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New Azure Portal – Preview

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The new Azure Portal (in preview) is really great. Bundles a lot of the functionality that is sometimes hard to retrieve Azure Health (e.g. BizTalk Services / Service Bus) Billing information View your resources (at this moment only Resource Groups / WebSites / Team Projects / SQL Databases / MySQL Databases) Notifications (the alert functionality) The concept of ‘Journeys’ (preselection filters you’ve implicitly placed so that you can quickly look at the dashboard the way you want) Some screenshots to show how much more insight this provides… Azure Health   Billing information View your resources (at this moment only Resource Groups / WebSites / Team Projects / SQL Databases / MySQL Databases) Notifications Journeys (preselection filters you’ve implicitly placed so that you can quickly look at the dashboard the way you want)   The portal brings a lot of features together that had to be done using different areas, like the billing portal, which only showed a few bi

Add project reference? Enter 2014….Using NuGet for packaging projects and dependencies

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  [UPDATE] Sample solution available on OneDrive ( https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=5eaaef40eefdaddb&id=5EAAEF40EEFDADDB%21109 ) A solution consists of projects, projects uses components, components are of a specific version, changing the components thus requires a versioning strategy….which one are you using? All solutions which are architected into several tiers, have a form of layering with (which I hope) an abstraction of re-usable components. A project which is used to implement automated order approvals (AOA), with a requirement to implement logging, and retrieve something out of the database will likely have the minimum of 3 projects Solution AOA Project - AOA.Core Project - AOA.DataProject Project - Common.Logging Let’s assume, that the Logging library is also used by another solution: BOB Solution BOB Project – BOB.Core Project – BOB DataProject Project - Common.Logging When the requirements of logging change, and the project BOB needs a specific change due t