Last Friday, the Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) Asset Replicator Tool was published on CodePlex. This tool allows you to replicate WAMS assets across two Media Services accounts. In the most common scenarios this capability is used to mirror a library of streaming assets across accounts in two different Azure data centers to enable geo-diverse... read more
Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Damián Martinez Gelabert, Nicolás Bello Camilletti, Johnny Halife, Juan Pablo García and Mauro Krikorian in a set of NuGet packages for ASP.NET MVC 3 and Silverlight for Windows Phone projects, targeting server-side and client-side pieces of the same scenario. During the development, we realized that we... read more
Yesterday, Brian Keller (Sr. Technical Evangelist for Team Foundation Server) announced in his blog the beta release of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010. The purpose of this project is to help developers to work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple types of devices (such as smartphones and tablets) and operating... read more
Last Wednesday, Wade Wegner announced in his blog the first release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. This toolkit is designed to make it easier for developers to build Windows Phone applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone 7 and... read more
Today Roger announced in his blog the availability of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit (June 2010 Update). This is the final update for this training kit and includes two additional modules covering SQL Server 2008 R2 related improvements in Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Additionally, there were many updates to... read more
Last Friday, Roger announced in his blog the availability of a new release of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit. This update contains new modules for Application and Multi-Server Management and StreamInsight with a lot of content for developers that want to learn and adopt these new features in SQL Server... read more
As Roger announced in his blog, the first release of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is available for free download from the Microsoft Download center at: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9710868 The SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is ideal for developers who want to understand how to take advantage of... read more
During this month I was working with my teammates Julian Dominguez and Diego Perez on a project that targeted Window Mobile 6.0 and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. The main objective of this project was to create a module for an existing mobile application to let users perform different surveys and allowing them to navigate... read more
The Silverlight 3 Beta release introduces a lot of new features and enhancements into the framework. One of them is Navigation, which allows us to easily implement navigation between UserControls / Pages, interact with the Browser History journal and define Uri mapping to map complex Uris with more friendly ones. To learn more about the... read more
This week there were some questions in the SCSF Codeplex Forum asking for a way to pass custom parameters to a method marked as a Command Handler. As you may know, there is no out-of-the-box way to do it because they are raised internally by the Command class and, since you usually bind a command... read more
