HowTo: migrate an established WebApp to Azure

  The Windows Azure platform exists for a long time till now but I never had the chance to migrate an established Web application to Azure. I try to document this step by step. The first step is really easy: build a WebApp package and enter SQLAzure (the easiest way).    

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HowTo: AJAX Actionlink & ASP.NET MVC 3

  In MVC framework there are some little helpers existing I´ve already written about in this blogpost – but in fact the functionality changed a little bit so here is an update for you.  

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Glimpse Web Debugging: Firebug for the Server side

  How do I get to know what´s happening inside a web application without a lot of logging or to stop with the debugger everywhere? Today I was introduced to a nice helper: Glimpse – it works almost similar to firebug but it analyzes the server side  

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HowTo: Setup of WebDeploy / MSDeploy

  A long time ago I´ve already spoken about MSDeploy. It was about how to integrate MSDeploy into your Building process. But I haven´t talked a lot about server configuration. That´s what I´m going to change today because sometimes MSDeploy or WebDeploy is used to be a little bit bitchy So how to configurate MSDeploy/WebDeploy?

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HowTo: use ASP.NET developments in VMWare & iPhone Simulator on a Mac

  Those of you who are lucky owners of a Mac are able to register at the apple developer program for free and download several iPhone developer tools there. Also you can download a simulator for iPhone/iPad which probably works like a real iPhone/iPad. As ASP.NET developer I run Visual Studio in a VM. In …

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HowTo: detect code depending’s with NDepend & TeamCity

  NDepend is a tool which is created to detect depending´s between .NET components. The whole thing exists as Fatclient, which is perfect to integrate in Visual Studio. And there is a console application which you are able to integrate into your Buildprocess to create Reports. How this works I´m going to tell you now…. …

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HowTo: Fileupload with ASP.NET MVC

  In this HowTo I´m going to give you a short invitation how to implement a fileupload with ASP.NET MVC.

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HowToCode: Do we need UML?

  I´ve found this very nice service called yUML.me which allows you to create cool UML diagrams with an URL. I think this is a nice thing but in fact I can´t remember when I used REAL UML at work.So I asked myself, do we really need UML?  

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HowTo: deactivate #regions on Interface implementations

  As you already know I´m an adversary of #regions in the source code. If you don´t use the resharper instead of the Visual Studio helpers you will get a “˜region tag around the interface implementations. But, of course, there is a way to turn this off…  

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HowTo: jQuery hosted CDN version & local „Fallback“

  jQuery is one of the populates javascript frameworks. But it´s not the smallest one. To save traffic and reduce the waiting time while loading you should try out the “CDN” (hosted) jQuery version. But how is it possible to run a local backup plan in emergency case? Go on reading if you are interested …

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