Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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External File Upload Optimizations for Windows Azure
[Cross posted from here: http://rob.gillenfamily.net/post/External-File-Upload-Optimizations-for-Windows-Azure.aspx]
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Automated Chart Generation
It’s late on the Friday afternoon before Christmas week which means things are pretty quiet around the office. This quiet has the net-effect of allowing me to get quite a bit done. The last few days have been very productive with respect to our research project and Azure work (more on that coming soon) which is now in full swing. We are currently working on collecting performance data from our codes running in Azure (and soon in the Amazon cloud) and are also doing some testing of transfer speeds of data both to/from the cloud as well as between compute and storage in the cloud.
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Clouds and Traditional Hosting Companies
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Finally back where I want to be...
It's frustrating to me to find myself redoing things that I've done before or re-solving problems. Over the years at Planet I've been involved with different software teams each with different levels of rigor, however most all of them have had, at minimum, an automated build process of some sort (at least for the past 4 years or so). Some of these systems were elaborate msbuild driven systems while others were a cobbling together of batch scripts or PowerShell linking msbuild, Vault, FogBugz and Community server.
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VS 2005 Project Subtypes
I’ve had the opportunity lately to work on a project that needed to generate some code for a project based on a given file within the project and then include/add those files to the project for inclusion during build. We spent a good bit of time looking at the various options such as custom MSBuild tasks, add-ins, VSPackages, etc. and finally settled on a Visual Studio Package that implemented a project subtype, a custom project property page, and a custom tool (single-file generator).
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MPS SDK Part 2 of ?
I am preparing to give a talk/introduction to the MPS SDK at the end of this week based on the outline below. I thought I'd list some of the thoughts/comments here under each of the points as a general resource for anyone interested. In this post, I'll list my outline and then expand on the first points with subsequent posts expanding on the remaining points.
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New SDK for the Microsoft Provisioning System!
I’ve recently recieved clearance to discuss a project I’ve been working on for quite awhile – a new SDK for the Microsoft Provisioning System. This is something that has been a goal of mine for a number of years, and if you have done any significant development for/with MPS you will be glad to hear that the developer toolset is finally going to be shipping (no, don’t ask me when – but it shouldn’t be too long).
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Using XSD in your C# and MPS programming...
So I need to begin this post by admitting that I’m relatively new to the XSD world… particuarly as it applies to C#. While I’ve done a signficant amount of Xml programming and manipulation in C#, my recent forrays into this technology cause me to reconsider my belief that I’m an experienced Xml programmer…
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Writing MPF Schemas is easier now using VS 2005
I know many people do not take the time to include schemas in their MPF named procedures, but I am a big fan. Here at eQuest, we use these in-line schemas for all sorts of things ranging from auto-generating CHM files to auto-generating strongly-typed C# and XML Web Service wrappers. The problem is, these are a *pain* to write. I hate writing them, and even worse, they are hard to get accurate. It is very easy to miss a step, or mis-state a requirement, etc. It is very easy to duplicate a node, or forget to include a node, etc.