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Home Energy Monitoring on Windows Phone

ByRicardo Villalobos

Interesting article on how to create a C# project to monitor energy in your house, based on the "Standard Envy Kit" USB interface. Good example of how to create a Web Service and consume / display information on a Windows Phone application. I will report results once I have tried it myself. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coding4fun/archive/2010/09/27/10068304.aspx

Windows Azure AppFabric Caching transactions and update modes

ByRicardo Villalobos

While talking to a startup company today, they asked me about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service, trying to replace a Redis self-managed deployment. The conversation steered specifically towards atomic transactions and update modes. I found a really good white paper from Scott Seely that talks about the two update patterns supported: optimistic and pessimistic….

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MSDN Magazine article – Comparing Windows Azure queues and Service Bus queues

ByRicardo Villalobos

In my latest MSDN Magazine article, I compare Windows Azure queues Vs. Service Bus queues from a developers perspective, showing how to perform the most basic operations: create a queue, send and receive messages, send authentication credentials to both services. I hope that you find it useful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj159884.aspx