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Archives / 2011 / September
  • Pub/Sub in the cloud for IT Management

    In the recent “Build” event, Microsoft introduced a new feature Windows Server 8 known as “Windows Powershell Web Access” for exposing a the server powershell console through a web interface. Although this feature looks very promising in first place, I only think it is convenient for intranet scenarios. I don’t initially see an organization exposing their servers directly to internet for using this feature from a phone as it represents a high risk.

  • Making WCF Web Async Apis

    One of the hidden gems that you can get today from the WCF Web Api source code in codeplex (wcf.codeplex.com) is the support for the task-based asynchronous model introduced in .NET 4.0. The new model simplifies a lot the way you do asynchronous stuff in .NET, and it’s going to get even better with the async support in C# 5.