1. Use public on the main program class.In order for web jobs to initialise correctly the main class that contains the web jobs needs to be made public. Once this has been added the individual jobs can then be read and should be visible in the output when running locally.
2. In order to store and view the invocation …

I’m investigating the Azure Service Bus Event Hub using the getting started tutorial and I didn’t seem to be able to receive any data. It turns out that our firewall was blocking an outbound port. After some investigation I found a post which hinted at a port for the on premise service bus. Our IT guys kindly enabled …

Internet of Things seems to bring together two of my favourite topics: Gadgeteer and Service Bus. Whilst researching IoT I came across an article in MSDN magazine written by Clemens Vasters (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj190807.aspx). This article is from July 2012 and things have moved on a little since …

There seems to be an issue installing Workflow Manager 1.0 refresh on Windows Server 2012 R2. Upon completion, when clicking through to configure Workflow Manager, you are informed that neither Service Bus 1.0, nor (obviously) CU1 for Service Bus 1.0 has been installed. Digging into the event log on the machine in …

This article aims to talk about Windows Store Notifications and the Windows Azure Notifications Hub and it will attempt to collate the various articles in a single place to help you build notifications into your app. In order for you to get an understanding of Windows notifications look at the following article …

After a good night in Hereford at the Smart Devs User Group and my presentation at DDDNorth Here are the links from my presentation and some from questions asked: Gadgeteer: http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/ Signal-R: http://www.asp.net/signalr/ Web API: http://www.asp.net/web-api The Signal-R chat example can be found …

I’ve just finished presenting my talk on “Successfully Adopting the Cloud: TfGM Case Study”and there were a couple of questions that I said I would clarify.

1. What are the limits for the numbers of subscriptions per service bus topic. the answer is 2000. further details can be found …

Whilst working on a project in which we we using the Topics on Windows Azure Service Bus, we noticed that our subscription queues (when viewed from the Windows Azure Management portal) didn’t seem to be empty even though our subscription queue processing code was working correctly. On closer inspection we found that …

If you have been wondering why you would use Windows Azure Queues that are part of the Storage Service or the queues that are part of the service bus then the following MSDN article will give you full details. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh767287(VS.103).aspx Recent changes in pricing make the choice even …

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 …