Yavor Georgiev's Blog

Apr 23

I’ll be speaking on Node.js at tomorrow’s Microsoft patterns & practices Symposium 2012, and you still have time to register. It’s free and it will be streamed live on Channel 9, so you can watch it regardless of where you are. My talk is at 13:30 tomorrow (04/23/12), see you there!

Apr 02

In more conference-related news, I’ll be speaking on Future Insights Live’s newly announced Cloud Track! Registration is still open… see you in Las Vegas!

Writing Node.js apps for Windows Azure
Friday, May 4th: 2:05pm – 2:55pm

Server-side JavaScript? On Windows Azure? Has hell frozen over? Learn about how Azure is quickly turning into an open cloud platform that supports a variety of runtimes: .NET, Java, PHP, and even Node.js! In this session, we will show how to build exciting realtime apps in JavaScript, and how to run them in the cloud. We will take advantage of features such as storage, caches, and queues to make our app scale without a hitch. We will also share the team’s plans for future Windows Azure improvements and give you a chance to voice your opinion.

Mar 29

I’ll be speaking on Node.js in Azure at NDC in Oslo, June 6-8. It’s my first time at NDC and my first time in Oslo, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about the conference and the city itself. Skål!

Hell has frozen over: writing Node.js apps for Windows Azure
Yavor Georgiev
June 7 2012, 10:20 - 11:20

Server-side JavaScript? On Windows Azure? Has hell frozen over? Come learn about how Azure is quickly turning into an open cloud platform that supports a variety of runtimes: .NET, Java, PHP, and even Node.js! In this session we will show how to build exciting realtime apps in JavaScript, and how to run them in the cloud. We will take advantage of great Azure features such as storage, caches, and queues to make our app scale without a hitch. We will also share the team’s plans for future Azure improvements and give you a chance to voice your opinion.

Mar 06

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Mar 02

Known issues with RIA Services V1 SP2 on Visual Studio 11 Beta

Visual Studio 11 Beta went out a few days ago, and with it we have a refreshed RIA Services SP2 version that supports all VS 11 goodness:

• Universal Providers
• Support for the new Metro UI
• Miscellaneous small changes to adapt to changes in project system, msbuild, and the designer.

However, there are some kinks that you should be aware of… it is a Beta after all:

• If you try to use the Data Binding picker from the Properties pane to bind a property (for example the text in a TextBlock) to a property on a Domain Data Source, you’ll see it is not available. We are looking at addressing this issue.
  
   
• Universal Providers have a known issue where Windows Authentication and Role Providers don’t work as you might expect. If you switch your web app containing your Domain Service to Windows auth, be sure to change this line:
  

  <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="DefaultRoleProvider">

  from “DefaultRoleProvider” to “AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider”. Having to do this is a limitation that will go away after Beta.

Please let us know if you encounter any other issues via our forum.