Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Setting up VS2010 External Tools for NUnit

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Free VS 2010 Video Training

http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/OLT/Course/Toc.aspx?n=vs2010-moreintro

Using Visual Studio well is about more than writing code, or reading code written by others. To be truly productive, you need to debug well, and understand the designers that help you build your user interface. This course also shows you how to add helpful extensions that make Visual Studio even better.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Standard Windows Azure Rates

Standard Rates:

Windows Azure


  • Compute*




  • Extra small instance**: $0.05 per hour

  • Small instance (default): $0.12 per hour

  • Medium instance: $0.24 per hour

  • Large instance: $0.48 per hour

  • Extra large instance: $0.96 per hour



Virtual Network***


  • Windows Azure Connect - No charge during CTP



Storage


  • $0.15 per GB stored per month

  • $0.01 per 10,000 storage transactions



Content Delivery Network (CDN)


  • $0.15 per GB for data transfers from European and North American locations

  • $0.20 per GB for data transfers from other locations

  • $0.01 per 10,000 transactions



SQL Azure


  • Web Edition

  • $9.99 per database up to 1GB per month

  • $49.95 per database up to 5GB per month



Business Edition


  • $99.99 per database up to 10GB per month

  • $199.98 per database up to 20GB per month

  • $299.97 per database up to 30GB per month

  • $399.96 per database up to 40GB per month

  • $499.95 per database up to 50GB per month



AppFabric


  • Access Control




  • No charge for billing periods before January 1, 2012



Service Bus


  • $3.99 per connection on a “pay-as-you-go” basis

  • Pack of 5 connections $9.95

  • Pack of 25 connections $49.75

  • Pack of 100 connections $199.00

  • Pack of 500 connections $995.00



Caching****


  • 128 MB cache for $45.00

  • 256 MB cache for $55.00

  • 512 MB cache for $75.00

  • 1 GB cache for $110.00

  • 2 GB cache for $180.00

  • 4 GB cache for $325.00



Data Transfers


  • North America and Europe regions




  • $0.10 per GB in

  • $0.15 per GB out



Asia Pacific Region


  • $0.10 per GB in

  • $0.20 per GB out



Inbound data transfers during off-peak times through June 30, 2011 are at no charge. Prices revert to our normal inbound data transfer rates after June 30, 2011.

Windows Azure with MSDN Subscriptions

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Installed Windows Azure SDK and VS 2010 Tools 1.4

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