New Windows Azure Course Starts Next Tuesday!
SSWUG’s new virtual class will provide you with the knowledge of Window Azure’s components and aspects to run applications without the expense needed to maintain the hardware and save money on licensing costs.
Scott Klein, who is a Microsoft SQL Azure MVP and the co-founder of Blue Syntax Consulting, will showcase the different types of services that can be hosted in Windows Azure such as web and worker roles, and then move on to the basics of Azure’s durable storage solution, which include Azure queues, blobs and tables.
He will also provide a introduction on SQL Azure – Microsoft’s cloud-based relational database, and how you can use SQL Azure to store your relational data on the cloud. This will be followed up by sessions dealing with Azure AppFabric, cloud computing patterns and practices, as well as diagnostics and service management.
To sign up for the course, click here.
Manage Open Source Dot Net Add-ins with NuGet
NuGet has been out since 2010 and is familiar to many who use Visual Studio 2010. However, NuGet is not a part of Visual Studio, it is an Add-in.
NuGet has optimized the process of including open source libraries in your Dot Net software. It wraps the steps to obtain, install, and reference libraries into a Dot Net Project into a single call to the NuGet service. They outline 7 steps in their example for downloading and including the Open Source library for ELMA on their site:
1. Find ELMAH
2. Download the correct zip package.
3. “Unblock” the package.
4. Verify its hash against the one provided by the hosting environment.
5. Unzip the package contents into a specific location in the solution.
6. Add an assembly reference to the assembly.
7. Update web.config with the correct settings which a developer needs to search for.
That’s a lot of work encapsulated into a single call from Visual Studio. If you use multiple libraries having dependencies, multiply these steps by the number of libraries. Also, many times you need to have specific versions of libraries for them to work together. NuGet handles those kinds of dependencies as well.
NuGet is accessed as a Visual Studio Add-in. There are already many different open source libraries available.
Do you have software published on NuGet? Are you using NuGet? Send me an Email to share your experiences with our readers. btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben
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