My article on implementing CQRS (command/query responsibility segregation) has been published in the Dutch .NET magazine. You can find the article (in Dutch) here. As mentioned before, I will also be presenting about this topic at DevDays 2011.

By default, the Azure Storage Emulator expects you to have SQL Express installed on your development machine. If you have a full version (e.g. SQL Server 2008 R2 developer edition), starting an Azure project that uses Azure storage will fail with the following error message:   Windows Azure Tools: Failed to initialize Windows Azure storage emulator. Unable to start Development Storage. Failed to start Development Storage: the SQL Server instance ‘localhost\SQLExpress’ could no... [More]

I am very excited to announce that I will be presenting a session at DevDays again this year. My talk will be about implementing CQRS (command/query responsibility segregation) using Windows Azure. CQRS is an architectural framework that splits commands (transactions) and queries to the system at a fundamental level. My session is scheduled for Thursday April 28 at 1630. More info on the session can be found here. Backgrounds on CQRS are all over the web, but a good place to start is CQRSinfo.co... [More]