Maarten Balliauw {blog}

Word of warning: This is a partial cross-post from the JetBrains WebStorm blog.

With the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) released as a preview, I thought it was a good time to write up some details about how to work with it.

NOTE: While the content is this blog post will still work, JetBrains now has a plugin that is the recommended way of working with TeamCity and build agents on Azure.

After a beta version about a month ago, we are proud to release MvcSiteMapProvider 4.0 stable!

With yesterday’s announcement on Windows Azure Traffic Manager surfacing in the management portal (as a preview), I thought it was a good moment to recap this more than 2 year old service.

At the Build conference, Microsoft today announced that Windows Azure Cloud Services now support autoscaling.

While probably this post will be outdated in the coming days, at the time of writing Windows Azure Web Sites has no PHP 5.5 support (again: yet).

It has been a while since a new major update has been done to the MvcSiteMapProvider project, but today is the day!

With the latest version of the ReSharper 8 EAP, JetBrains shipped an extension manager for plugins, annotations and settings.

One of the services provided by the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS).

Many API’s out there, such as GitHub’s API, have a concept called “rate limiting” or “throttling” in place.

A couple of weeks, I told you about NuGet Package Source Discovery.

One of the well-loved features of Windows Azure Web Sites is the fact that you can simply push our ASP.NET application’s source code to the platform using Git (or TFS or DropBox) and that sources are compiled and deployed on your Windows Azure Web Site.

It’s already been 2 years since NuGet was introduced.

Here’s another cross-post from our JetBrains .NET blog.

There is a raging discussion on the interwebs on whether to version API’s by using their URL or by using a custom media type.

Just a quick post to let you know I’ll be taking over the @msdnbelux Twitter account for the next two weeks.

Disclaimer: My job at JetBrains holds a lot of “exploration of tools”.

On April 27th, 2013, you’ll have the ability to join a Windows Azure Bootcamp on a location close to you.

When deploying an application to Windows Azure Web Sites, a number of deployment steps are executed.

Note: this is a cross-post from the JetBrains YouTrack blog.

We’ve all been there.

Right after my last post (Working with Windows Azure command line tools from PhpStorm), the obvious question came to mind… Can I do Windows Azure things using the command line tools from within Visual Studio as well?

Working with Windows Azure and my new toy (PhpStorm), I wanted to have support for doing specific actions like creating a new web site or a new database in the IDE.

In my new role as Technical Evangelist at JetBrains, I’ve been experimenting with one of our products a lot: PhpStorm.

On one of the mailing lists I follow, an interesting question came up: “We want to write a VSTO plugin for Outlook which copies attachments to blob storage.

An article I wrote a while ago has been posted on DeveloperFusion: The world in which we live evolves at a vast speed.

That’s a pretty long title, I agree.

If you check my blog post Tracking API usage with Google Analytics, you’ll see that a small open-source component evolved from MyGet.

Note: this blog post used to be an article for the Windows Azure Roadtrip website.

Note: this blog post used to be an article for the Windows Azure Roadtrip website.

September 1st, 2005.

ASP.NET Web API is a great tool to build an API with.

For the past few months, I’ve been coaching a “Microsoft Student Partner” (who has a great blog on Kinect for Windows by the way!)

Good news!

With the release of Windows 8 on MSDN yesterday, I have a gut feeling that today, around the globe, people are installing this fresh operating system on their machine.

If you are familiar with OAuth2’s protocol flow, you know there’s a lot of things you should implement if you want to protect your ASP.NET Web API using OAuth2.

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced their Windows Azure Services for Windows Server.

A while ago, I was at a customer who wanted to run his own WebDAV server (using www.sabredav.org) on Windows Azure Web Sites.

For the past few days, an interesting blog post on the NY Times has been popping up in my Twitter timeline.

Woohoo!

Imagine you are building an API which is “multi-tenant”: the domain name defines the tenant or customer name and should be passed as a route value to your API.

With the release of Microsoft’s Windows Azure Virtual Machines, a bunch of new scenarios became available on their cloud platform.

Windows Azure Websites allows you to publish a web site in ASP.NET, PHP, Node, … to Windows Azure by simply pushing your source code to a TFS or Git repository.

With the new release of Windows Azure and Windows Azure Websites, a lot of new scenarios with Windows Azure just became possible.

As one of the board members of the Windows Azure User Group in Belgium, I wanted to write a post on an event we organized last weekend.

A while ago, Michelangelo van Dam (a hardcore PHP guy), François Hertay (a hardcore Java guru) and myself (a .NET guy) were asked if we wanted to write about some of our experiences with the Windows Azure platform.

Here’s a perhaps rather redundant event for you but it should be kind of fun: MEET Windows Azure on Twitter (+ Beer).

I’ve had my say on cloud and the new world of IT already in an earlier post, Predictions for the future.

As you know, Windows Azure is a very rich platform.