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Make Reflector the default action for opening .NET Assemblies in Windows...
Many .NET developers know and love the .NET Reflector tool. If you are one of them, consider making Reflector the default action for when you double-click on (i.e., open) a .DLL file. Just like...
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Three ways to tell if a .NET Assembly (DLL) has Strong Name
Three ways to tell if a .NET Assembly is Strongly Named (or has Strong Name) Here are several convenient ways to tell whether a .NET assembly is strongly named. (English language note: I assume the...
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Redeeming an Azure Token
At some select events (like Boston Azure Firestarter, Boston Azure User Group hands-on meeting, or even Protein Folding with Azure @home), Microsoft sometimes provides tokens for participants who wish...
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Two Roles and a Queue – Creating an Azure Service with Web and Worker Roles...
Two Roles and a Queue Lab from Boston Azure Firestarter At the Firestarter event on May 8, 2010, I spoke about Roles and Queues and worked through a coding lab on same. The final code is available in a...
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4 Reasons to embrace the “www” subdomain prefix in your Web Addresses, and...
In support of the www subdomain prefix For web addresses, I used to consider the “www” prefix an anachronism and argued that its use be deprecated in favor of the plain-old domain. In other words, I...
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Cure for “NO INSTALLATION MEDIA” Error when Zune Installer Can’t Find the...
How I got around Zune’s “NO INSTALLATION MEDIA” and “Can’t Find the Media for Installation Package” error I recently reinstalled Windows 7 on one of my computers and in rebuilding my development tool...
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Four 4 tips for developing Windows Services more efficiently
Are you building Windows Services? I recently did some work with Windows Services, and since it had been rather a long while since I’d done so, I had to recall a couple of tips and tricks from the...
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How to Enable ASP.NET Trace Statements to Show Up In Windows Azure Compute...
As you may be aware, Windows Azure has a cloud simulation environment that can be run on a desktop or laptop computer to make it easier to develop applications for the Windows Azure cloud. One of the...
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Azure FAQ: How to Use .NET 4.5 with Windows Azure Cloud Services?
Microsoft released version 4.5 of its popular .NET Framework in August 2012. This framework can be installed independently on any compatible machine (check out the .NET Framework Deployment Guide for...
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Start Windows Azure Storage Emulator from a Shortcut
When building applications to run on Windows Azure you can get a lot of development and testing done without ever leaving your developer desktop. Much of this is due to the convenient fact that much...
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Are you missing an assembly reference? Why, yes I am. So kind of you to ask.
Ever pull down the source code for a project, only to find many errors of the “The type or namespace name ‘Optimization’ does not exist in the namespace ‘System.Web’ (are you missing an assembly...
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Can I use Multiple Monitors with Remote Desktop (RDP)? Yes. Here’s how.
Like lots of developers I know, I am more productive with multiple monitors. I have two displays, though I’m sure many of you have more screens than that. I also spend a lot of time connecting into the...
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Stupid Azure Trick #3 – Create a Dev Virtual Machine in Windows Azure
“Everyone” knows about using cloud services for running web applications and databases. For example, Windows Azure offers a bevy of integrated compute, storage, messaging, monitoring, networking,...
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Stupid Azure Trick #4 – C#, Node.js, and Python side-by-side – Three Simple...
Windows Azure has a cloud file storage service known as Blob Storage. [Note: Windows Azure Storage is broader than just Blob Storage, but in this post I will ignore its sister services Table Storage (a...
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Redeeming an Azure Token
At some select events (like Boston Azure Firestarter, Boston Azure User Group hands-on meeting, or even Protein Folding with Azure @home), Microsoft sometimes provides tokens for participants who wish...
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Two Roles and a Queue – Creating an Azure Service with Web and Worker Roles...
Two Roles and a Queue Lab from Boston Azure Firestarter At the Firestarter event on May 8, 2010, I spoke about Roles and Queues and worked through a coding lab on same. The final code is available in a...
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4 Reasons to embrace the “www” subdomain prefix in your Web Addresses, and...
In support of the www subdomain prefix For web addresses, I used to consider the “www” prefix an anachronism and argued that its use be deprecated in favor of the plain-old domain. In other words, I...
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Azure FAQ: How to Use .NET 4.5 with Windows Azure Cloud Services?
Microsoft released version 4.5 of its popular .NET Framework in August 2012. This framework can be installed independently on any compatible machine (check out the .NET Framework Deployment Guide for...
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Start Windows Azure Storage Emulator from a Shortcut
When building applications to run on Windows Azure you can get a lot of development and testing done without ever leaving your developer desktop. Much of this is due to the convenient fact that much...
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Are you missing an assembly reference? Why, yes I am. So kind of you to ask.
Ever pull down the source code for a project, only to find many errors of the “The type or namespace name ‘Optimization’ does not exist in the namespace ‘System.Web’ (are you missing an assembly...
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