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  • I’m now a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Team System

    I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP for C# for 3 years in a row.  I still write mountains of code using C# and ASP.NET but after a few years of doing tons of consulting, training, blogging, and talks on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server, I’ve finally made the switch.  I just got…

  • Windows Azure @ MSDN Developer Conference, 1/22/2009

    For those of you who didn’t manage to get out to Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles in October and missed all the Windows Azure content, don’t despair — the MSDN Developer Conference is coming to a city near you.  A nice feature of MSDN DevCon is that you get a lot of the same…

  • Howto: Use Windows Azure Logging During Development and Production to Debug Your Application

    If you’re running your Windows Azure application on your local machine using the Visual Studio Development Fabric, it’s easy to figure out problems by simply putting a breakpoint in your code and using the debugger.  If your app is running in the cloud, using the debugger is impossible.  This is where Azure’s logging features come…

  • Windows Azure WebRole Is Stuck in 'Initializing' Status

    I had some trouble deploying a Windows Azure application that I’d written into the hosted environment yesterday.  I’d uploaded my application package to Staging and got the “Package is deploying…” notification. After it finished deploying and the WebRole’s status was “Allocated“, I hit the “Run” button. The WebRole status went to Initializing and stayed there…

  • Windows Azure WebRole Is Stuck in ‘Initializing’ Status

    I had some trouble deploying a Windows Azure application that I’d written into the hosted environment yesterday.  I’d uploaded my application package to Staging and got the “Package is deploying…” notification. After it finished deploying and the WebRole’s status was “Allocated“, I hit the “Run” button. The WebRole status went to Initializing and stayed there…

  • Windows Azure Services Sample Code

    In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft announced the Windows Azure Services platform yesterday at PDC.  Azure allows you to write highly scalable applications that run “in the cloud”.  You write the code using standard C# (or VB.NET) and ASP.NET and then Microsoft hosts the running application and the data storage repository for you.  By itself…

  • Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 11/6/2008 — 4 short talks by 4 different speakers

    Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, November 6th. For our November meeting, we’ll be doing 4 short talks by 4 different speakers. – Josh Melvin – “Break Out Of Your Cell: Table-less HTML Layout” – Jerry Feldman – “A 30 Minute Intro To Linux” – Benjamin Day – “A Quick Intro to…

  • Oracle For SQL Server Developers, Vol. 3

    Here’s another post in the Oracle For SQL Server Developers series (vol1, vol2).  The goal with this post is to help you get a feel for some common column data types in Oracle. Tip #16: Data Type Equivalents for Numbers SQL Server Oracle int NUMBER float, real NUMBER(precision, scale) In Oracle, a number can be…

  • Oracle For SQL Server Developers, Vol. 2

    Here’s another post in my Oracle for SQL Server Developers series.  Tip #7: What is SQL*Plus and how do I connect to Oracle with SQL*Plus? SQL*Plus is a command-line client for talking to Oracle.  It’s similar to SQL Server’s sqlcmd.exe.  It’s usually installed in $ORACLE_HOMEBINsqlplus.exe so on my machine with a default install that path…

  • Oracle For SQL Server Developers, Vol. 1

    When I first started working with the Oracle database back in 2001, I remember how difficult it was to figure ANYTHING out.  I had plenty of experience managing SQL Server, designing databases with SQL Server, and implementing applications with SQL Server but getting even the most basic tasks done in Oracle was a major feat.…

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