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MSDN ScreencastsMSDN Flash Podcast 011 – Steve Marx on Windows AzureAlso known as “that’s where I left my shoe” (you will need to listen to understand that) This is a bonus edition of the podcast recorded on the 6th of October in London with Steve Marx, Technical Strategist working on Windows Azure. It starts slow and a little quiet, it needed a few edits (deletes!) as we battled with “what is still not public” but picks up to be a pretty useful look at the improvements we have made to Windows Azure over the last few months with a specific focus on storage. Topics covered include:
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Follow me or my team on twitter. MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and moreThis podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It is an interview with Paul Jackson which is meant to be about the article he wrote on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0 but tends to go off in different directions – but we both certainly enjoyed doing it :-) I was interested to hear how he was getting on with Oslo and why he was revisiting ASP.NET after many years of focus on XAML. Show Notes:
Follow me or my team on twitter. MSDN Flash Podcast 009 – Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding DojosThis podcast is an interview with Tom Quinn in which we start off discussing his article on Test Doubles before moving on to Coding Dojos and finishing with a spot of “has software development really improved in the last 20 years”. The interview starts 7 minutes in after I complete a brief summary of the newsletter. Show Notes:
Follow me or my team on twitter. MSDN Flash Podcast 008 – Gary Short on using XAF to build WebForm and WinForm appsThis podcast is an interview with Gary Short in which we discuss the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework™ (XAF) for quickly building WebForm and WinForm applications. Along the way we manage to mention testing frameworks, home-grown source control, rabbits feet, British Rail and Microsoft Access (Apologies in advance to the Access User Group) but most of it is about understanding what XAF is and when you would use it. Show Notes:
Follow me or my team on twitter. Hands on with SQL Azure (CTP 2)
With the release of the second CTP (Community Tech Preview) of SQL Azure, many developers are starting to get to get to grips with SQL Azure. However, quite a few aren’t aware that many SQL Server features will also work against data stored in the cloud, in SQL Azure. In this video, David Gristwood and Keith Burns discuss these features, as Keith demos SQL Server Integration Services, Reporting Services, and BCP in action. |
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