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DNS Azure CNAME problem

It takes 9 seconds for a my domain oratorius.com to be resolved, if I use the nslookup command I have to set the timeout to 9 seconds, otherwise I get a timeout. Users have problems getting to my site. My domain host'er says: The delay is not occurring on our end, you have CNAME records directed to oratorius.cloudapp.net which is where ...

Why am I getting SEHException when calling RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("MYKEY")?

I'm trying to call RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSetting("SOMEKEY") like so: public partial class AzureBasePage : System.Web.UI.Page { protected ChargifyConnect Chargify { get { if (this._chargify == null) { this._chargify = new ChargifyConnect(); this._chargify.apiKey = Role...

is windows azure installable on my own hardware ?

I just want to know if it is possible to install windows azure or any other cloud technology on your own hardware, or the only possibility to use it is to use the Microsoft's hosting ? is IBM Cloud Burst a cloud OS that you can install on your own hardware ? ...

Azure Web service on same domain as web page

I have a JSON web service that I want to run on the same domain as my Web page. Both are to be used in Azure. They need to be on the same domain because since Im doing a JSON call, JSONP is not an option atm. I was thinking that my web would have the address http://example.cloudapp.net/, and my Web Service should have the address http:/...

Why 2 kinds of AppFabric?

I see that we now have both Windows Server AppFabric and Azure AppFabric. Is this just a namespace collision in the Microsoft marketing department or do these technologies share common interfaces? Someone told me that is was possible to run an application using Azure AppFabric on a local production server, then change the deployment ta...

Simplest code snippet to add a tiny REST endpoint to an Azure Worker Role

I would like to be able of adding a tiny REST endpoint to an Azure Worker Role, just dumping some non critical monitoring meta-data. I can think of many complicated ways of doing that, but I feel there are simpler solutions. What would be your code snippet to tackle this? ...

Designer tool for Windows Azure Table Storage

I am using Windows Azure Table Storage. I am wondering, if I could use any designer tool. In principle it is Linq to Entities, I think. Maybe I could use a tool for Linq to Entities? ...

SQL server - extract and run queries on 20GB data

I do have a BKS file which contains 15GB+ size. How do I extract the data and run queries on this? I was told that this is SQL Server data. Should I try to upload this to SQL Azure? Any ideas. ...

Windows Azure SDK - ASPProviders example

Hi, since the new SDK 1.1 is missing the tutorial for "ASPProviders", i am currently asking myself how i would implement a "azure session state provider" ( this is the path in the "old" SDK: C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\Samples\AspProviders ) Related threads: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023108/how-does-microsoft-azur...

Azure Service Bus equivalent??

I've been studying Azure's Service Bus and was wondering... Are there any equivalent services provided by other cloud vendors such as AWS, Rackspace or App Engine? I read in a blog post that it would be possible to install ESB solutions such as Apache ServiceMix into IaaS providers' instances. Yet, I am not sure if they offer the same k...

Does VSTO run on Windows Azure?

I have a Web application which will be deployed to Windows Azure and I'm looking for alternatives to generate Excel spreadsheets. Can I use VSTO to programatically generate an Excel spreadsheet in a Web Role running on Windows Azure?... If yes, how should I deploy the application to Windows Azure? What assemblies should I include? Than...

Windows Azure local development environment speed

I've started porting an existing ASP.NET web app to Windows Azure and have noticed that the development process is really slow. Each time I make a change to my code and want to view it, I have to effectively redeploy it to the local dev cloud (using Start debugging (F5) or Start without debugging (Ctrl-F5). The process itself takes over ...

Easily switching ConnectionStrings on publish to Azure

I'm currently building an Azure Web Role. I am testing this project against a local database server on localhost. Then, when confident that the project is working, I publish it to Staging on Windows Azure. However, I also have to remember to change the connection string to point to the live SQL server on SQL Azure before deploying, and ...

Where is the Microsoft.IdentityModel dll

I have installed the Windows Identity Foundation but can't find the Microsoft.IdentityModel dll. According to the Azure Hands-on-Labs it should just be in Add Reference in VS2010. However it's not there. I also looked in c:\Program Files(x86)\Windows Identity Foundation* and it's not in there (or the 64 bit program files folder). Help!...

Uploaded file is not a valid X.509 Certificate, or the password is invalid.

Hello, I am working on an Azure project. To secure this site, I wanted to install a SSL certificate. So when I uploaded .pfx file, I am getting error message "Uploaded file is not a valid X.509 Certificate, or the password is invalid. " when I try to upload a certificate. I was able to do the same without any issue last week. Kindly sha...

Is there a certain IIS configuration required to allow a functioning .Net 4.0 ASP.Net MVC 2 Azure application?

I just installed the Azure 1.2 tools update and would like to get to work on an Azure project running locally using ASP.Net MVC and .Net 4, but I cannot get MVC pages to load. If I just create a new Azure project in VS 2010, add a ASP.Net MVC web role, and run the application, pages never load. It appears that routing is somehow at f...

Silverlight 4 - MVC 2 ASP.NET Membership integration "single sign on"

Scenario: I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 site using ASP.NET Forms Authentication. The site includes a Silverlight 4 application that needs to securely call internal web services. The web services also need to be publically exposed for third party authenticated access. Challenges: Securely accessing webservices from Silverlight using ...

Azure storage - double decimal point ignored on save

I have a value that is correctly stored in a property of an object, but when I save the changes to the Azure storage database, the double value is stored to the database ignoring the point (7.11000000003 is saved as 711). Also, the property is changed to 711.0. How do I solve this problem? The field is already set to double in the clas...

How are updates to the .net framework handled in azure?

If someone is hosting something in Azure and a new KB comes along and requires the .net framework to be updated, how is this handled in Azure? Do they automatically update it for you or give you the option to remain at the older version? I'm more interested in how the versioning is handled, rather than uptime etc. Do they force you to...

Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain, Windows Azure

I created a cloud service with a worker and a web role. While running the app, the system says "Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain" any solution ? ...