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Install Application as Service on Windows Server 2008

Steven Smith writes "...There’s a good article on creating an application that can easily run as either a console app or as a service here. From an administrator command prompt, the syntax is something like this..."

Updated Win 8 Dev Platform Diagram

Rockford Lhotka writes "...This one adds the Chakra js engine to the WinRT and desktop sides of the diagram, and it expands the detail of WinRT and Win32 to include things like COM, GDI+, and DirectX. The result is that DirectX and GDI+ are duplicated – they are shown as a presentation technology..."

RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching

Steven Smith writes "....I don’t have any fancy graphs to show off, since all I did was run a 2-minute load test of each unit test with 5 users and no think time using Visual Studio 2010’s load test runner. The results were pretty significant, though, and corresponded with the performance I was seeing in my actual application (about 1 request per second on one thread..."

Nokia and Windows Phone: What Could Still Go Wrong

Andrew Brust writes "...Now that the first two Nokia Windows Phone handsets, the Lumia 800 and 710, have come out, Windows Phone can stop waiting. But it also has to stop merely hoping, and start actually achieving. This is a big deal, but this is not finish line. And make no mistake, the odds are still stacked in against Windows Phone. The challenges are not insurmountable, but they are numerous and they are formidable. Among them:..."

Updates Sneak in Unexpected

Venkatarangan Tnc writes "...Compared to architecting & releasing web applications, Windows Apps (client apps in general) needs more care. The main reason being if you detect any bugs or want to do any enhancements you can’t simply do the changes in your server and be done with it...most of the apps for Windows ship with an thin installer executable that checks for new version of the app from their server and prompts to download and install the new bits..."

A Guide to Integrate Windows Azure in your Environment

Vishwas_Lele writes "...Once an organization has made the decision to adopt Windows Azure, it is faced with a set of planning challenges, beginning with the basic, “Who should be responsible for signing up and managing the Windows Azure account?” to more involved, “How will Windows Azure impact the ALM process, availability, operational costs?”"

Creating a WinRT BackgroundWorker Type

Rockford Lhotka writes "...Because .NET/SL/WP7 don’t (yet) have the async/await keywords, and WinRT doesn’t have BW, I need to come up with a solution that leaves existing code/behavior alone, and yet provides comparable behavior in WinRT. To resolve this issue, I’ve created a BackgroundWorker type for WinRT. This type hasn’t gone through extensive testing, but it is a good start at least:..."

Watch out for WCF Errors after Installing Azure SDK 1.5

David Yack writes "...The error occurred right after installing the new Azure 1.5 SDK and the first time I went to run a regular application that did a WCF call I got the following error. The error simply says NetTCPRelayBinding could not be found..."