Devang Gandhi

Video showing Clemens talking about the capabilities and features of Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus at the build conference.

Check out the Windows Azure free trial offer available now through June 30th, 2011.

What do you get?

Zain Naboulsi has a great blog providing very useful tips and tricks that you can do in Visual Studio. Check it out here.

Anyone who uses remote desktop connection on a regular basis knows how frustrating it is when all of a sudden copy/paste to and from your local computer and remote computer stops working.

The solution is quite easy. Just go to task manager on your remote machine and kill the process rdpclip.exe (this process may not be running).

Then run rdpclip.exe from Start -> Run.

Official definition goes “Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment  for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.”

Basically, it is a set of platform, tools and infrastructure that helps you create and deploy applications that run in the cloud.

Some useful resources:

1. Windows Azure Pricing vs Amazon AWS Pricing Comparison
2. Windows Azure: getting started
3. Serving Your Website From a Windows Azure Drive

When you try to do Ctrl-Alt-Del in a remote desktop session, you will find that it will instead be performed on your computer instead of the remote computer. The key combination for the same action to be performed on a remote computer is Ctrl-Alt-End from within your remote desktop session.

Also check out these remote desktop keyboard shortcuts.

Whether you are looking for local weather forecast or solutions to mathematical equations, Bing makes it easier.

If you are using Windows 7, you may have noticed that by default the file extensions are hidden. Sometimes you may want to be able to see the file extensions, probably because you want to change it. May come in handy.

I tried logging onto my computer and instead of getting logged on, I got this failure:

The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

Thanks to this blog post, I was able to resolve the issue.

Microsoft has few different virtualization products – Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V. Windows Server 2008 R2 comes with Hyper-V. If you are planning on upgrading to this OS, you may want to take a look at this comprehensive how-to guide to migrate virtual machines from Virtual Server to Hyper-V.