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PDC Day 1 – Lap Around Windows Azure Notes

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:November 18, 2009
Post category:ASP.NET Azure WCF WF

Session #1: Windows Azure Platform: Windows Azure SQL Azure AppFabric …plus developer tools and "Dallas" Azure does "Compute" "Management" and "Storage" SQL Azure is a relational DB as a service.…

PDC Day 1 KeyNote Notes

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:November 18, 2009
Post category:ASP.NET SharePoint Silverlight Technology WCF WF WinForms WPF

Windows Azure Improvements since last year: Support PHP, CGI, Apache, other frameworks Expose very low-level programming efforts (not just .NET). Example was a C++ app with pointers exposed as an…

.NET Plugin DLL Hell (aka assembly binding nightmares)

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:October 20, 2009
Post category:Technology WinForms

I’ve worked on a few .NET WinForms applications that utilized a “plugin” model. You’ve probably seen similar apps out there, where a main application searches a directory for DLLs, and…

1.0.0.3 Release of xPollinate

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:October 12, 2009
Post category:Technology

I just released a new version of xPollinate, 1.0.0.3. This is just a maintenance release to make the plugin work with Windows LiveWriter version 14.0.8089.726. I am currently working on…

HP TouchSmart Update Error, Fix, Unfix

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:September 17, 2009
Post category:Uncategorized

My HP TouchSmart has an HP Updater program that checks for updates to HP software and drivers. This program has recently started finding updates to install, but mysteriously failing to…