On Azure for the next 30 days.

got the 30 day free account, completed the Echo service sample and it works like a charm!!!

was trying to get the echo sample working in the developer labs for almost a week, posted the issue in the forums without luck, all the responses were pointing to firewall setting etc,  but as soon as i configured my service namespace and key with the free account everything fell in its place, not sure what’s wrong with the developer labs…

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find all listening ports – back to basics

netstat -an |find /i “listening”

open a port from cmd
netsh> add portopening TCP 9353 “xyz”

And finally we have fire and forget methods.

async reloaded with fire and forget

why was this not possbile until now

and the corresponding WCF implementation…

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/endpoint/archive/2010/11/13/simplified-asynchronous-programming-model-in-wcf-with-async-await.aspx

Eliminate if else statements for disabling and enabling controls

if (count > 0)
{
this.control.Enabled = false;
}
else
{
this.control.Enabled = true;
}

// this is 1 line compared to what we have above.
this.control.Enabled = (count <= 0);

DateTime vs DateTimeOffset

if (you are developing applications with globalization in mind)
{
use DateTimeOffset
}
else
{
use dateTime
}