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I wanted an ability to be able to simply time methods and write to a log/trace sink and a very simple approach that I ended up using was to provide a method that takes an Action delegate which would be the method that is to be timed. The following

Nice table comparing Windows Azure Queues vs. Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus – note the comment regarding in WAZ SDK 1.5 Queue message size is now 64KB Of course, I like the name of the blog too. Comparison of Windows Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues « Microsoft Technologies Rocks

Once in a while a good tool that I find out about that helps me developing solutions comes in real handy.  MiniProfiler is one of those tools. Developed by the StackOverflow folks it’s available in source or binary, and NuGet packages Take a look http://code.google.com/p/

On the Channel 9 site where the BUILD conference sessions are available, there are several feeds that provide the media associated with the sessions. One that’s not listed explicitly is the PowerPoint slides – that feed is here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/RSS/slides

Matthew Kerner’s session at BUILD covers many of the patterns and approaches that a well designed and highly scalable solution can do to make the most efficient use of the platform. Truth is many of the areas Matthew covers should be for on Premise too – including use of Windows

This is huge – and a welcomed addition.  Been waiting too long for this. Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) helps improve the solution experience by putting content closer to the end-user, enhances availability, geo-distribution, scalability, lower latency delivery, and performance. If that’s the goal we want to be sure that when we instantiate the source of this content at the origin