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Azure tools use wrong certificate for publishing

Hi folks, I am developing a Windows Azure Demo Site which uses HTTPS instead of HTTP. So I configured my Azure project to use one self-signed certificate for local development and another (not self-signed) certificate for publishing it into the cloud, just like this description says. However, whenever I publish my site to the Azure Por...

Accessing SQL Data Services via ADO.NET Data Service Client Library

Is this possible? Basically I would like to use SQL Data Services REST interface and let the ADO.NET Data Service Client library handle communication details and generate the entities that I can use. I looked at the samples in February release of Azure services kit but the samples in there are using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse to ...

azure storage account

Hello, I'm trying to deploy an application on Azure but I'm facing some problems. on my dev box, all works fine but I have a problem when I'm trying to use the application once it is deployed. on the dev box, I have an action that I do manually wich crates the test tables in my local sql server express. but I do not know how to creat...

Azure: Will it work for my App?

I'm creating an application that I want to put into the cloud. This application has one main function. It hosts socket CLIENT sessions on behalf of other users (think of Beejive IM for the iPhone, where it hosts IM sessions for clients to maintain state on those IM networks, allowing the client to connect/disconnect at will, without ...

Azure as a Facebook Platform

How is Azure as a platform for Facebook Apps? I am looking in comparison to GAE (Google App Engine). ...

Determine if app is running in azure or not.

I have an asp.net mvc app that is built to run as standard web app in iis or in the cloud. I need to be able to determine if the app is being hosted in azure(dev fabric or cloud) or if it is being run as standard web app under iis. How can I tell if it is running in cloud? ...

Offline client and messages to azure

I'm playing around with windows azure and I would like to build a clouded server application that receives messages from many different clients, such as mobile and desktop. I would like to build the client so that they work while in "offline-mode", i.e. I would like the client to build up a local queue of messages that are sent to the az...

SSL HttpWebRequest to site with mismatched certificate on Azure?

We have a client with mismatched SSL certificates in their QA environment. We’re making HttpWebRequest calls to those SSL-protected web resources from within an Azure web role. To get around their certificates, we set ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy to a new policy that accepts all certificates. This works in a full trust enviro...

Powershell error when using CloudDrive Azure sample

I am currently trying to use the CloudDrive (Powershell) sample that comes with the Azure SDK to list the blobs I have stored. I'm getting an error fairly early in the process, and I figure there must be something I'm doing wrong - I just don't know how to debug this kind of problem... I have followed a great tutorial regarding logging,...

Enterprise LIbrary and MS Azure Articles?

Hi Guys, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience using MS Azure and the Enterprise Library? I can't seem to find any articles on this and hoping (really hoping) someone has some ? Thanks, T. ...

How to configure ELMAH to work with Windows Azure? I get a 404 on Elmah.axd.

I have an ASP.NET MVC web role running on Windows Azure and have setup ELMAH properly in the web.config. I also have my global.asax ignore *.axd routes. Locally, I am able to load /elmah.axd, however when I deploy to Azure, I get a 404 on that page. Has anyone gotten ELMAH working on Azure? ...

Best way to use OpenID authentication with Azure?

I'm struggling to get OpenID working on a Windows Azure application. I'm currently using DotNetOpenAuth (used to be DotNetOpenID) and first I had a problem with the relay step since Azure uses port 20000 internally and that was getting passed back and forth. I found a workaround for this (I'll write a blog post for it). Next issue is ...

What is Azure and .NET Services? Are in correlation with WCF Services?

As in title... What is Azure and .NET Services? Are there in correlation with WCF Services? Thanks, Alberto ...

Will there be other .NET providers of Cloud Computing services?

Cloud computing is about providing computing, storage and networking capacities on demand. It is a fresh but very compelling concept for solving some specific tasks, for example: Running CPU heavy computations Having a scalable storage system for raw data Scaling realtime services up to the customer demand as it goes up and down. I'm...

Azure priceless?

I'm amazed that Azure still hasn't released their pricing break down yet. Does anyone know what it is going to cost roughly? ...

How to get access to beta testing of Azure Platform?

I have a small web product develop in MS .NET with Azure SDK used. I have tested the project in my local machine with the Azure UI Locally installed but I will like to try it out in the Azure platform itself. Is there anything special that we have to do to obtain access to the Azure Beta Platform?. As you can see in the picture ab...

NHibernate on Azure?

Has anyone tried NHibernate on Azure? Is there conflicts with the medium trust or SQL integration? Thanks, Chance ...

Have you deployed .NET computing applications to clouds outside Windows Azure?

I'm interested in running CPU-intensive computations in clouds. The only real requirement is ability to run .NET applications (F# algorythms like this one) with enough security permissions for using reflection-based IoC Container. Persistence technology does not really matter as long as something is there. I'd like to know of your exper...

Creating Azure storage table on asp.net MVC

I'm following this blog post to create an azure storage table: http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/archive/2008/10/28/walkthrough-simple-table-storage.aspx It works fine on an asp.net webform web_role. I've re-created the same project using asp.net mvc as the web role, and it's always failing on application start. this line: StorageAccountInfo...

Unity & Entlib on Azure

Hi Guys, I am using unity & entlib for logging and caching in my Azure webapp - I have strange problem in that the web browser takes a very long time to load. It seems there is a conflict with the web.config file but unsure what to do ? I need to wait 1-2 mins for the start page to display, sometimes it doesn't display at all - clean...