I try to deploy a file for download to azure together with my web application. The file is part of my project in a folder in my VS2010 solution. In the file properties, I tried both, setting the Build Action to "Content" or setting "Copy to output" to always. After deployment, the file is not there, I get a 404. Any ideas? Regards ...
What is the best practise solution for programmaticaly changing the XML file where the number of instances are definied ? I know that this is somehow possible with this csmanage.exe for the Windows Azure API. How can i measure which Worker Role VMs are actually working? I asked this question on MSDN Community forums as well: http://soci...
Is there a list of pros-cons for deploying a PHP application on the cloud for AWS or Azure? Which factors would make AWS a better choice over Azure and Vice-versa? If anyone has chosen to use, either one instead of the other for a number or reasons I would really want to know why. ...
I've moved my app from a dedicated server to azure (and sql azure), and have noticed substantial performance degradation. obviously not having the database and web server on the same piece of hardware is much of it, but I'm curious what other people have found in migrating to azure, and if there is anything any of you would suggest I ...
Hi, I have a created a sample web role application using cloud service. Before hosting my application in cloud, i want to test the application in dev fabric. I am sure that when we run the application from VS, it creates an environment that simulates the cloud. But if i want to give my application for testing to QA, do i still need t...
I have a simple video encoding worker role that pulls messages from a queue encodes a video then uploads the video to storage. Everything seems to be working but occasionally when deleting the message after I am done encoding and uploading I get a "StorageClientException: The specified message does not exist." Although the video is proce...
Hi, I have developed a cloud application with one Webrole and a WCF role. My WCF service will act as model and gets me the data from the database. I am able get the Service Referece of my WCF service in my webrole when it running either in localhost or from IIS. But when i run my webrole and wcf service in Dev Fabric, i am unable to t...
I have a .NET WCF Rest endpoint configured through attributes (instead of using the web.config). I would like to achieve the <useRequestHeadersForMetadataAddress/> behavior with attributes. Any idea how to do that? ...
I would like to know if , with Azure, it supports the ability to have webservice running on a specific port which is accessible only by a Site running in Azure. E.g. I want to create a Website hosted on azure but I want some of the services to come from a webservice which I dont want consumer facing. Is this possible with Azure , if so ...
I upgraded our build server to VS2010 RTM. I got a series of errors, most of which I could fix with a bit of searching. But I can't fix this one. The solution builds fine on the server in VS2010, but not as part of a scheduled daily build in TFS. Any ideas? [Any CPU/Release] C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\Cloud Service\1.0\Visua...
I have a .NET 3.5 web app hosted on Windows Azure that exposes several WCF endpoints (both SOAP and REST). The endpoints typically receive 100x more data than they serve (lot of data is upload, much fewer is downloaded). Hence, I am willing to take advantage from HTTP GZip compression but not from the server viewpoint, but rather from t...
Has anybody experience running WF based Workflow instances in the Azure web role? Could you please share your experiences. ...
I am developing a portal for online theatre system. I will show the movie in online website daily in shows(like 6-10 PM Shows). I am using Silverlight to display the video in web application. I am holding my movie file in Windows Azure Blob. I am having a problem displaying the movie file. Consider if ay user login to web system @6 The...
I have the need to integrate some blob storage into an existing ASP.NET Mvc site my hope is to be able to just add some references and then just do puts and gets but I cannot find any simple example for how to do this (that hasn't been depricated to the point it no longer works) I have tried using StorageClient but CreateCloudBlobClie...
Hi all, I've been trying unsuccessfully to enable gzip HTTP compression on my Windows Azure hosted WCF Restful service which returns JSON only from GET and POST requests. I have tried so many things that I would have a hard time listing all of them, and I now realise I have been working with conflicting information (regarding old ver...
I need a demo application to demonstrate about Windows Azure Platform. I tried myTODO project , but because it's not updated since Aug/2009, it cannot work properly (even after installing and configuring all needed components) . Very appreciated if you can suggest me an open-source, free project build for Windows Azure Platform, which ...
The code below only prints one instance id per instance even though I'm running 4 instances. Is this a bug in development fabric or this is how it is supposed to be? public override void Run() { foreach (RoleInstance roleInst in RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.Role.Instances) { Trace.WriteLine("Instance ID: " + roleI...
Hi, I've got a Windows Azure project I'm working on. It has two web roles - one is a public-facing site, and the second is an administration site for my customer to make changes to the database etc. I had expected to be able to use a subdomain for each role - so for example have mysite.com and admin.mysite.com (obviously CNAME-mapped ...
I have stored some files in the form of blobs on azure and I have written an application that would access these blobs. When I host this application as a web role on azure, it works perfectly and I am happy with that. But now, I wanted to know “what is the query time taken to access each blob file?” I was searching for this thro...
Hi, I've been reviewing Windows Azure platform for some time, and can't find answer to one very important question. If I deploy my application within a cloud, how it will be reached from different places worldwide? For example if I have a web application with a database and want it to be accessible to users in UK, US, China and etc. C...