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Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #45)
Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure. Here are the highlights for this week....
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Enabling great Play To experiences from your Windows 8 apps (and websites!)
Play To OverviewThe Play To feature allows you to stream music, photos and videos from apps to Xbox and other supported devices on your home network. Imagine being able to easily flick photos and...
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Friday Miscellany #1
Some links for your consideration.Don McCrady published Introducing Shevlin Park–A Proof of Concept C++ AMP Implementation on OpenCL over on the Parallel Programming in Native Code blog. Check out the...
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Pie in the Sky (November 16, 2012)
It's been a busy week here, trying to get things done before everyone goes on vacation next week. Unfortunately this hasn't left a lot of time for collecting links, hopefully you'll find that quality...
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials Health Report Add-in and Management Pack are...
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ning Kuang from Sustained Engineering]We are excited to announce the RTM release of Health Report Add-in and Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials!...
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Introducing NETCF 3.9 in Windows Embedded Compact 2013 – a faster, leaner and...
Ever since .NET Compact Framework was introduced at the PDC conference in 2001, programming with .NET has scaled from some of the smallest devices to the largest servers. With C# and Visual Basic,...
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SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (November 2012) Available
What’s new?This release of the Data-Tier Application Framework (DACFx) brings fixes for several customer-reported and high-priority issues including:SSDT crashes when opening a table that contains...
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Excel Surveys
Use Excel surveys on SkyDrive to easily create and publish surveys about any topic that you want. Then collect and analyze the results directly in the workbook....(read more)
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PLINQ and Int32.MaxValue
In both .NET 4 and .NET 4.5, PLINQ supports enumerables with up to Int32.MaxValue elements. Beyond that limit, PLINQ will throw an overflow exception. LINQ to Objects itself has this limitation with...
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Capturing Unhandled Exceptions in ASP.NET Web API's with ELMAH
I'm a fan of using ELMAH to track unhandled exceptions in my ASP.NET applications. If you haven't tried ELMAH, you should definitely check it out. There's even an ELMAH NuGet package so it's trivial to...
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How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS - Backup...
At home I use a Synology 1511+ NAS (Network Attached Storage) server for all my family's digital things. The Synology gives me virtually all the features I had when I was in love with the Windows Home...
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PHP 5.4 available in Windows Azure Web Sites
I’m happy to share that PHP 5.4 is now available in Windows Azure Web Sites! You have always been able to install a custom PHP runtime in Web Sites, but now you can have PHP 5.4 available with the...
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DevIntersection Conference Dec 9th-12th
I’m excited to be presenting a keynote at the DevIntersection conference this coming Dec 9th->12th in Las Vegas. This conference has an awesome set of speakers from a variety of backgrounds. A...
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SharePoint Apps and Windows Azure
Last Monday I had an opportunity to present as part of the keynote of this year’s SharePoint Conference. My segment of the keynote covered the new SharePoint Cloud App Model we are introducing as part...
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ARP Spoofing Prevention in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
Hi there! This is Thomas Roettinger with a new blog post onhow to implement ARP Spoofing protection in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. A longtime ago in August 2011 I published this blog post...
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HYPER-V 2008 R2 SP1 Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)
(dsymalla Posting on Behalf of Roger Osborne)Have you ever had someone – either a customer or colleague – build a mission critical server without taking time, up-front, to ensure they are following...
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Introducing BPMN 2.0 in Visio
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard maintained by the Object Management Group that allows businesses to document and communicate business processes uniformly using graphical...
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Networking in Windows Phone 8
A couple of weeks ago at //BUILD I did an overview of the API surface and features offered for networking in Windows Phone 8. Over the next few months, I’ll be writing drill-down posts focused on the...
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What’s new with Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer? A lot!
Have you ever gotten a call from someone you know whose Outlook client is having trouble connecting to their email server? Don’t you just wish you had a tool that you could send to them that would walk...
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Get ready to “Meet Your Match” with Windows Phone
About a year ago at CES we kicked off Smoked by Windows Phone, and since then, we’ve run over 250,000 challenges in 54 countries, and the videos of these good-natured smackdowns have been watched more...
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