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2015 2

  1. Why building highly scalable applications is hard – Part 2
  2. Why building highly scalable applications is hard – Part 1

2014 8

  1. Access to an ASP.NET website via multiple authentications – revisited (v4.0)
  2. LINQ, collections and null reference exceptions
  3. Adding Trace to Azure Web Sites and Web Jobs
  4. Video Streaming with a custom IRandomAccessStream on Windows and Windows Phone (Universal App)
  5. Using Application Insights to track Unhandled Exceptions in Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps
  6. Creating a DNS Server in Azure IaaS
  7. FloodHack
  8. Hosting a TFS Build Controller on Windows Azure and connecting to Visual Studio Online

2013 12

  1. Azure: Knowing the limitations with Point-to-Site VPN connections via Authenticated Proxies
  2. Implementing LOB Storage in Memory Optimized Tables
  3. Pulling data from SharePoint 2013 in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 apps
  4. Managing Entity Relationships with MVC Scaffolding
  5. Azure: Calling the Azure Management Rest API
  6. Unit Testing Delay Signed Assemblies on the Hosted TFS Build Service
  7. Building an SCCM Self Service Portal for Deploying Applications – Part 3 (Example Code)
  8. Building an SCCM Self Service Portal for Deploying Applications – Part 2 (Design)
  9. Azure PowerShell: Provisioning Multiple VMs
  10. Exploring Dynamic Access Control Part 4 – Central Access Rules
  11. Exploring Dynamic Access Control Part 3 – Properties and Claims
  12. Exploring Dynamic Access Control Part 2 - Classification

2012 13

  1. Execution Time Based Heuristic Custom Task Scheduler
  2. Workflow Foundation (WF 4.5) - Designer Improvements
  3. Azure Access Control Services: Creating a Custom Identity Provider
  4. SAML 2.0 tokens and WIF – bridging the divide
  5. Dealing with an XSD Choice when XSD.exe doesn’t add XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute
  6. Access to an ASP.NET website via multiple authentications
  7. Co-occurrence Approach to an Item Based Recommender
  8. .Net Implementation of a Priority Queue (aka Heap)
  9. ADFS 2.0: Single sign-on when a website references remote images
  10. Generic based Framework for .Net Hadoop MapReduce Job Submission
  11. Framework for Composing and Submitting .Net Hadoop MapReduce Jobs
  12. Workflow Foundation (WF4) – Rehosting The Workflow Designer
  13. Hadoop Binary Streaming and F# MapReduce

2011 50

  1. Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce
  2. Mutual authentication with a IIS hosted WCF data service installed in a workgroup environment
  3. Adventures in TSQL: SQL Server Query Performance Analysis using DMVs
  4. Creating a Partitioned View in the BAM Archiving Database
  5. Adventures in TSQL: Comma separated string from column values
  6. Preventing Build Hangs and File Locking on Build Servers When Running Unit Tests (revised)
  7. FSharpChart release supporting Stacked Charts and Markers (version 0.60)
  8. String extension methods rather than using RegEx
  9. Preventing Build Hangs and File Locking on Build Servers When Running Unit Tests
  10. FSharpChart new release available (version 0.55)
  11. Federated Security: How to setup and call a WCF service secured by ADFS 2.0
  12. Writing a gesture service with the Kinect for Windows SDK
  13. First Look at the Kinect for Windows SDK
  14. F# Console Application Template
  15. HTML 5 / JavaScript: Creating a Carousel
  16. FSharpChart and consuming within a WinForms application
  17. Adventures in TSQL: Adding date and time values
  18. F# and Running Parallel Tasks
  19. F# Parallel Processing and the Command Pattern
  20. HTML5 / JavaScript: Reflections and Skew Effects
  21. F#: An Array.Parallel Quicksort Implementation
  22. Using mutual SSL and message security to secure a WCF service
  23. The Windows Identity Foundation Configuration Editor
  24. HTML5 / JavaScript Canvas Animation
  25. FSharpChart new features and code drop availability
  26. Workflow Foundation (WF4) – Custom Activity to Invoke XAML Based Child Workflows (Part 2)
  27. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) – Selectively Enable and Disable Activity Execution
  28. F# Array.Parallel sort functions demonstrating a Merge Sort using Barrier
  29. Workflow Foundation (WF4) – Custom Activity to Invoke XAML Based Child Workflows (Part 1)
  30. Workflow Foundation - Resizing the RuleSetDialog
  31. F# Class Library Template
  32. F# Assembly Information File Template
  33. F# Windows Application Template for Windows Service
  34. F# Windows Application Template for WinForms
  35. F# Parallel Process Execution with Conditional Completion
  36. Refactor boilerplate code with Actions and Funcs
  37. Animated Panel layout transitions in WPF and Silverlight using Blend Behaviors
  38. IEnumerable Distinct through a Func extension method
  39. LINQ Distinct and IEqualityComparer Implementation
  40. SharePoint: Advanced Page Viewer Web Part
  41. Write a custom security token and handler in Windows Identity Foundation
  42. Code profiling IIS sites in deployed environments with Visual Studio code profiler
  43. Parallel process execution with partial completion of processes
  44. Handling optional claims with the ADFS Claims Rule Language
  45. Understanding and Using OData – Creating a Windows Phone OData Client (4 of 4)
  46. Microsoft Consulting Services are expanding and you could be part of it
  47. Understanding and Using OData - Analysing OData Feeds (3 of 4)
  48. Understanding and Using OData – OData Publication (2 of 4)
  49. Understanding and Using OData (1 of 4)
  50. An Animated Custom Panel base class for WPF and Silverlight

2010 42

  1. Workflow Services – Using Message Contracts
  2. Generating Load Tests for WCF Services with the WCF Load Test Tool
  3. Building a Windows Phone 7 game, with SharePoint communication
  4. Building and deploying an Outlook 2010 Add-in (part 2 of 2)
  5. Microsoft Online Cloud Conference: the TechDays team goes online
  6. Windows Identity Foundation 101’s : WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (part 2 of 2)
  7. The Cool Wall is Back
  8. Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing UPDATE operations
  9. Debugging the .NET framework source code
  10. U-Prove and why U should care
  11. Introduction to Feature Builder (part 1)
  12. DesignData MVVM support in Blend, VS2010 and WPF/Silverlight
  13. Microsoft Consulting Services are Recruiting
  14. Eye On Earth update
  15. Windows Phone ApplicationBarIconButton not displaying icons
  16. Building and deploying an Outlook 2010 Add-in (part 1 of 2)
  17. Windows Identity Foundation 101’s : WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile (part 1 of 2)
  18. Interrole Communication Example in Windows Azure
  19. Dev and Test, Better Together
  20. Common Problems Collecting Azure Diagnostics
  21. Security Best Practices in Azure
  22. CodePlex Community Projects
  23. Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing DELETE operations
  24. SQL Azure Date and Time Functions derived from the Operating System
  25. Deploying a .NET 4 MVC 2 Application to Windows Server 2003 Using WiX 3.5
  26. System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException : Why extending Silverlight through sub-classing might result in this error.
  27. How does Azure identify a faulty role instance?
  28. Silverlight Arc Control in 5 Easy Steps
  29. Crash course on the TFS Integration Platform
  30. Using Reflection and Attributes for better Tracing and Logging data rendering
  31. Managed Extensibility Framework Overview
  32. Performance characteristics of the Silverlight DataGrid
  33. Creating a new Microsoft Word document from a template using OpenXml
  34. Sending an Email from within Microsoft Word – with the Word document attached
  35. BizTalk SSO stops working after installing Visual Studio 2010
  36. Dynamically Changing the Display Language in Silverlight
  37. The Extreme Retrospective
  38. Keep your Eye On Earth
  39. XML Namespaces and Prefixes
  40. Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure with SQL Azure
  41. Running Memcached in Windows Azure
  42. Dynamic XML Reader with C# and .Net 4.0