Anyone who has spent much time in the IT world knows that success is often due in very large measure to those who came before us who took the time to stop and explain a technique or a method, patiently guided us past our mistakes, or had the grace to let us learn from our failures. While the debt incurred cannot be paid back, it can certainly be acknowledged. ......

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I ran into a situation where I was trying out WS-Discovery. you know the new WCF capability that allows you dynamically find services on your local network. Which would come in handy if say some company created software that ran on windows and hosted some services that could automatically link up with co-workers clients like windows phone and maybe ......

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Saas vs. S+S Saas is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can benefit from the economies of scale of the data and behavior of that architecture being built and hosted in the cloud by a third party in a multitenant fashion. Software + Services is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can achieve some of the same economies ......

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Putting my last attempt at creating a business on the shelf... Passed to second round of grant funding but ultimately did not receive grant. We were looking to submit GHS for the first round of federal grants being offered for HIT Regional Extension Centers. Bio.... Green Health Solutions Inc. (GHS) a non-profit, minority owned Health Care Information ......

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I asked someone the following question.. in the following code... ( from MSDN Mag 2010 issue ( thomas erl )) [Description("PartitionKey=... Rowkey=AccountId")] public class UserAccountBalance : TableServiceEntity { public double Balance { get; set; } public UserAccountBalance() : base(Guid.NewGuid().ToStrin... Guid.NewGuid().ToString()) { } public ......

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first a note: I know this is the name of my blog is cloud9 and im supposed to be talking about Azure but just like everyone has thier pronounciation of the word Azure... I have my own defintion or vision of what Azure is. Azure is the core of a software + services platform. At this point in the game you might be saying DUH.. Whatever. Well let me just ......

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Below is a Microsoft.IdentityModel configuration you might find in a web.config or app.config that hosts websites or webservices that leverage Claims based authentication and authorization. If your requirements require you to do this at runtime at the start of the app you can do the following.... void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { ......

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Someone out in the ether asked a question that I have heard many times and i just shake my head. With "Dublin" on the horizon as the future distributed application server role for Windows, does it make sense for Microsoft to call this new role "Windows BizTalk Services"? my answer is ... I don't think they want to do that. Biztalk and Dublin are different ......

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So lets say you want to test early development builds in a continuously integrated system. You want to take all your developers code and execute it on a seperate box and be able to test client access to your system remotely. Yeah you could put it up in staging on Azure but maybe you dont want to do that yet. Maybe you just want some testers bangin away ......

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Saas vs. S+S Saas is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can benefit from the economies of scale of the data and behavior of that architecture being built and hosted in the cloud by a third party in a multitenant fashion. Software + Services is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can achieve some of the same economies ......

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