Shaun Xu

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Shaun, the author of this blog is a software architect with 9 years experience in the .NET world. He hopes to show that software development is more of an art rather than manufacturing. He is into Windows Azure, SQL Azure, WCF and ASP.NET MVC, with his favorite being C#.

Currently Shaun is working at IGT Technology Development (Beijing) Co., Ltd. as the architect of the sbX group responsible for cloud computing platform design and development.

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As many of you may already know that, I'm working at a global gaming and entertainment company taking the responsible for design and implement the next generation platform which will be running on the cloud, and also design the cloud platform as well. Currently one of the goal is to replace the active directory integrated security and identity solution with certificate-based solution in our product. In short, we need to work with Active Directory Certificate Service to request and issue the certificates ......

 

The SQL Azure Federation had been publically launched several weeks ago and this is one of the most existing features I’m looking forward. This might be the first post of SQL Azure Federation, and hopefully not the last one. Some Backgrounds SQL Azure Federation was mentioned in about 2009. The Microsoft told that there will be a feature in SQL Azure allow users to split one database into many based on some sort of rules But from the client side perspective, user can interact their data as if in ......