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VS 2012 (with Update 3) screws up .cmd files containing batch scripts

This may not be specific to Update 3 or VS 2012. I noticed that if you edit a .cmd file containing batch commands in Visual Studio, it adds garbage to the first line of the file. The execution of the scripts will fail because of this. Hence use notepad for this.

Azure role keeps on crashing and recycling after upgrade to 2.0 sdk

I spent two days debugging and trying to fix this file load exception. Finally it turned out that out of the 50 projects I used several of them were still pointed to old 1.7 and 1.8 dlls. I fixed that and now everything works fine.

Horrible LINQ to Twitter - Finally found out how to updatestatus

_authorizer =  new   SingleUserAuthorizer                 {                     Credentials =  new   InMemoryCredentials                     {                         ConsumerKey =  TwitterConfiguration .ConsumerKey,                         ConsumerSecret =  TwitterConfiguration .ConsumerSecret,                          OAuthToken =  TwitterConfiguration .AccessToken,                         AccessToken =  TwitterConfiguration .AccessTokenSecret ,                     }                 }; The previous released version stopped working for some reason. Upgrade to the latest version to get beyond this issue.