Introduction The Management Portal for Windows Azure provides a nice user experience for many service management operations such as creating cloud services, storage accounts, virtual machines, virt...
Securing a WCF Service in an Azure Web Role with HTTP & TCP Endpoints
Introduction In my last post, I showed how to host a WCF Service in an Azure Web Role with http and tcp endpoints. In this post, I will wrap things up by showing how to secure these endpoints usi...
Hosting a WCF Service in an Azure Web Role with HTTP & TCP Endpoints
Introduction Since IIS 7.5, developers have been able to take advantage of the rich hosting environment IIS provides for their WCF services, and do so using non-http protocols, such as net.tcp, ne...
Visual Studio and GitHub: The Basics of Working with Existing Repositories
In this post, I’m going to cover some basics for using Visual Studio’s Git support with Github repositories. Specifically, I’ll cover Pre-Requisites (getting setup). Forking a Repository Cl...
Implementing Polyglot Persistence – Part 5
In this post I will complete the implementation of my MongoDB repository by implementing the Review operations previously defined in my IProductRepository interface. This will also be the post wher...
Implementing Polyglot Persistence – Part 4
This post continues the journey of implementing a MongoDB repository, this time focusing on the search implementation. Implementing the Product Repository (continued…) I structured my API for sea...
Implementing Polyglot Persistence – Part 3
In this post I will start creating a Mongolab repository to perform CRUD operations against the MongoDB database I created in Part 2. As a starting point, I will use the solution that I introduced ...
Implementing Polyglot Persistence – Part 2
In part 1 of this series, I created a product catalog repository interface and a simple in-memory repository. In this post I am going to start the implementation of a repository going against a Mon...
Setting up a Neo4j Server running on Ubuntu in Windows Azure
The VM Depot by Microsoft Open Technologies is a great community resource for finding pre-configured images of various operating systems and software that you can deploy on Azure. You can also cre...
Implementing Polyglot Persistence – Part 1
NOTE: This post was recovered from archives and unfortunately some of the images were lost. I’ve restored as much as I can. However, due to the age of this post I won’t be re-producing the missin...