Is it possible to do Issued Token authentication over HTTP? The scenario that we are faced with is an HTTPS request from client to server. Authentication is performed here and a token is issued. We are now however faced with the need to route this request to one of multiple endpoints using a generic message passing implementation. The p...
Is it possible to edit web.config file of my cloud app deployed on Windows Azure without redeploying my app ? Scenario is like--> Cloud app is deployed on Azure with 3 instances. web.config has some static text in appsetting which is displyed on the Home Page(for example - © 2009 My site. All rights reserved) Now I wish to change that...
So I have this app which need to query entities from the Azure Tables storage from tables I don't know the schema of. 1) Is there a way I can do that with the Storageclient wraper? 2) I'm guessing no, so I tryied with the REST API and I always get the 403 Forbiden when I query for the entities. This is my code. HttpWebRequest request ...
So I have been running the numbers for Azure and RackSpace Cloud Servers and found that RackSpace is substantially cheaper, less developer investment (no custom programming), and RackSpace offers RackSpace Cloud Files if you need a substantial storage solution for your site. It almost seems too good to be true, what am I missing? ...
Does anyone have any good sources of information of using NHibernate with Sql Azure with the implications of sharding (because of the 10gb cap)? I know there are posts on the internet that reference a sharding project for NH but they are from 3rd quarter 09 and I haven't found any much more relevant on google. Related does anyone have i...
Hello, If I was going to create an application on Windows Azure Cloud, which the end user would access through a web browser. I wonder what the requirements for the end user are in order to use that application? If I was going to write the frontend in Silverlight, is everything the user would need be just the Silverlight runtime? Or do...
I am a web developer that are working on several web applications. For my projects (running in a production environment), I always strive good performance. So, I have started to look into Microsoft Azure. I have deployed some test-apps and they all work fine. They all run a lot quicker than on my regular shared hosting environment. My ...
What is standard encoding for ServiceConfiguration.cscfg file in Windows Azure ? And how to put symbols like --> © in that file.(Setting name="CopyrightsSymbol" value="©") ? ...
Is MARS available in sql-Azure ...
I have an application that's due to be rolled out in May. I just took over the project and dumped EntityFramework 1.0 in favor of SubSonic. (We don't have the time to wait for EF 4.0.) There is the possibility of moving the application to Azure, and I was wondering what the implications of that might be. My understanding is that EF 4.0 ...
We're investigating the cloud for a couple of solutions and for our core product. We're new to this area so would like to ask a question of your experience. The various cloud services seem to be oriented around web applications. This is great, but our application is a web application fronting a .NET Windows Service/.EXE. Can we execute ...
Is there any free Video tutorial for Windows Azure development with Web Role? Thanks in Advance. ...
Hi, I'm in the early phases of designing an Azure-based application. One of the things that attracts me to Azure is the scalability, given the variability of the demand I'm likely to expect. As such I'm trying to keep things loosely coupled so I can add instances when I need to. The recommendations I've seen for architecting an applica...
Just wondering what everyones thoughts on what ORM to use for SQL Azure? I'm fairly comfortable using LINQ-to-SQL and I believe it is possible to get it working with SQL Azure. However, from my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong), no further improvements will be made to Linq-to-SQL in future releases of the .NET framework? Alter...
Hi, I'm doing some architecture work on a new solution which will initially run in Windows Azure. However I'd like the solution (or at least the architecture/design) to be Cloud Agnostic (to whatever extent is realistic). Has anyone done any work on this front or seen any good white papers/blog posts? Our highlevel architecture will co...
I have been reading up on "Cloud computing" on here and still not getting it. Basically I want to develop for the WP7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402531%28v=VS.92%29.aspx#AppPlat_Overview_Arch Now it mentions everything as being in the "Cloud". Is any server just a cloud? If i have a WCF service or wsdl on my server. Can I...
Hi All, I've built my application in .net and sql server 2008. Having looking for a hosting soultion I stumpled upon windows azure. I saw that currently its only availabe in the US. Can I use the service if I live outside of the US? If I upload my website up there and people try entering, will people from outside of the US be blocked?...
I'm trying to write a powershell script that updats each of the DiagnosticsConnectionString and DataConnectionString values below, but I can't seem to find each individual Role node using $serviceconfig.ServiceConfiguration.SelectSingleNode("Role[@name='MyService_WorkerRole']") doing echo $serviceconfig.ServiceConfiguration.Role list...
Hi there, I have a scenario where I need a desktop console app to communicate with a Windows Azure Queue... the most important thing is that the message is received by the server eventually. Also, the desktop app may be disconnected from the Internet sometimes. In the traditional WCF+MSMQ approach you'd be able to send a message which ...
We have a Web Role that we are hosting in Windows Azure that uses an old ASMX based Web Reference to contact an external system. The Web Reference proxy code is big enough that instantiating it the first time has a significant cost. We'd like to be able to have this run when the Web Role starts instead of on the first request. I kno...