to distribute traffic over multiple instances of a web role hosting the same web application. These load balancer are not ‘sticky’ (user session aware) so there is no...
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Application configuration in Windows Azure Cloud Services
Almost every application running as a Windows Azure Cloud Service has configuration. Application configuration in this context does not mean user-specific application data but data the application...
View ArticleTechDays 2013 Live Blog – Dag 1
Verscheidene medewerkers van ICT zullen gedurende de dag updates plaatsen van de gebeurtenissen op de TechDays. Eventuele nieuwtjes, interessante presentaties en andere opmerkelijke gebeurtenissen...
View ArticleTechDays 2013 Live Blog – Dag 2
Ben je benieuwd naar wat onze mensen zien, horen en meemaken? Volg dan gedurende deze tweede dag van de TechDays dit live blog en lees wat onze collega’s interessant vinden.
View ArticleAwait anything
Did you know…. …that in C# 4.0 it’s possible to make anything awaitable by using extention methods. The only requirement for this is to implement a function called GetAwaiter(). Let say for example we...
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Op 7 maart naar de TechDays geweest. Samen met een collega gecarpoold, konden we onderweg weer even bijpraten; is altijd goed en voordat je het weet zit je in Den Haag. Hieronder een korte bloemlezing...
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Windows Azure operation logs
The Azure Management Portals (old and new one) have been lacking an important feature ever since the availability of Windows Azure. There was no audit trail available for actions performed by...
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Using NUnit for your tests in Team Foundation Service with a Git repository
Since quite some time now it is possible to create a new project in Team Foundation Service (the cloud variant, not to be confused with Team Foundation Server) using Git for your version control. Since...
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Scheduling in Windows Azure
Scheduling is a feature that is often required within applications. Traditionally, SQL Jobs were a good way to schedule when your application already needed a database. However, SQL Azure lacks the...
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BRAIN event: Microsoft Sharepoint 2013
Op 20 juni 2013 organiseerde ICT Automatisering in samenwerking met de .NET Gebruikersgroep Nederland een BRAIN event ditmaal geheel in het teken van Sharepoint 2013 maar dan wel door de bril van een...
View ArticleTechEd Europe 2013 in Madrid
Dit jaar wordt de Microsoft TechEd in Madrid gehouden van 25 t/m 28 juni 2013. Locatie is het conferentiecentrum Feria de Madrid. Maandagmiddag ben ik naar Madrid gevlogen. Na ingecheckt te hebben in...
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TechEd Europe 2013 keynote summary and announcements
The first session at TechEd Europe 2013 was the keynote presented by Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President Windows Server and System Center Program Management and some other Microsoft employees. This...
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Auto-scaling Application Block and Windows Azure
Imagine this… writing a blog post about the Auto-scaling Application Block (AAB) for Windows Azure, also known as Wasabi, and how to implement it while attending TechEd Europe in Madrid and at the same...
View ArticleDownload TechEd Europe 2013 content
Alle sessies op de TechEd Europe 2013 in Madrid zijn door Microsoft opgenomen. Deze sessies zijn opnieuw te bekijken en te downloaden vanaf de Channel 9 website. Ook zijn de Powerpoint presentaties...
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TFS voor Multi-site development
In dit artikel gaan we inzoomen op het gebruiken van Microsoft Team Foundation Service (TFS) voor de uitvoer van een softwareproject waarbij het projectteam verdeeld is over meerdere locaties. We...
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Visual Studio Server Explorer – Azure resources
Microsoft recently released the Azure SDK 2.1 version and this brings a major update to the Visual Studio Server Explorer view. This applies to both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 Preview....
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Cloud-powered Load Testing with Team Foundation Service
Using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate it is relatively easy to create and execute load tests on your website or web application. A client system generates the load during these tests. This blog post first...
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Windows Azure Web Sites Diagnostics
By default, each Windows Azure Web Site (WAWS) has build-in diagnostics that can be easily accessed by a developer. Diagnostics URL A typical WAWS has the following URL:...
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Windows Azure Resource Limits
When using Windows Azure for a while several limits can be encountered. Some of these limits can be increased by contacting Microsoft for support. Other limits cannot be raised at this moment but might...
View ArticleICT Automatisering en PostNL naar de Azure cloud
- bekende software in een nieuwe omgeving - PostNL heeft een duidelijk cloudstrategie. De afgelopen 5 jaar heeft ICT Automatisering diverse .NET softwaresystemen voor PostNL ontwikkeld. Het betreft...
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Windows Azure en VM Depot – ideaal voor snelle tests
Tijdens pre-sales support moet nogal eens onderzocht worden of bijvoorbeeld bestaande open source software bruikbaar is voor een aanbieding. Het was dan altijd veel moeite om een echt systeem of VM in...
View ArticleTechDays 2014 Live Blog – Dag 1
Ook dit jaar staat ICT Automatisering met meerdere collega’s present op de TechDays 2014. Gedurende de dag zullen we op dit liveblog updates plaatsen voor geïnteresseerde collega’s en lezers. Dit jaar...
View ArticleTechDays 2014 Live Blog – Dag 2
Op de tweede dag zijn we ook aanwezig en zullen we je op de hoogte houden van nieuwtjes, interessante presentaties en andere opmerkelijke gebeurtenissen. ICT Automatisering staat ook nog steeds met een...
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BI Ontwikkelingen @ Microsoft
Trends Eén van de trends waar Microsoft vol op inzet is ‘Business Intelligence’ (BI), oftewel: hoe haal je waardevolle informatie uit de immer groeiende hoeveelheid (big-)data die ons ter beschikking...
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How to run a second /adfs/ls on your ADFS 2.0 server
Ever wanted to run a second /adfs/ls website on your ADFS2.0 (test)server for whatever reason? I do! I found an easy way and I’ll explain how to do it. In my case there are multiple projects working on...
View ArticleCaching data in Azure – an update
Microsoft Azure offers multiple types of caching. Which one to choose? This post lists the cache offerings in Azure and explains the differences between those. Four cache offerings can be found in...
View ArticleEntityFramework: Updating EF4.x to EF6
During the migration of an ASP.Net MVC application for a customer from an on premise environment to Microsoft Azure, I’ve run into some troubles updating EF so that we use the EF6 Retry Logic for...
View ArticleTechorama 2015
Voor het tweede jaar op rij wordt op 12 en 13 mei Techorama georganiseerd. Dit technologieseminar wordt niet door Microsoft georganiseerd (zoals TechDays, TechEd en Build) maar door de .NET community...
View ArticleSmall tip: use QueueBackgroundWorkItem for asynchronous work in ASP.NET
This is a small tip that I’m mainly publishing as a reminder to myself, but it could come in handy for someone else. Background processing tasks in ASP.NET are hard. At any time IIS could decide to...
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