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Facebook Apps and Windows Azure Web Sites

Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) is a great platform for deploying Facebook Applications. Not only is it super easy to deploy your application to WAWS, but it is also free to get started. In this first...

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Windows Azure Web Sites Modern Application Sample – Cloud Survey

If you had a chance to watch the Windows Azure Web Site session at Learn Windows Azure you may have noticed an application used in the demos called Cloud Survey. The Cloud Survey sample is a modern web...

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Node.js, Socket.IO, and ASP.NET MVC 4 on Windows Azure Web Sites – Tankster...

Today I am releasing another sample application called Tankster Command. This sample shows how to build an application that uses both ASP.NET and Node.js side-by-side. I used ASP.NET MVC 4 to build the...

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Task Scheduling with Windows Azure Web Sites using a Cron Job Service

A common question I get related to Windows Azure Web Sites is how you handle scheduled tasks. When uptime is critical or you are running large processes I generally recommend using a Worker Role. It is...

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Hacking Node.js on WebMatrix 2

I know a lot of people have viewed WebMatrix as kind of a toy or the less capable cousin of  Visual Studio. I will admit that was my initial impression of WebMatrix as well. However, with the release...

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ASP.NET 4.5 on Windows Azure Web Sites

As of today Windows Azure Web Sites now supports .Net Framework 4.5. This gives you the ability to use all kinds of new features with your web app. The most important feature for web developers with...

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.Net 4.5 and Windows Server 2012 on Windows Azure

In case you missed the announcements at BUILD this week, we now support .Net 4.5 on both Windows Azure Web Sites and Cloud Services. Additionally, Cloud Services has a new OS version 3 that runs...

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Spotlight on Windows Azure Startup Mural.ly

If you watched the second BUILD keynote a few weeks ago you may have seen Satya mention a company called Mural.ly. Mural.ly is an exciting new startup that runs their core services and infrastructure...

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Paste into the Windows Command Prompt with Keyboard Shortcut

Paste into the Windows Command Prompt with Keyboard Shortcut Just found this simple tool called AutoHotKey that allows you to create simple automation scripts including using Ctrl+V to paste into the...

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Visual Studio 2012 Presentation Mode

This week I gave several presentations at Microsoft Web Camps. Part of giving a presentation involves setting up your machine properly to ensure that everyone can read the text on the screen. This is...

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Facebook Authentication with the Facebook C# SDK and ASP.NET MVC 4

One of the most common questions I get around using the Facebook C# SDK is how to authenticate a user. While there are samples and official Facebook documentation on the subject, it is something that...

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Hosting Multiple WordPress Sites for Free on Windows Azure

The other day a friend of mine asked me to setup a few WordPress blogs. These are really simple sites that don’t have much traffic. He didn’t want to spend much money so I suggested using the free...

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Subscription Filtering in the Windows Azure Management Portal

List night the Windows Azure Portal Team shipped another great update. This update includes a number of great features such as support for SQL Data Sync, ACS management, and improvements to virtual...

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Getting Serious About Online Personal Security – Passwords

One of the things I decided to focus on this year is online personal security. There have been a number of high profile security breaches this past year and I would be willing to bet that there are...

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Getting Serious About Online Personal Security – Two-Factor Authentication

This is the second post in a series about personal online security. This post is about a security measure called two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication is about adding a second layer of...

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Static Site Generation with DocPad on Windows Azure Web Sites

There has been a lot of interest recently with static content generation tools. These tools allow you to generate a website from source documents such as markdown and serve static html files. The...

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Seeking Contributors for the Facebook C# SDK

The Facebook C# SDK is one of the more popular open source .Net projects today. Our project site receives tens of thousands of monthly visitors and the project itself have been downloaded hundreds of...

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Implementing a Simple Registration Code Check in ASP.NET MVC

I was building a simple web app a few days ago and needed a way to control who could register to use the site. I didn’t really want to build a fancy invitation system nor did I want to add all of the...

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Useful Error Messages for Node.js Apps on Windows Azure Web Sites

I deployed a simple node.js app to Windows Azure Web Sites today and noticed something new (or at least that I haven’t payed attention to before). If there is an error starting your Node.js app the...

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Building Amazing Apps with the ASP.NET EmberJS Template

I have been using EmberJS for a while so I was pretty excited to work on the new EmberJS template for ASP.NET. If you are not familiar with EmberJS, I highly recommend reading through their...

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