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Windows Azure Fieldnote Summary Windows Azure Drives [1] provide a means to represent a file based (disk drive) persistent storage option for the various role types within Windows Azure Compute. Each of the roles within Windows Azure can mount and utilize...
Once in a while a good tool that I find out about that helps me developing solutions comes in real handy. MiniProfiler is one of those tools. Developed by the StackOverflow folks it’s available in source or binary, and NuGet packages Take a look...
Raffaele Rialdi has been adding features to his certificate management tool. Already supporting wildcard certificates, he’s now added SAN cert support. But it’s more than certificate management too. IAmRaf - Tools
Be nice to be able to make wildcard certificates for use in development with makecert – turns out, it’s real easy. Just ensure that your CN= is the wildcard string to use. The following sequence generates a CA cert, then the public/private...
Well, apparently I missed this hidden feature having used the Lorem Ipsum website for some time, but if you enter the following in blank Word document – you’ll get 10 paragraphs of generated text: =Lorem(10) Such as: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer...
Reflector has been invaluable over the years. I’m torn about the idea it’s become a paid for tool, and by all means folks should be compensated for great work. Not sure where Lutz is in the cash flow. But, the ICSharpCode guys have released...
Time to time, we all need this capability. I keep forgetting what the link/name of this tool is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL http://curl.haxx.se/
Good to see it’s sticking around and most importantly, they’ve increased the initial 2 GB limit to match what we had on Live Mesh – 5 GB. I’ve been loving this tool since it came out and becoming one of those things I can’t do without. http://windowsteamblog...
I’m not sure where I had seen some of this base code, but this comes up time & time again on projects. Here’s a little method that copies all the R/W properties (public) between 2 distinct class definitions: It’s called as follows: private static...
Well, in the past we had ADAM – which has migrated to AD LDS for Windows – under Vista, we really only had a hack to get it (ADAM) running on Vista. Now, we have it for both Server and Client – and it’s known as Active Directory Lightweight Directory...
I’ve taken that macro that’s been passed around for years, and put it into a VS Addin. The following links for the full VS Solution and the MSI installer http://cicoria.com/downloads/VsAuto/CollapseProjectsSln.zip http://cicoria.com/downloads/VsAuto/CollapseProjectsSetup7z...
An old colleague of mine from Avanade has apparently put out a very cool tool for managing re-usable “snippets” of code from a repository. This is a tool that could be used every day, or even for demos… This is a smooth application that takes advantage...
Many times, your coding, etc. SharePoint features. You’ll code something up, deploy, activate, etc. Using WSP builder, while a convenient tool, it also leaves some orphans around. It forcibly deletes the solution leaving any place it...
This get’s even easier. The Microsoft store has released a utility that will, from an ISO (eg. one you get from the Microsoft Store) create a bootable USB flash drive. The direct link is here to the description page http://store.microsoft.com/Help...
For some reason all of a sudden I started getting PPP errors during connection on VZW broadband on my Mobile phone. So, I had to re-initialize the connection on the phone. This also works when tethering the phone and you don’t have to use the VZW...
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