Victor Stodell

I spent this tuesday at  Microsoft in Kista  for an event with the name  Cloud Day . The main topic was of course  Windows Azure . It is really not a question if the cloud should be used, but more what the cloud could be used for, and how ? When it comes to  PaaS (Platform as a Service)  Windows Azure offers a great advantage compared to traditional hosting. You only pay for the bandwidth and server needs you have at the moment. There are great savings to be made. But at the same time this presents a new challenge for system architechts, who have to think of for instance each database call as a potential cost. In the future Microsoft will publish an online version of all their software as  SaaS (Software as a Service) . Today there is already the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) , which contains Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communicator and Office Live Meeting. Apart from these topics we also got a preview of what is coming u...

I have a relatively new found love for Silverlight, and when I got the chance to create a demo with Silverlight and Bing Maps I got very excited. The application gets objects from an existing Web Service. The objects contains meta data and coordinates in the format SWEREF 99. On silverlight.net there are information on how to get started with Silverlight. In addition, this is what you need to do to get started with Silverlight and Bing Maps: Download and install Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK . Create an account at Bing Maps Account Center to be able to create Bing Maps Keys. In the Silverlight applicationen you only need to add a reference to Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.dll, and after that you are ready to use Bing Maps in Silverlight. <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication1.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://...