March 2011 Entries

Performance Tips for VS2010

I found out today that, if you go to Help >> Troubleshooting in VS2010 (SP1), you’ll get lots of cool performance recommendations. You can also see these at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e
Posted On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:52 PM | Feedback (0)

Azure Free for 30 Days

I’m not the first to post this, by any means. However, you can try Azure for 30 days, free of charge. Details are at http://bit.ly/CRAzurePass. You’ll need to use promotion code DPCE01 (that’s a “zero” not an “o”)
Posted On Sunday, March 27, 2011 4:32 PM | Feedback (0)

Azure WCF Service Errors

WCF services under Azure have a nasty habit of not really telling you what you need to know. Having fought through this – and having been challenged to find exactly what I needed in a Google search, I thought I’d add some more specific info here. Before I do, let me say thanks to Steve Marx, whose blog posts and forum answers pointed me in the right direction. Here are the exceptions that surfaced: ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not create Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diag...
Posted On Sunday, March 27, 2011 4:20 PM | Feedback (0)