Wade Wegner

Today I presented on the Windows Azure Platform at the Day of Cloud conference, in Chicago, IL.

Last month I blogged about the SQL Azure Migration Wizard created by George Huey.

As many of you probably already know, the CTP of SQL Azure is now feature complete!

I have seen enough people ask about running ASP.NET MVC Web Applications in Windows Azure that I thought I’d put together a short, quick webcast that shows exactly the steps you need to take.

Warning: Please note that this post was written prior to the launch of Windows Identity Foundation.

Last week I presented at the Wisconsin .NET Users Group for the first time, along with Joseph Paradi.

I am really excited about The Race to Market Challenge, sponsored by the Windows Mobile team.

In my opinion, SQL Azure is the “secret sauce” of the Windows Azure Platform.

I had the pleasure to co-present with one of my fellow evangelists, Dave Bost, on architecting and developing with the ADO.NET Entity Framework this week.

Many of you probably recall that I used to work for Statera, a Microsoft partner headquartered back in Colorado.

Yesterday I gave a talk on .NET architecture to a very large customer here in Illinois (in case you’re interested, I had to drive down to Bloomington, IL. to visit them).

Update (5/31/09) - as Glen notes in the below comment, you can order the book through an English language site.

I recently returned from MIX09 – what a fantastic event!

In fact, not only is it alive, but it’s thriving!

This past Tuesday was the inaugural meeting of the Windows Azure Cloud Computing User Group in Chicago, IL.

I had the honor and privilege to present with Jack Greenfield at PDC2008 this past week.

… and I can’t wait!

I find myself doing this over and over again, so I figured it would be worthwhile to post.

As I am new to Illinois, I recently started looking around to find out about some of the local user groups.

I know that Twitter is nothing new and that many of you are already using it, but until recently I had managed to resist.

I have long been a proponent of working and developing in an environment that matches your production systems.

Today I decided to install the x64 version of Windows Server 2008 EE w/ Hyper-V on my Dell D830 laptop.

I have been meaning to post an update on the book, but with the new job and move to Illinois it’s been difficult to find the time.

I’ll be in Las Vegas again tomorrow to attend MIX08.

I recently accepted a job as an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, working with the central region Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) team out of Downers Grove, IL.

Finally, back to some writing some code!

I just recently discovered that Ryan McCutchen, a colleague of mine here at Statera, started blogging last month.

A neat trick to help you diagnose troublesome security problems.

Joe Shirey, an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft, has posted an eight-part series that discusses the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program.

I learned about the FreeRice program from James McGovern’s blog post.

There has been some excellent activity by some heavy-weights in the Commerce Server world.

Just noticed these two gems (again from the MSDN Architecture Center): Guide to Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server 2005 Summary: “This white paper explores challenges that arise when you migrate from an Oracle 7.3 database or later to SQL Server 2005.

I have recently been scouring MSFT resources for information related to architecture and the role of enterprise architects, and I have found two resources that I wanted to highlight: MSDN Architecture Center This is a great central hub for architectural i…

I only recently noticed a four-part series of MSFT webcasts focused on aspiring architects, hosted by Mohammad Akif and Dave Remmer.

It only took me two or three months, but I finally updated my Silverlight Hangman application.

Last Monday, three of us from Statera (Troy Hall, Colin McGraw, and myself) presented on the topic of Silverlight at the first MSDN Masters Series presentations in Denver, CO.

Note: For those of you that want to skip the explanation, and simply get a converted management pack for Commerce Server 2007, scroll down to download a MOM 2005 pack converted for OpsMgr 2007 for Commerce Server 2007.

I installed Windows XP Professional with SP 2 today and was amazed to see this when I ran Windows Update: 96 updates!

Operational monitoring (OM) is a practice that is sorely underused, in my opinion.

It has been awhile since I last posted about the status of the book Professional Commerce Server 2007, so I thought I’d share some news and exciting developments.

As I was putting together the demonstration for the talk I’m giving tomorrow on BizTalk Server R2 and the WCF Adapters I had to do a few things to get some basic examples working, as this was a brand new virtual environment.

In preparation for the talk I am giving tomorrow on BizTalk Server R2 and the WCF Adapters, I thought I would post some notes on how to setup and configure a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 development environment.

I was able to use the XML sample documents that come with eConnect (C:Program FilesMicrosoft Great PlainseConnect9XML Sample DocumentsIncoming) to write some test data into my GP database using the eConnect 9.0 adapters for BizTalk Server 2006.

While reading Scott Bellware’s blog today, I came across his Simpson’s alter ego, courtesy of Simpsonize Me.

Lately it seems that I have had to acquire a lot of hotfixes for Microsoft products.

I know this is old news, but this post is primarily a reminder to myself – I keep forgetting!

Although it has its share of issues, I am a big fan of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (known as TFS for short).

Somehow I missed the announcement that SP1 was released for Virtual Server 2005 R2.

One of the things I learned while setting up a virtual Team Foundation Server (TFS) environment is that there are definitely a few “gotchas.”