In order to make Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) a part of your Windows Azure project in Visual Studio 2010 while having a Test Project to test your code there is a nasty reference issue you have to resolve. I posted all the steps to resolving this issue in my recent post MEF + Azure + Visual Studio 2010 = Tricky but doable. but I forgot one step! Here is the final piece of the puzzle. The remaining problem Following the steps in my previous post (link above) you are good to go with your project in all respects...

Putting Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in your Windows Azure Application while trying to test your code using Visual Studio 2010 does not work OOTB. It is quite easy to modify – in this case MEF – to enable this scenario. The same issue might result from using other libraries as well. Now that Visual Studio 2010 is out you really do not want to remain on the old version. Sometimes there can be issues working with applications that need to support previous versions of .NET Framework – previous to .NET 4.0 that is. Here is one such issue and...

Here it is; a Proof of Concept of the world’s first Neo4j .NET Client. In other words: Here follows a discussion on how to create a client library for communicating with a graph database over REST. UPDATE: There is now a live CodePlex project for the realization of this concept; A .NET Client Library for Neo4j over HTTP using REST and JSON; http://neo4jrestsharp.codeplex.com/ Intro Neo Technologies have come out with a Neo4j REST API for their popular Neo4j graph database. Since I am employed at Jayway and a couple of colleagues working with Neo are too a little bird by...

It is possible to encode a little bit of metadata at the beginning of your byte streams to let the stream itself carry information on how it has been encoded. This is known as a Byte Order Mark (BOM) and it is as far as we know completely optional. Some .NET Framework implementations add this BOM to the start of streams given that they are to have a specific encoding. Here is how to find the BOM, and if necessary, remove it from your stream. Context Recently Neo4j graph database announced a REST interface. A couple of colleagues...

The main points of our Effective and Infinite Storage in the Cloud session at TechDays 2010 in Sweden are listed below as well as links to all of our related material and the zip with our demos. The slides are here too but they are in Swedish only. Our session at TechDays 2010 gave an overview of what storage in the Cloud is, according to Microsoft at present date, and some of the goals for the future in this area. We intended our session to provide the basis for companies to be able to evaluate if and how moving...