In this article, we will use a bunch of familiar technologies to build a nice little image hosting application. We will build an ASP.NET MVC app that uses Azure Blob Storage for hosting the images. The MVC app can be easily hosted on Azure...
Morning Brew by Chris Alcock
Monday is a Public Holiday here in the UK, so in keeping with tradition there will be no Morning Brew on Monday, and I shall return on Tuesday 28th April. Enjoy the Weekend. Software Portable HttpClient is now available as RC - Immo Landwerth...
One of my least favorite parts of nearly every programming language I ve spent much time with has been the ubiquitous switch statement. Though it does serve a useful purpose in some compiled languages, I think switch is a clunky eyesore in...
For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech...
Fluent API is a flexible way to define mapping between POCO classes used in Entity Framework Code first. This article demonstrates how to use Fluent API in an ASP.NET MVC application
Morning Brew by Chris Alcock
Software Glimpse 1.3.2 released - The Glimpse Team announce the release of Glimpse 1.3.2, a minor update which makes some improvements to the client side of Glimpse including better rendering of recursive data structures Rhino Mocks New Home -...
It turns out this is a unique Google Chrome bug. It can t be solved by updating Chrome, you need to uninstall Chrome and then re-install Chrome from scratch. You can read about the bug [ HERE ].
SignalR is the latest in a long string of new technologies pouring out from the ASP.NET team recently, when Microsoft rolled out version 1.0 of SignalR when Visual Studio Update 2 was announced. In a...
Morning Brew by Chris Alcock
Information How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line) - Scott Hanselman gives a detailed walkthrough of setting up load balanced server farms on the Windows Azure platform,...