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Results of Cloud Computing Survey – Part 1: Is Cloud relevant?

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink On January 7th 2010 I kicked off a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/28/2010

New Windows Azure Platform online community in the UK

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink There is a really strong interest in...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/25/2010

QandA: How do you avoid being charged unnecessarily for Windows Azure compute hours?

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [Check out my other QandAs] You...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/20/2010

QandA: When do I get charged for compute hours on Windows Azure?

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [Check out my other QandAs] This...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/19/2010

Windows Azure Platform, Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine Explained

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I wanted to point folks at this...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/19/2010

Maybe see you at London CloudCamp on the 21st January 2010

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I will be popping along to CloudCamp...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/18/2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 book available and it is from a UK author

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Many, many months back UK based Alex...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/18/2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Launch Date is Monday 12th April

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Which is fantastic news. I’m really...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/14/2010

MSDN Flash Podcast 019 – Paul Foster discusses Windows Mobile Widgets

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink An interview with colleague Paul...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/14/2010

Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Windows Azure Platform

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink You can learn the Windows Azure...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/13/2010

Step by Step sign up for the 25 hour free Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink You can learn the Windows Azure...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/13/2010

Windows Azure Accelerated Training Workshop March 30th in London

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I was just “reviewing” a Windows...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/13/2010

Cloud Computing and Windows Azure Platform Survey – just 9 optional questions!

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I am keen to get a feel for the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/07/2010

My top 5 Azure sessions from PDC 09

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Having skim watched many (but not...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/07/2010

New User Group in the North East of England – 20th Jan Silverlight and Hyper-V

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I love to see new user groups...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/06/2010

How developers learn survey results – interesting

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink In June 2009 we created a survey for...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/06/2010

Change of focus in 2010 to the Windows Azure Platform

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I have been dabbling with the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/06/2010

Happy New Year and a thank you for making 2009 great fun

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Have a fantastic New Years Eve this...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/31/2009

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink A few Visual Basic 6 links I want to...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/24/2009

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I have been meaning to get these...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/24/2009

Windows Azure benefits for MSDN Premium Subscribers can be used for live applications. Sign up from January 4th

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink When we first announced that MSDN...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/23/2009

Multi-tenanted applications on Windows Azure and SQL Azure – added to my todo list for 2010

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Back when I was an Application...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/23/2009

What is Microsoft “Dallas”?

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Nope, I’m not referring to the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/23/2009

MSDN Flash Podcast 018 – Michael Foord discusses IronPython

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [22/12/09: I have been unable to get...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/22/2009

MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Hadi Hariri talks Behavior Driven Development

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I talk to Hadi Hariri about the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/18/2009

A great find – Software Engineering Radio. And are we 2 years behind the Java community? Or longer?

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink A great find… I listen to a lot of...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/18/2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta period extension is good news

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Soma has announced that we will be...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/18/2009

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink For fun I thought I would have a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/18/2009

MSDN Flash Podcast 016 – Phil Leggetter talks Real Time Web with Silverlight

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Phil and I discuss the real time web...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/17/2009

FREE MSDN Flash eBook of the best 13 technical articles of 2009

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [16th Dec 2009 – have spotted a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/16/2009

Entity Framework 4.0 Resources gets a December 2009 Update

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I have just completed a first round...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/15/2009

Migration to .NET of 950,000 lines of Visual Basic code

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Last year I spent a lot of time...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009

UK MSDN Podcast finds a new home – info on subscription details, ITunes, Google Reader etc

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I have been producing a regular...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009

MSDN Flash Podcast 015 – SQL Azure at TechEd Europe

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink While at TechEd Europe in November...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009

MSDN Flash Podcast 014 – Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services at TechEd Europe

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink This podcast was recorded at TechEd...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009

MSDN Flash Podcast 013 – Code Contracts at TechEd Europe

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink While at TechEd Europe in November...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009

Decorate your room with development posters, cheat sheets and more

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Totally new to me is the Developer...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/04/2009

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink It is already December 3rd, we have...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/03/2009

Windows 7 resources for developers – in one place

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink My group has been pulling together a...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/01/2009

ClickOnce and Security

ClickOnce deployment is another area where Code Access Security needs to be kept in mind. ClickOnce...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/15/2009

Introducing code obfuscation

If you recall from an earlier post, I said that the main reason for signing an assembly and giving...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/12/2009

Code Access Security in action – calling Unmanaged Code

The following is an example of how code access security might affect your code when calling...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/11/2009

Authenticode and ActiveX controls

For VB6 developers, one area where asymmetric keys and digital signatures cropped up was the...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/10/2009

Cryptography

The second big security area in the .NET framework after Authentication and Authorisation is...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/09/2009

Authentication and Authorisation

As promised, the first in a series of posts about security relevant to a developer new to .NET (such...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/08/2009

Visual Basic .NET and Security – a few posts are required

One of the reasons for moving to VB.NET from VB6 may be the more advanced security models available...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/08/2009

Virtualization and Visual Basic 6.0 applications

There may be some circumstances where upgrading a VB6 application is not feasible, for example it...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/07/2009

In VB6 we had the API Viewer, In VB .NET you get the P/Invoke Interop Assistant

VB6 programmers will remember a useful little utility called the API Viewer, the helped out when you...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/05/2009

Enhancing your VB6 Application with Interop

I’ve been having a look at some of the samples on the Visual Basic Resource Center to see what’s...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/05/2009

Adding to the My namespace in VB .NET

Just as an aside - after experimenting with the Interop Forms Toolkit earlier this year I wondered...

Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 06/05/2009

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