Saturday, February 13, 2010

Complex Builds with MSBuild

The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the new build platform for Microsoft and Visual Studio. MSBuild is completely transparent with regards to how it processes and builds software, enabling developers to orchestrate and build products in build lab environments where Visual Studio is not installed.Read my Article .

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/39347

Windows Azure Updates

Microsoft is significantly upgrading its Windows Azure Platform this month as it looks to compete against the likes of cloud services providers Google and Amazon.

See my Post in devX
http://www.devx.com/DevXNews/Article/43656

Mono Articles

Mono is an open source .NET development framework based on the ECMA standards for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Led by Novell, the Mono project creates a .NET-compatible set of tools that enable developers to build Linux and cross-platform applications, including a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime (CLR), that run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.

See My Articles in devX
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/43410
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/43857
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/43621

Mocking API Responses in Azure API Management Portal

A mock API imitates a real API call by providing a realistic JSON or XML response to the requester. Mock APIs can be designed on a developer...