Diagnostics in any application is a necessity and Windows Azure applications are no different. You could remote desktop onto the instance and check the event logs and even run up debug view so that you can see your system diagnostic messages. There is however a mechanism provided to retrieve a whole load of diagnostic …

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. …

A while ago I was looking for an alternative to System.Diagnostics.Trace and found Log4Net. I know the patterns and practices group have created enterprise logging but I find Log4Net nice and easy to use. I created some documentation and samples on my website at http://www.recneps.co.uk/log4net.aspx. The …