Time Cockpit Blog - Rainer Stropek

Today I will do a workshop about the Windows Azure Platform at OOP 2011. In this blog post I want to summarize the most important resources that I have used in the workshop.  Read more ...

This week I will be one of the speakers at BASTA On Tour in Munich. One of the topics I am going to speak about is the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). In this blog post I want to share my slides and summarize the hands-on labs that I am going to go through with the participants.  Read more ...

This week I will be one of the speakers at BASTA On Tour in Munich. One of the topics I am going to speak about is the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). In this blog post I want to share my slides and summarize the hands-on labs that I am going to go through with the participants.  Read more ...

This week I will be one of the speakers at BASTA On Tour in Munich. One of the topics I am going to speak about is the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). In this blog post I want to share my slides and summarize the hands-on labs that I am going to go through with the participants.  Read more ...

This week I will be one of the speakers at BASTA On Tour in Munich. One of the topics I am going to speak about is code documentation with Sandcastle. In this blog post I want to share my slides and summarize the hands-on labs that I am going to go through with the participants.  Read more ...

During the last few weeks I have done a few workshops and trainings about the Windows Azure Platform all across Austria. For those people who could not attend I have put together some important dates for webcasts in which you can learn about Windows Azure. Additionally I would like to point you to a webcast recording about getting started with the Windows Azure November 2010 release.  Read more ...

Yesterday the wether in Frankfurt was horrible and so my plane from Berlin was late. I missed my connection flight to Linz and had to stay in a hotel in Frankfurt. Therefore I had some time and I used it for implementing a little sample showing how you can use a customer SSIS data source to easily transfer data from Windows Azure Table Storage to SQL Server databases using the ETL tool "SQL Server Integration Services" (SSIS).  Read more ...

Today I will do a session at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin. In the next few paragraphs I want to quickly summarize the introduction of the talk for those of you who are interested but did not make it to Berlin.  Read more ...

Yesterday I wrote a tutorial that demonstrates how to use the different storage technologies of the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform (see article Windows Azure Storage in my blog). Some people do not like to read long tutorials, they prefer watching a how-to-video. Therefore I created a series of videos that show how to use SQL Azure, Windows Azure Table Storage, Queues and Blob Storage.  Read more ...

The Windows Azure platform offers different mechanisms to store data permanently. In this article I would like to introduce the storage types of Windows Azure and demonstrate their use by showing an example application.  Read more ...