- I’ve been setting up one of our services as the backend service for Azure API management. Part of this process we have mapped DNS to point to the service. As the service is hosted in Azure Websites there are now two urls that exist which can be used to access the service. I wanted to stop a user from accessing the site …
Read More Windows Azure and SignalR with Gadgeteer
Steve Spencer May 30, 2013 · 4 min read · ASP.NET Gadgeteer SignalR Web API Windows Azure Windows Azure Websites ·I’ve been playing with Gadgeteer (http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/) for a while now and I am a big fan of the simple way we can build embedded hardware applications with high functionality. We have a proof of concept device that includes a Colour touch screen, RFID reader and an Ethernet connections. This device is …
Read MoreWindows Azure Websites, Web API and SignalR
Steve Spencer Jan 9, 2013 · 6 min read · ASP.NET SQL Azure Visual Studio Windows 8 Windows Azure Websites ·One of our projects involves a web service that implements both SignalR and Web API and we were looking at the quickest and most cost effective way to get it deployed so that one of our customers could run a Windows 8 application as a demo away from the office. The application works well internally as we have the …
Read MoreWindows Azure Training Kit–June 2012 Release
The Windows Azure Training Kit June 2012 release is out now with the following features:
- 12 new hands-on labs for Windows Azure Virtual Machines
- 11 new hands-on labs for Windows Azure Web Sites
- 2 new hands-on labs demonstrating Windows Azure with Windows 8 Metro-style applications
- Several new hands-on labs for Node.js …
Read MorePublishing Windows Azure Websites with TFS
Steve Spencer Jun 7, 2012 · 3 min read · Agile ASP.NET Team Foundation Server TFS Visual Studio Windows Azure ·This is a follow on post from my introduction to Windows Azure Websites and shows you how you can synchronise your website in TFS with Windows Azure.
One of the biggest problems with the way you deploy applications to Windows Azure is that minor changes (e.g .markup, content and styling) require a redeploy to publish …
Read More- We recently moved a web application into Windows Azure that was using session state. As it was running on a single webserver the session state was set to InProc but this is not useful when in a multi-server environment as the session is stored on the specific machine and is therefore not accessible to other machines. …
Read More Creating your own identity provider for Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control
Whilst doing an access control service demo I was asked whether you could wire in your own existing authentication mechanisms as customers did not want to have to redo their authentication/registration mechanisms to use Live ID, Google, Yahoo! etc. The answer to this was yes but I had never done it so this was a good …
Read More- Having read the article in MSDN magazine about the Microsoft MVC, I decided to have a go myself, I also though it would be a good idea to try to combine this with Windows Workflow and see if I can control the order of pages based upon the state of a workflow state machine. In Part 1 I build the MVC application with a …
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