September 2009 Blog Posts

Info on line at the Tech Ed Berlin 2009 site on all three of my sessions

My three sessions at Tech Ed Berlin 2009 are on line. Here are the tree abstracts: Building extensible systems in .NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4 Are you tired of building monolithic style apps? Are you tired of hacking your app to bits to meet just one more requirement. Do you want to enable third parties to provide add-on value to your apps? If the answer to any of these is yes, then come learn about the new Managed Extensibility Framework which ships in .NET 4.0, and in Silverlight 4. Come to this chalk talk and you'll see how...

Funny Twitter API BOT – The Spanish Inquisition

Talk about having nothing else to do but to let your brilliant sense of humor entertain the rest of us! ;~) If you Tweet “I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition!” @Cardinal_Fang will answer “NOOOOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!” Cheers, M.

Extensible Windows Azure projects using MEF

Here is how to enable a rich extensibility model for Windows Azure projects and how to run create jobs on Windows Azure Storage only once in your Windows Azure Projects. This sample and related AzureContrib release leverages Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – an upcoming .NET Framework component in .NET Framework 4.0. We have made a small project at Dotway where I work on making the basic Windows Azure project template a bit more rich and intelligent. This has lead to three releases in the AzureContrib project, each one building on the last to make the functionality one more step...