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Christos Matskas

Visual Studio 2013

TFS Continuous Integration for Windows 8.1 Store Apps with SDK dependencies

I am in the process of developing a Windows Store App which has a dependency on SQLite. Today, I decided to implement continuous integration (CI) using my hosted TFS service. If you are serious about CI but don’t want to host your own CI Server and go through the

SQL Server Always On Availability Groups – Issue with preferred replica for log backups

Over the last couple of days I’ve been trying to customize Ola Hallegren’s script in order to perform backups on an Always On Availability Group running on Azure (blog to follow soon)[1]. I managed to get everything working apart from the Log Backups and the culprit was

Copying VHDs between private storage accounts

If you ever need to copy VHDs between two different storage account, you can use the PowerShell script below to do it in few steps: Perform the copy Firstly select the subscription you need to work with. Select-AzureSubscription "MySubscriptionName" Define the source VHD - authenticated container. You can

Configuring SQL Server Always On Availability Groups in Azure - Part 1

One of the coolest features in Azure is the fact that you can create Always On Availability Groups and configure a Listeners in order to provide high availability and redundancy to your back-end SQL Server solution. If you want to know more about AlwaysOn and what it can do for

Processing payments on your site using Stripe and C#

Update: The current example of processing payments is NOT PCI-compliant as the card details are posted to the server. A better approach is to use the Stripe.js to generate the token and then process the payment - thanks to Christian Bryant for raising it in the comments. Take me

Add search to your Ghost blog with Tapir

If you have decided to use Ghost as your blog engine, you may soon realize that it's missing one vital thing and that Searching. Since I tend to use my blog as a knoweldge base and a repository of things that took effort to implement, I want to be able

Configuring custom domains for Azure Website

First off, if you don't have an Azure account, go get one! You get 10 websites for free plus a whole lot of goodies for free. I recently deployed a new site and I wanted to point a custom domain to it. However, the available documentation wasn't particularly clear. There

Configure Database Mail on SQL Server Azure VM using T-SQL

Emails are an integral part for any SQL Administrator who wishes to stay on top of thins. Emails can be used to send alerts on job failures, run and report on diagnostics or return a query result set that your users may be interested in. Today we will look on