Wade Wegner

One of the most common workloads I hear about from customers and developers is video encoding in Windows Azure.

I recently built an application where I wanted to write some arbitrary text onto a video.

With the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 comes full support for IIS in web roles, giving your web roles the ability to access the full range of web service features available in IIS.

One of the best career decisions I’ve made was to join the Windows Azure Platform Evangelism team last July.

Some networks are more restrictive than others, and (much to my continual chagrin) this is especially true here at Microsoft.

Update: Ryan Dunn has just posted Using Web Deploy with Windows Azure that shows a way to use plugins to simplify the process of using Web Deploy with Windows Azure.

link This application looks pretty awesome.

Earlier this week we had a team lunch to wish Ryan Dunn well as he moves on to new challenges outside of Microsoft.

As awesome as it is to have a lot of great local development tools, it’s also be difficult to setup new development environments.

I am happy to announce that we have released the December 2010 update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit.

I had the great pleasure of co-authoring an article with my teammate Vittorio Bertocci on the September LABS release of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control.

Update: Recent updates to the Windows Azure AppFabric CTP (see here) have made some of the steps shown in this video incorrect.

When using Windows Azure AppFabric Caching you will have to configure the caching client to use a provisioned cache.

Click here if you want to quickly grab the latest version of the BidNow sample.

The Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus uses a class called TransportClientEndpointBehavior to specify the credentials for a particular endpoint.

Recently my team quietly released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Course (the training course is similar to the training kit, with minor differences) to coincide with new services released at PDC10.

This post is long overdo.

Not only is this my first time at TechEd EMEA, but it’s also my first time to Berlin.

In addition to building the Composite Application keynote demo presented by James Conard and Bob Muglia, I presented a session on the new Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service that’s now available as a CTP release in the AppFabric LABS environment.

Today’s an exciting day!

While I’ve been involved with the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in the past (keynote in ‘08, breakout in ‘08, and breakout in ‘09), I’ve never been as personally vested and involved as I am this year.

The IE9 beta was released today, and I’m really excited.

I’ve spent the last few days refactoring a web application to leverage SQL Server via Entity Framework 4.0 (EF4) in preparation for migrating it to SQL Azure.

Ryan Dunn and Steve Marx have a great show on Channel9 called the Cloud Cover Show.

The SQL Azure team has announced SQL Azure Service Update 4, which includes database copy, an improved help system, and deployment of Microsoft Project Code-Named “Houston” to multiple data centers.

A couple months ago I wrote a post on how to host WCF services in IIS that expose themselves as endpoints on the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus.

Last week I spent some time setting up Windows Server AppFabric Cache in anticipation of additional tasks this week.

I struggled today to find a good “Getting started with Windows Server AppFabric Cache” tutorial – either my _search fu _failed me or it simply doesn’t exist.

Today the Windows Azure AppFabric team released an update to the SDK.

I spent a good deal of time this weekend importing hours and hours family videos off our Mini DV cassettes.

Significant Access Control Service (ACS) updates released to AppFabric LABS environment today.

I had the great pleasure of co-authoring an article on application migration to Windows Azure for MSDN Magazine with my friend George Huey, creator of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard.

This tip isn’t new, but it’s still useful.

I was reading through the FAQ document for the Windows Azure platform this evening (what else is there to do on a Sunday night?)

I definitely luck out when it comes to the first day on the job.

It was an amazing TechEd NA 2010, and I admit that it took me a few days to recover.

Update: To see how to leverage Windows Azure AppFabric Autostart to activate the WCF Service, please see AutoStart WCF Services to Expose them as Service Bus Endpoints.

The other day I attempted to build a sample application that communicated with the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by creating a Console application targeting the .NET Framework 4.0.

On an email thread today, someone was looking for suggestions on how to start a job simultaneously across multiple worker roles running in Windows Azure.

If you take a look at the official Windows Azure platform website, you’ll see two definitions for the Windows Azure platform AppFabric (hereafter referred to as the Azure AppFabric) prominently called out: “… connects cloud services and on-premises applic…

At MIX10, Jon Box – a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft – spoke with SocialWendy about Internet Explorer 8.

I am excited to share that I’m taking the role of Technical Evangelist for the Windows Azure platform, focused on the Azure AppFabric.

Take a look at this great highlight reel featuring a number of great customer solutions that leverage Microsoft Silverlight.

I love gaming.

George Huey has done it again!

Last week I presented at the Wisconsin Azure User Group for the second time, along with Clark Sell.

It’s hard to believe that the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 is less than two weeks away.

One of the advantages to the approach our teams building the Windows Azure Platform have taken is flexibility.

Note: This is a guest post from George Huey, Architect Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Evangelism group.

As a native Illinoisan, I know that the Taste of Chicago is a big deal!