The out of browser experience introduced in Silverlight 3 has been optimized in version 4. And it’s a blast! But one minor frustration which wasn’t immediately obvious for me is that, by default, when you debug a Silverlight application it opens the default browser and runs your app in i... [More]

Every once in a while every modestly “seasoned” developer gets a visit from a ghost from the past.  With any luck the visit is limited to sins committed by the developer in the more recent past, but sometimes them old wounds will be opened up. In this specific case a request was made to add... [More]

  Eric Nelson just released and published the free 96 page book “Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches Volume One”. I consider it an honour to have been chosen as one of the 15 authors to write an article for this first volume. The contents of the book in a nutshell... [More]

With the official introduction of SQL Azure (August CTP) on August 18th 2009 it wasn’t really intuitive to connect to your SQL Azure Database. Sure, there is an official workaround but that honestly just doesn’t cut it at the moment.   So to quickly start working without any fuzz,... [More]

One of the propagated “great features” for ASP.NET MVC is the full control you have over the routing and url’s of your webapplication. In order to demonstrate this, let’s walk through a sample that specifically handles subdomain routing. The Routing Scenario Actually, the f... [More]