Note: if you are familiar with the Azure pricing model, just jump to the "question" section. Microsoft will begin to charge for the use of the Azure platform starting February 1, 2010. The monthly bill will be a function of bandwidth, storage, and others. Among the factors used to calculate the bill is compute time. This latter factor, ...
I'm currently implementing a WCF REST service on a web role in Windows Azure, and I'm trying to add some communication between the instances of the role so that they can keep each other updated when, say, some data is updated in blob storage. What I'd like to do is host the same WCF service on both the external and internal HTTP endpoint...
Hi, I'd just like to know if its possible to deploy a web project, that usually runs on the windows azure cloud, to a normal windows server 2008 pc for testing purposes? ...
I need to download data from windows azure table storage back to a SQL Server database inside the office network every night. There could be up to 100,000 entries in the table. What’s the most efficient way to do this (i.e. the method that costs the least)? ...
Hi there, I've been working on an Azure app, and added in a WCF service (something I've done successfully before). It works fine in the stand-alone asp.net application (running in Cassini), but throws a 500.0 error when I try to call it in the AppFabric. I tried publishing it to Azure and hoping for the best, but it then throws a 404 e...
Hi, Im interested to find out what techniques developers are using to connect to a Windows Azure instance running in the cloud? From what i understand it is very similar to SQL Server with two of the key differences being Multiple Active Recordsets are not supported and idle/long running connections are automatically terminated by azu...
I'm looking into Azure and unsure if Classic ASP (i.e. ASP 3.0 with .ASP extensions) can run in Azure? I found this blog post from January 2009 indicating Classic ASP can NOT be run in Azure. But on this interoperability page it looks like now, other platforms like PHP can be run on Azure. I still see no mention of Classic ASP though....
Hi, I have two instances of a worker role. I want to run a sub-task (on a Thread Pool thread) only on one of the Worker Role instances. My initial idea was to do something like this: ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem((o) => { if (RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.Id == RoleEnvironment.Roles[RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.Role.N...
I was looking to install the latest Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. However, this version doesn't work with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. They say that the latest version of Azure Tools & SDK will only work with VS 2008 and VS 2010 RC and that for VS 2010 Beta 2 I still need to install November release. I know that VS 20...
I'm trying to get SSL, WCF and REST under Azure, but the page won't even load. Here are the steps I followed: 1) I mapped the www.mydomain.com CNAME to my azuresite.cloudapp.net 2) I procured an SSL certificate for www.mydomain.com and properly installed it at my azuresite.cloudapp.net hosted service project 3) I deployed my WCF REST...
My company currently has some serious problem. We've got an application as showcase on Azure which makes use of 1 web role, 1 worker role, a message queue and table storage, but in very moderate rates. We are billed for 8 days now and our billing for "storage transactions" seems to be abnormally high. We are at 25 EUR now which is reall...
I'm trying to get this to work on an internal tcp connection. The code runs flawlessly in development but when deployed to Azure I get ... a CommunicationException "The socket connection was aborted" trying to connect to "net.tcp://......" with a time code about 60 seconds it waited. wcf host side: _WCFHost.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(I...
I've looked at the Introductory Special Offer, but you still need to provide a credit card because when you go over your limits, you do have to pay. Man, I'm just a developer and I would like to try some things out with Azure Cloud. How can you evaluate a product if you can't try it out... Is there a way to get a sort of developer trial?...
Where can I see the resources I've been consumed (like hours of processing, bandwidth, etc ... ) in windows azure? Thanks. ...
I have the following TableServiceContext class for books, I want to query the table Books by the partitionKey, please ignore the fact that I'm using the partition key as the book name, this is just for my learning sakes public class BookDataServiceContext: TableServiceContext { public BookDataServiceContext(str...
Hello, I have a multiplayer card game (up to 4 players can play the same instance of the game) up on facebook. The game is small and is hosted on a single server. I am now looking into scalability as I am hoping that soon one server won't be enough. The server stores in Memory a list of all games which are underway: List<Game> When a ...
Here's the way I used to create CloudBlobClient instance: CloudStorageAccount account = CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("DataConnectionString"); CloudBlobClient blobClient = account.CreateCloudBlobClient(); It looks like CreateCloudBlobClient is gone in Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 that w...
I'm wrestling with the Azure Deployment process. I have an application (many applications) that have run very-well-thank-you-very-much on my local machine, but when I publish and run them they often are "Initializing...." and then "Stopping..." because they've hit some error. My question is: How can I find out what the error was that ...
I have an ASP.NET 3.5 site written on top of Azure for which I'm trying to allow both authenticated and anonymous user profiles. The authenticated profiles work fine. But if I am not logged in, I see the .ASPXANONYMOUS cookie sent down with the profile information in a SetCookie directive. If I then close the browser session and start...
Hi Guys, Can I run a sftp service in the cloud, and a sql server syncing with sqlexpress clients over sync framework with wcf? I have really no idea if such a thing is possible with azure? Does azure just work as a normal webservice with sql server behind or..? Cheers ...