While this question is particular to Azure, I'm sure that it is a common situation for cloud computing in general. I have a list of tasks that I need run at a certain time. With a window's server, I can use Task Scheduler and schedule my program to run at a certain time. I could go a step further and create a windows service that woul...
I have a Silverlight application where I use LINQ to SQL to store my data. Now I have added this application to an Azure cloud, and want to use an Azure method to store my data. But I don't know whether I should use "Azure Table Storage" or "SQL Data Service", and how I can use it. ...
Has anybody gotten any type of security to work with WCF on Azure that would be compatible with Silverlight? I have already tried transport security on basic http binding, but it does not work. ...
Please post the steps you have taken to setup SSL to work with WCF on Azure. I have my valid certificate uploaded successfully (using cspack) and working with the rest of the site, but after adding it, my previously working WCF service stopped working. (All I get is a 404 error back to Silverlight, which is not very helpful. Up votes ...
I want to use a Silverlight application in a cloud on Azure. The communication between the Silverlight application and the WebRole is a WCF-Service with Basic-HTTP-Binding. My problem is, that the communication doesn't work. I think the endpoint-address is not correct, but I'm not sure. Can someone help me? ...
I have heard of remote dot net application. What I have understood that the application works on the client side, while it's on the server. This mean client can't access code and also need to connect to server to access application. I'm not sure of that, is that the purpose. Also does it have a relation with Windows Azure? some clarifica...
I am having trouble loading Azure example solution AspProviders the StorageClient project is unavailable. What am I missing? What can should I check for? (This example is found in the Azure SDK) ...
Im looking at writing a application for a web 2.0 start up site which will essential monitor specific RSS feeds. Due to the expected up take of such a service I am expecting that taking advantage of cloud computing would be the way to do it, however with my lack of experience I do not know if it is possible to run a Windows service in t...
I zipped an ASP.NET MVC Azure project up and copied it to another computer (both have VS 2008). I thought I could just unzip it in "Documents\Visual Studio\Projects", but I can't quite get it working. My site builds, but the browser doesn't see the master page or Site.css. Should moving projects around as Zip files just work? My re...
What are the best practices in building applications that support multiple tenants such as Software as a Service? Links to white papers that expand on this topic are greatly appreciated. ...
How and when do you decide which cloud service is best? EC2 offers Virtual Servers, but can be a pain in some cases, and overkill as well. Azure is great for web apps written in ASP.NET, while GAE is good for Python users, but neither offers the low level of EC2. So, how do you decide where you go? ...
I'm thinking about developing a framework to simplify running distributed computations in .NET cloud environment of Windows Azure. Azure currently (and by the time of the release, most likely) is completely unsuited for simple running of distributed queries in the cloud (details). Simple for me is something like DryadLINQ where you can...
Hi guys, So far, my https deployments have commonly involved a naive lockdown of the entire site with https and provide an http-to-https redirect on the web server. I now plan to have a single ASP.NET MVC site (on the cloud) that will contain both http and https pages. So, the site will have 2 conceptual (not physical) zones providing ...
Hi, Is it possible to deploy j# application on the azure cloud? We have a requirement where in we need to deploy a J# web application in azure cloud. When the concerned application is run in the local development fabric (in the machine having the j# redistributable), it works fine. The moment the application is uploaded to the cloud we ...
Guys, I am testing Azure and I keep running into this problem - I have no idea if anyone else has experienced something similar. Locally, the solution is working fine - no problems at all, but when I put it into the cloud - I just keep getting this error ? Any Ideas? Azure Configuration Error type="Microsoft.Samples.ServiceHosting.Asp...
I've just been doing some research into sql data services, and found out that the current ACE model is being phased out for a newer relational model. It seemed all the samples in the March 2009 CTP were based on the ACE model (like the StorageClient project). I'm wondering if these are still relevant- they seem to all be based on the A...
I am thinking of developing a Silverlight application and want to make use of Windows Azure for the data storage (as well as scalability etc). But I am not sure how to get data to and from Azure using Silverlight. What technologies should I be investigating? What is the recommended approach for this scenario? Should I be looking at usin...
From a developer point of view which platform would you consider for a large social web application? If you could provide some details on what you consider to be the strengths of which alternative it would be great. ...
Is it possible to deploy service in the cloud , which does not use standard http protocol for providing services ?. Basically I have requirement to write service which does not use http to exchange messages between client/server. It is traditional client server application , which uses non standard protocol running on port other than por...
Is there an implementation of MapReduce/Hadoop on Azure? ...