I'm rebuilding an application from the ground up. At some point in the future...not sure if it's near or far yet, I'd like to move it to Azure. What decisions can I make today, that will make that migration easier. I'm going to be dealing with large amounts of data, and like the idea of Azure Tables...are there some specific persistan...
I'm currently evaluating the Windows Azure platform. The situation is this: We have a couple of .NET-DLLs with functions which we would like to expose as webservices for our clients. Since all our webservice experience is in PHP though, we would love to just call the .NET-functions from PHP and handle the webstuff in PHP. I know this is...
There is database of users. Let's say that I want to support that some users can have multiple OpenID's and use them to log in and let's say that I want to partition Users in to the multiple databases. Is there some solution for this ? StackOverflow supports two OpenIDs per user, how would they do this? If the users could use only one ...
Hello, After looking at this tutorial on blobs: channel 9, I was thinking of using a blob container to save a bunch of tweets (storing the json of each tweet that is). Ideally I would like to create a blob reference for each hour of the day, and append new tweets to this blob as they come in. The issue is that the method UploadText(stri...
B"H I need to alter a table and the Sql Azure just spins its wheels. I think its because there is a connection somewhere that is accessing that table. How can I see who is accessing my tables and how can I terminate their connections. I am looking for something similar to ALTER DATABASE xxx SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE GO...
Has anyone tried deploying unsafe code in Azure? I'm working with code containing unsafe blocks dealing with pointers and all that fun stuff. And I'm wondering if that has something to do with errors I'm getting trying to deploy/upgrade the web project in Azure. Also, is there actually a way to view specific errors that are breaking...
I'm posting the question that first appears here because it seems that it is dead on the Microsoft forums. Plus, Stack Overflow is better. :-P I'm hosting a TCP endpoint in a worker role on Azure -- var _breadcrumbServiceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(BreadcrumbService)); var binding = new NetTcpBinding(SecurityMode.None); var externalE...
Hello, I made a e-commerce app the runs on C#. Each instance of this app right now has it's own: IIS 7 app pool IIS 7 website SQL Server 2008 database My partner told me that we need to dump this approach and move to a cloud. It seems like SQL Azure charges per database. So it will be very expensive for us to go this approach. Is the...
My application requires to unzip a zip file located in Azure's blob storage. Is unzipping supported in Azure blob storage? ...
Does anybody know if red5 can be deployed on Mircosoft Azure Cloud? The only hint I got was in MSDN forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/d58fdffe-27a4-4e77-8683-4f58fc037ff9 Thanks! Marc ...
Guys, Can you please tell me that ,I wants to learn Azure , by creating one - two sample Application, then is there any free account category on Microsoft azure portal ? So that I can decide whether to go for Azure or remain stayed with Amazon EC. ...
Can Solr be run on Azure? ...
What I am trying to achieve is the following. I would have "main" web worker on Azure the would have to create sub-workers (sub pages). For example, main page would ask for a username. After entered pre-defined .asp page would have been "copied"/published to a new sub directory. Ff there is www.foo.com and user enteres Joe the main wor...
I'm investigating the possibility of hosting a CMS (wordpress written in php) on Azure. I'm already running an ASP.NET Web Role which exposes WCF services. WordPress requires PHP. All my research suggests that I should create a new CGI Web Role to handle the PHP functionality. Is it possible to run the CGI Web Role and the ASP.NET We...
I have a app fabric service that I want to test. (http://xxx.cloudapp.net:8081/service.svc). I created a console app and added a service reference to the service and got the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its...
Hi, I have an Azure cloud solution with a single C# Web role. As part of this role I'd like to reference an assembly that was compiled in VC++ 2010. I've added a reference to the assembly and can run the project locally using the Development Fabric without any problem. When I tried to deploy this to Windows Azure, the role went into th...
Hi! I'd read many posts and articles about comparing SQL Azure and Table Service and most of them told that Table Service is more scalable than SQL Azure. http://www.silverlight-travel.com/blog/2010/03/31/azure-table-storage-sql-azure/ http://www.intertech.com/Blog/post/Windows-Azure-Table-Storage-vs-Windows-SQL-Azure.aspx http://stack...
I have a Silverlight app that I want to be hosted on Azure. I have a data entity that represents a type of data I want to store. This tutorial tells me I need to make that class inherit from Entity. I'm not sure what that class is. Has it been renamed to TableStorageEntity? TableStorageEntity is from Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient...
Short version: Can we read from dozens or hundreds of table partitions in a multi-threaded manner to increase performance by orders of magnitude? Long version: We're working on a system that is storing millions of rows in Azure table storage. We partition the data into small partitions, each one containing about 500 records, which repre...
Hi, We have a worker role running in the cloud which polls an Azure CloudQueue periodically retrieving messages that a web role has put on there for us. Currently the worker role and web role are housed in the same Cloud Service application and currently we are only running one instance. As we are testing we have our logging switched ...