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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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Guestbook Sample App Solution Structure

Guestbook/
src/
...Java source code...
META-INF/
...other configuration...
war/
...JSPs, images, data files...
WEB-INF/
...app configuration...
lib/
...JARs for libraries...
classes/
...compiled classes...

Installed Google Plugins for Eclipse

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New Course Silverlight 5 - FREE for next 24 hours (4/13)

New Course Silverlight 5 - FREE for next 24 hours
(free for 24 hrs starting Apr. 13, 2011!)

by Shawn Wildermuth

As the new version of Silverlight 5 has hit the interwebs, it's time for existing developers to learn what features can impact their projects. In this new course Shawn will show you the different areas of the new Silverlight 5 API's including: Data Binding changes, 3D support, performance improvements and elevated trust changes.

Watch What's new in Silverlight 5 FREE for the next 24 hours!
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/olt/Course/Toc.aspx?n=silverlight5-new-features&utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=VR

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Pluralsight: "ReSharper Fundamentals" - Free for 48hrs!

ReSharper Fundamentals Training - Free for 48hrs!

by James Kovacs - Released 10 March 2011

In the new course, ReSharper Fundamentals James Kovacs provides an introduction to JetBrains' ReSharper, a developer productivity tool for Visual Studio. James covers browsing, code cleanup, refactoring, coding assistance, microcode generation, templating, and a grab bag of other useful features. Both new and long-time users of ReSharper can learn a wealth of productivity enhancing tips from this course.

Watch ReSharper Fundamentals free for the next 48hrs!
http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/OLT/Course/Toc.aspx?n=resharperfundamentals

Monday, February 28, 2011

Major Classic ASP to .NET Conversion Project Complete

Excited to say it's complete. Learned a lot through the process. Now moving on to the next project: eLetters and Search Tools.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Monday, December 27, 2010

Happy Holidays

Have a safe and fun holiday season!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Second Email Update Using Gmail

Can you see this?

First Post by Email

Can you see this?

Happy Holidays

Wishing you and your family a safe and happy holiday season!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Cutting Trees

Today is a good day for cutting trees. All leaves are gone and the weather is perfect.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Digg Down

For real.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Visual C# 2010 Step by Step

Won at CapArea.Net Users Group Meeting tonight. :)

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