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2017 4

  1. Detecting drift between ARM templates and Azure resource groups
  2. Get Alerts as you approach your Azure resource quotas
  3. Industrial Scale Onboarding in Microsoft Azure
  4. Industrial Scale RBAC in Microsoft Azure

2016 3

  1. Exporting details of Azure Virtual Machines to CSV/Excel
  2. Migrating Azure IaaS solutions from ASM to ARM using MigAz
  3. Analysing Enterprise Azure spend by Tags

2015 5

  1. Authenticating to Azure Resource Manager using AAD and Certificates
  2. So, you want to build a cloud service?
  3. Azure QuickStarts: In Visual Studio and on the web
  4. Changing the server time zone on Azure Web Apps
  5. Applying a “Web and Worker Roles” pattern to the Azure App Service

2014 3

  1. Applying some DevOps Rigour to Azure Websites’ AppSettings
  2. Unattended authentication to Azure Management APIs with Azure Active Directory
  3. Deploying multiple virtual directories to a single Azure Website

2013 6

  1. Windows Azure in Australia: Facts and Rumours
  2. Keep your Windows Azure applications running with custom health checks
  3. Running scripts from a Windows Azure role’s OnStart method
  4. Using XPath to set environment variables in ServiceDefinition.csdef
  5. Using Windows Firewall to restrict access to Windows Azure instances
  6. Keeping diagnostics in sync across Windows Azure instances

2011 8

  1. Automated Build and Deployment with Windows Azure SDK 1.6
  2. Updates to Windows Azure MSBuild post for SDK 1.5
  3. Using Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions with WCF
  4. Using Service Bus Queues with WCF
  5. Environments for Windows Azure development
  6. Hosting Services with WAS and IIS on Windows Azure
  7. Creating multi-series Bubble Charts in Excel
  8. Using MSBuild to deploy to multiple Windows Azure environments

2010 5

  1. Adding a Windows Firewall rule using PowerShell
  2. The role of an architect in an agile team
  3. Get logging in Windows Azure with Enterprise Library
  4. “Suggested Resources” Visual Studio Plug-In
  5. What do you think of the EntLib 5.0 configuration tool?

2009 8

  1. See you at TechEd Australia and New Zealand
  2. Beware the perils of local time
  3. Protecting against XML Entity Expansion attacks
  4. Your guided tour of the Microsoft Solutions Development Centre
  5. What do you want to see in EntLib 5.0?
  6. Enterprise Library 5.0 kick-off! Spend your $100 wisely!
  7. Just Released: Validation Application Block Hands-On Lab
  8. The Joy of Code Reviews

2008 22

  1. StickyNotes for Visual Studio
  2. How my team does agile
  3. Windows Live finally makes sense
  4. Speaking at WDNUG
  5. Application Architecture for .NET v2 - This time for real!
  6. MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice (Part 3)
  7. MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice (Part 2)
  8. MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice (Part 1)
  9. Windows Media Center - Is it still just for geeks?
  10. Building a Pub/Sub Message Bus with WCF and MSMQ
  11. Enterprise Library 4.0 - Get it while it's hot!
  12. Thoughts on being a Solution Architect
  13. Enterprise Library 4.0 Community Technology Preview
  14. Cool New Stuff on CodePlex
  15. Polymorphism and the Validation Application Block
  16. Gosh! GAT/GAX is Golden!
  17. Why your customers will love agile (even if they think they hate it)
  18. Dialog Box of the Week
  19. Unity + EntLib = ?
  20. Unity Workshop in Redmond
  21. A Follow-up on PIAB+WCF Integration
  22. Enterprise Library 4.0 Plan Published!

2007 54

  1. Prioritising Validation Results using VAB ASP.NET Integration
  2. Dependency Injection coming in EntLib v4
  3. Invoking the Policy Injection Application Block at WCF Service Boundaries
  4. Code Generators: Can't live with them, can't live without them
  5. What do you want to see in EntLib vNext?
  6. The Repository Factory - Try It, Use It, Contribute!
  7. EntLib Contrib September 2007 Release
  8. Welcome Andrew Delin to patterns & practices
  9. Abstractions: You can have too much of a good thing
  10. What am I doing now anyway?
  11. Inoffensive music offends me greatly
  12. NZ .NET Code Camp
  13. GAX += 0.1;
  14. Mapping SQL Server Errors to .NET Exceptions (the fun way!)
  15. p&p in the Real World: First Impressions
  16. First Release of EntLib Contrib
  17. GAX 1.3 for Orcas announced
  18. VB4: "XAML, I am your father"
  19. The Seven Deadly Sins of Reusable Asset Development
  20. WPF, Silverlight, Virtual Earth... Oh My!
  21. Adventures in Usability
  22. Breaking the cycle of failed development projects
  23. Enterprise Library 3.1 is released
  24. Enterprise Library 3.1 is coming!
  25. I'm home!
  26. Software Factories Exit Poll
  27. Help Wanted! "p&p Contrib" is open for business!
  28. Enterprise Library 3.0 Drill-Down Webcasts
  29. Validation Application Block, meet WPF
  30. Welcome Glenn Block to p&p!
  31. Avoiding configuration pitfalls with incompatible copies of Enterprise Library
  32. VSIP Factory on CodePlex
  33. Enterprise Library: The Videos
  34. Effective Policy Viewer for the Policy Injection Application Block
  35. Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007
  36. It's Census Time!
  37. "Enterprise Library 3.0 - What's New?" Webcast on tomorrow, March 27th
  38. Clarius updates the Software Factories Toolkit
  39. "Application Architecture for .NET" 2 - The Revenge
  40. It's Webcast Time!
  41. More ways to inject policies
  42. Configuring the Policy Injection Application Block
  43. Just Released: Enterprise Library 3.0 February 2007 CTP
  44. Thoughts on Product Management
  45. Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit: February 2007 Community Technology Preview
  46. Announcing the Policy Injection Application Block
  47. Environmental Overrides in Enterprise Library 3.0
  48. Software Factory Building Roundup
  49. Software Factories: 100,000 served!
  50. patterns & practices on Channel 9
  51. One-Stop Shopping for the p&p Development Plan
  52. Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 January 2007 CTP
  53. Validation Application Block in the January 2007 CTP
  54. Validators supplied in the VAB

2006 51

  1. Standard Disclaimer
  2. EntLib 3.0: Strong Naming Guidance Package
  3. Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - December 2006 CTP
  4. Clarius releases Software Factories Toolkit CTP
  5. Survey on your use of patterns
  6. Block Building Made Easy
  7. Validation Application Block: Revealed!
  8. Installing GAT/GAX and factories under Windows Vista
  9. DSL and GAT: Together at last (sort of)
  10. ...And I disapprove of this message
  11. The Emperor's New Web-based Office Suite
  12. How sausage is made: a look inside the p&p offices
  13. Enterprise Library v3: The Plan
  14. p&p Installers in the Vista World
  15. Enterprise Library feature voting: The results are in!
  16. What do you mean, you want a Business Rules and Workflow Application Block?
  17. Debugging Guidance Packages
  18. Enterprise Library Exit Poll is back
  19. Service Factory Hands-On Lab Now Available
  20. The dogfood cube appears to be down
  21. Jezz Santos on Software Factories
  22. Just Released: Web Service Software Factory
  23. Manageability Extensions for Enterprise Library January 2006
  24. Software Factories: The Next Generation
  25. What is going to happen with UIP?
  26. Patch for Partial Trust support in Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
  27. July Community Drop of Web Service Software Factory
  28. Guidance Automation Extensions and Toolkit: June 2006 Release
  29. MSDN Magazine article on building your own application block
  30. GAX and GAT update, and introducing the Guidance Navigator.
  31. What the Da Vinci Code and the Bible have in common
  32. Guidance Explorer
  33. Service Factory: May CTP and a new blogcast
  34. Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 now available!
  35. Enterprise Library Oddities: Why does the DAAB always show up in my configuration?
  36. Don "blogcasts" on Service Factory
  37. Webcast on Enterprise Library Extensibility: Building Your Own Designtime
  38. Source code for ASP.NET 2.0 Providers
  39. First community drop of the Web Service Software Factory now available!
  40. Rolling, Rolling, Rolling...
  41. External configuration files in Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0
  42. A new journey for Brian Button
  43. Some bloody cool Enterprise Library v2 Extensions
  44. Invitation to Design For Operations for Developers Workshop
  45. "Design for Operations" Workshop in Redmond, March 27-28
  46. Webcast: Building your own block with Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
  47. Enterprise Library Extensions for .NET 2.0 release
  48. A Reflected Property formatter token for the Logging Application Block
  49. Of Timestamps and Timezones in the new Logging Application Block
  50. Brian blogs on ObjectBuilder and EntLib
  51. Happy New Year!

2005 50

  1. Just Released! GAT, and all sorts of other cool stuff...
  2. Scott says farewell to p&p
  3. Enterprise Library Core Architecture Webcast
  4. Enterprise Library Update
  5. GAT Release Plans
  6. Say g'day to another p&p blogger
  7. What’s up with the Cryptography Application Block?
  8. Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 - November CTP now available!
  9. Solution Folders in Enterprise Library
  10. Webcast about Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
  11. GAT documentation in a wiki
  12. New CTP of the Composite UI Application Block released - and introducing ObjectBuilder.
  13. "What are we up to?" Webcast
  14. Patch 1763 for Enterprise Library - January 2005
  15. DAAB in Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
  16. Architecture Testing Guidance
  17. August CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 available to download
  18. Supporting multiple configuration environments using the EntLib config tool
  19. Can you hear the drums Fernando?
  20. A hard earned thirst needs a better cold beer
  21. Logging in Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0
  22. Scott spills the beans...
  23. MSN Virtual Earth beta launched
  24. Documentation in EntLib 2.0: Some follow-up questions
  25. Web Services Security Patterns preview now available
  26. Cool use of GAT: NUnit Converter
  27. Enterprise Library June 2005 now available!
  28. Thwarted!
  29. patterns and practices News round-up
  30. The Ecosystem Grows
  31. Enterprise Library June 2005 (the '1.1 release')
  32. Enterprise Library and .NET 2.0: What's the deal?
  33. Reviewers wanted for Web Services Security guidance project
  34. Guidance Automation Toolkit now available to download
  35. Letting the GAT out of the bag
  36. Wojtek Kozaczynski joins the blogsphere
  37. A new webcast and a new deliverable
  38. New patch for Enterprise Library released
  39. Managing Enterprise Library in your organization
  40. Jobs at patterns & practices
  41. Comments on the EntLib/Log4Net feature and performance comparison
  42. UIP - how did that work out for you?
  43. p&p goes multimedia
  44. Instrumentation in Enterprise Library
  45. Enterprise Library vNext - what would you like to see?
  46. Whistler instead of work...
  47. EntLib in BlogLand
  48. Enterprise Library is finally here!
  49. Libraries and Dependencies
  50. Hello??? World???