Recently I was helping out at the Azure Bootcamp in London and during the labs a common theme kept occurring when the labs were deployed to a real Azure account. The roles failed to run and it appeared that the deployment was taking forever. This is something I experienced first hand when I was starting out with Azure. …
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AppFabric Microsoft have announced two new Azure AppFabric CTPs. May 2011 CTP will include Service bus enhancements including A more comprehensive pub/sub messaging Integration with the Access Control Service V2 Queues based upon a new messaging infrastructure backed by a replicated, durable store. See here for more …
Read MoreWhen deploying an Access Control Service enabled web application from my development environment to Windows Azure I got the following error: “Unable to find assembly ‘Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0. . .” This had worked well when running in the development fabric on my machine so it was strange that it failed …
Read MoreI’ve been developing a web application that adds rules to the access control service when a user registers with my website. This was working well using the ACS in AppFabricLabs. When I ported across to ACS V2 in the live environment I kept getting an exception thrown whenever I tried to retrieve information via the …
Read MoreThe Windows Azure SDK 1.4 refresh is available which adds in Web Deploy integration. This allows the developers to increase their productivity by using web deploy rather than having to repackage and redeploy the application. It is available for down load here and click the “Get Tools & SDK” button. Further …
Read MoreIf you are an MSDN subscriber (Ultimate or Premium) you now get more Windows Azure resources. Professional subscribers are now also included in the promotion. See here for more details. If you have already taken up this offer and you are an MSDN Premium subscriber then you will automatically be upgraded to the MSDN …
Read MoreThe first production version of the windows Azure caching service and a new production version of the Access Control service have been released. The following link provides the necessary information …
Read MoreThe Azure SDK has been released and is available here The changes are as follows: Resolved an issue that caused full IIS fail when the web.config file was set to read-only. Resolved an issue that caused full IIS packages to double in size when packaged. Resolved an issue that caused a full IIS web role to recycle when …
Read MoreFollowing on from a previous post on UI design (Clicks Cost Money) I thought it was time to write some more. Designing a software system with user interaction in mind is a challenging task. We are now in a world where the user interface is no longer just mouse clicks on buttons, menus and other controls. Touch screen …
Read MoreThe simple answer is that each REST call made to the Azure Storage Service is counted as a single transaction. This means that each time you query your table or check the size of a queue or upload a blob you will call the Azure Storage REST api and it will be classed as a transaction. It also means that if you are …
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