And naturally LOTS of more sessions from Microsoft TechDays in Sweden. There are some sessions that are in English as well since there were quite a few international speakers. I really have to recommend Christian Weyers session WCF Tips and tricks and… My MEF talk (in Swedish). Here is the full list: http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/techdays09/sv/sessionplanner.html Cheers, M. Technorati Tags: Services,.NET,Extensibility,Microsoft,talksThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

My recent blog post Windows Azure + Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) = true got reposted by my good friend Glenn Block: Meffifying Windows Azure. This of course made my little blog attract an unusually large traffic. I have a few posts like that (depending on how search-attractive the content is. But anyway: It’s not that I get HUGE amounts of comments on my blog. A few now and then which is always appreciated. I have the comment review function switched on meaning I get a message when ever I get a comment on my blog and I get...

During my tow week vacation the MEF team shipped a Preview 6. The team has posted all the facts and changes in this preview release so I won’t reiterate in detail but rather link to their posts on the subject. However; before I do that here are a few comments from me on the release: First comment: Congratulations! The release is looking good as usual! Second comment: I know for a fact that MEF has bounced about a bit within the Microsoft organization. It has to support this. It has to integrate with that. It should be...

On the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week the business and partner model for Windows Azure got announced. (Daddy goes on vacation for two weeks and THIS happens. Man you can’t turn your back for a moment. ;~) ) Windows Azure: Compute @ $0.12 / hour Storage @ $0.15 / GB / month stored Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K SQL Azure: Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99 Business Edition – Up to...

I will show in this post how to extend the basic Windows Azure Project Template and make the solution a bit more intelligent. I will do this using a new and upcoming .NET Framework 4 technology; Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). MEF Preview 5 is targeting .NET Framework 3.5 and is even developed under MSPL license and so fits like a glove into Windows Azure. Intro My overall goal is to create a Windows Azure project template that: enables testability abstracts away storage is extensible and easy...