I've got a local app, consisting of a windows service providing the middle/business tier for a SQL Server database (c#, .net 4, SQL Server 2008 R2) Now I'd like to port this app to Windows Azure Cloud (both service and SQL database). Is somewhere a document stating the differences between a local WCF service and a windows Azure Service,...
I have been tasked with downloading around 100 million rows of data from Azure Table Storage. The important thing here being speed. The process we are using is downloading 10,000 rows from Azure Table storage. Process them into a local instance of Sql Server. While processing the rows it deletes 100 rows at a time from the Azure tabl...
Hi, now I'm looking on Azure and want to migrate on this one. But I'm not sure that don't get a problems on this way. Could you explain what is the difference? And what I defenetly can't do with SQL Azure? ...
Hi there I d like to enquire how best to go about upgrading or modifying an existing asp.net mvc project to work with Windows azure. Thanks ...
Hi Guys, I've gotten my worker role to ...work. Now i'm having one more minor issue. My worker role access SQL Azure through the Entity Framework. I'm tring to create a list of populated Email objects from my database and then send those emails. The code works fine locally, but throws exceptions when deployed in the cloud. To Clarfiy:...
Hi have follows the steps here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jnak/archive/2010/02/08/migrating-an-existing-asp-net-app-to-run-on-windows-azure.aspx to migrate an asp.net mvc project to windows azure, The project builds ok, I then hit f5 and I get the error above. Does any one have any ideas why this is happening? I am new to azure so Im not ...
Hi all, I need to know what will happen when a database in SQL Azure exeeds its size. For example I defined a 1GB database and this is going over its size limit. Will it change to a 5GB database? ...
Hello, I am building a multi-tenant application in Azure and planning to use Claims (WIF). I do not have ADFS hosted for issuing tokens to the users of my applications. What options do I have? Is there any commercial offering available? Thanks & Regards, Ajay ...
Hi, My current ASP.NET site requires to launch FFMPEG.EXE to convert uploaded videos. With shared web hosting server, can't be done but via a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a dedicated server. I've been reading some info about Windows Azure but haven't found any info regarding: 1. Be able to launch external executable 2. Be able to...
Can anyone tell me any good book related to "c#/Asp.netprogramming in azure platform" ...
Hi, I've just been upgrading an Azure project to Visual Studio 2010 and have been taking advantage of the new XML configuration transformation feature that is built into VS2010 web projects. It seems to work great with Azure web roles. I even managed to get the Azure project service configuration file to do a similar thing by following ...
I am debugging an application in an Azure sever using IntelliTrace. Sometimes I can see the code that originated an exception but sometimes I can't. And the exceptions which respective code I can't see are always the same. Is there any reason why I keep getting the same message (No source available) in the new tab when I double click th...
Azure SQL Services looks pretty cool, and I'd like to use it as a hosted database. I set myself up with a starter web edition database, and after clicking through a million and five EULAs, I got to a console and created a database. It gave me a connection string for ODBC, and for ADO.NET. I'm using a Mac, with 10.6. What are my options?...
I'm trying to write my first Azure application with Visual Studio 2008. Whenever I open a solution which contains a Cloud project, I get a SQL Server error message. This problem is with the development environment / SDK configuration. I get the exception before I've executed, or even written a single line of code. I am not trying to c...
Hi All, I need some clarification on how to communicate Sense Net 6.0 with Azure Storage location? If any one know please let me know. ...
Hello I am trying to package an azure cloud solution on a windows 2008 server machine from the commandline using cspack.exe, the azur packaging tool basically crashes with the error message below Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or ass embly 'Microsoft.ServiceHosting.Tools.MSBuildTasks, Version=1...
Hi there ive got an issue running the azure developement fabric, I have converted an existing asp.net mvc webapp to use azure cloud services, this works when I debug from visual studio and also when deploying to the cloud. However if I try to startup the developement fabric from commandline using csRun command, I start getting all sorts...
I have an Azure application, and recently went gung-ho on the application settings. I realized putting pretty much every setting I needed into the ServiceConfiguration was the obvious way to go for anything you might even remotely want to change on the fly; which means web service URLs, smtp host information, etc is all in my ServiceConf...
I am trying to access Azure Storage from a console app like this: CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("myConnectionString"); where the connection string is something like: DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=XXX;AccountKey=XXX but i get an exception: System.Runtime.Inte...
I have an ASP.NET MVC web application that is hosted on a shared hosting account. The site has no issues during regular usage. However the nature of the business is such that for one week out of the month we have very very high traffic. During these high traffic peak load times, my application has several "Service Unavailable". One of ...