The 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 …

Following on from my previous blog on “Creating your own identity provider …” The following changes can be made to add in your own claims.

Firstly in the App_DataCustomSecurityTokenService.cs file of your identity provider web site I changed the following code

 1outputIdentity.Claims.Add( new Claim( …

Microsoft released on Thursday the latest CTP for Windows Azure AppFabric. Details of the release can be found here, in the AppFabric Team blog and in Wade Wegner’s blog

The CTP contains changes to the Caching service and the AppFabric portal is now in Silverlight. The changes are as follows:

• New Silverlight-based …

When using the following code from a worker role the trace information shows that there are one worker role instance and zero web role instances

 1public override void Run()  
 2{  
 3    while (true)  
 4    {  
 5        Thread.Sleep(10000);  
 6        Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("WorkerRole Instances …

The Windows Azure Training Kit January update is available at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsazure/wazplatformtrainingcourse.aspx

The January 2011 update of the training kit includes the following updates:

• [New demo script] Windows Azure Connect
• [New demo script] Web and Worker Role Enhancements
• [New demo …

Moving to Windows Azure is not as difficult as you might think. Using a basic MVC 2.0 web application created in Visual Studio 2010, the Azure tools within Visual Studio enable you to migrate the web side really easily.

Load your MVC 2.0 application into Visual Studio and right click on the solution in Solution …

I suddenly started to get a CommunicationObjectFaultedException after I checked my azure code in to TFS

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During my Azure talks in Ireland we were discussing issues with migrating SQL to SQL Azure.

At PDC 2010 in Redmond there was a good talk about migrating TFS to Windows Azure and covers the issues they found. It details well the SQL Server to SQL Azure issues and discusses how they solved them. Here is a link to the …