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The people at Packt asked it again: “Do you want to review this book?” Sure I do! The book I’m reviewing this time is ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design, written by Vivek Thakur.

This post is part 5 (and the final part) of my series on Windows Azure, in which I’ll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about deploying CarTrackr in the cloud after all modifications done in previous posts. Other parts: Deploying CarTrackr is done using the Azure developer portal. I’m creating a hosted service named “CarTrackr”, which will host the cloud version of CarTrackr. I’m also creating a second storage acocunt project, used for TableStorage of all data in CarTrackr.

This post is part 4 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I’ll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing authentication in CarTrackr. Other parts: In my opening post on this series, i defined some tasks which i would probably have to do prior to being able to run cartrackr on azure. for membership and authentication, i defined 2 solutions: cloudship or Windows Live ID.

This post is part 3 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I’ll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about implementing cloud storage in CarTrackr. Other parts: Windows Azure offers 3 types of cloud storage: blobs, tables and queues. Blob Storage stores sets of binary data, organized in containers of your storage account. Table Storage offers structured storage in the form of tables. The Queue service stores an unlimited number of messages, each of which can be up to 8 KB in size.

Just a quick post: at the Document Operability workshop in Brussels on December 2, Microsoft already announced they were going to do something with implementation notes. Here’s a scoop from my blog post on that:

This post is part 2 of my series on Windows Azure, in which I’ll try to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. The current post is all about enabling the CarTrackr Visual Studio Solution file for Windows Azure. Other parts:

As you may see in the title, I will be starting a series on modifying my CarTrackr sample application to a cloud-based, Windows Azure application. At this point, I don’t know if it’s easy nor do I know what it takes to achieve this goal. I only have some assumtions on how CarTrackr can be converted to a cloud application. This post is part 1 of the series, in which I’ll describe the architecture of Windows Azure and what I think it takes to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application. Other parts:

Just a quick recommendation note: One of my colleagues, Julien Hanssens, has started blogging on his experiences with the Entity Framework and LINQ. Here are some links to get you started: Entity Framework - ArgumentException on Connection “A common error while initialising an EntityModel from a WCF Service is the following message: ArgumentException was unhandled by user code - The specified named connection is either not found in the configuration, not intended to be used with the EntityClient provider, or not valid. ” Entity Framework and Stored Procedures

Just noticed there’s a new project on CodePlex related to the ASP.NET MVC framework: MVC XForms. MVC XForms is a simple UI framework for ASP.NET MVC based on the W3C XForms specification. It provides a set of form controls that allow updating of complex model objects. Picked these project goals from Jon Curtis’ blog:

A few days ago, I wrote I was doing a presentation on the DII workshop in Brussels together with Julien Chable. Apart from heavy traffic from Antwerp to Brussels (80km, almost 3 hours… sigh), I think the DII workshop was quite succesful! Lots of news around OpenXML and Office, lots of interesting ideas from other community members. It was also great to meet some people who I’ve been mailing with for 2 years in person. Slides of the Redmond DII session can be found here.