I need to store a large (128-bit) PK. Each int will have some corresponding columns... no schema is defined now... and I want the schema flexible in the future. (I only need conservative flexibility eg adding new columns from time to time) At this point I'm not too concerned with the ability to do joins and such. I mostly want to pick...
I'm trying to determine the latency and bandwidth between the server and various clients in a multi-tier system. I believe the easiest item to get is the "goodput" or the effective Application-layer rate, but the latency is a bit harder to get at, yet harder still is the true bandwidth that includes "window size" and other technical fac...
Hi all I'm just tinkering with F# and Azure and have come unstuck with the TableServiceContext. I was converting this post into an F# implementation which was going well until it gets to the point where you actually query the data. In C# the code is public IEnumerable<ContactDataModel> Select() { var results = from c in _ServiceCo...
Windows Azure Table has two distinct mechanisms for altering an existing entity: Update, which modifies properties in place, and Merge which replaces the entire entity. Which of these is used when you call TableServiceContext.UpdateObject()? (I'm guessing Update.) And is the other one exposed at all through this API? (Apologies if th...
Hi I have create a WCF Service Web Role project.I can consume the service locally. But I am having issues trying to deploy the service on the azure cloud. After starting the webrole it justs kepps going in a loop where it init then stops. I have not made any changes to the default WebRoleclass that was added automatically. Can anybody po...
Is is possible for an Azure application to offer a service to end-users for carrying out long-running computation tasks that are going to be distributed over multiple Workers (with persistent storage)? And would it be possible to provide this through a web-service that is accessed by a desktop .Net application (the View) or do you alway...
How to convert MySQL to SQL Azure? I have a Wordpress site, and I would like to put it to Azure Platform. How can I achieve it? It seems not easy. Any shortcut? ...
We are facing some annoying issues while trying to remotely connect to an Oracle database from a Windows Azure worker instance. The problem has been already discussed on the MSDN, but at this point, we are still stuck. Does anyone has succeeded in establishing a connection toward an Oracle database from a .NET app hosted in Windows Azur...
I'm building an app using Windows Azure Table. I've encapsulated all my calls to the Table Service into its own assembly. This assembly uses the .NET 4.0 Framework and includes a reference to System.Data.Service.Client (4.0). I'm able to use this assembly from a test project with no issue. When I add this project as a reference to an M...
I'm researching whether or not it makes sense for my company to use Azure for some outward facing applications. We need it to integrate with Active Directory so that it knows who they are without having to login to the site, kind of a single sign-on. Has anyone done anything like this or what tools I'd need to use to do it? To elaborate...
I'm testing the Service Bus AppFabric within our corporate network by runnng the Echo service sample from the AppFabric SDK samples (WindowsAzurePlatformAppFabricSDKSamples_V1.0-CS). However, the code seems to hang at the host.Open(), and no exceptions being thrown. I left the program running like hours but it's still hung at that line...
Hey everyone, The app I'm trying to put in Azure was built in ASP.NET 3.5, and I converted it to 4.0 when moving it to the cloud. Everything works great, until I try to add this block to my web.config: <system.web.extensions> <scripting> <webServices> <jsonSerialization maxJsonLength="10000000"></jsonSerialization> </webSe...
Can any one please suggest me some possible under graduate project ideas on Cloud Computing? It would be better if its on some Microsoft technology. My previous college teacher has asked for my help to suggest some good projects. Let me be honest, I have no idea about Cloud computing, and I am in total darkness. Please help me out guys....
I'm designing a Web-service in Azure. Is it possible to have the actual Azure platform usage costs metered per end-user? And does Azure provide billing services to end-users? ...
I've read that a lot of websites store the index separably from the data. Specifically on Azure, the index will be stored in Azure SQL and the data stored in Azure Table Storage. This supposedly increases the performance and allows you to store a lot more data and query it efficiently. I'm not sure how to architect a system to do t...
We recently spent the afternoon debugging our Azure application after trying to move the storage from the local store to the cloud storage -- the first step in moving the entire thing to the cloud. We came across a problem in where the local fabric storage was letting us store improperly initialized DateTime objects (initialized to Date...
I would like to provide localization for my website in Azure. I went with a classic aspx website since localization is supported by classic asp out-of-the-box and I have only a few pages. I want to keep it simple so MVC might be overkill. I plan to register only 1 Azure web role for the site (foo.com) but would like virtual paths for lo...
Hello, Is it possible to restrict the access to a Azure WebRole to a list of IP ranges. I saw there are a number of articles explaining how to configure the firewall for accessing an SQL Azure instance but what about the WebRoles / WorkerRoles? Thank you, Luc ...
... is very slow. We're trying to deploy a 280 MB cspkg file through the VS2010 tools, and it takes roughly 35 minutes to upload, and another 10 minutes to deploy. Are there any ways to speed up this upload process? We're comptemplating putting invariant data into a blob and pulling it from there, but we'd like to know what's happening ...
Hi, We are new to Azure and are going to deploy our first app in the next few days. I was just wondering if we need to have a more clear cut process in place for test and deploy and how to make it more cost effective. This is the process I was considering - 1.Develop on local Dev fabric Maintain a common Build server which also hos...