I have a rather specific issue with a WCF host in Azure. Please bear with me as I describe the situation. We have a WCF host hosted in and Azure worker role using an net TCP binding. We have two instances of this worker role running to provide redundancy. For reasons that are irrelevant to our problem, we force a restart to these ins...
Is there any way to diable the caching of a single javascript file in my ASP.NET applicaiton without disabling the caching of any other files in the application? It is running on IIS 7 in Azure, so to me it seems that my only options of controlling this are within the webserver tags. I currently use the folowwing config, but this is di...
I want to take the examinations of certification: "71-586 Pro Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications" and "MCTS 71-506 - Silverlight 4 Development", but do not know which books are recommended. ...
I am working with MS Excel files in my web application built in Azure environment. I never run into following error when I am trying to access the excel file on my development fabric. But once I deploy to Azure in cloud, I get this error message. The 'Microsoft.ACE.OleDb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine. I was und...
I've started using the AspProviders code to store my session data in my table storage. I'm sporadically getting the following error: Description: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpException' was thrown. INNER_EXCEPTION:Error accessing the data store! INNER_EXCEPTION:An error occurred while processing this request. INNER_EXCEPTION: C...
I am trying to call some methods from System.Speech via a WCF Service hosted on Windows Azure. When i try this locally on the development fabric, it is working perfectly fine. I can consume the methods from this Speech API via WCF service in my client. But when I up this service in real cloud on Azure, i get the following exception erro...
Hi I am looking at getting a continuous integration/continuous deployment environment set up for my windows azure project and I was wondering if anyone had managed to (can point me in the right direction to) build and deploy a windows azure cloud service using powershell and Hudson and perhaps has sample scripts. I can get the projec...
I have an application running perfectly on windows azure since april. Unfortunetly, about 2 weeks ago it suddenly stopped. It would not run again until we upgraded the Azure Guest OS to the newest Version(1.7). Over the last two weeks we're noticing that session data transferred between pages (eg. http://program-url/cars/edit/3 will be...
Hi! I'm looking for a way to manage Azure table with Silverlight 4, can someone tell me where can I find something useful? ...
Is it possible in any way to just update the database schema from entity model..? So that all the information in the database stays in the database? When you generate database from model the information will get lost.. I work against SQL Azure, and I have not found any tool to manage the tables and realations in the SQL Azure database in...
My knowledge of Windows Azure is limited to the several videos I watched on Microsoft's web site. Aside from a few new buzzwords, I'm not seeing how this platform differentiates from traditional web hosts that have existed for many years. Aside from the unique billing model (e.g. "storage transactions per month"), what differentiates Azu...
Suppose I have either an ASP.NET displaying my results, or a Silverlight client. And I'd like to show the current status of my server, or embedded device. (pretend the device reads temperature and humidity stats) How should I send the status information from my device to the front end? Should I poll the device and save the results to...
My 'LocalClient' app is in a corporate LAN behind an HTTP proxy server (ISA). The first Azure API call i make - CloudQueue.CreateIfNotExist() - causes an exception: (407) Proxy Authentication Required. I tried following things: Added the <System.Net> defaultProxy element to app.config, but it doesn't seem to be working (Reference: ht...
I just started using VS 2010 to create a Cloud Service (HealthTracker), and I attached a MVC2 web project to it. When I hit Debug, the dev fabric was started and I was able to navigate my web app on my machine as expected. I decided MVCWebRole2 was a bad name for my web app, so I renamed it to HealthTrackerMVC. I used Refactor --> Ren...
Hi, What type of projects/software applications are suitable for Azure and why? Thanks ...
I have ASP.NET web application which stores information on the session while user goes through pages. Will I have any problems if I deploy such application to Windows Azure? ...
I'll start by saying that I'm fairly new to the idea of deploying applications to the cloud, but I recently downloaded the Azure SDK and wanted to build a sample application to get myself up-to-speed. Here's what I did. Download the Azure SDK Create a new solution Add a new ASP.NET MVC2 Web Role Compile Debug Everything seems to work...
Hello everyone, I have a situation where I am hosting a WCF service in Azure and I want to be able to expose that service to third-party developers around the world. From the research I have done, I see that there have been bugs (or maybe "features") in Azure due to internal architecture that has made it difficult to add proper service...
A lot of cool features have been introduced into Azure AppFabric Labs, such as caching and durable messaging. How long does it typically take to see these items enter into production? ...
I've been working with Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services EC2 for a good many months now (almost getting to the years range) and I've seen something over and over that seems troubling. When I deploy a .NET build into Windows Azure into a web role (or service role) it takes usually 6-15 minute for it to startup. In AWS's EC2 it takes...