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Article: Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 3: Running a Grid Application
In this 3-parts series of articles, David Pallmann explains how to perform grid computations on the Azure cloud computing platform. In Part 1 he presented a design pattern for using Azure for grid computing, while in Part 2 he showed how to develop such an application in C#. In this part he is going to explain how to run this application.
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Location-Aware Browsing to become Mainstream?
With the W3C working on a specification that defines an API for providing scripted access to geographical location information, Mozilla recently announced built-in Geolocation support for Firefox 3.5. This is aligned with an earlier announcement from Opera that also adds support for Geolocation in their browser. Will this make geographically aware applications ubiquitous?
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Latest F# Breaks Binary Compatibility
Microsoft has included F# in VS 2010 Beta 1 and has released a corresponding CTP update for VS 2008. The latest binaries, version 1.9.6.16, are not compatible with previous ones, v. 1.9.6.2, meaning all previous code needs to be recompiled.
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Identity Developer Training Kit Based On Microsoft 'Geneva' Released
Microsoft released an identity developer training kit, following closely on the heels of the release of Geneva Beta 2 at Teched. The training kit is a set of hands-on labs and resources designed to help developers to take advantage of Microsoft’s identity products and services.
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memcpy() Is Going to Be Banned
The memcpy() function has been recommended to be banned and will most likely enter Microsoft’s SDL Banned list later this year. memcpy() joins the ranks of other popular functions like strcpy, strncpy, strcat, strncat which were banned due to their security vulnerability through buffer overruns.
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What’s New in Entity Framework 4.0 Beta?
Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1 – aka EF V2 - delivered with .NET 4.0 Beta 1 contains a list of important improvements: Customization of Code Generation, Lazy Loading, N-tier Support, POCO Support, DDL Generation, Query Customization and others.
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1
Microsoft has released Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. This long awaited release, initially available to MSDN subscribers only, includes ASP.NET 4.0 enhancements, improved SharePoint Development, better support for parallel programming and cloud development, and new application lifecycle management capabilities.
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Dynamic Endpoint Discovery for WCF 4.0
In a disaster and recovery scenario, you don’t want to waste time with your client applications trying to get them to hooked up to the backup server. You just want them to find the active server and just use it. With WCF 4.0 and dynamic endpoint discovery, that becomes possible.
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Source for the D.NET Compiler is Now Available
Cristian Vlasceanu has released the source code for the D.NET compiler. Like C++ and ObjectiveC, D is a C-based language that attempts to correct some of the issues and limitations of the venerable language.
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Panel: Surviving the Downturn
A panel of hard core developers, including Ted Neward and Jeffrey Palermo, assembled at TechEd 2009 has discussed the current economic difficult times and expressed their opinion on what a developer needs to do to remain employed.
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Moving to IronPython
Dynamic languages like Python and Ruby seem to be all the rage these days. If you want to jump on the bandwagon, sometimes the best way to get started is with a code converter. Fortunately SharpDevelop has you covered with support for C# and VB conversions to IronPython 2.0.
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New York Times Dropping WPF/Silverlight for Adobe AIR
In a rather unexpected turn of events, Microsoft’s WPF and Silverlight platforms have lost another early adopter. Back in 2006 the NY Times was a headliner for WPF. Now it is being dropped in favor of Adobe AIR.
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REST, Silverlight, and the New York Times
In a effort to remain relevant in the increasingly difficult news industry, the New York Times has built a REST-based API through the Times Developer Network. To complement this they also teamed up with Microsoft to provide a Silverlight-based toolkit for developers.
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Microsoft Has Released Axum
InfoQ announced Microsoft’s plan to ship Axum, an incubation language project, 2 weeks ago. In the meantime Microsoft has finished packaging an early release (v. 0.1) and made it available for download.
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Article: Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 2: Developing a Grid Application
In this 3-parts series of articles, David Pallmann explains how to perform grid computations on the Azure cloud computing platform. In Part 1 he presented a design pattern for using Azure for grid computing, while in Part 2 he shows how to develop such an application. In Part 3 he is going to run this application.