I have been playing around with the idea of using a DD-WRT-V router on a Hyper-V VM to connect my local virtual machines to the Internet as discussed by Martin Hinshlewood in his blog post. I learned a few things that might be of use to others trying the same setup.

What I used to do

Prior to using the router I had …

Last night I upgraded this blog server to BlogEngine.NET 3.1. I used the new built in automated update tool, in an offline backup copy of course.

It did most of the job without any issues. The only extra things I needed to do was

• Removed a <add name="XmlRoleProvider" …> entry in the web.config. I have …

I am speaking at PreEmptive’s event on Application Analytics in at Microsoft’s office in London on the 30th of September. There are various speakers from PreEmptive, Microsoft and Black Marble at this free event.

There are still spaces available, just follow the link: Application Analytics with Visual Studio and …

Whilst developing  a new Release Management pipeline I did hit a problem that a component that published MSDeploy packages to Azure started to fail.  It had been working then suddenly I started seeing ‘communication with the deployer was lost during deployment’ messages as shown below.

As part of our IT refresh we have decided to move this BlogEngine.NET server from a Hyper-V VM in our office to an Azure website.

BlogEngine.NET is now a gallery item for Azure website, so a few clicks and your should be up and running.

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Using the process in my previous post you can get a TFS build to create the .CSCFG and .CSPKG files needed to publish a Cloud Service. However, you hit a problem if your solution contains more that one Cloud Service project; as opposed to a single cloud service project with multiple roles, which is not a problem.

The …

I have been sorting out some builds for use with Release Management that include Azure Cloud Solutions. To get the correct packages built by TFS I have followed the process in my past blog post. The problem was I kept getting the build error

1The target "Azure PackagesBlackMarble.Win8AppBuilder.AzureApi" does …